TGLB I-beam comparision>>>working model v. production model

[PeteyTwoPointOne]

Don't want to derail brother KNIGHTENFORCER's outstanding TGLB Zebrawood custom handle thread, but maybe it'll be interesting to a lot of new members <and maybe a few HOGS> to compare how Jerry refined the I-beam of the TGLB's handle from working design to production model. Just thought it might be handy to have both threads referenced in one place.

Dobermanic put me on this first thread a while back when I was trying to imagine what the TGLB I-beam handle looked like <without removing the covers> :

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...Series-(Cool-Pics)?highlight=team+gemini+beam

Note: about a 1/3 of the way into the post, Jerry mentions the structural changes the TGLB would go thru when they got the tooling set up for final production.

Great comments about the changes made to the primary grind also a little further down. One of my all time favorite threads! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:


Here's KNIGHTENFORCER's pics showing those refinements to the I-beam:

Isn't it remarkable how when you think a basic tool can be refined no further, can't get any simpler, can't get any more ICONIC, can't be made to work more efficiently, basically can get no "better," -- then some engineer, scientist, or hack comes along and turns over the applecart?

I'm proud I can buy, own, admire, <and, yes, most of all> USE such a great American knife! :thumbup::thumbup:

Can't help but wonder now, if additional refinements have been added to the production model as "rolling changes?"

 

[resinguy]

Use the IMG tags from Photobucket, and your pics will show in the post.

 

[KNIGHTENFORCER]

Petey, thought these pics might help:

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[PeteyTwoPointOne]

Use the IMG tags from Photobucket, and your pics will show in the post.

Thanks resinguy...fixed it!

Petey, thought these pics might help:
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Yup, THANKS! especially this one ^^^^^ ... this particular shot clearly depicts the chamfer engineered into the thru tubes and I-beam perimeter to mitigate undue stresses as Jerry noted in his thread...-- fascinating!

 

[TheMtnMan]

Nice pics, great info guys.
so if in 2011 Jerry said they might do the LB treatment to some other older models,
Did they ? Any other blades than TG got the LB treatment?
Thanks

 

[evltcat]

The only other one I know of is the Argonne Assault LB.

Thanks for the awesome under-the-hood pix guys!!!

 

[Snakebreaker]

Fat ASH 1 would be a great canidate for the LB treatment.