New Knife request for Mr Ethan Becker

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RickJ

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Mr Becker, I know you have a Background in Survival, so I am requesting for the good of Free People everywhere that you do what the British can't do, Please make a copy of the John "Lofty" Wiseman Survival Tool in the 1095 CV, I think this would be a great tool, also I remember seing a picture of a 6 inch Blade Survial Knife that you and Doug Ritter were working on, it was a heavy duty spear point blade, will that be made? Thanks

RickJ
 
Hey Rick.....

I am a fan of Mr. Wiseman but I do not immediately recall the tool you refer to....Sorry I took so long to respond but....It has been dry, sunny and in the seventies here and the woods have kept me out late and tuckered my weary old self out .......The Ritter project is "ongoing"...Doug talks to me about it on a regular basis...Sometime...Soon I hope...

Please give me a reference and I will check into the Wiseman tool and share my thoughts with you......

Thanks for your patience and for your interest....

All Best....

ethan
 
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Pretty neat, he explains all the functions of it in the front of his book.
 
Mr Becker, Thanks for the reply, 1. I hope the knife I saw a picture of that you and Doug Ritter is working on is made. It would be a big hit, 2. The Wiseman Survival tool or a near copy of it would be ahit as well, just some thoughts from a consumer that would buy both, if they were on the market from a good maker with ggod materials.

Thanks,
RickJ
 
Hey Rick, Felix and MacGregor.....

I am a big fan of the South Asian big blades and their Nepalese cousin to the north-the kookrie....Several of my blades. the MACHAX, The Hank Reinhart designed REINHART KUKRI and the PATROL MACHETE all have influences derived from these blade styles..in fact the PATROL MACHETE was almost called the DO-DAH.....Dah of course is a Burmese variant of the asian weight forward blade and a very close relative of the Parang......There is a strong body of belief that they were all derived somehow from the Egyptian KOPIS which dates back to the bronze age....The forward weight helps to make up for bronze's wretched edge holding abilities and also helps the marginal abilities of the primitive steels so often found in indigenous examples of these very efficient blades...When these designs are combined with good modern steels and decent heat treaing to th mid to high fifties RC the are both incredible tools for survival and fearsome weapons
 
My apologies guys ....

The computer is playing tricks..... so to continue.....

Putting the weight forward and bending the blade at the grip gives incredible power.... My all time favorite chopper is a MACHAX at about .210 thickness with the original Cincinnati blade geometry.....It is a BEAST....

All Best...

ethan
 
If you get it made I will buy it! And I will let the world know about it every chance I get.

RicKJ
 
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