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buckeyejake

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At blade show I met the owner of this little razor blade knife . There are many videos on you tube . My oldest grandson is fan of this knife . I end up buying a one . It is called smooth operator. Easy open and spring closing . Priced way south of hundred and made in the USA! Check them out
 
Danny Linguini said:
Pics, brother!!! 😁
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I'm going to use the context clues and say that's above his pay grade. It's called a Rivery Zero


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I've had my eye on these, one of the coolest Stanley razor holders out there. It's basically an OTF for retraction only, and you manually slide the halves to extend the blade. They haven't really been able to keep up with demand, but he does really well for essentially a garage shop.
 
Tsujigiri said:
I've had my eye on these, one of the coolest Stanley razor holders out there. It's basically an OTF for retraction only, and you manually slide the halves to extend the blade. They haven't really been able to keep up with demand, but he does really well for essentially a garage shop.
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I don't know if garage shop is accurate these days...last TikTok I saw from them showed at least four Hurco mills and the one making the Zeros had a robot arm unloading parts, and I don't think that's their only robot. He may have started as a garage shop, but most garage shops don't have four CNC mills with automation.
 
Ilikesharpstuff said:
I don't know if garage shop is accurate these days...last TikTok I saw from them showed at least four Hurco mills and the one making the Zeros had a robot arm unloading parts, and I don't think that's their only robot. He may have started as a garage shop, but most garage shops don't have four CNC mills with automation.
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Funny you mention that, I found out about them because I deal with Hurcos for work. Rivery has become an example for them of a garage shop leveraging technology to scale up production quickly. The mills they use are VM Ones, which are designed to fit through a 7ft door and run off a phase converter if necessary, making them suitable for a garage. And the robots are Hurco's in-house Procobots system, which interfaces easily with the control without a need for an integrator. Only a select few forward-thinking small shops embrace automation so early on, which is what Rivery did. It's good to hear that they've expanded beyond the garage, very impressive for such a new operation.
 
So I finally got one of these, pretty addictive to play with. Now that I can see how it works, I'd say the adaptation from otf mechanism to this is pretty clever, but the floating pin in the carrier is downright genius. I haven't seen a mechanism quite like this before, so simple but it works perfectly.

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It’s a pretty cool design. I love when folks do something unique and make it here in the USA without outsourcing to China. That in itself is worth supporting.

I saw they announced a new model that has a built in, but stowable, pocket clip and raised almost $300k on kickstarter for it. Well done to them for a successful business so far
 
Well dang. Another knife (body) inbound… Gee, thanks this thread! :p
 
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