Grenock
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Look again, Gus. That thing on the screen has a pivot!BTW is that the DEK1 on your computer screen?![]()
Evil genius has been drunk programming apparently.
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Look again, Gus. That thing on the screen has a pivot!BTW is that the DEK1 on your computer screen?![]()
Love those scales!!! If I wasn’t sooo attached to Burlap![]()
Look again, Gus. That thing on the screen has a pivot!
Evil genius has been drunk programming apparently.
Look again, Gus. That thing on the screen has a pivot!
Evil genius has been drunk programming apparently.
As if he hasn’t done it before!A Carothers folder? That will break the internet for sure when that sale hits!
As if he hasn’t done it before!![]()
I was right there with you.Yeah, that last one was pretty crazy! By the time my screen refreshed there was more replies than there were knives available.
I'll buy ya a 12 pack for a hardcopy of that folder^View attachment 1070759
I have started drinking these session IPAs, that way I can have a couple beers in the middle of the day without getting too hammered
Look again, Gus. That thing on the screen has a pivot!
Evil genius has been drunk programming apparently.
Sweet, I think that should bump me up to near top of the list for field testers on this one.....Literally true. That's going in the sig line...
I wonder if a diet where 50% of the calories come from undercooked red meat and the other 50% come from alcohol would be considered unhealthy?
... asking for a friend...
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I have started drinking these session IPAs, that way I can have a couple beers in the middle of the day without getting too hammered
Random playful and completely respectful thought:
“Someone send Nathan a Shiro before he gets way too committed and wrapped up in the idea of making a potentially bulky, heavy and lethargic EDC based folder with a saber grind!”
Ok, want me to do it Nathan? I’ll happily send you a well thrashed NeOn that’s been in my pocket years and desperately needs a sharpening to try out.
Yeah man, send it over. Right now it looks like the first CPK folder will be like a Sebenza and a Field Knife had a baby. Exactly like that, sort of.
I will do a light slick flipper at some point, but I have never gone wrong making a sturdy tool made the way I want it as if I am the end user. And I want this first folder to be a folding knife for people who normally use a fixed blade. Not fragile or finicky or slick. Like an iron block naturally aspirated engine. Simple and reliable and durable. So #1 is going to be bronze washers with an oversize pivot but reasonable geometry and designed to fit comfortable in your pocket, like the Seb. Your Seb actually. It's a terrible knife. Ugly, clunky, thumb stud knife with a less than excellent heat treat. It has become one of my favorite knives because it works so well, I never have to give it any special attention, and it was made at a level of manufacturing competency that I think most people wouldn't understand its excellence without being a machinist or engineer etc. I'm sure the Shiro is some next level stuff, but would you baton or pry with it without fear of damaging it as if it were a fixed blade? I think I can do that on a folder (that isn't some dumb heavy overbuilt kludge) and I think it makes sense for our first stab at it. A folding knife for a hikers etc.
Then we'll do some slick stuff. Mark's a wizard at that stuff.