Nathan the Machinist
KnifeMaker / Machinist / Evil Genius
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The 3" EDC was designed as a collaboration with Lorien Arnold. It is a well made, no frills, high performance, small utility knife. The steel is Crucible CPM 3V at HRC 61-62 with a fully optimized heat treat with very good edge retention and edge stability. You'll be surprised how sharp this gets and how well it holds an edge. If you have never used 3V this hard and thin, it is gonna blow your mind.
This steel with this heat treat will support a fine edge, so this was taken down to .015" before sharpening (though I'm leaving some additional meat in the tip) and it was sharpened 18 degrees per side. This is relatively acute and it cuts very well, but is durable. They're also lightly hand ground after machining to give it a shallow S grind that is slightly hollow in the center and convex at the shoulders.
It's a light weight hard working cutting tool, a tradesman's knife and small woods knife.
The handle is ergonomically designed for a standard forward, reverse, saber and pinch grips for an average to relatively large hand. Despite its compact size it fills the hand and allows extended hard work without hand fatigue. The tang is internally skeletonized. The scales are 3D sculpted CNC machined. The blade is made of 5/32" 3V with a heat treat that has been optimized to maximize edge stability in rough use (see video). Despite being relatively thin it is very durable.
A side effect of this heat treat is a higher percentage of free chromium, so although it is not stainless, it is nearly so.
Specs:
Delta 3V, 61-62 HRC, .145 thick at ricasso
Total length 7.6
Blade length 3.3
Weight 4.9 oz
Edge angle 18 DPS
.025" BTE
Grippy 3D machined scales in micarta or G10
Black oxide treated 18-8 stainless steel fasteners
Hidden lanyard
Choice of vertical or horizontal Kydex sheath made by Dan Crotts of Dozier Knives. You can add an extra sheath for $50.
Be aware the horizontal sheath has very high retention. You can't remove the knife by pulling straight back, you have to tilt it up at the same time. See video. If you want something that's easy to get in and out of you should choose the vertical pouch sheath.
Tell me what scale option you choose and I'll build it. There are twenty knives available in this sale. The knives in the picture are not the knives you will receive.
Rather than just take my word for it I made a video:
[video=youtube;zC_-PIFw-KA]
A video illustrating the sheath options:
[video=youtube;HiG_KqF06KY]
These are all field grade, as machined and stonewashed with tool and grind marks.
$220 in canvas micarta, natural or black
$230 in OD green micarta
$230 in black or OD green G10
$240 in maroon micarta
Shipping in the USA is $10.
Includes a good kydex sheath, choose vertical or horizontal. An extra sheath is $50
These knives are unusual because they are machined. I do this in my shop on industrial CNC machine tools. A WIP thread documenting my technique can be found here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/pre-order-12-behemoth-chopper.1541591/
I take paypal, cash, check or MO.
We are heading out for our annual new years bash this afternoon so Jo will not start contacting people until we get back after the weekend. Please be patient.
Jo will contact you via PM or email next Tuesday. Emails though BF often get lost in spam filters. If you don't hear from her by mid week please contact Jo on her PM, or send us an email at carothersknives at g mail dought com
Our next preorder, opening this afternoon Dec 29th, will be for the first production run of the infamous 12" Behemoth Chopper. That pre-order thread will be here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/pre-order-12-behemoth-chopper.1541591
Thanks for looking,
Nathan
This steel with this heat treat will support a fine edge, so this was taken down to .015" before sharpening (though I'm leaving some additional meat in the tip) and it was sharpened 18 degrees per side. This is relatively acute and it cuts very well, but is durable. They're also lightly hand ground after machining to give it a shallow S grind that is slightly hollow in the center and convex at the shoulders.
It's a light weight hard working cutting tool, a tradesman's knife and small woods knife.
The handle is ergonomically designed for a standard forward, reverse, saber and pinch grips for an average to relatively large hand. Despite its compact size it fills the hand and allows extended hard work without hand fatigue. The tang is internally skeletonized. The scales are 3D sculpted CNC machined. The blade is made of 5/32" 3V with a heat treat that has been optimized to maximize edge stability in rough use (see video). Despite being relatively thin it is very durable.
A side effect of this heat treat is a higher percentage of free chromium, so although it is not stainless, it is nearly so.
Specs:
Delta 3V, 61-62 HRC, .145 thick at ricasso
Total length 7.6
Blade length 3.3
Weight 4.9 oz
Edge angle 18 DPS
.025" BTE
Grippy 3D machined scales in micarta or G10
Black oxide treated 18-8 stainless steel fasteners
Hidden lanyard
Choice of vertical or horizontal Kydex sheath made by Dan Crotts of Dozier Knives. You can add an extra sheath for $50.
Be aware the horizontal sheath has very high retention. You can't remove the knife by pulling straight back, you have to tilt it up at the same time. See video. If you want something that's easy to get in and out of you should choose the vertical pouch sheath.
Tell me what scale option you choose and I'll build it. There are twenty knives available in this sale. The knives in the picture are not the knives you will receive.
Rather than just take my word for it I made a video:
[video=youtube;zC_-PIFw-KA]
A video illustrating the sheath options:
[video=youtube;HiG_KqF06KY]
These are all field grade, as machined and stonewashed with tool and grind marks.
$220 in canvas micarta, natural or black
$230 in OD green micarta
$230 in black or OD green G10
$240 in maroon micarta
Shipping in the USA is $10.
Includes a good kydex sheath, choose vertical or horizontal. An extra sheath is $50
These knives are unusual because they are machined. I do this in my shop on industrial CNC machine tools. A WIP thread documenting my technique can be found here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/pre-order-12-behemoth-chopper.1541591/
I take paypal, cash, check or MO.
We are heading out for our annual new years bash this afternoon so Jo will not start contacting people until we get back after the weekend. Please be patient.
Jo will contact you via PM or email next Tuesday. Emails though BF often get lost in spam filters. If you don't hear from her by mid week please contact Jo on her PM, or send us an email at carothersknives at g mail dought com
Our next preorder, opening this afternoon Dec 29th, will be for the first production run of the infamous 12" Behemoth Chopper. That pre-order thread will be here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/pre-order-12-behemoth-chopper.1541591
Thanks for looking,
Nathan
