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Hi All,
I released my first custom design splitblade a while ago and I got tremendous feedback on it, unfortunately I closed my books long ago and the price is cost prohibitive for most people. So I decided to make a midtech version that most can own.
I just didn't want to do another midtech, I wanted something special that hasn't been done before so I decided to change the design and make the usable edge a blade insert that could be easily changed.
After a lot of design, testing and finally prototyping it is done. I plan to sale the base knife and then offer blade inserts for sale after. I named it the Kaizen Spliteblade with RBT (removable blade technology)
Users will be able to change out their blade insert to get different blade profiles such as tanto, american tanto, wharnie, recurve etc. I'll also have some special damascus inserts later on after this run. Blade rides on caged bearings.
The knife is being made by friend Reate using either cpm154 or s35vn .240" thick done in a compound hollow grind. The custom blade inserts like in the picture below will be ground by me with a 6" hollow grind (I did the recurve in the picture).
The handles are 6al-4v blasted and stonewashed for this run.
I will start taking pre-orders soon so you can contact me directly for any questions. Thank you to all those that have supported and helped me on this project!
Below are some pics of the Kaizen from CAD to proto and the original Splitblades. For videos you can go to my IG page, I still don't know how to post videos here...
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I released my first custom design splitblade a while ago and I got tremendous feedback on it, unfortunately I closed my books long ago and the price is cost prohibitive for most people. So I decided to make a midtech version that most can own.
I just didn't want to do another midtech, I wanted something special that hasn't been done before so I decided to change the design and make the usable edge a blade insert that could be easily changed.
After a lot of design, testing and finally prototyping it is done. I plan to sale the base knife and then offer blade inserts for sale after. I named it the Kaizen Spliteblade with RBT (removable blade technology)
Users will be able to change out their blade insert to get different blade profiles such as tanto, american tanto, wharnie, recurve etc. I'll also have some special damascus inserts later on after this run. Blade rides on caged bearings.
The knife is being made by friend Reate using either cpm154 or s35vn .240" thick done in a compound hollow grind. The custom blade inserts like in the picture below will be ground by me with a 6" hollow grind (I did the recurve in the picture).
The handles are 6al-4v blasted and stonewashed for this run.
I will start taking pre-orders soon so you can contact me directly for any questions. Thank you to all those that have supported and helped me on this project!
Below are some pics of the Kaizen from CAD to proto and the original Splitblades. For videos you can go to my IG page, I still don't know how to post videos here...






