Win a free Talonite (r) knife

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I wish there more tactical pattern knives with traditional materials, or maybe what I really want is a traditioanl style knife with modern materials, a pocket clip, and one hand opening and closing.
It would be great if you made a folder with about a 3.5" clip blade. Drop points are good too. Ambidextrious thumb studs. Either an all Ti handle in a frame or liner lock set up like a sebenza or pinnacle for simplicity. Or Ti liners with ti bolsters at the pivot end (maybe all one peice in a dovetail set up with the scales ?
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). For scales, stabilized rosewood or desert iron wood. Something with a lot of grain and a nice color all its own. No dyes or anything.And lastly, pocket clip attached to the bolster ( tip down carry)
Thanks for the great contest.
My email should be in my profile ( you'll never need it with my luck
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Hmmm...let's see, drop point hunter, linen Micarta handles, 3/16" Talonite (r) blade, 5" length, full exposed tang, 'mirror' 60 grit finish... someone has done that already!

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Tom Mayo is the person who crafted the knife at the top, which I described above. It was supposed to have Ti scales, but micarta was all Tom could handle (he goes crazy when he has Ti scales to drill into). I think it turned out very well.

The knife below is a Mad Dog Mako, which is the inspiration for the knife Tom made.

The small fixed blade is a Tom Mayo Talonite (r), with koa scales. It is a stub tang.

The folder is the exquisite Kit Carson #18, with Talonite (r) blade of 4", Ti scales. I think you would be hard pressed to find a finer folder than this one.

Walt
 

Hmmmm a 5" Talonite(R) blade with my name written all over it
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Okay here's my two cents. If it's really a work knife a combination edge would be a plus. for cutting line, heavy hose,plastic ect,ect. A thick drop point blade of 4" or less. A frame lock. And a simple slim Ti handle. oh yeah it's got to be ambidexterous.
with a lanyard hole
DIVER JOHN dvrjohn@bellatlantic.net


 
my vote is for a very large knife...about 3' long....no handle...no grind...just a bevel at the end for prying.....out of .250" x2" stock, and of course I will be the winner of said device!!!!!!!!!
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[This message has been edited by tom mayo (edited 11-09-2000).]
 
I would have to go with others who suggested a 3.5 inch drop point folder. It would be great to win that knife.
 
I think a Talonite Folder in the same style as the Crawford Kasper would be an excellent place to start. Instead of the thumb-stud, something along the line of a "Spyderco thumb-hole" would be great for one hand opening. Also it would be great if it had a pocket-clip like the newer Spyderco Natives, in that it would be easily reversable for either right or left-hand carry.

If I win, you can contact me via my e-mail address, or through "ICQ", both of which are shown in my "signature line".

Thank-You for this shot at winning what will be a great knife!.
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Dann Fassnacht
Aberdeen, WA
glockman99@hotmail.com
ICQ# 53675663
 
blade 4 inches long

handle stabalized ironwood

lock

the knife would open by a notch at the top it would lock using a pin lock system along with the resesses in the scales. the scales would hinge on the bottom opening to a 45% angle



[This message has been edited by ohoisin (edited 11-09-2000).]
 
I think that the best knife to be produced with taloninte would be a g-10 handle/alum handle with a 3.6" drop point blade. some nice finger grooves like the REKAT carnivore for a nice secure grip.

black coated pocket clip for righties and lefties if its not to expensive, nice thick liner lock and a tight lockup.

THE ULTIMATE KNIFE!

my email is paladin@ufl.edu

if I win, mail me and ill give you the info!

Thanks!

--defiant
 
This thing simply begs to be a folding hunter. The edge retention of Talonite, stain proof properties, and weight demand that it be so.

With this in mind, I think it should have a 3.5 inch flat ground drop point blade. The scales should be equally eco-proof micarta of any ol' color, and have a finger groove up front. The handle should taper toward the butt, not unlike the Blackie Collins designed Bolt Action Knife.

Lastly, a lanyard hole is a must, and NO CLIP IN SIGHT, gets in the way for serious skinning, IMHO. No need for a one hand opener either.

My e-mail address is Velitrius@Hotmail.com and will yield all the other info you require. Thanx fer the opportunity.
 
Make mine a 3" warncliff blade, nickle silver bolster, liner lock with stag scales.
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Or, I could be just as happy with a Paul Folder 2 with 3" blade and stag scales.

Thanks for the contest Tom.


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If the project is definitely going to be a folder, I'd prefer a 3.5" drop-point blade with one-hand opening and closing (thumb stud preferred over disk). I'd like a handle with mid-sized bolsters of some stain and scratch resistant metal and scales of stag or nicely figured stabilized wood (polished and contoured Micarta would also be nice…just something other than "matte black tactical"). It would be nice if the handle was shaped to provide a rudimentary guard and a finger groove.

However, I'd really like to see a classic drop-point fixed blade hunter with stag or stabilized wood scales and a leather sheath. I love leather sheaths, but I'm also painfully aware of the problems they can pose in staining steel blades. It seems like an absolutely corrosion-proof material like Talonite would be a great solution for this problem. Heck, you could probably even store the knife safely in a leather sheath…
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Thanks for sponsoring this great contest, Tom. If you need to contact me I can be reached at the e-mail address in my profile.

Jim Herring
 
1. About a totally corrosion proof knife. We do have two new alloys we call Impervium and Lubricium. As to corrosion and magnetism - the US Navy uses these on minesweepers. We could build the knife with these. I am a little concerned because we haven't tested these as much as I would like. If worst came to worst and the winner selected these alloys then didn't like them, I would trade the winning knife in the three alloys and would have another knife made in whatever the winner chose.

2. We were thinking folder but the important thing is to get the winner what he or she wants.

3. I agree about the designs Paul is currently featuring but I see them as classic and I really like them. They remind me of the knives my grandfather gave me when I was wee small. Again, the object of the contest is to get the winner a knife they really like. Paul is very versatile and a nice guy so it shouldn't be a problem.

4. Besides I was taught that you go to an artist, give them all the money you have and gratefully accept whatever they choose to give you. Not sure but I think it was an artist who taught me that.

Tom
 
Tom,
Thank you for a chance to win a great knife.

I think that the knife should be 3.5-4 inches long, drop point with a full flat grind and one hand opening. I think that the corrosion resistant properties of Talonite (r) should be kept in mind when designing the handle. Maybe titanium, with a frame lock.

Shawn R Sullivan
1-858-578-8222
Sullivan-slma@msn.com
 
I would suggest:

- 4" weehawk blade
- colored thumb studs on both sides
- stainless steel frame
- beefy liner lock
- titanium spacers (anodized)
- titanium bolster (anodized)
- titanium clip (anodized)
- ivory micarta
- decorated screws
 
I'd say that since Paul's making the knife, he should make his favorite pattern with his choice of materials aside from the talonite. Any one of us would be proud to have custom knife from the heart of a gifted maker. Count me in. I'd sure like to have a nice folder with a talonite blade. Heck, I've never seen talonite except in pics. I can't hardly even spell it. Thanks for the contest.
 
Hello, Tom Walz, and everyone.
After reading all your posts, I thought I should send a copy of an email I had sent Tom. It is about the preliminary discussion concerning shape and materials of a pocket knife I will be making for him. As he wanted two, one for him and one for a contest he recommended posing this same basic description in Bladeforums where the knife would be given away.

If, as Tom has posted, the winner wanted something different I would have no objections to making a different style than as follows.
And as far as the "Impervium" and "Lubricium", it seems to me to not be suited for the style or use of pocket knife I am making from Talonite, but I would have no objections to working with them for something else.

The following is what I sent to Tom with my ideas about shape and materials for his knife.

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I have had the Talonite pocket knives "cooking" in the back of my head for the style, shape, fittings, ect...

I didn't want to make a standard classic style for a new high tech blade alloy, the concept doesn't go together to my thinking.
I also didn't want to do the Americanized Tanto type, Tactical Assault, Multifunctional, High Tec, Latest Thing, knife either.

Well, this has evolved as a general starting point for us to discuss.

The picture in my mind is a 3-1/2" to 4" inch blade. A long leaf, or stretched spear shape 0.500" to 0.600" wide near the bolster and leaving the point in the center of the blade.

Lockback.

A handle that on the blade side is essentially straight and on the back is curved with near the same radial taper as the back of the blade.

Mokumi (brass/copper/silver) 1-1/4" long bolsters on the pivot end only, with scales of burgundy linen phenolic.

Thumbob, gemstone caped to match scale color, right or left or double.

Mosaic pivot pin covers of nickel silver and copper, (black star shape in the center).
Brass scale pins and maybe a brass or N/S thong hole tube also.

Aiming for a "Gentleman's Pocket Knife" kind of thing.
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So lets go from here. :-)
Looking forward to the knives.


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Originally posted by tomwalz:
.....2. Do you have a picture of the Mayo / Wong knife someplace? It is truly a gorgeous knife and gives an idea of what can be done with the alloy. 3. Don't know if I told you but our Mayo / Wong knife should be in a Bladeforums contest maybe in January. (I really hated to give it up but I promised.)
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Here you go Tom:
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Thanks....
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Eric.
Dream like you'll live forever and live like theres no tomorrow - Highlander

 
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