Kohai999
Second Degree Cutter
- Joined
- Jul 15, 2003
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I guess around the beginning of the summer, was tooling around on the internet late at night, and checked out Brian's website.
He had opened his books and created a custom configurator for The Hurricane flipper with a choice of upswept Persian or tanto style blades. I selected a Persian blade and built the knife around that.
Got an email last weekend letting me know that the knife is ready and I picked it up from the post office yesterday....It's lovely and solid and everything that I have come to expect from Brian and more.
It locks up like a bank vault, flips like it's gliding on butter, and feels great in the hand. Am jaded and unimpressed with the vast amount of wares that are shown on the market these days, but this knife really gets my heart racing.
Specs:
4" S35VN Persian upswept blade, bead blasted stonewash finish
5 1/8" 6Al4V handle, machined and anodized in a faux "japanese wrap" style
Internal machined "lightening cuts" to keep it nicely balanced
If you notice from the photos, the back spacer is a "medium blue" , while the scale color is closer to "buy me blue/purple-blue". It's a color that I fell in love with back in the mid 80's. Brian's selection software allowed you to choose the EXACT colors you wanted for the finish, and he came pretty damned close to nailing every choice.
There are many knives, this one is mine.
Brian's hand holding the knife he sent me photo of last week
Presentation side, full shot
Lock area detail, love the relief machining on the internal area
Rear of knife showing inside details
Hopefully you can see the color difference between the backspacer and scales.
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
He had opened his books and created a custom configurator for The Hurricane flipper with a choice of upswept Persian or tanto style blades. I selected a Persian blade and built the knife around that.
Got an email last weekend letting me know that the knife is ready and I picked it up from the post office yesterday....It's lovely and solid and everything that I have come to expect from Brian and more.
It locks up like a bank vault, flips like it's gliding on butter, and feels great in the hand. Am jaded and unimpressed with the vast amount of wares that are shown on the market these days, but this knife really gets my heart racing.
Specs:
4" S35VN Persian upswept blade, bead blasted stonewash finish
5 1/8" 6Al4V handle, machined and anodized in a faux "japanese wrap" style
Internal machined "lightening cuts" to keep it nicely balanced
If you notice from the photos, the back spacer is a "medium blue" , while the scale color is closer to "buy me blue/purple-blue". It's a color that I fell in love with back in the mid 80's. Brian's selection software allowed you to choose the EXACT colors you wanted for the finish, and he came pretty damned close to nailing every choice.
There are many knives, this one is mine.

Brian's hand holding the knife he sent me photo of last week

Presentation side, full shot

Lock area detail, love the relief machining on the internal area

Rear of knife showing inside details

Hopefully you can see the color difference between the backspacer and scales.
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
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