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I always enjoy trying out new types of handle material. Today, I did some experiments with a new type of handle material, the frozen form of dihydrogen oxide, colloquially referred to as "ice". I have not seen ice handles on any production or custom knives out there, so I believe that I may have stumbled onto something revolutionary.
The way I see it, ice handles have many advantages over conventional handles. They tend to freeze to your hand, which gives you a much more secure grip. In addition, when your hand is cold, it's very difficult to bend your fingers, so the knife is less likely to fall out of your grasp.
Ice is also plentiful, and cheap. After doing some research on the internet, I found that it is very simple to make your own ice.
If you are in a desert, and dying of thirst, you could drink your knife handle.
Ice is clear. Diamonds are also clear, and are also really hard. So ice should make a strong handle material.
I harvested a chunk of ice from a gutter on my house. Ice is easy to attach to a stick tang knife. There are two methods. You can heat the tang using a torch.
Then, burn the tang into the block of ice. The melted ice will then re-freeze around the tang, locking it in place.
Alternately, you can drill a hole in the ice using a drill press.
Fill the hole with liquified ice (I have a small quantity available for sale for a nominal fee, plus an outrageous shipping and handling charge), and set the tang into the hole. The liquified ice will solidify around the tang and hold it in place.
Here is the completed knife.
I told my friend Jebediah_Smith about my idea for ice handles. We decided to further explore this idea. After many minutes of research, we came up with yet another new type of handle material.
Essentially, we take small particles of ice, and subject them to X-treme heat and pressure. We call the resulting product "snoCarta".
Here is snoCarta in its natural, unrefined form.
We aren't releasing any details on how to collect this material. We plan to make large quantities of money off this idea and become rich.
The next step in the process is applying X-treme heat and pressure to the unrefined snoCarta.
I plan on making a special machine to apply the heat and pressure because this makes my hands cold.
After forming the snoCarta block, the next step is grinding it to a general shape.
Remember, wear saftey goggles and a respirator when grinding the snoCarta. Saftey first!
The handle is then attached to the knife in the same ways in which the ice handles are attached.
Here is the completed knife. The handle is snoCarta, the buttcap is ice.
Here's a satisfied customer (Jebediah_Smith), holding the completed knife.
snoCarta could have applications for "tactical" fighting knives. Perhaps, Dark Ops Knives could switch from quartz to snoCarta or ice inserts in their knife handles. snoCarta does not come in a black color, and this could be a drawback for the tactical knife market. Currently, we have only two colors of snoCarta, white and yellow.
I think ice and snoCarta could make excellent khukuri handles. For example, this is how today's UBBB's would look with snoCarta handles.
The way I see it, ice handles have many advantages over conventional handles. They tend to freeze to your hand, which gives you a much more secure grip. In addition, when your hand is cold, it's very difficult to bend your fingers, so the knife is less likely to fall out of your grasp.
Ice is also plentiful, and cheap. After doing some research on the internet, I found that it is very simple to make your own ice.
If you are in a desert, and dying of thirst, you could drink your knife handle.
Ice is clear. Diamonds are also clear, and are also really hard. So ice should make a strong handle material.
I harvested a chunk of ice from a gutter on my house. Ice is easy to attach to a stick tang knife. There are two methods. You can heat the tang using a torch.
Then, burn the tang into the block of ice. The melted ice will then re-freeze around the tang, locking it in place.
Alternately, you can drill a hole in the ice using a drill press.
Fill the hole with liquified ice (I have a small quantity available for sale for a nominal fee, plus an outrageous shipping and handling charge), and set the tang into the hole. The liquified ice will solidify around the tang and hold it in place.
Here is the completed knife.
I told my friend Jebediah_Smith about my idea for ice handles. We decided to further explore this idea. After many minutes of research, we came up with yet another new type of handle material.
Essentially, we take small particles of ice, and subject them to X-treme heat and pressure. We call the resulting product "snoCarta".
Here is snoCarta in its natural, unrefined form.
We aren't releasing any details on how to collect this material. We plan to make large quantities of money off this idea and become rich.
The next step in the process is applying X-treme heat and pressure to the unrefined snoCarta.
I plan on making a special machine to apply the heat and pressure because this makes my hands cold.
After forming the snoCarta block, the next step is grinding it to a general shape.
Remember, wear saftey goggles and a respirator when grinding the snoCarta. Saftey first!
The handle is then attached to the knife in the same ways in which the ice handles are attached.
Here is the completed knife. The handle is snoCarta, the buttcap is ice.
Here's a satisfied customer (Jebediah_Smith), holding the completed knife.
snoCarta could have applications for "tactical" fighting knives. Perhaps, Dark Ops Knives could switch from quartz to snoCarta or ice inserts in their knife handles. snoCarta does not come in a black color, and this could be a drawback for the tactical knife market. Currently, we have only two colors of snoCarta, white and yellow.
I think ice and snoCarta could make excellent khukuri handles. For example, this is how today's UBBB's would look with snoCarta handles.
