Very cool stuff coming from Condor Tool!!!

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Here I am with the President and Chief Engineer of the company

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I have been using Condor products since they first came into the US market. They are high quality for the money. I had the pleasure of meeting their chief designer, Arlan Lothe at Blade in 2007. That new golok looks great.
 
Very cool looking blades. I'll definitely grab one of those machetes. :thumbup:

All the best,

- Mike
 
Nope, HD, these are the only pics available for the whole thing right now. send me your email,
 
bodydamage said:
So where are we going to be able to buy them at?
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good question. Hopefully distributers will have them in a month or so. :grumpy: There is still some work to do. Raise some cain with smokey mtn or anyone else you think should carry it! ;)
 
ya know what the most amazing thing I saw was? 28" machetes that went to puerto rico and africa...wazow!!!!
 
ooooh, now, see....that right there is what I like. Good quality knives that you can use, that'll hold up...but without the massive cost of some makers.

I had no idea condor had such good stuff. Their machetes I'd heard about, but I didn't know their knives were any good. Glad somebody set me straight!
 
Holy crap! Those are great looking. Someone is doing a thin, full tang, scandi ground knife, for cheap?!?!?! That's really badass. I'll definitely be in line for a couple of those little guys. Big, big kudo's to them for looking at what the market needed and responding. :thumbup:
 
yep. And they will continue to do so in the future!
Possibilities in the future include nessmuk axe, MICARTA versions of knives and Machetes , and other really cool stuff.

Learn to listen, listen to learn!
 
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Wow, looks like some nice prototypes! Once the handles are rounded out well, those should be some good ones.

There's a lot of variability in the wood, so I can't be sure, but it looks like it might be ipe on some of them. A bit more grain swirl than I'm used to seeing, though.

I like the design on them a lot, might have dropped the edge a touch more on the nessie. What's the steel?
 
You would have dropped the nessmuk point below the center line of the handle? Interesting.

I don't think its IPE, I have a few slabs of that here and know how heavy it is. I'll ask. The Steel is I think is 1095 (one of the prototypes is 1075, but I'll verify that later)
 
You would have dropped the nessmuk point below the center line of the handle? Interesting! I kept it in line with the center just so it could make holes a little better.

I don't think its IPE, I have a few slabs of that here and know how heavy it is. I'll ask. You would have dropped the nessmuk point below the center line of the handle? Interesting! I kept it in line with the center just so it could make holes a little better.

I don't think its IPE, I have a few slabs of that here and know how heavy it is. I'll ask. The Steel is mostly 1095 (one of the prototypes is 1075, but I'll verify that later)
 
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You would have dropped the nessmuk point below the center line of the handle? Interesting.

I don't think its IPE, I have a few slabs of that here and know how heavy it is. I'll ask. The Steel is I think is 1095 (one of the prototypes is 1075, but I'll verify that later)
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Not the point, well, maybe the point, too. But I probably would have had a bit more belly and dropped the edge down a bit.

Okay, there's a ton of farmed brazilian hardwoods, and some of them have a lot of variability- I've done a lot of jatoba work lately, too and it's got a bit of that look. Ipe is commonly called 'brazilian walnut' and jatoba "brazilian cherry'- the 'brazilian oak' is most often amendoim wood. Definitely lighter than ipe, but another good strong material - certainly closer grained than regular red oak :)

What's the spine thickness on the leuku pattern like or straight spined one?
 
Hey Joe- How thin are they doing their handles? Those flat sides are the only thing that worries me. Of course for the price you could get them and just rehandle them.
 
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