New ZT/Hinderer Flipper is Coming!!!0560/0561

[BP Green]

Thomas,

It's imperative that this knife be available with green scales in addition to the black! :thumbup:

 

[cziv]

Thomas,

It's imperative that this knife be available with green scales in addition to the black! :thumbup:

AND pondscum!! I can dream right?

 

[Thrill]

I think I read somewhere that Rick Hinderer will be making different scales available for the 0550/0551 knives. Maybe he'll have different ones for the flipper too!

 

[Alphahunter]

I think he will. I hope to see the colors he offers today along with Desert Tan. Oh, Pond Scum would rock! I need to get one for my XM-18.

I think I read somewhere that Rick Hinderer will be making different scales available for the 0550/0551 knives. Maybe he'll have different ones for the flipper too!

 

[Alphahunter]

Please take a look and respond to my Survey for a Sprint run of the Flipper in Carbon Fiber.
Thanks!
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...nderer-Flipper-Sprint-Run-Survey-Carbon-Fiber
PS this is just a survey.

 

[Gnarly]

Consider it DONE,Alphahunter!

 

[Rhind64]

I'm getting pretty close on the handle scale offerings for the o550/0551 !! As for this new flipper..i'm not sure..we havent gotten that far yet! haha would be cool tho!

Rick

 

[Alphahunter]

Very cool!
I just put a pair of your 1911 grips on my Springfield. Love them!

I'm getting pretty close on the handle scale offerings for the o550/0551 !! As for this new flipper..i'm not sure..we havent gotten that far yet! haha would be cool tho!

Rick

 

[rororo64]

Hey rick do you want to give us a teaser on the scales?

 

[Thrill]

Just keep teasing us........I know both you and Thomas are enjoying all of this. Glad to hear the scales for the 0551 are on the way!

I'm getting pretty close on the handle scale offerings for the o550/0551 !! As for this new flipper..i'm not sure..we havent gotten that far yet! haha would be cool tho!

Rick

 

[cziv]

They're only giving us enough info this time around to keep us in a frenzy - darnnit!

 

[tower2]

I copied the photo of the slab being held to my computer and re-sized it until the watch band is 20 mm wide. At that point holding my hand up to the screen, my hand is very similar in size to whoever is holding the slab. I ended up with the slab being just shy of 5". That's my uneducated unscientific guess and I'm sticking to it.

While the extent to which the plane of the Ti scale is out of parallel to the focal plane is a valid concern, it is far less so that the observation that this photo was shot with a fairly wide-angle lens and the watch band is far closer to the camera lens than the Ti scale. This would necessarily render the watch band relatively larger (as it would any foreground object) when compared to something farther away from the camera lens (in this case, the Ti scale). This renders a direct measurement analysis worthless without compensation calculations for relative lens proximity. In summary, your calculations are bunk. Purely eyeballing, my guess is about a 4" blade. Now I just need to figure out if I want the XM-24, or just this. Who am I kidding, I WANT BOTH!

 

[Thrill]

Did someone say pondscum?

AND pondscum!! I can dream right?

 

[EricV]

I'll take one in those earth brown scales, that texturing just looks sick.

 

[Alphahunter]

Thrill, good taste brother!
Nice pic by the way!

Did someone say pondscum?

 

[Thrill]

Not my pic brother, but it sure is nice.

Thrill, good taste brother!
Nice pic by the way!

 

[cziv]

Not my pic brother, but it sure is nice.

Won't one of those scales just rock on this new flipper?

 

[Alphahunter]

Yep!

Won't one of those scales just rock on this new flipper?

 

[kneedeep]

While the extent to which the plane of the Ti scale is out of parallel to the focal plane is a valid concern, it is far less so that the observation that this photo was shot with a fairly wide-angle lens and the watch band is far closer to the camera lens than the Ti scale. This would necessarily render the watch band relatively larger (as it would any foreground object) when compared to something farther away from the camera lens (in this case, the Ti scale). This renders a direct measurement analysis worthless without compensation calculations for relative lens proximity. In summary, your calculations are bunk. Purely eyeballing, my guess is about a 4" blade. Now I just need to figure out if I want the XM-24, or just this. Who am I kidding, I WANT BOTH!

I think you missed these two posts.

Since we now have a handle placed directly on an object of known size, we have less of an issue with lens distortion and relative angle to the camera.

Been awhile since I have been here, but thought I would catch up...Guess what I caught? Something I recognize
Door off of a Haas mill controller?

So if the measurement of the door is 5.3 inches from the edge of the hinge, it would be reasonable to guess that the slab is over 5 inches long. The left most piece looks to be against the edge of the hinge (or at least closer than the other two). If it isn't against it, it is no more than 0.1 inch away. The end of the slab is at around 5.2 inches on the scale. That means the slab is approximately 5.1 or 5.2 inches long.
I'm not sure if the Umnumzaan is also against the edge of the hinge, it doesn't look like it. It definitely does not come as close to the edge as the new slabs. The Umnumzaan looks to be at least 0.2 to 0.4 inches shorter.

Of course the two doors may not be the exact same size and all the crazy distortion from matching the photos may throw off the measurements a bit.

For reference CRK lists the Umnumzaan as having a 4.77 inch handle and a 3.675 inch blade.

I'm still guessing the blade will be longer than 3.75 inches and hoping for 4 inches.

BTW, the picture with the watch was taken with an iPhone 4, if it wasn't cropped, the lens should be roughly equivalent to a 28mm on a full frame camera.

 

[tower2]

28mm certainly IS wide-angle, so I reiterate my postulate of ~4". Thanks for the info.