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Today I have 2 CGG designs for you, which are also interesting because of the different ways they were machined. The first one is the "Perception". At Shot Show 2016 this design was released. The same time CRK announced that from now on they will introduce every year a bunch of new CGG designs, which means that the previous designs will be discontinued.
As a matter of fact this was a change in their policy because before that announcement there was no "rule" regarding the life cycle of their CGG designs. Most of the older CGG designs were produced for a number of years. Some of them lasted until the end of a model life cycle, for instance till the end of the production of the Regular Sebenza.
Since 2016 now we have more clarity about how long the current range of CGG designs will be produced. That means for the collectors that they know for approx. how long they have time to acquire a current CGG model for their collection and it will also mean that you can clearly relate a certain CGG design to a period. I think this was a smart move from CRK, in order to have their CGG designs being more attractive for collectors.
As mentioned above, this "Perception" belongs to last years CGG collection, which was replaced by todays current CGG collection. It belongs to the group of designs, where shop pics having a hard time to do justice to its beauty. From my point of view it is a highly underrated CGG design. I talked to CRK in order to receive their confirmation on my guess, that the manufacturing process of this design is a more complicated, more time consuming process than usual.
They confirmed that the "Perception" did require quite a bit of machining and had a very time intensive process to complete. The layers were milled first, then the entire scale was sandblasted. After that the alternating layers were milled again, followed by hand polishing the surface of the scale. As you can take from the pics, there are up to 7 layers!
Enough talking
21, CGG, Perception, 01
21, CGG, Perception, 02
21, CGG, Perception, 03
21, CGG, Perception, 04
21, CGG, Perception, 05
Now the 2nd CGG design is entering the stage. This one is from the current CGG collection and it is named "We The People". Once announced it generated immediate attention and exitement. With the first words of the US constitution at its showside scale, this one appeals to the patriotic feelings among CRK and knife enthusiasts. It also fits to the german constitution, although the wording is slightly different. In the 2nd sentence of the 1st paragraph it is said, that the people of Germany will confess themselves to the integrity/inviolacy of the human dignity.
The "We The People" is also interesting, because it is the first CGG design which was laser engraved, instead of being milled. I am sure this won't be last laser engraved design which we will see. I am curious whether they will change completely to laser engraving for CGG designs, or whether they will keep both techniques, depending upon the design.
If you take a close look at the macro shots, you will see kind of "firework" in terms of hundrets of little white, yellow and blue dots. These are light reflections from the photo lights at the surface of the bottom of the laser engraved lines. So the difference between milling, like at the above "Perception" and laser engraving is very obvious. Each technique creates a different appearance. Laser engraving is kind of a vaporizing process. With my limited technical knowledge this seems to be the reason for this kind of surface, which creates such kind of reflections. It looks a bit like ray skin.
I am sure that laser engraving will open up new possibillities for CRK, in terms of realizing designs which were impossible to manufacture with milling. On the other hand the special appearance created by laser engraving will not work with every design, I guess.
21, CGG, We The People, 01
21, CGG, We The People, 02
21, CGG, We The People, 03
21, CGG, We The People, 04
21, CGG, We The People, 05
21, CGG, We The People, 06
Hope you enjoy it.
Stefan
As a matter of fact this was a change in their policy because before that announcement there was no "rule" regarding the life cycle of their CGG designs. Most of the older CGG designs were produced for a number of years. Some of them lasted until the end of a model life cycle, for instance till the end of the production of the Regular Sebenza.
Since 2016 now we have more clarity about how long the current range of CGG designs will be produced. That means for the collectors that they know for approx. how long they have time to acquire a current CGG model for their collection and it will also mean that you can clearly relate a certain CGG design to a period. I think this was a smart move from CRK, in order to have their CGG designs being more attractive for collectors.
As mentioned above, this "Perception" belongs to last years CGG collection, which was replaced by todays current CGG collection. It belongs to the group of designs, where shop pics having a hard time to do justice to its beauty. From my point of view it is a highly underrated CGG design. I talked to CRK in order to receive their confirmation on my guess, that the manufacturing process of this design is a more complicated, more time consuming process than usual.
They confirmed that the "Perception" did require quite a bit of machining and had a very time intensive process to complete. The layers were milled first, then the entire scale was sandblasted. After that the alternating layers were milled again, followed by hand polishing the surface of the scale. As you can take from the pics, there are up to 7 layers!
Enough talking
21, CGG, Perception, 0121, CGG, Perception, 0221, CGG, Perception, 0321, CGG, Perception, 0421, CGG, Perception, 05Now the 2nd CGG design is entering the stage. This one is from the current CGG collection and it is named "We The People". Once announced it generated immediate attention and exitement. With the first words of the US constitution at its showside scale, this one appeals to the patriotic feelings among CRK and knife enthusiasts. It also fits to the german constitution, although the wording is slightly different. In the 2nd sentence of the 1st paragraph it is said, that the people of Germany will confess themselves to the integrity/inviolacy of the human dignity.
The "We The People" is also interesting, because it is the first CGG design which was laser engraved, instead of being milled. I am sure this won't be last laser engraved design which we will see. I am curious whether they will change completely to laser engraving for CGG designs, or whether they will keep both techniques, depending upon the design.
If you take a close look at the macro shots, you will see kind of "firework" in terms of hundrets of little white, yellow and blue dots. These are light reflections from the photo lights at the surface of the bottom of the laser engraved lines. So the difference between milling, like at the above "Perception" and laser engraving is very obvious. Each technique creates a different appearance. Laser engraving is kind of a vaporizing process. With my limited technical knowledge this seems to be the reason for this kind of surface, which creates such kind of reflections. It looks a bit like ray skin.
I am sure that laser engraving will open up new possibillities for CRK, in terms of realizing designs which were impossible to manufacture with milling. On the other hand the special appearance created by laser engraving will not work with every design, I guess.
21, CGG, We The People, 0121, CGG, We The People, 0221, CGG, We The People, 0321, CGG, We The People, 0421, CGG, We The People, 0521, CGG, We The People, 06Hope you enjoy it.
Stefan
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