The Mad Hungarian by Charlie Mike CMFTW knives

T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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I've known Matt, (Charlie Mike) pretty much since he's been a member here and was modifying his tactical folders to better suit his needs. He was fond of waving folders with variations of Ernie Emerson's wave function made famous on his CQC series knives.

Matt's gone through a lot of changes over the years and always learning he improved his skills as a result. He'd served his country in the Big Sandbox and using a knife was a daily occurrence for him. This caused Matt to evaluate his needs and the function and requirements of his EDC. Striving to get the knife he needed he contacted many premier knifemakers, Daryll Ralph being one of his favorites to collaborate with and had come away with some awesome blades.

Matt's finally setting up a real shop and starting to become pretty prolific cranking out his own style of blades with his take on many of the standard fixed blade patterns. Currently he's been making Asian influenced and Dagger style blades. He's made some beautiful Damascus blades using stock removal and has done some great looking blades with Carbon V steel and differentially tempering the blades leaving a distinct hamon after doing a ferric chloride dip to bring out the line.

This brings me to the purpose of this thread, to show off a knife Matt made for me, he named the Mad Hungarian (a nickname of mine) I'll add the specs later when

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Awesome blade, that handle looks comfortable. I wish CM the best.
 
Good looking piece, have you been hard on it? How will it fare for your needs?
Looks like it could go through hell and back and be just fine.
How do you like the tanto/chisel grind?????
 
Charlie Mike For The Win.
His knives have a certain style that just works.
Thanks CM.
And thanks for sharing T.
 
I'm a mechanic/tradesman who lives in the woods, it's great for scraping gaskets, I've pried with it, the chisel grind makes it great for a wedge between flanges on pipefitting. It's got enough weight to make it and adequate chopper, I've used it for some light de-limbing out in the woods, it'll make kindling and fuzz sticks well enough that you could easily survive but that's not what it's meant to do. It's a slicer for sure and a damn good back up for my pistol as an SD blade.

The handle's comfortable in multiple grips and why not, Matt knows how to grab a knife and hang onto it securely. The knife transitions from one grip style to another with ease, the rounded end acts like a pivot when moving from saber to reverse to hammer like it sits in a socket. To say it was a sharpened ptybar would be an injustice, it's more refined than that, it's a knife first, true to it's style, form following function. It's not a pretty knife but the execution of the design is beautifully done. Great job Matt, thanks again for my namesake knife, it's strapped to the back seat of my truck and Matt coincidentally matched the color of the micarta scales to the interior color of my truck. Not a commercial for Matt but 9 outta 10 Mad Hungarians prefer CMFTW knives for when they're mad... ;):)
 
It looks great!
 
I was channeling my inner Phill Hartsfield on this one.
 
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