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Nessmuk Rat?
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t1mpani
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Nonsense 
---you just have to grind it right. I have a Nessmuk in 52100 by Bill Buxton that is 0.20" (almost exactly) at the spine and very slightly more than 0.01" at the edge shoulder. Just a plain ol' flat grind, but with lots of grinding room thanks to that wide blade. Its spine makes it very rigid and strong, and yet it will easily outslice the majority of knives you'd care to put up against it (can speak from personal experience that this is true in the case of a small Sebenza, Spyderco Manix and Buck 110).
Granted, that's custom, but there's no reason the Swamp couldn't turn out that kind of blade geometry in a special case. Get enough of a fan base going to prove the market and who knows...something could turn up. I know, I know...it hasn't (to date) worked with the Mini. My only comment on that is that I believe the Swamp didn't want to produce the Mini because it was not a particularly useful design (at least in its original geometry), which would not be the case with this other. Anyway, this wouldn't have all of the indestructible ruggedness of the rest of the Swamp line, but I have a number of large knives in 52100 (not to mention O1, 5160 and 1065/84/95) with edge thicknesses of around 0.02" and they've stood up to plenty of chopping use just fine--plenty tough for field use.
I'll even start off a couple potential names for this hypothetical knife:
Whiskermuk
Gnawmuk
---you just have to grind it right. I have a Nessmuk in 52100 by Bill Buxton that is 0.20" (almost exactly) at the spine and very slightly more than 0.01" at the edge shoulder. Just a plain ol' flat grind, but with lots of grinding room thanks to that wide blade. Its spine makes it very rigid and strong, and yet it will easily outslice the majority of knives you'd care to put up against it (can speak from personal experience that this is true in the case of a small Sebenza, Spyderco Manix and Buck 110). Granted, that's custom, but there's no reason the Swamp couldn't turn out that kind of blade geometry in a special case. Get enough of a fan base going to prove the market and who knows...something could turn up. I know, I know...it hasn't (to date) worked with the Mini. My only comment on that is that I believe the Swamp didn't want to produce the Mini because it was not a particularly useful design (at least in its original geometry), which would not be the case with this other. Anyway, this wouldn't have all of the indestructible ruggedness of the rest of the Swamp line, but I have a number of large knives in 52100 (not to mention O1, 5160 and 1065/84/95) with edge thicknesses of around 0.02" and they've stood up to plenty of chopping use just fine--plenty tough for field use.
I'll even start off a couple potential names for this hypothetical knife:
Whiskermuk
Gnawmuk
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I dont have the book with me, but iirc, the knife Nessmuk describes is quite thick. All the Nessie knives I've handled so far have been minimum 3/16ths with most being in the .20 range.
I have one of the full flat ground Howlers and the edge is very fine, amazingly sharp.
I have one of the full flat ground Howlers and the edge is very fine, amazingly sharp.
