My search finally ended

JPD1998

JPD1998

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Well after much searching, procrastinating and fence sitting I bought my first handmade knife. I narrowed my search down to titanium frame-locks and then finally I chose a Brian Tighe folder. I wanted something a little different and his designs seemed to fit the bill.

Originally I was going to buy the "Tighe Breaker" but then I found a pre-owned "Tighe Stick-Breaker". The workmanship as well as the abstract finish is amazing. It’s one of the few knives I’ve bought over the Internet sight unseen that is better than I could have imagined. As far as being pre-owned it appears to be new.

Here’s a quick picture I took, I added two in the gallery too.

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A very interesting knife. I have never read anything about it anywhere, but I would thing all that carving is done by CNC. I doubt he could sell his knives for the prices he does if it was done by hand. There is nothing wrong with the use of CNC, this is just an observation.
 
Congrats on getting your first Custom knife!! That is an interesting knife.
 
Keith Montgomery said:
A very interesting knife. I have never read anything about it anywhere, but I would thing all that carving is done by CNC. I doubt he could sell his knives for the prices he does if it was done by hand. There is nothing wrong with the use of CNC, this is just an observation.
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I'm not sure , but I plan on writing to Mr. Tighe shortly so I'll ask.

When I saw the picture on the vendor's site, I thought the blade was bead blasted and then a stippled coating was applied, but as you pointed out it is carved. The blade is also polished which I prefer too.

The handle is etched too, but not as deep or as rough as the blade and I can't tell if it's chemically done or some kind of bead blasting.

I'm very happy with it and thanks to everyone for all the kind words...
 
It's without question a 'custom' knife. VERY rich styling cues. Nothing too traditional about it.

I'm pleased you like it so much. Brian Tighe is a master machinist and craftsman, and a helluva nice man. Good all-around.

Congrats! What's next.... ??! :p ;) :D

Coop
 
SharpByCoop said:
It's without question a 'custom' knife. VERY rich styling cues. Nothing too traditional about it.

I'm pleased you like it so much. Brian Tighe is a master machinist and craftsman, and a helluva nice man. Good all-around.

Congrats! What's next.... ??! :p ;) :D

Coop
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Yes you can see Mr Tighe is a craftsmen , I'm only starting to realize the detail of his work. The pivot system looks very well made too and has some sort of bushing around the pivot. I was expecting only washers, because that's what I had read about some other models, but it's more complex than washers and it opens very smoothly.

Funny you should ask about others...

I like Darrel Ralph's Gunhammer, the Warbird models by Andre DeVilliers and
R.J. Martin's Devastator ( I almost bought one of those instead but the dealer only had the all blacked out model).
 
jpd1998 thats a awsome looking knife and im also looking into buying a brian tighe as my first custom folder, did you ever here back from him on how he does his carving?
 
inzane said:
jpd1998 thats a awsome looking knife and im also looking into buying a brian tighe as my first custom folder, did you ever here back from him on how he does his carving?
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Thanks for the compliment.

I just wrote today, when I get an answer I'll post it here.

I'm still amazed by the pivot system, I realized after looking at the knife a dozen times that there was no blade stop in the usual way. Then I looked more closely and saw that some how the stop is part of the pivot.
 
Mr Tighe answered my email, here's a quote:

"The flutes on the blade and frame are milled in with a 5/8 Ball Nose End Mill, then the time consuming process of getting rid of the toll marks."
 
yes.......even though the flutes are done on a CNC, he has to hand finish every one.....he told me he spends a LOT of time getting the machine marks out of those flutes!!!
 
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