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biogon

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Just got my PE S30V gunting today. Apparently they exist but I can't find any more.

Just brushed my finger up against the blade when I slipped forward on the guard, playing with it. Didn't even push my finger into it at all.

Nice deep nick, maybe 3-4mm . Blood everywhere.

Oh man, that was unpleasant.

Clean cut but I get always get that horrid giddy feeling... yikes. Didn't seem to lose feeling or motion in any of them, so I think I'm ok...

*laugh*

That's one DAMN sharp knife.

In better news... the Gunting is a totally sweet knife. I love the Compression lock, the G10 handles are super grippy and solid, the blade is a great profile with a low tip.

I'm just trying to smooth out the action and increase the detent holding power -- it doesn't seem to be closed very securely.

Also maybe some way of raising the clip position so it rides a little deeper.

Thanks, Sal & Bram. This is an utterly kickass knife.

I hope the Yojimbo will be made to the same excellence in design, quality and workmanship.

-Jon
 
Welcome to . . . . .mmmmm what should I call it?

The Cult? - to strong
the Fraternity? - discounts the strong presence of the women of CSSD/SC.
the Club? - not strong enough
the Brotherhood? - mmmmmm close . . .

You get the idea. . . . check out here for lots of info on the philosophy, and technique of the Gunting System.

http://www.cssdsc.com/drone.htm

Lunumbra
 
lunumbra,

thanks for the welcome!

my finger thanks you too ;)

yep, ive been at that site many times. that and the gunting-museum :D

thanks

-j
 
I was fooling around earlier, practicing tomahawking with live hand grabs on my ghetto-fab mook jong, and hit my gd thumb, breaking the nail in the shape of the ramp. I didn't cry, yet...Joe

Welcome.
 
...Gunting ....this is very sharp thing, so when you are playing not so carefully with them .... ;)
 
Thanks for trying a Gunting...
really..
Don't make it sit deeper in your pocket..you'll interfere with the ramp..
The clip is set into the G10 and screws through the steel liner..move it and you'll interfere with the action, the accesiblity and the lock..It just clears the compression lock plate...
you want it IN your poicket? get a pocket rocket from River City sheaths..
Accessing is high but it sits deeper than one thinks by visual confirmation...and accessing is into a tomahawk or hammer position...
NO Spyderco only makes a partially serrated version..If you have a plain edge it's from the older batch..pre=reengineered...
There is no detent perse..the lock is the detent...
tighten the pivot down instead...
it should not inertia open..

Dijos..Dijos..you broke your thiumb nail on the ramp..thats a new one..we'll all see it in class I assume...ROFL...

be safe

Bram

all knives are sharp, all guns are loaded!
 
Bram, Simona -- thanks for the tips and help. ;)

One more observation: It looks like there are no washers between the pivot and the liners?

-jon
 
I remember the first time I handled a Gunting. My Guro had one and let us take a look at it. Remembering Guro Bram's conversation at a previous NYC knife show about how the knife could be open of the attacker's own body, I tried to open it on my bicep(stupid move). I remember feeling a slight tug on the sleeve of my t-shirt, then looking at the 2" to 3" long clean cut in the fabric. All that was going through my mind was, "Damn, I wonder how bad this cut is gonna be." I just knew that I was going to have to go to the ER. Luckily, it only cut the t-shirt.
 
HEE,HEE!You have just experienced,something "all" Guntaholics enjoy!!
"PAIN"!:DTHIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING!HEE! Joe,just think,last time I saw you, I was bragging on you,telling others how co-ordinated & how flawlessly you "operated"!!I know you didn't learn THAT move in Bram's class!
Jim
 
uhm, i already ordered a brand new Gunting, but seems that i'll need special care with it, no Gunting-minded instructors in italy,and i'm only practicing in "scrima" ,the italian regional knife-art (mostly disappeared..)
i'll try to be careful..
 
disorder - get a drone. It's designed specifically for training (it has a blunt edge and the horns and ramp are rounded off).

biogon - congrats on the Gunting. I hope you get the chance to train with it a bit and see what its really capable of.

Be careful. Those things come Spydie sharp!:)
 
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