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Does anyone know an e-mail contact that I could use to make a recommendation for a way to improve some of the knives that esee makes?
 
You could start a thread here. Jeff and Mike read the forums a good bit and would see your thread.
 
Feel free to post your suggestions on this forum. We have done a lot of good things from what has been posted here.

Jeff
 
R.A.T. said:
Feel free to post your suggestions on this forum. We have done a lot of good things from what has been posted here.

Jeff
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Here's one. Make available an alternative version of the ESEE 4 and 3 without the choil and lengthy ricasso. Pretty please?
 
I like the idea for the throwing knives. But my idea was pretty simple it's for the RC-5 or any knives that include the bearing hole for a bow drill. If you made a thin, stainless-steel, convex disc and put it into the bowdrill hole with a pin or screw it would reduce the friction on that end of the drill so you could conserve energy and it would also eliminate the wear on the handle scales. This way you could use it many more times without burning a hole through your handle. I don't know if this would be practical for the use of the average user versus the cost but it would be a good way to improve the product and I don't think that there are any other knife manufacturer's do this. So it's a way to further separate yourself from the pack.
 
not a bad idea, but the micarta is pretty close to self lubricating, and you would have to use the bowdrill divot a LOT to wear through it (at which point, you'd be rubbing against the steel tang of the knife) and the extra step in production would bump the price.
 
I would keep your eye on http://www.the-knife-connection.com/customhandles.html word has it Dale will be working on the 5 this year and might have a solution. I really like the idea, I wonder if you could just create a special screw spacer that was all one piece and just machined convex on the one end so it would only require a screw on the other side. That way it would be possible to put it on any knife.
 
kmills2323 said:
...it would reduce the friction on that end of the drill so you could conserve energy and it would also eliminate the wear on the handle scales...
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Do you have experience using the divot in the ESEE 5? Was there a lot of friction?
 
Not sure if it would work but....What if you took some J.B weld, and lined the divet with it? That stuff hardens like steel.
 
AFAIK, any time you're using a bow drill you're supposed to grease the bearing.

hair oil, face oil, pig fat... whatever. :jerkit: ummm... no, not that! :D
 
This is a good idea.

Problem being, it would have to be epoxied or press fit into the handle as a screw or pin would cause issues by eating the end of your drill (screw worse than pin).

Also, not really sure how much it would really improve the system. I chucked a dowel rod into my screwgun and ran it down to a nub to simulate the wear of multiple friction fires and it obviously darkened the micarta but I didn't notice any real wear in the pivot area. I'm talking about at least 5 minutes of constant, high speed friction. I was waiting for the micarta to ignite.
 
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