The pocket beast, my new EDC

LX_Emergency

LX_Emergency

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I've wanted to make myself a new EDC for a few months now. Finally finished it up last sunday.

M390 @ rockwell 61 5.5mm thick at the thickest part.
White micarta, corby bolts, g-10 liners, .22 shells for lanyard tube. Mirror polished.

Pocket sheath in dual done with stamped pattern. Black leather lanyard with a small silver skull.

Anyway...enough blabbing. Here's some pictures....followed by a video with more blabbing.















And the video
[video=youtube;gjSmhRBNyh0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjSmhRBNyh0&feature=youtu.be[/video]
 
What a beauty! Love the high polish. Makers mark is very cool too!

Eric
 
snippy said:
What a beauty! Love the high polish. Makers mark is very cool too!

Eric
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thanks
Yeah, that polish was a pain in the behind. Worked quick on the micarta though. But that @$$#!/?$@ wear resistant M390....man I now know why so few makers polish that stuff.
 
Infamous.blades said:
Maybe thiner M390 is better for these kind of knife , you wasted lot of steel for tapering and spine but that is your choice.
Polishing is not such big problem, these steel is not S90V and 6 h your plunge line is not precise....c'mon :rolleyes:
Corby bolts are terrible choice and look....knife in such steel worth some mosaic pins ....keep ahead my knife buddy :thumbup:
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I carefully looked at your opinion on this to see if you had a point on anything you stated.

I decided you don't.

Considering you don't seem to do any hand polishing on your blades (especially M390), especially up to 12.000 grit your opinion on that front doesn't matter.

The plunge line is just fine thank you very much. I carefully looked over the blade yesterday once again to see if it was different on one side and it's not.

Thicker or thinner steel is a personal preference. I had some M390 steel left from another order and used what I had. The thickness of the blade doesn't bother me since it's primairy grind is so thin.

Wasting steel on tapering the tang and rounding the spine....really? You care that people do that? Who on earth laments the couple of grams of steel that are "wasted" when a tang is tapered?

Corby bolts are among the very BEST choice when it comes to permanently fastening scales to a tang. And personally...I happen to like the way they look.

The knife in whatever steel I use is worth whatever I deem it worthy. And mosaic pins would not have fit this knife as well as the corby bolts do.

I'm not your buddy, pal.

You seem to think your personal taste is a fact that's universal. Guess what, it's not.
 
LX_Emergency said:
I carefully looked at your opinion on this to see if you had a point on anything you stated.

I decided you don't.

Considering you don't seem to do any hand polishing on your blades (especially M390), especially up to 12.000 grit your opinion on that front doesn't matter.

The plunge line is just fine thank you very much. I carefully looked over the blade yesterday once again to see if it was different on one side and it's not.

Thicker or thinner steel is a personal preference. I had some M390 steel left from another order and used what I had. The thickness of the blade doesn't bother me since it's primairy grind is so thin.

Wasting steel on tapering the tang and rounding the spine....really? You care that people do that? Who on earth laments the couple of grams of steel that are "wasted" when a tang is tapered?

Corby bolts are among the very BEST choice when it comes to permanently fastening scales to a tang. And personally...I happen to like the way they look.

The knife in whatever steel I use is worth whatever I deem it worthy. And mosaic pins would not have fit this knife as well as the corby bolts do.

I'm not your buddy, pal.

You seem to think your personal taste is a fact that's universal. Guess what, it's not.
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thank you!
i really thought about answering it, but i felt like it wasn't my place to do so. i wholeheartedly agree with everything you said.
 
Infamous.blades said:
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If ego blinds you .....sometime is better help to someone and tell you where is mistake that is point not just nice and superb.
Ok I am not your buddy because I tell you truth :cower:
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Your opinion is based on a photo. Mine is based on having the knife in front of me.

You meant my plunges are not perfect. Yes, they're not.

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You think I didn't know that? What makes you think that you high and mighty mr superknifemaker can see these things on a photo and that I can't see them on the actual knife. I've spent weeks working on this knife.....believe me that I already know every flaw. I never claimed it was perfect now did I?

That my EDC is less than perfect is ok with me.

The other picture of the spine you're showing shows nothing but a poorly angled picture. I just took the knife out of my pocket to check. The scales are aligned just fine.

My ego doesn't blind me at all...unlike yours it seem where you seem to think that you and only you can see these flaws.

The reason that you're not my buddy is because my buddies generally treat me like I'm their friend and don't shovel poop all over my creation and excitement.
My buddies normally also tell me what they DO like. And that a lot of the stuff that they don't like is just because it's their personal taste.

I may not be a perfect knifemaker. But at least I don't crap all over other people's creations.
 
LX_Emergency said:
Your opinion is based on a photo. Mine is based on having the knife in front of me.

You meant my plunges are not perfect. Yes, they're not.

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You think I didn't know that? What makes you think that you high and mighty mr superknifemaker can see these things on a photo and that I can't see them on the actual knife. I've spent weeks working on this knife.....believe me that I already know every flaw. I never claimed it was perfect now did I?

That my EDC is less than perfect is ok with me.

The other picture of the spine you're showing shows nothing but a poorly angled picture. I just took the knife out of my pocket to check. The scales are aligned just fine.

My ego doesn't blind me at all...unlike yours it seem where you seem to think that you and only you can see these flaws.

The reason that you're not my buddy is because my buddies generally treat me like I'm their friend and don't shovel poop all over my creation and excitement.
My buddies normally also tell me what they DO like. And that a lot of the stuff that they don't like is just because it's their personal taste.

I may not be a perfect knifemaker. But at least I don't crap all over other people's creations.
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Your thinking is not an objective but a very subjective and it is to understand or
this other child rhetoric is difficult to understand.
My remarks are not malicious because I watch your works almost more than two years .... remember niolox - bog oak trade.
I appreciate your passion regarding of knife making only your progress is not gone far
perhaps because you dont have a friend who will give you constructive criticism.
Forgive my frankness is not my intention to harm your efforts but perhaps it is time to hear that view ..... maybe something change because I believe that every
wants to move forward in its work.
 
Taking this to PM. I don't know if you're dense, or if it's the language or culture barrier but you're truly making me angry.
 
Infamous.blades has a different view point and yes there is a language difficulty with someone from Croatia and the Netherlands conversing in English.

LX, why not assume the positive instead of the negative? Accept unseen but real cultural differences as not being negative, but if taken from a different perspective, the comments are given in a positive spirit.

As someone who likes and buys pocket fixed blades, from my perspective, I'd say Infamous.blades is both right and wrong with his comments. However, you did not ask for criticism, so I won't provide any.

Maybe Infamous.blades does not know this forum's unwritten convention of only providing negative remarks when criticism has been requested by the owner/maker of the knife.
 
I can attest for the language barriers.
Conversations in mother language can let in the nuances and deliver the message in it's intended form instead of bare bone meaning.
It is right Brownshoe, we need to be especially careful if we feel the urge to point out other people's work defects...the more if it's unrequested.
But on the other side we have the luck of this huge community and to get feedback from experienced people here.
When i show my knives to my father he points out defects i already know, but maybe i don't care too much....when he points them out i suddendly urge to improve, and i do... ;)
My wife and friends always think my knives are beautiful, so their feedback is just a pat on my shoulder (not to be dismissed every now and then, LOL)

Anyway i like that little EDC and also the sheat :thumbup:
 
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