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The "Ask Nathan a Question" Thread

AR-Trvlr said:
Unless they decide to produce a premium version (which I don't think they do) I think the answer is 'yes'. IMHO the dividing line is the logo - the basic font indicates the 'Basic' line.
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Nate had a good reply confirming this earlier in this thread:

The block lettering started with the Keffeler comp chopper. It was completely his design work (I added nothing) with my handy work in the finished product. I did not editorialize his design or tweak it to conform to our design standards but made a faithful copy. This is because the knife that I modeled had multiple world championships on it and was developed over time by the best competition cutter in the world. I had nothing to add to that other than to make it properly. It was a real bear to make those knives and to develop the optimized heat treat for the V4E in order to make what I feel was the best competition knife in the world. We put a lot of effort into the low volume project (which is why I was so bent out of shape when we rightly won the world championship with that knife on its first attempt but the win was given to Dwayne Unger due to a scandalous judging error by an inexperienced judge and Dwayne's bizarre inability to recognize what happened and was plainly visible in the videos).

The knife needed our names on it and it was an equal measure his work and mine. It felt right to use the same font. This came up again in the K18. And, if you think about it, the exact same thing with the Kephart. Our Kephart is my work but not my design, so I didn't "sign it" like I would for a normal CPK offering that is both my work and my design. That and it's a relatively basic affordable offering that will fit into the Amazon line.

We're going to try offering some more affordable knives to a wider audience as an experiment. These knives lack some of the finer details we're known for. I wanted a way to differentiate them from our more signature work and the actual signature was a pretty obvious way to do that.
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JBC_Hunter said:
Wonder if we can convince Nathan to put a sharpened spine on the basic field knife for an additional charge
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I've no experience in the matter, but when all else fails, this may be an option...

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If this is for a fire starter, you could probably just use the blade edge assuming the f/s is magnesium, it’s softer by far than the blade. Never tried it though. Proceed at your own risk.
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See I like using a sharpened spine to create tinder, very fine fluff on fat wood, remove bark and other things on top of striking a ferro rod. It saves the blade edge. I’ve also used a sharpened spine to scrape hide in a pinch before. Yes there could be other tools more suited but id rather have all the capabilities with just the knife while I’m using it.
 
JBC_Hunter said:
See I like using a sharpened spine to create tinder, very fine fluff on fat wood, remove bark and other things on top of striking a ferro rod. It saves the blade edge. I’ve also used a sharpened spine to scrape hide in a pinch before. Yes there could be other tools more suited but id rather have all the capabilities with just the knife while I’m using it.
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I completely agree with this. While I do put strikers into my tinder kits, frequently I don’t carry a CPK if I’m going to make a fire because of the rounded spine.
 
EDDAKA said:
Wouldn't the ferro rod effect heat treat or the martensite? Magnesium gets pretty effin hot.
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I’m not an expert but I haven’t seen anything like that. It sort of throws the sparks outward from the strike. They don’t really linger on the spine. Again, I am no expert.
 
Yeah it wouldn't hurt the spine. the spark is made at the edge as its thrown away from the steel. At most it may leave a dark spot over time. Wipe it off and strike on!
I'm probably thinkin wrong here, but didnt he offer that on a few knives a while back.? I'd never try it but someone good with a belt sander could probably do that for ya. Now THAT may get too hot.....
 
Box_Opener said:
I’m not an expert but I haven’t seen anything like that. It sort of throws the sparks outward from the strike. They don’t really linger on the spine. Again, I am no expert.
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It does throw it…I personally wonder what it looks like in slo-mo? Haha, but I’ve seen it “sparking” on the spine of my knives before, maybe some left over magnesium? Especially with really soft rod’s. I don’t know if it really could mess with the temper per-se, I’m more just kinda curious about it messing with the whole delta 3v thing.
 
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EDDAKA said:
It does throw it…I personally wonder what it looks like in slo-mo? Haha, but I’ve seen it “sparking” on the spine of my knives before, maybe some left over magnesium? Especially with really soft ferro rod’s. I don’t know if it really could mess with the temper per-se, I’m more just kinda curious about it messing with specifically, the whole delta 3v thing.
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Just to clear something up, ferro(cerrium) rods are NOT magnesium...although it's often embedded in a chunk of magnesium for a handle and use as tinder.
 
WValtakis said:
Just to clear something up, ferro(cerrium) rods are NOT magnesium...although it's often embedded in a chunk of magnesium for a handle and use as tinder.
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turns out I have a lot of fire starting gizmos, probably because I'm a hoarder. Going through some shit the other day or week or whatever, I found my old ferro/mag combo kit from when I was in Scouts! It was like a black toothpick with barnacles growing off it- almost completely oxidized to the point where only 30% of it still exists. I put it back in my bugout bag, of course
 
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