New 1660CB Composite Blade Leek pictures (with 3D bonus!))

That looks awesome. The only thing keeping me from getting this is the s60v Blur that's comming out.
 
Thomas W said:
Nope, never again.
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That sucks. There is a knife store in town that has like 2 left but they want like 190 or 200 for it (cant remember right now) I paid considerably less for the one I lost :(.

Will there be any more knives at all with zdp-189?
 
Nice pics kneedeep, much better than the ones I posted when my CB Leek from Thomas showed up. What type of camera do you use and how many megapixels is it? I'm looking for a new camera and I want it to be able to do extreme close ups. The pic of the leek where you can see the texture on the handle is especially good.

Thanks,
Jon
 
jm, we bought a Canon SD870IS recently...the thing's so darned good that I've retired all my SLR's and digital SLR's. The pics of the ALBLK Bump I posted in the Pics thread earlier were taken with it. I'm still getting used to it, but those pics were taken in macro at a distance of about 2 inches, shot in full auto at 8 mp...NO cropping! Check into it...
 
Thanks SPX. Can you give me a ballpark price on that one? This may come as a shock to you, but most of my disposable income goes towards knives, so price is concern!!:D
 
Jon, I used a Nikon P5100 for these shots. It's great because it has full manual settings as well as flexible program, aperture and shutter priority modes. It also has a hot shoe, compatible with the Nikon system flashes. So far it has been a pretty useful camera for me. ($280 to $350 or so)

Btw, I agree, the Canon SD870IS is also a really great camera. ($270 to $340 or so)
 
Antihero17 said:
That sucks. There is a knife store in town that has like 2 left but they want like 190 or 200 for it (cant remember right now) I paid considerably less for the one I lost :(.

Will there be any more knives at all with zdp-189?
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There is one on ebay for less than that.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
This is my first time seeing a decent photo of a composite blade, so I apologize if this is one of those questions that has been asked a dozen times over.

Is it a trick of the lighting, or is there a third material in there between the 13C26 and CPMD2?
 
kjbenner said:
This is my first time seeing a decent photo of a composite blade, so I apologize if this is one of those questions that has been asked a dozen times over.

Is it a trick of the lighting, or is there a third material in there between the 13C26 and CPMD2?
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In this case it is copper.

Here's what Thomas said way back in the Composite Blade intro thread.

Thomas W said:
Hi all,

I thought I would expand a bit on the new composite blade (patent pending) that we put into the new Tyrade.

Basically what we are doing is taking two different steels and welding them together, thus making up the composite blade. Our future thought is to be able to offer up a blade that has a performance edge (CPM-D2, ZDP-189, etc...), and marry it up with economical, high machineability steel (13C26, 410...). Obviously your premium steel goes much further with this technology, and it will hopefully allow us to offset the performance vs. price issue that keeps many from ever using a higher end piece of steel. It should also play towards those steel snobs as well, plus it looks pretty cool.

Of course these steels need to be somewhat compatible when it comes to HT, as they are processed at the same time. Current strength testing is under way, but I don't feel is an issue.

As for the welding, it can be done using either copper, nickel, or gold. We are testing different steel combinations as well as the actual ways that they can be affixed. You can see from the images Tif posted, the different ways we have done up some blades to date. The Leek is a 13C26/ZDP-189 blade, the other 2 are 154CM/CPM-D2 combo's. Ken's custom Tyrade is a 154CM/S30V arrangement. BTW, that is an image of Tim's new MOAB proto.

The looks and combinations with these composite blades have seemingly unlimited possibilities and we can't wait to get into them.

We are pretty early in playing around with this technology, but feel it has potential to find a permanent place around here
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Here's another stereo image.

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