Poll: How many people are in for 20" CPK Notta-Katana

Would you buy 22" CPK Notta-Katana?

  • I'm in!

  • I'll pass..

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trevitrace said:
But I want a yard tool.

- said in my best veruca salt voice.
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After seeing the amount of abuse D3V can put up with, Im a little curious why it wouldn't be warranted for wood, or at least sensible use on GREEN wood. Keffelers swords can do it, the K18 is darn near unbreakable in by human hands alone and even that is advised against using on wood. Even still, Ive used mine on wood (hard and soft but mostly soft) for months now and Its still shaving sharp. Im not super comfortable with there not being a warranty set in stone but I may be spoiled by other warranties warranting stupid things and like Nathan said, He doesn't want to encourage stupid things. This Waki is too good to pass up, Im going to trust in CPK that reasonable common sense use would be covered (ie: Line up your cuts carefully, Don't pry or twist it out, pivot up and down to loosen the blade out the way it came.) , even though I highly doubt I would ever need a warranty on D3V.
If I void my warranty, so be it, I don't think it will break with my uses. Im in.
 
Jack of All Blades said:
This Waki is too good to pass up, Im going to trust in CPK that reasonable common sense use would be covered (ie: Line up your cuts carefully, Don't pry or twist it out, pivot up and down to loosen the blade out the way it came.) , even though I highly doubt I would ever need a warranty on D3V.
If I void my warranty, so be it, I don't think it will break with my uses. Im in.
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I'm pretty sure most people are going to use this blade in the Zombie Apocalypse. If it breaks, you'll just own a CPK Seax.
 
I hope for a cherry red, a blaze orange, and an olive green, but I am sure they will be great whatever handles come OEM.

By the way, my work on the melon slicing suspension device has progressed and I now have come up with a design that involves a tree, a suction cup and some Kevlar cord (might switch to paracord but the stretch is a problem with big melons) - stop it right now I know what you are thinking-

Just need to wait for melons to show up at the farmers market. And the sword. Then I can polish my kenjutsu.
 
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Elgatodeacero said:
I hope for a cherry red, a blaze orange, and an olive green, but I am sure they will be great whatever handles come OEM.

By the way, my work on the melon slicing suspension device has progressed and I now have come up with a design that involves a tree, a suction cup and some Kevlar cord (might switch to paracord but the stretch is a problem with big melons) - stop it right now I know what you are thinking-

Just need to wait for melons to show up at the farmers market. And the sword. Then I can polish my kenjutsu.
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If you REALLY want a Fruit Ninja training tool, a tray (with sides to contain/stop rolling fruit) attached to a flywheel via connecting rod (translating the rotation of the flywheel into a repetitive flipping movement of the tray), would allow for an 'auto feed' for a constant flow of flying fruit for aerial slicing and dicing 😀
 
Brian77 said:
Yes. We are in for 4. All the boys want one.
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I'm going to limit the pre-order to two per person, at least at the beginning (so we don't run out of stock before everybody who wants one can secure their order, there are only 100 available for pre-order) but I have no problem with you ordering 4 (one per person, consolidated in one order)..

We had one person order a lot of K18s, which is normally fine, but I have already ordered the steel for the K20 and I don't want to run out.

^ Long way of saying, sure no problem.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I'm going to limit the pre-order to two per person, at least at the beginning (so we don't run out of stock before everybody who wants one can secure their order, there are only 100 available for pre-order) but I have no problem with you ordering 4 (one per person, consolidated in one order)..

We had one person order a lot of K18s, which is normally fine, but I have already ordered the steel for the K20 and I don't want to run out.

^ Long way of saying, sure no problem.
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I think you’re dramatically underestimating demand. How about limiting it to *one* per person for the first couple of days, and opening up to more if the limit isn’t hit later in the week?
 
AR-Trvlr said:
I think you’re dramatically underestimating demand. How about limiting it to *one* per person for the first couple of days, and opening up to more if the limit isn’t hit later in the week?
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Sadly, I have to agree. I would really like to buy 2 of these, but I’d much rather have 1 than none! We might all need quick fingers tomorrow.
 
hhmoore said:
I know I said I'd pass; but I've been questioning my own judgement. Not sure how close to the pre-order opening I'll be available; but I'll definitely be taking a look.
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NO RAGRETS.

If you don't like it, it'll sell instantly for more than you paid.

If you do like it, you'll be so glad to be able to sit in a comfy chair and caress it while all the people who missed out bemoan their fates with weeping and gnashing of teeth.
 
Knowing what I know now about sword production, I planned to sell this K20 for what we sold the K18 for in 2019, which was $1,175. That is $1,400 today with inflation. That's based on the actual ~ 20% I'm seeing in my materials and other hard costs not the "consumer price index" you might hear about on NPR. I'm also adding a weighted pommel which was not figured into the original K18 or K20, which adds about $100. This will give you excellent one handed balance and additional power in your cut, it's a no-brainier. This lands me at $1,500 for this upcoming pre-order. I apologize for getting this wrong when I was asked about it earlier, I spoke too soon.

Except for international orders, I'm not going to take full payment in advance like we normally do on our pre-orders. We'll take a 50% deposit to start the project and we will take the other 50% once the blades are successfully through heat treat and it is clear this project can move forward.

If the project is scrapped (and, collaborating with Dan, we have a body of knowledge here, this is a risk) the deposits will be refunded and I will take a bath. Achieving the edge stability of a simple steel in this alloy is very challenging but very desirable for this application but it does not come without some risks. We're going to cross our fingers and hope these don't turn into bacon shaped objects. These are single edged and I'm making the edge pretty thin, which is risky. During that martensite transformation on the spine (which happens after the edge), the spine will grow and pull the center of the blade into tension (the center will see less stretching from the edge conversion and also less growth because it won't see the same quench rate as the edge or spine) which will bend the section forward and put the leading edge of the blade into compression. That leading edge will already have more growth than the rest of the section due to the higher quench rate that the edge will see. Sometimes, if these forces are high enough before the steel is through the tempering process (which relieves growth but occurs after cryo), that compression can result in a wavy edge. Perfect symmetry can reduce this risk and we're banking on our process to deliver this, but there aren't enough single edge Delta 3V swords in existence to know for certain that this is going to work. We know it can work, but we also know it can fail. It's not just the material and processing costs and the almighty pain that it is to process that make these swords expensive.

I can't recall where this question was asked so I'm posting this response in both places.
 
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