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ā€¦and then there were 3 !!! šŸ˜ Much appreciation to AR-Trvlr and the much renound CPK team for the ā€œBig Damn Knifeā€. Sheā€™ll get dirty later in the week. Iā€™ll be batchinā€™ it so she might even get rinsed off with IPA. Hmmmā€¦IPA PATINA ???
 

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Nathan the Machinist said:
No they're not brass. I don't know why they're colored like that
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They're vinyl-coated sinkers. The yellowish coating supposedly makes them easier to drive. Back in the 70's when I was slugging nails for a living the old salts would throw some sinkers (non-vinyl-coated) in a metal pail along with a chunk of paraffin wax and a dose of gasoline. Toss in a match, swirl it around to get the nails coated, and you could just about drive the nails home with one tap. Problem was, down the road a bit, they would back out just as easily. Framing is typically done with green (wet) lumber, so once they were nailed up it was actually desirable to rust a bit - helped keep them in place. The wax prevented that, supposedly the vinyl coating doesn't.

Jason M D. said:
Maybe a coating to make the nails go in easier.
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Bingo.
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Truly amazing to see Nathanā€™s HT creation compared to those first chipped blades he showed not long ago. It is so appreciated that someone would go through such tedious, frustrating, time consuming, and costly testing in order to make a product better than most folks would ever need it to be. Very cool.
 
beeinak said:
Truly amazing to see Nathanā€™s HT creation compared to those first chipped blades he showed not long ago. It is so appreciated that someone would go through such tedious, frustrating, time consuming, and costly testing in order to make a product better than most folks would ever need it to be. Very cool.
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And that, is precisely what drew me to CPK, and why I stayed.

There are folks who focus on aesthetics (nothing wrong with that), or other particular facets, but CPK really emphasize their focus on every aspect of the 'Performance' of Carothers Performance Knives, and after looking around quite a bit, there really aren't any other manufacturers that put so much focus and detail on Performance, and especially at CPK's pricepoints.

Some folks think that knives in the CPK price range are 'expensive', especially when they don't come in fancy damascus patterns (that don't do anything for performance), and fancy handles (that also don't areally add any benefits in the performance department), and their $XX is "good enough".

To each their own, but especially when it comes to pushing a knife to the limits, I like the fact that Nate's already done that in testing, beyond what most of us ever will, and for at the limit or approaching the limit performance, there's really no one else providing the value CPK does.
 
bluemax_1 said:
And that, is precisely what drew me to CPK, and why I stayed.

There are folks who focus on aesthetics (nothing wrong with that), or other particular facets, but CPK really emphasize their focus on every aspect of the 'Performance' of Carothers Performance Knives, and after looking around quite a bit, there really aren't any other manufacturers that put so much focus and detail on Performance, and especially at CPK's pricepoints.

Some folks think that knives in the CPK price range are 'expensive', especially when they don't come in fancy damascus patterns (that don't do anything for performance), and fancy handles (that also don't areally add any benefits in the performance department), and their $XX is "good enough".

To each their own, but especially when it comes to pushing a knife to the limits, I like the fact that Nate's already done that in testing, beyond what most of us ever will, and for at the limit or approaching the limit performance, there's really no one else providing the value CPK does.
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Yup. Personally, I'd rather pay CPK prices for performance than paying the same for a bunch of lipstick on what is an otherwise mediocre knife.
 
At a certain point ā€œdecorationā€ (especially when itā€™s essentially commodity material like bulk produced Timascus or random pattern Damascus) isnā€™t that interesting and design and performance are far more so.
 
bluemax_1 said:
And that, is precisely what drew me to CPK, and why I stayed.

There are folks who focus on aesthetics (nothing wrong with that), or other particular facets, but CPK really emphasize their focus on every aspect of the 'Performance' of Carothers Performance Knives, and after looking around quite a bit, there really aren't any other manufacturers that put so much focus and detail on Performance, and especially at CPK's pricepoints.

Some folks think that knives in the CPK price range are 'expensive', especially when they don't come in fancy damascus patterns (that don't do anything for performance), and fancy handles (that also don't areally add any benefits in the performance department), and their $XX is "good enough".

To each their own, but especially when it comes to pushing a knife to the limits, I like the fact that Nate's already done that in testing, beyond what most of us ever will, and for at the limit or approaching the limit performance, there's really no one else providing the value CPK does.
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I agree with you on the performance aspect, but that's not all for me. I love CPK ergonomics and also aesthetics in how they reflect function of a given fixed blade. E.g., clearly a lot of thought was put into the scales, going with Mashed Cat sheaths was brilliant, etc.

Hope the Carothers don't get offended by the following comparison :)

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This is an Alessi Espresso maker exhibited in the MOMA, as a perfect design combining form and function (performance).

This is what CPKs are for me. I have a couple of AEB-L CPKs and I like them just as much as my D3V knives.

Roland.
 
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