Weird knife

[Sharpe5097]

A friend wants me to make him a knife that looks like this. After all the stuff u guys told me, what should i do with this design.

 

[Frank Niro]

Well if you are going to make it for him, make it like this one or draw up one with changes and show him .
Frank

 

[Rotte]

I think your question is a bit vague. What is it that concerns you?

If I were replicating that knife--and my skill set is not there yet--I'd make the handle slightly longer and make a smoother, more elegant transition from the hilt to the choil.

But that's just me.

 

[Ghostman3]

get rid of the huge choil at the ricasso. Handle could use a little work. Re-adjust pin placement.

 

[Spideyjg]

Does he have the original so you can copy it? I think I have an near identical one in my refurbished pile and will have it on the belt when fishing for quick cuts.

I'll see tonight when I get home. If you want to borrow for copying I can loan it out.

Jim

 

[Rick Marchand]

You can make it just like that one... but better. I do not see any design issues that go deeper than personal preference.

I would make it a full tang, line up the pins better, and have the finger choil flow into the handle more cleanly. The grind could be done better as well... but there are several way you can go with that.

Just do your best and what you feel is right.

 

[bikerector]

That's very much like a maxam mx1 knife I had. The design wasn't great but it wasn't completely awful either. The materials were pretty horrible though as was the build. It was gifted to me from a family member that found it for pennies at a flea market.

The choil was pointless but I've also lost appreciation for choils on fixed blades, I only like them on folders because it makes a short handle longer so I can get a full grip in a smaller package (think spyderco native or chap). I'm actually not real sure why they didn't run the grind further back since they already had the choil there. It's like allowing the knife to "get up close" with the choil and then adding blunt space so it's wasted.

The bevel was also pretty atrocious once I tried to use it. Fairly steep and probably the least stabby clip point I've ever dealt with which includes other cheap knives. The weight is pretty far forward so it felt clumsy to me. I think the balance was around the front of the choil.

I think I ended up using the knife to mess with like trying to sharpen in a swedge to get the tip stabbier for piercing bags, working on sharpening technique and trying to reprofile. I think the knife would make a decent hunter in that design if you thinned up the tip or added a decent distal taper and did a hollow grind instead of a saber. Really, the blade stock could have just been made thinner as it was plenty thick.

About the handle, I'm generally not a fan of the handles that curve towards the butt behind the ricasso as it moves you hand further from the start of a sharpened part. Since I like to drive into wood and cardboard as close to the hand as possible for less leverage stress on the wrist I tend to avoid it. It's the on thing I didn't like about a spyderco delica and don't care for on my mini-grip. It smooths out that area between handle and tang when the knife is folded but it's unnecessary on fixed blades.

These are just my opinions so don't take them and things to do but maybe to help you think about a solution better than I thought of. I eventually threw the maxam away because I had no use for some of the cheap knives given to me before I was able to afford nicer ones and it was pretty quick to get something nicer than that maxam. Personally, I thought it a poor design but it certainly could be improved upon pretty easily and still look like that. The handle and weight were the two biggest things for me.

The knives of alaska bushcamp is a somewhat similar look but different design knife that might give some ideas you could use (it's pretty fugly but supposedly quite functional).

 

[Sharpe5097]