Some new knives...send your feedback

[CRUSADERSTEEL]

Hey guys.. Here's some new designs I have been working on.

Combat Bowie: Wanted to blend the old with the new. Had to have modern materials and have some modern lines but still immediately identified as a Bowie. Took me a while to get the design to where I felt it met the above criteria but I think we did it and has been a big hit!

Naqam (Vengence in Hebrew): I designed this for an Army Chaplain and friend of mine. His only request was a "big knife". It's definitely big and I think it's quite stunning, one of my favorites.

NHK (no handle knife): I wanted to make a knife that gave you the most blade length in the smallest package. It is easily concealed in an IWB sheath or a perfect neck knife. I worked on this design for a long time and it is very stable in the hande whether your punching, slashing, or using it for fine detail work it feels solid!

AAR it up! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...let's hear it! Thanks

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by CRUSADERSTEEL

Hey guys.. Here's some new designs I have been working on.

Naqam (Vengence in Hebrew): I designed this for an Army Chaplain and friend of mine. His only request was a "big knife". It's definitely big and I think it's quite stunning, one of my favorites.

I like them all,, but I am real partial to the one on the wood desk? Naqam?

I have always liked the slight drop in the tip. I first saw the style in a Spanish or Portuguese bayonet similar to this one..

[Barbarian]

As a general knife-head, and knifemaker wanna-be, I gotta say that there is nothing bad or ugly about your knives, Sir.


Edited to add: I got my eye on one of those Defender 1 Concealables with the skeletonized handles. I may just have to buy one.

[Dusty]

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[Team Sergeant]

Naqam and NHK look very cool. I like the size of your NHK! Can you put a bottle opener on it?

[DJ Urbanovsky]

Nice work, buddy!

I wish my early knives looked half that good.

Great work on those plunges, especially on the bowie.

Keep doing what you're doing.

[CRUSADERSTEEL]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Naqam and NHK look very cool. I like the size of your NHK! Can you put a bottle opener on it?

I have something in the works for you TS... I have them being Water Jet'd today actually, I may have to debut the proto-type here... Oh what the hell Troll has already seen it. I will post some pics today. It will open beer AND kick some ass when you need it too so yes.. it will do eveything an 18A can AND kick ass

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally Posted by CRUSADERSTEEL

I have something in the works for you TS... I have them being Water Jet'd today actually, I may have to debut the proto-type here... Oh what the hell Troll has already seen it. I will post some pics today. It will open beer AND kick some ass when you need it too so yes.. it will do eveything an 18A can AND kick ass

Did you let Troll try to break it?

[CRUSADERSTEEL]

Originally Posted by DJ Urbanovsky

Nice work, buddy!

I wish my early knives looked half that good.

Great work on those plunges, especially on the bowie.

Keep doing what you're doing.

Thanks D!! We're getting there.. I just have to keep milking you and Bill of all your secrets!! HA

[CRUSADERSTEEL]

Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer

Did you let Troll try to break it?

He tried!! I have to child proof everything when he comes over. I give him a set of pumpkin cutters to sharpen to keep him busy so he doesnt hurt himself..Ha.. no.. we actually sit around an come up with some good stuff.... sometimes..

[CRUSADERSTEEL]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Naqam and NHK look very cool. I like the size of your NHK! Can you put a bottle opener on it?

Ok.. You guys are the first to see this other than Troll and well.. he's not a person so he doesnt count.
I wanted to make a line of inconspicuous self defense weapons. Items that you can carry and are indeed weapons but dont draw attention. I hope this is the first of a long line of such tools. This is the B.A.B.O. (back alley bottle opener). You can put it on your key ring, no one will think anything of it and even bring it into a bar, but you have a very effective weapon if and when you need it. It's perfect for women, it's obviously easy to use and requires no special training and yes... it will open a bottle. This is just the prototype I hade cut out, the production ones will have all the corners nice and rounded, it will be blasted, look pretty, and be logo'd.

What you think?

[DDD]

I like it! One can never have too many bottle openers, and if you can use them to alter someones reality so much the better!
When will you have them in production?

[CRUSADERSTEEL]

Originally Posted by DDD

I like it! One can never have too many bottle openers, and if you can use them to alter someones reality so much the better!
When will you have them in production?

I am already taking orders. I pick up the first batch tomorrow and most are spoken for just from the few guys I showed them to up at Grp. I am already ordering materials for a larger run. I just wanted to get one all prettied up before I put it on the website.

[swatsurgeon]

Make it out of carbon fiber, call it a combo ice scraper bottle opener and they'll sell like widgets.

knives look like they will inflict some significant internal damage based on width and length...alot of mass passing into someone (surgical perspective)

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[DJ Urbanovsky]

Bad idea.

Carbon fiber is a poor choice for this application. Look at how thin the web is on the sides of the ring. You don't want a device like this collapsing under impact and guillotining your finger. Steel or Ti, now we're talkin'. CF, fuggedaboudit. You'd also start tearing chunks out of it the first time you opened a bottle with it, and that's going to eventually lead to CF splinters, which are unpleasant.

CF and G10 will also blow out and de-laminate when waterjet cut unless the machine is equipped with a pilot hole attachment.

Originally Posted by swatsurgeon

Make it out of carbon fiber, call it a combo ice scraper bottle opener and they'll sell like widgets.