New Knives for 2001

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Boyer Blades

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I have just posted on my custom knife page my new knives for 2001! The most exciting is the "Vulcan". It is a solid metal knife with foundry cast aluminum hadles the powder coated and a new grip coating called "Clem-Grip" It's a powder sprayed heat applied coating that is brand new tot the market (no one has used it on knives before me!). It is re-appliable and I get it directly from the manufacturer. I have spent the last year perfecting the lost art of sand casting after talking to Eight Dollar Mountain Foundry in Oregon. The blade is ground and heat treated then set in a sand mold where molten aluminum is poured to form a solid cast handle. I powder coat and mask off the handle where I spray the Clem-Grip coating. It comes with the new Tek-Lok multi clip and a Concealex sheath.

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Welcome to the forums.

What is the web address I would like to see the new knives.

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Dennis Bible
 
I checked out your site and looks like you have some great blades. I do have a question though, what type of steel do you use in the multi-carry tanto or spear point and the personal tanto or spear point? Are they also the high carbon 1095?

Thanks for your response.
 
Currently all I use is 1095 steel, I have chenked out my heat treating process (Edge hardened) while I was working at a climbing equipment company and it tests at 59 rockwell on the edge and tip and 54 rockwell on the handle. It provides a stong and flexable knife.

 
Just read your web,nice knives,but i think you do yourself a disservice by depending on hollow grind.,fixture,grinding by freehand method is not hard to learn and much easier to do on complicated profiles.Try BG42 easy to work,makes great knives.No criticism of your work or methods intended. good luck.JPM

 
Who uses grinding jigs and is it cheating?

I have worked the past 3 years as a machinist doing CNC work and for a rescue equipment manufacturer. You look thru all of the shops and you will see drilling indexes, grinding jigs, and special tooling designed for efficient production. It is the industry standard to use the latest technology. In today's techno-society with mini cnc mills and plasma cutters (I use both) who's to say what is cheating? what about the band saw vs the hand hacksaw? Or the light bulb vs a kerosene lamp? How far are we going to carry this? I saw in my early learning years a knife maker who had 4 drill presses for each step of manufacture. He used a indexing rig on his mill to cut guards. That was Bob Loveless's shop and he wasn't at the time grinding his own blades. Is he cheating?

So if I am using a grinding jig (I still hand grind my double edged fighting knives) or a mill or a hand crank drill... let the customer decide (I try and deliver a quality product timely and reasonably priced).
 
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