New Combat Knife and Website

Greg Covington

Greg Covington

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This is my knife that I call the Combat Special. I plan to make this knife on a regular basis. The blade is forged from 1/4" 1084, edge quenched and triple tempered. Blade length is 7.5". It has a parkerized finish which shows its temper line.

The handle is black micarta which is coated with a black epoxy that contains grit to give it a "cat's tongue" grip. It has the tang mortised between the handle slabs and held there with pins and Corby-type screws as well as Acra-Glas. This type of constuction allows me to use a wider tang for greater strength.

It is equipped with an Eagle cordura sheath.

I will have much better pics of the knife on my website.

Here is a link to my site so far. It is in construction so there is not much there yet. My wife is building it on geocities, but I will have my own domain in about a week.
http://www.geocities.com/lady_celtra/Greg.html

Greg Covington
KnifeMaker/Bladesmith
 

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Originally posted by LizardKing
it's a great looking knife, how long from start to finish does it take to make?
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I designed this knife in particular to be very easy to make so I could keep the price at a "no-frills" level.

They really take no more than a days work although I abide by the rules of the normalize and anneal, and also let the blade cool to room temp in the oil after the quench....so there is some "downtime" there.

I wanted to make a large, tough knife that would be good for guys in the military and also to combine a forged blade with some of the more "modern" materials that are desirable in alot of the stock-removal knives that are made today.
 
That's a great looking knife. Good lines and it just looks like it will cut. If that's the economy model your high end models must really be special.:)
 
Excuse me for a stupid question, but how do you get a wavy temper line like that with an edge quench? I thought you had to pack some kind of clay on the spine in a certain pattern to get a line like that?
 
Originally posted by Danbo
Excuse me for a stupid question, but how do you get a wavy temper line like that with an edge quench? I thought you had to pack some kind of clay on the spine in a certain pattern to get a line like that?
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Not a stupid question at all.....It might be a stupid answer though......I really dont know! The blade is deeply sandblasted before the parkerizing process so maybe that has something to to with it. I do a standard edge quench....rocking from the tip first to the edge and on the ferric chloride etched blades it shows a standard line about halfway up the blade.

I think it gives it a neat look though!
 
Greg,
a very nice looking knife. Looks like a lot of thought and planning as well as execution took place. In this day and age you should have a lot of sales from this one.--Dan
 
That's a great looking field knife, Greg. Your Web site looks like it's off to a great start too. Best of luck with both!
 
Go Greg, design, Fit, finish, handle shape they all look great. Should make for a good performer no matter what the situation. Bad to the bone :eek:

Bill
 
I love it, the only thing I would change would be a L-6 blade and a steel pommel for use as a hammer. No offence, just my personal preferance. I'll get around to building something like that when I find the time.

In any event, it looks like it sure would whip the old K-Bar!

Btw, I've been thinking of useing the parkerizing bath on some tacticals, how does it hold up, compared to some of the other coatings?

That is a great knife, now if you could just get the military to purchase something like that for the troops.
 
Greg, that's one of the best thought out knives I've seen in a long while. The zone hardening for a tactical knife seems so obvious now! Good work. What did you use to roughen the epoxy handle coating?

Dave
 
Will: Parkerizing is very tough...and the deeper you sandblasted the blade the better off you are. I have used Kalgard, Guncoat, and baking laquers, and it is superior to it all.

Dave: The epoxy coat is a spray called Spray Grit available thru Brownell's. Seems to take about a week to cure properly. It wears pretty well and is not at all abrasive to the hand. I know of alot of sniper rifle builders that use it to coat their stocks. The material below the finish is black micarta, so any wear really doesnt show.

Greg
 
That looks like the type of knife I always wanted to build for myself. Never found the time though. Very nice work! I love it :)
Cory
 
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