Murphnuge
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The Yuma kind of looks like a Mini Bowie. How about The Yowie.
Get drunk and see if you can say Yowie 10 times fast. We may need this on video.
Jeremy
Way ahead of you, I'm already lit.
The Yuma kind of looks like a Mini Bowie. How about The Yowie.
Get drunk and see if you can say Yowie 10 times fast. We may need this on video.
Jeremy
Keep in mind these names should be easily pronounced by a couple drunks in Indiana.
I still think Kiowa is a great name
The little 3X3 that it has been called. (Roughly 3in blade/3in handle) is something that just made out of cutoff scraps and no two are alike. Some are a little longer, some shorter, some thicker stock than others, some flat, some hollow ground. Polished, brushed. There's no consistancy on what they are. It just depends on what there is to work with. So, if someone was to order one, you wouldn't really know what your going to get. So, I haven't named it and just offer them when I have them available.
Based on that explanation, I'd call the little guys "The Scrapper X Series", generically described as "a wharncliffe style blade of varying blade geometries made from custom knife remnants, each knife being as unique as the remnant from which it was carved." A Scraper X would a blade X to X.999", e.g., a Scrapper 3 would be any Scrapper with a blade length of 3.xxx"
Expanding your marketing options, --
"Scrapper WX", for a wharncliff scrapper,
"Scrapper CX" for a clip point,
"Scrapper DX", for a drop point,
"Scrapper TX", for a tanto point
"Scrapper SX" for a spear point
with the point style based on what could be most easily made out of the scrap piece available.
No thanks necessary for this moment of marketing genius, just a prototype of each point style in each length from 3 to 6 inches, to start my "TM Hunt Collectible Blades" display.
Yeah, but the Xs would be replaced by the appropriate #, so they'd be S3, T4, W5, D3, etc.
I guess I've ignored this thread long enough and owe you guys a explanation on why these two pattern haven't been named.
I only like to name the patterns that I'm specifically going to make/sell a lot of, and while no two handmade knives are the same. The intention is to at least get the blanks as exact as possible. That way, when you order say a Yuma, once you decide on handle options you pretty much know what your getting. I have not decided if im going to add these two patterns to my regular line up or not, and heres why:
The clipped Yuma as the working title has been. Is frankly a real pain in the ass. Its a knife that is really a specific task knife. As much as I like the Yuma, it is more of a utilitarian blade. Good for all things really. The clipped version is specifically for hunting and skinning applications. I think its a fantastic knife for that, but, I'm limiting who is going to buy it. That coupled with the hollow grind that is very difficult to get to look that good makes it something that is just not very fun to do.
The little 3X3 that it has been called. (Roughly 3in blade/3in handle) is something that just made out of cutoff scraps and no two are alike. Some are a little longer, some shorter, some thicker stock than others, some flat, some hollow ground. Polished, brushed. There's no consistancy on what they are. It just depends on what there is to work with. So, if someone was to order one, you wouldn't really know what your going to get. So, I haven't named it and just offer them when I have them available.
That's just about the just of that.