First off, hope your hand his healing up well!
On folders: Mmmmmmaaaaaybe...
Sometimes dreams do come true, you know.
Let me get a few more runs of fixed blades under my belt first. Once I decided I was going to embark down the production road, folders were a foregone conclusion, but building a production run of those is way different than doing 10 or 20 by hand, from scratch. I'm definitely going to take my time with that project, so I don't end up with 200 sets of parts that don't go together.
Hell, there was a lot of stuff that I thought I had under control with these fixed blades when I started this run, and that just wasn't necessarily so. HUGE learning experience.
If you've looked at my previous work, well, you already know my feelings about big fat blades.
One of the reasons for that is my meager knowledge of human physiology as it pertains to cuts and punctures. I'm sure I'm not telling anybody here (especially you) anything they don't know already, but we have two primary ways of ending an attack with a blade. 1) Neutralizing physiological structures that enable our attacker to harm us (including difficult ones like CNS). But mostly structures that enable motion. And 2) Loss of hydraulic pressure. The first one, the knife needs to be of an appropriate sharpness and design that it can reach structures that enable locomotion. The second one, any wounds we create by cutting or stabbing need to stay open. Which means that in both cases, the fatter the blade (and the larger the wound channel), the better, because the body has this tendency to want to be self sealing. If I'm wrong about any of this, please correct me.
As far as geometry, I say that I spent six years designing this knife. I wanted this to be the best compromise of a blade that could do anything you might want for an everyday-carry-sized knife to do. And I spent a lot of time thinking about compromises, because that's a big part of knife making. I'd be happy to share my ideas that lead to this knife, but I'm warning you now, it'll be wordy. (As if this isn't already!)
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Originally Posted by swatsurgeon
So a folder with this blade style is next???:roll eyes: hey, a guy can dream.....
Great geometry, I am really liking the wider blades lately (since using a knife to cause internal injury to animals!!) The 'wider' permanent cavity makes a difference when you don't have a precision shot....
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