Review Kasper AFCK, thoughts on the AFCK and Bob Kasper Interview, now with images.

The pictures are superb! Goes well with your equally impressive article. Mind if I link?
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Link me up Scotty....

And if you give me your URL, I think I can give you a link too.

You may want to link to my main page though.

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Marion David Poff aka Eye, one can msg me at mdpoff@hotmail.com If I fail to check back with this thread and you want some info, email me.

Check out my review of the Kasper AFCK, thougths on the AFCK and interview of Bob Kasper. http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Meadows/1770/kasperafck.html

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Meadows/1770/index.html


 
Marion,

Amigo, you're in the wrong line of work (I see professional knife reviewer in your future). Definitely class act and well written.

Zog
 
Marion, nice to see actual suggestions on improving performance, especially with such a well known knife. As a suggestion maybe you should drop a note in the Benchmade forum. Comments as detailed as this should be looked at by Benchmade.

-Cliff
 
The images are courtesy of Spark and Mike.

But I am going back to school and I am going to learn how to do digital photography.

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Marion David Poff aka Eye, one can msg me at mdpoff@hotmail.com If I fail to check back with this thread and you want some info, email me.

Check out my review of the Kasper AFCK, thougths on the AFCK and interview of Bob Kasper. http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Meadows/1770/kasperafck.html

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Meadows/1770/index.html


 
MDP,

Nice Job, Bob is a great guy. Its nice to see people of his caliber get good press.

My AFCK's have been similarly modified with a few top secret mods of their own...
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In addition to Bob'/Kevin's style of mods-
I replaced the old plastic spacer crap with the steel sleeves and hardened screws obtained from Will Fennell (form. of EDI) for the Genesis series knives.

Then the handle was shortened to meet the blade tip (almost 1/3 of inch) and all grip corners were radiused on a belt sander.

I also put a rubber o-ring under the pivot screw to keep it from backing out-even when loosened up. Works great. Learned that trick from CRKT's Carson series!

My next AFCK mod will be to ream out the thumb hole to a sharper "circle" like a Spydie Military/Starmate that bites the thumb better for rapid opening.

The AFCK is truly the "stock" car of the knife biz. For you gun guys, its probably the 1911 of the folder market. Too bad sopmeone doesnt come out with some more mods,
like famcy wood scales, etc. gret knives these AFCK's..........
 
I'm very impressed with both the article and the modifications shown. I am curious why the added grip surfaces on the spine are only cut into the G-10 and not through the liners. The modifications are well thought-out and serve to make an excellent rapid-deployment knife even better.

When I've modified AFCKs I've tried to leave the shape intact, but I was considering two modifications for cosmetic reasons and would like opinions on them. The first would be to take the handle down slightly at the rear to closely fit the spine of the knife when closed. This would not seem to affect grip much. The second would be to take the "choked up" groove off of the handle to also match the spine. This would make it slightly more dangerous to hold the knife in this position, but I find that it is already hazardous as the area is too short and too shallow, and I rarely use this grip anyhow. This would give the knife a "cleaner" closed profile. The proposed changes are shown in the picture below as red lines:
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Thoughts on this?

The original picture is from the Knife Center of the Internet: http://www.knifecenter.com/

-Drew
 
Marion :

You think it would do some good?
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Probably not. But there are a lot of people in the Benchmade forum that might get some valuable information out of it even if it is ignored by Benchmade.

-Cliff
 
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