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CRKT Crawford/Kasper

Oooh! I forgot about that one. I have one in my E&E kit. Built like a tank.

I am currently carrying Pat Crawford's creation of the Bob Kasper designed Perfigo. 4 1/2 inch folder that is wicked. If you can afford it it is worth a look.

Pat Crawford does very good work, I've enjoyed the times I've gotten to speak with him in Atlanta. Good guy. Glad you mentioned his work.

I was looking through the Emerson catalog this morning, and I see that many of the knives have what appears to be a little disc with a rough edge directly beneath the "wave." What is the purpose of this little disc?

RL,
The disk is Emerson's answer to the thumb stud for one handed opening. The advantage of the disk being that it is ambidextrous.

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Originally posted by Roguish Lawyer
I was looking through the Emerson catalog this morning, and I see that many of the knives have what appears to be a little disc with a rough edge directly beneath the "wave." What is the purpose of this little disc?

DDD is correct.

It is an opening device (probably to avoid copying Sal Glessner's opening hole) and once practiced, is pretty fast.

Can also be used as an opening assist on a pocket draw.

Will post pics later.

You should have asked Derek. He works for Ernie, and is pretty handy with one.

TR

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Originally posted by The Reaper
You should have asked Derek. He works for Ernie, and is pretty handy with one.

Did he ever register here? He said he would try . . .

With all respect to Ernie Emerson and Big Derek, The disc as "thumb stud" for opening was, to the best of my knowledge, pioneered by Bob Terzoula who also happens to be one of the great pioneers of the tactical Folder. It was Mr. Terzoula who came to my shop 15 years ago now and taught me how to make a liner lock folding knife.

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Originally posted by Bill Harsey
With all respect to Ernie Emerson and Big Derek, The disc as "thumb stud" for opening was, to the best of my knowledge, pioneered by Bob Terzoula who also happens to be one of the great pioneers of the tactical Folder. It was Mr. Terzoula who came to my shop 15 years ago now and taught me how to make a liner lock folding knife.

And now you know the rest of the story....

Thanks for sharing, Bill. You are a never ending source of information here.

TR

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Originally posted by The Reaper
And now you know the rest of the story....TR

Paul Harvey...(aka The Reaper)....Goood Day.

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Originally Posted by Bill Harsey (Post 7208)

Air.177, The A/F folder was originally designed and prototyped by me for Col. Rex Applegate. I told the Col. what I'd done with his fixed blade after the fact. This worked out well because Gerber Legendary Blades in Portland Oregon picked up the knife and is continuing to do a very good job producing it. I brought in Butch Vallotton (famous auto opener knife maker) to help with the production of the custom versions of this knife. Those A/F folders are marked "Harsey-Vallotton". They were made with 154CM Steel, titanium handle frames and micarta handle scales. This custom A/F was featured on the cover of the very first issue of Tactical Knives magazine. IMPORTANT NOTE: Butch brought the key to making this folder a successful design. I had the profile nailed down but not the configuration of the folding joint. This was tricky because we wanted to rotate the entire blade into the handle so we could sharpen the top edge and still have it protected when closed. The geometry of the joint determines if we can do this or not. Butch came up with the concept of using the thumb studs on the blade as the stop pins for both the open and closed position. This let us keep lot's of steel around the joint of the knife, that is we didn't have to make a deep relief notch at the base of the blade to rotate full closed around an internal stop pin like on conventional liner locks. Keeping my mouth shut and letting Butch work that out really paid off. I then produced the hardened steel (D-2) master drill pattern plates that let us reproduce this mechanism for the custom run of knives. Pleae note that many other people who have knife companies thought this was a fine idea and now use it in their knives. DON"T EVER LET MY WIFE FIND THIS OUT: Maybe once or twice during this project Butch called and needed my help on the A/F folders down at his shop just off the Umpqua River. The correct weather conditions seemed to match this call for help. Upon my arrival the problem would be solved fast and rest of the day might have been spent fishing for smallmouth bass. That was a long time ago, don't have time to pull that off now. Bill

Sorry if I'm reviving an old thread, but there's a lot of great info here.

My first knife was a Gerber Applegate-Fairbarn combat folder.

Thank you, Mr. Harsey, for bringing it to life.

The fact that it still stings to think that I lost it...well, i wish I had another one....

BTW, i also have a Lone Wolf T2. :D

Punisher_nbi45....Usually the illiterate are excused here, but you posted, so you are obviously not ignorant; you just follow your own rules…and you dug up and old thread to boot!! Well by golly, that there is an attention getter if I ever seen one…and in a TS Thread no less:munchin

Punisher -

1. Go here - http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...ead.php?t=3452

2. Follow the rules or....

3. Good luck.

Richard's $.02 :munchin

TS,
Have you thought about giving MSG Breed a call? He makes awesome folders and stands behind his work with a guarantee. If you want more info I have his number.