The NEXT SALE

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Bummed I missed the sale. At a parade with the kids and totally forgot. Congrats to everybody that got one. Hope you make a V2 and do a preorder.
Cheers, Chad
 
We'll have two EDC this Friday. They're leftover blades from the fancy scales project whose scales were scrapped and will be made into regular knives. They're the last of the EDC from the first run. We're machining the second run now in 3V, D2 and 4V. I have good heat treats for 3V and D2, but the 4V is a new development and probably won't be ready-to-go until spring.

We'll have 10 Light Choppers Friday December 2nd. The last sale of those took a few minutes to sell, so there might be no special keyboard ninja skills needed. :thumbup:

I'll be grinding a few thin Racing Choppers at the same time, probably finishing for a sale on the 9th.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
We'll have 10 Light Choppers Friday December 2nd. The last sale of those took a few minutes to sell, so there might be no special keyboard ninja skills needed. :thumbup:
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hey that's my birthday :)
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
... We're machining the second run now in 3V, D2 and 4V. I have good heat treats for 3V and D2, but the 4V is a new development and probably won't be ready-to-go until spring.
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Interesting! Maybe the wrong thread... But how would you describe the pro/cons of these steels for your EDC blade?

Nathan the Machinist said:
We'll have 10 Light Choppers Friday December 2nd. The last sale of those took a few minutes to sell, so there might be no special keyboard ninja skills needed. :thumbup:
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Ha! Don't jinx it, I've already started camping outside the door!
 
ni1s said:
Interesting! Maybe the wrong thread... But how would you describe the pro/cons of these steels for your EDC blade?
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All three steels have a combination of good abrasive wear resistance and toughness that lend themselves to good edge retention and durability in use.

3V has good wear resistance, corrosion resistance and high toughness, and with the Delta heat treat protocol it has good edge stability. It lends itself to something you're going to use hard and it's going to hold an edge well and never break. If I had one steel to choose for an all-around knife I had to rely on, Delta 3V would be my choice.

D2 has some of the best real world edge wear resistance but reduced edge stability, so it's a better candidate for someone cutting a lot of stuff like cardboard and leather. The CPM process ruins one its best attributes, which is a long wearing toothy edge from large carbides, so this is conventional D2 from Crucible. This was not a meaningful cost savings. It has good corrosion resistance and, though it is nowhere near as tough as 3V, it is tougher than most stainless steels that people are accustomed to and is more than tough enough for most people's needs. Most of the D2 knives that people have used are import material and tool-and-die heat treat. People that haven't used good D2 are in for a surprise. The best overall edge retention of any steel I've tested to date is an optimized D2, which is why I'm dusting it off. It's wonderful in a skinning knife and works well in the shop, job site, and woods.

4V is a wild card. It may stay sharper in rough use than other materials. It is the same chemistry as Vanadis 4, which is the material that supplanted CPM M4 as the world cutting champion steel. It will certainly have greater wear resistance than 3V, though probably not as good as D2 in actual use. It's expensive, it won't be very corrosion resistant, nor have a toothy edge and it may or may not develop good edge stability, <---- that is to be determined. But, we're pursuing it because we feel it may have a combination of edge stability and wear resistance that lends itself to thin high performance knives. Particularly at higher hardness. So, we think its performance potential may outweigh it's lower corrosion resistance in applications where we're trying to support a thinner geometry in rough use. I think the carbide content increases the compressive yield strength, reducing the tendency to buckle in thin sections found in an acute edge and in narrow primary grinds. It might be great in a racing knife. :thumbup:
 
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And I thought Busse knives were hard to get. These Carothers knives are almost impossible to find as no one seems to want to let them go when they have them. Must be a great knife.

Will have to get the Ninja keyboard skills up to the task for Fridays at 3pm.
 
They are worth the wait and this company is great to deal with. Best of luck to you this Friday.
 
ManOfSteel89 said:
Any chance of getting some for a Field Knife?
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FWIW, I had asked this question a while back and Jo had told me that no such scales were avail or planned for the FK pattern. I think that Nathan had concerns about their stability but maybe things may have changed since that was a while back.
 
We'll have ten Light Choppers next Friday (December 2nd) I'm doing the final grinding now and we're making scales now, including Terotuf and a couple in vintage edge grain micarta.

The last sale of these did not sell out instantly, so I'm hopeful that regular folks lacking keyboard ninja skills will be able to score one without too much effort.

And a couple weeks after that we'll do a sale of 5 Racing Light Choppers. These are ground very thin and are not for rough use. I'll probably do that sale here on the CPK forum so I can post it with information and disclaimers, lock it, and unlock it at the normal sale time.

Today is Thanksgiving. Jo and I are thankful for your support and continued interest in our work. 2016 was our best knife year ever and we're changing over our shop to be primarily knife production, so 2017 will hopefully be epic. None of this would be possible without you, so thank you. :thumbup:
 
Thank you and much gratitude to you both Jo & Nathan, plus extended thanks to your Canadian offshoot (honorary offspring?) Lorien.

BTW, the second paragraph in the post above is a very funny one. What happened the last time was purely an anomaly ;)
 
The word is continuing to get out, so I'm going to guess it will be fast again. More new-to-CPK buyers out there, which is great for the company of course. :thumbup:

Nathan, the kitchen knife represented very well so far today, and the day is still young! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours sir.
 
All good info, thanks for it, Nathan - and a great Turkey Day to you all, and to all those CPKers out there in CPKLand!

Best regards,

Bob Betzner
 
Man I might even try for one!

Happy thanksgiving to all you who celebrate it.

All the best to you and yours for everyone.

Justin
 
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