Random Thought Thread

We're about halfway through machining the three DEK patterns (both steel and micarta). The logistics were every bit as funky as I thought they'd be but we're going to start heat treat for the DEK1 and the DEK2 around the end of next week.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I went ahead and closed the votes before things got weird.

Based on current numbers (and numbers from yesterday before folks started gaming the vote) it looks like:

The Shiv 2.0 is the clear winner. We will be having an open pre-order for the Shiv. Soon. Carothers Performance Knives has never done a pre-order for the Shiv so this will be a first for this remarkable pattern in its first run in Delta 3V. I'm very pleased to see a return of this pattern, I absolutely adore it.

I need to keep the numbers sane so we can do the other patterns too so this might be a brisk pre-order, we will see.

The EDC1.2 is a clear runner up with a lot of interest in all the polls. I will order material for the EDC1.2 in both CPM 3V and Magnacut. This is a very useful pattern, and we will run enough to achieve inventory for shelf stock, dealers and our website.

3rd is murky and went back and forth a bit but it's the boot daggers. *

Number 4 brings us the return of the 10" Chopper. Which I was going to do regardless because CPK classics needs a chopper. Duh. I'll order enough steel for a small run. It will be the MC (my personal favorite 10") run in a thinner gauge and run at about 17-18 ounces (similar to the SDFK but with way more power). This will be a high performance light weight chopper with a thin edge and narrow grinds that disappears on your belt and cuts like a lightsaber. Not for knuckleheads.



I'm surprised we didn't see a return of the kitchen knives or D2 skinner or HDFK in there but there it is. The HDFK is a fantastic pattern, it is not retired, we will revisit it again in the future.



* I'm going to make a deeply unpopular executive decision here. I'm not going to run the boot daggers. This was a valuable data point for me and for the direction I need to take my business but (hear me out) I need to order steel to replace the steel that I ordered wrong when I got the material to make the Kukri. And I want to run the material that I have here as a semi integral dagger. This is a perversion of the intent of the "year of the classics", but I think a dagger of this nature still aligns with a classic CPK knife, even if it's new. I'm running a business. The material is here. I need to use it. And I don't want to release two different daggers (and a Shiv) next year. Stabbing is good, but that's too much stabbing. So I will substitute a new 8" dagger instead which will go on a different machine (with long program capabilities for all that surface milling) and run it in parallel with the K20 once the 3 DEK patterns are off all the mills. (that damn folder keeps getting pushed back, ugh)

Thank you everyone for voting. I wasn't sure about re-releasing the Shiv and I thought we'd be doing a kitchen knife and perhaps a skinner. Your votes helped me move forward to produce what it is that you folks actually want the most and I thank you for your input.
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Is that going to be an 8" blade on the semi integral dagger? 😮

BTW, the Shiv 2.0 will be an 8" blade, right? Was the OG Shiv also 8"? I never made an attempt for the OG Shiv in the past, because it was the one knife I would (likely) never carry, but since then, I decided that it being the CPK logo and an icon, I gotta have at least one, and voted it for 1st choice.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
We're about halfway through machining the three DEK patterns (both steel and micarta). The logistics were every bit as funky as I thought they'd be but we're going to start heat treat for the DEK1 and the DEK2 around the end of next week.
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Everyone have a great weekend!

The week started kinda shitty but look what's coming

Can I get PEACH laser etched on my chopper?
 
There is such an abundance of overbuilt knives. That’s one reason the Skinner excites(ed) me. I have a buddy looking for an heirloom quality hunting knife he can pass down to his son. A hunting inspired CPK is what I really wanted to point him towards.

Not really bitching, just thinking while sitting in a tree today.
 
mb> said:
There is such an abundance of overbuilt knives. That’s one reason the Skinner excites(ed) me. I have a buddy looking for an heirloom quality hunting knife he can pass down to his son. A hunting inspired CPK is what I really wanted to point him towards.

Not really bitching, just thinking while sitting in a tree today.
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I’m in the same boat man 😔
 
Grenock said:
What’s been going on around here, have I missed anything?
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