What do I name this knife?

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I have yet to name this knife (if anybody wants to help, feel free!). It's an 01, 5/32" thick, 4" long (~3 3/4" edge) blade, 5"handle, 9" overall for those who can't add :-). The handles are maple burl, i took the main bevel back a bit to thin it out, 40 degree edge, it cuts and splits hair, but chops well with no deformation. I took 600 grit wet/dry sandpaper and smoothed out the blade and handle, treated the knife with a lemon/vinegar patina and then did a spray over it with silicone spray. The initial edge is clean and freshly sharpened, so no patina on that. It's a very slight drop point, so the point is very robust. It has the maker initials on it (John @ JK knives "K") and my initials on the other side along with some jimping. 3 Solid brass pins and blue liners. I'll include some pictures of the liners also. My perfect knife.

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Follow the current industry trend of assigning it random letters and numbers.

You could call it the:

LW38LS938KIEI903NOW0938-3347
 
dinozzo said:
+1:thumbup:

But you could even go further and call it the MPK

ETA: AMAZING work man! Beautiful and useful design!
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All the credit goes to john at JK handmade knives. The idea came about around christmas time, and someone on here pointed me in the direction of john. I had known what kind of a knife i wanted for a long time, and not knowing the work i had seen was johns, i went and looked at a few of his knives in his forum and hey, it was him! So, i got on the phone with him and started asking a bunch of questions. Got off the phone and went to work. I looked at every knife i used hard and started getting ideas in my head as to what i liked, what was comfortable, what worked and how i used the knife. Looked up the local law and 4" was maximum. I was planning to have a 5" blade but 4 was all right. Wanted a thick knife and he said the thickest he could go without charging more was 5/32" (johns a great guy and very kind, he's going to go broke with his kindness!), so i chose 5/32. Wanted 3 solid brass pins as i knew i wouldn't use a landyard. Designed the handle all by myself, i grabbed my swisstool and used the ruler to measure both sides of my hand so that i could see how big i wanted the handle to be, and added a little room for comfort. Measured where my pointer finger would sit on my handle and how big it was, and made that a tad bigger too for comfort. At the time he wasn't offering monograms, but i asked and he delivered! I got mine free of charge for giving him the idea. I asked for jimping also because i did like the idea. The drop point design he makes i modified a bit, better for digging into wood, wouldnt break as much, i didnt want it to drop too much because i like the upsweep of the blade. On a previous knife i had (schrade golden spike) the sheath had a retaining strap with a button on it so i asked if he could do that. He didn't let me down again! So all in all, its the knife that i couldn't find in the store all these years, hasn't let me down yet and since its my own personal design, how could i be unhappy with it? The only thing i want now after using it, is a horizontal sheath.
 
what about "Superior" ?

in your eyes, its a superior knife. as far as bush goes, whats bushier than the shores of lake superior?
 
George.

As in "let George do it."
Very old line from before you were born.
 
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