What are your ZT wishes for the Blade Show 2014?

Kai Corp. said:
In the end, we don't miss the subforum here
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You guys might not but we sure do! My activity here on BF has been less than half of what it was before you guys closed the forum :( It was such a great place for the most part. I know you guys had to do what you had to do but I hope one day we can try again. :D
 
I don't know.


The 0770CF is almost every thing I wanted.


Sooo.... More knives with the same proportions!
 
Kai Corp. said:
In the end, we don't miss the subforum here, but continue to want to set the record accurate where needed, and straight shoot with those that are interested.
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I don t blame you. The subforum was always too contentious for me. Wonder why the Spyderco subforum doesn t have that problem.
 
oharal said:
You guys might not but we sure do! My activity here on BF has been less than half of what it was before you guys closed the forum :( It was such a great place for the most part. I know you guys had to do what you had to do but I hope one day we can try again. :D
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Yea, sorry bout that...Should have qualified that a bit. There were large parts of the sub-forum that were cool and that we do miss. It was the minority crying and whining and the letters and emails complaining about mods and fanboyism and the legal threats, something about cyberstalking or some such thing, anyhoo, sooo dumb on so many levels it just so not worth any ones time. Hit it and quit it works much better. :D If it makes you feel any better, we miss you and the majority on the sub-forum as well. :o Despite it's popularity, I don't see another going up in the future.

Back on topic, the Blade Show should be hot this year...
 
whp said:
I don t blame you. The subforum was always too contentious for me. Wonder why the Spyderco subforum doesn t have that problem.
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It starts and ends with Sal. He brings a calm, welcoming and respectful attitude and never lets it become personal. There was one thread recently that epitomized all that.
 
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RamZar said:
It starts and ends with Sal. He brings a calm, welcoming and respectful attitude and never let's it become personal. There was one thread recently that epitomized all that.
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Yea, I'm sure Gino, Charles and myself didn't help much with handling the negative in the sub-forum. There was just much ick that we didn't do well with.

Back on topic, Blade Show, wow, right around the corner. Better get busy.
 
RamZar said:
LionSteel has been making monolithic (aka integral, monoblock, solid one-piece) frame locks since 2010. Initially, it was titanium and Ergal (7075) aluminum. They're now in the process of shipping their first one-piece frames of carbon fiber as well as micarta.
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I just remembered that a bit later. Didn't occur to me at the time of my posting. LionSteel makes a fine knife (I own a DPx HEST 2.0 made by them), but I was never really sold on their monolithic design. The most influential ones I can think of though are the Scott Cook Lochsa, Michael Raymond Estrella, and this interesting Chinese knife (by Carson Technology Laboratory)

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Scurvy092 said:
I think the 0770CFM390 deassisted would be pretty close to this. Modified wharn just a half inch shorter.
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Looking for a true Wharncliffe. Totally straight edge. I don't really dig the 770. The spine can either round in, or be a 45° angle to the tip. I personally like the angled type, but either way a straight edge.
 
Kai Corp. said:
Yea, I'm sure Gino, Charles and myself didn't help much with handling the negative in the sub-forum. There was just much ick that we didn't do well with.

Back on topic, Blade Show, wow, right around the corner. Better get busy.
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This is right about the time of year when my excitement for Blade starts percolating. I'm ready!
 
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Morrow said:
This is right about the time of year when my excitement for Blade starts percolating. I'm ready!
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I am jealous. I currently can't afford the trip to GA. The big convention every year in Boston is PAX East which I would gladly trade with Atlanta for Blade in a heartbeat. Maybe I'll get to go to NYCKS (must save money).
For those of you guys who are attending, please take a ton of pics and vids. This years coverage at Shot was just a commercial for each booth. Informative but boring.
 
Apec said:
A monolithic Ti framelock - that would be something, since right now those are pretty much exclusive to the world of customs.
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RamZar said:
LionSteel has been making monolithic (aka integral, monoblock, solid one-piece) frame locks since 2010. Initially, it was titanium and Ergal (7075) aluminum. They're now in the process of shipping their first one-piece frames of carbon fiber as well as micarta.
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Apec said:
I just remembered that a bit later. Didn't occur to me at the time of my posting. LionSteel makes a fine knife (I own a DPx HEST 2.0 made by them), but I was never really sold on their monolithic design. The most influential ones I can think of though are the Scott Cook Lochsa, Michael Raymond Estrella, and this interesting Chinese knife (by Carson Technology Laboratory)
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Regardless of whether you're sold on the LionSteel monolithic frame design or not they're the only company outside of customs making them and I dare say the most influential for such designs.

Now, it'd be good to see a regular production monolithic frame lock with a flipper.
 
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I have owned many ZT's; primarily 0350's, 0360's(collab), 055x, 056x series. They have all been excellent knives, but I don't carry them because they are too large/heavy/thick for my EDC purposes. I realize that ZT made its bones with heavy-duty knives, but I wish you would consider a model like this:

Use 0.150" titanium slabs instead of 0.200" titanium. Give me a 3" max blade length (tip to grip) of a good steel, Elmax, CPM-154. Make the handle long enough to fit my large hands...the 4.58" length of the 0550 is fine.

Basically, a 0550 with thinner slabs, blade-thickness of 0.140", but just 3" max tip to grip. The 3" max will eliminate legal hassles in many states and municipalities. I carry knives of about 3.5" blade-length, BUT only because I need the longer grip-length to fit my large hand. The blade itself could be a max of three inches and be just fine for all of my uses.

Now you have a knife, lighter but still heavy-duty, a 3" max blade of good steel, legal nearly everywhere, and only 0.450" thick grips instead of 0.570" thick. This would be a knife that I could/would carry. I really dislike fat grips, and they make me walk lopsided...

I don't need bearings and I dislike flippers. Bronze washers have historically worked just fine and last forever.

I applaud you, KAI, for listening and posting here.

SonnyDaze
 
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