RAT at Blade '09

[gottahaveit27]

Glen
A clip point blade is a bowie type blade where instead of having a gradual taper toward the tip it has an aggressive straight lined taper. Generally there is also a slight upturn toward the very end near the tip. As far as the benifits of having a swedge on the spine of the blade as pictured above...well it basically makes the tip a little more aggressive and helps it to penetrate by sharpening to a point not just along the edge but also along the spine. I suppose it could also be useful for cutting down the weight of the blade. I personally don't care much for swedges. I would rather just shave a little off of the edges of the spine to make a pointier "penetrator tip."
Hope this helps.

 

[shotgunner11]

I personally think the newer slabs look much better than the rounded ones, but thats just my opinion.

Shon and crew started making them with the rounded slabs but a forum member here photochopped them to look like the current style and Jeff liked them so much he stopped production at 20 units and started making the shapelier style.

Some of us RAT fanatics will end up paying a premium for one of those first 20 one of these days. It'll look really nice next to my prototype Izula, prototype RTAKIII and prototype RCF (folder), which is awsome by the way.






I'm totally lying, I don't have a RAT folder....you really shouldn't believe anything I say.

 

[gottahaveit27]

Shotgunner
Do you know if there was a clip point design at BLADE? Or were there just the varitations with the swedge? Thanks.

 

[shotgunner11]

From what I've been told and seen, it was just the swedge.

 

[larry44]

Does anyone have a price for the H.E.S.T. yet?

 

[hwpaintballer]

Any chance they had handles for Izulas at blade, or is that still to far out?

 

[SecSpyral]

Any chance they had handles for Izulas at blade, or is that still to far out?

I didn't see any but I'll ask about it tomorrow. I forgot about them completely

 

[hwpaintballer]

I didn't see any but I'll ask about it tomorrow. I forgot about them completely

Thanks :thumbup:.

 

[Jake Bauer]

I guess I'll be the first to admit that the clip points dont really do it for me.

The RAT Girls on the other hand...... WOW

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Shon and crew started making them with the rounded slabs but a forum member here photochopped them to look like the current style and Jeff liked them so much he stopped production at 20 units and started making the shapelier style.

Some of us RAT fanatics will end up paying a premium for one of those first 20 one of these days. It'll look really nice next to my prototype Izula, prototype RTAKIII and prototype RCF (folder), which is awsome by the way.





I'm totally lying, I don't have a RAT folder....you really shouldn't believe anything I say.

How about that one, then...did you bring enough for everyone?

 

[MrCoffee]

God you guys suck.

I so wanted to go.

+1... sigh (

Oh well I guess I got plenty of time ta save up fer next year.

 

[Les]

Where's the TAK?

 

[hwpaintballer]

I'm totally lying, I don't have a RAT folder....you really shouldn't believe anything I say.

you got my hopes up, then I saw this little gem :thumbup:.

 

[shotgunner11]

I guess I'll be the first to admit that the clip points dont really do it for me.

The RAT Girls on the other hand...... WOW

I like the looks of them, but in use I think I'd prefer the ones I already have.


But the knives look great.

 

[onado2000]

Thanks for the info. I live on Long Island so I know what you mean about the really strict gun laws. If the BLADE show came to the area I would be so psyched.

A couple years ago I drove to Montauk Point LI and went Sky Diving there. I forgot the name of the airfield but the company that runs it is called Sky Dive Long Island. MAN, was that cool!! I jumped 14,000+ feet over Long Island and saw the point & alot of water !!! It was a tandem jump (my second jump ever, my first was a static line @ 5,000 ft. ) . I wanted to go higher but they told me there are restrictions because of the planes flying to JFK and LaGuardia Airports. It cost me $265, which included a CD (recorded from a wrist cam by the instructor). It was alot of fun, I wish I could do that more often!

 

[gottahaveit27]

Yeah I went there too. Lots of fun, although we wound up having to wait 5 hours for our jump. It was well worth it though. The name of the airport and town is Calverton. I want to go again and eventually work my way up to solo jumps but the cost really adds up. I will definitely be going again in the not too distant future though :thumbup:

 

[troutfisher13111]

I like the looks of them, but in use I think I'd prefer the ones I already have.


But the knives look great.

My motto in my early twenties was, you can never have too many. And sometimes you need more than one at a time.

 

[milani74]

Where's the TAK?

I dont think the prototype is completed yet. At least thats what I have thought. To my knowledge Jeff and Mike havn't announced a release date of "the overpriced machete".

I am looking forward to it though.

 

[texastonydobbs]

Hopefully next year Bro .... I'll be a Goof ball with ya !!

 

[GhostWolf]

It'll look really nice next to my prototype Izula, prototype RTAKIII and prototype RCF (folder), which is awsome by the way.

Hold on a minute there cowboy, you have a proto RTAKIII and you didn't bring it to the camp out. You are in deep crap at the next one pal.