Knife Thread: All about Knives and other edged tools

[mrsleeve]

well seems my Torrent snagged up on something somewhere and I lost it. I wanted something a little differant this time for a DD every day work horse knife.

I wanted something built to the hilt, must have were S30V steel, around 3" blade and STOUT I really wanted a Sebenza by Chris Reeve but I am not paying 400 bucks for a tool knife. I settled on a Bradley Cutlery, Alias II.

S30V 2.96" black blade, 6v Titanium scales with amazing quality built by benchmade for Bradley. This is what benchmade built 15 years ago quality wise in this price point. Its not an assisted opener or an auto, like I usually go with but this thing opens amazingly fast and easy for 100% manual opening folder. Oh and razor sharp outta the box, blade lock up is like a fucking bank vault, it dam near feels like a small fixed blade when opened up with almost 0 PLAY in any axis just a slight side to side flex at the pivot screw. I think after I get it broken in and minor adjustment to the pivot tension I think it will all but go away totally . Really bad ass little tool knife, if you can find them, seems they are either out of production now or suffering form the same thing as the CR Sebenza and always on back order. Though a bit spendy at 250ish and about half the price of the CR, if you appreciate good workmanship and the highest quality materials and 100% USA built, then you will not be disappointed with a Bradley

[shiftbmw]

Just for grins...I made these:

[Herr Faust Schinken]

you made them? how much do you charge thats a pretty nice little fixed blade

[AndrewBird]

Recently got a job at Leatherman. These were free. :)

[shiftbmw]

you made them? how much do you charge thats a pretty nice little fixed blade

Yes. I'm really happy with the way they came out. We(I have a couple friends who helped) did all of the design work and prototyping ourselves. We also did the coating and paracord wrap ourselves, but otherwise had the work done at local machine shops. They are 100% made in the USA including the sheaths which is pretty cool.

The steel is D2 and we have set them up geometrically to be slicers as opposed to choppers. The edge is profiled to roughly 35 degrees to give you an idea. Coating is cerakote(baked ceramic based coating popular with the gun crowd) which has awesome abrasion resistance. Laser cut, CNC bevel ground, heat treated, etc etc. They go for 65/shipped.

[Herr Faust Schinken]

Yes. I'm really happy with the way they came out. We(I have a couple friends who helped) did all of the design work and prototyping ourselves. We also did the coating and paracord wrap ourselves, but otherwise had the work done at local machine shops. They are 100% made in the USA including the sheaths which is pretty cool.

The steel is D2 and we have set them up geometrically to be slicers as opposed to choppers. The edge is profiled to roughly 35 degrees to give you an idea. Coating is cerakote(baked ceramic based coating popular with the gun crowd) which has awesome abrasion resistance. Laser cut, CNC bevel ground, heat treated, etc etc. They go for 65/shipped.

thats a fantastic price i may be in for one in a couple of weeks

[shiftbmw]

thats a fantastic price i may be in for one in a couple of weeks

cool, just shoot me a pm

[Zacm829]

Recently got a job at Leatherman. These were free. :)

Love my skeletool! Use it at work daily and it's useful for opening my beer when I get home.

[mrcheezle19]

My buddy make some pretty badass custom knives. will take some pics and post em up tomorrow.

[ForcedFirebird]

I didn't want to get cut by sharp edges, so it's fixed now.

[mrsleeve]

fucking show off :)


On that note I am lusting over this thing but its price tag is a bit hard to choke down

[BlackbirdM3]

I've got some decent stuff, a Spyderco native, Spyderco Endura, a Cara-Cara, and then I have some bigger edged tools... One of which is pushing 400 years old.




This sword dates back to the late 1600s, likely made in Spain using Damascus steel. It my family sword, brought to the New World in the early 1700s, it was likely used in the American Revolution, and in the Civil War. I'm sure it saw blood in Scotland (my last name is Campbell).


I also have this dress sword that was my great grandfathers. He was a high ranking person in a chapter of the Pennsylvania Knights Templar.





I just discovered that the sword above is a Knights Templar sword, not much is known about it, until I made the discovery last month. All that was known was that my grandfather was a member of some secret society and that is where the sword came from.

The family sword has been passed down to the eldest son of each generation since new.

Will

[ForcedFirebird]

fucking show off :)

Haha, random drunken post.

Some cool knives in here, though. I just carry a folding razor knife from Home Depot, had the same one for about 8yrs. Have a box of knives I need to dig out, some neat/old stuff in it, but it's somewhere floating around either the garage or shop. :/

[Farbin Kaiber]

This sword dates back to the late 1600s, likely made in Spain using Damascus steel. It my family sword, brought to the New World in the early 1700s, it was likely used in the American Revolution, and in the Civil War. I'm sure it saw blood in Scotland (my last name is Campbell).

Will

I'm a descendant of the sons of Big Henry. I just hope it didn't spill any of my familial blood in 1692.

[mrsleeve]

Farbin that now explains your stature, Your son will be known as as Ben son of Big Farbin descended of Big Henry, while standing 6'9" and 285lbs and swing a 12lb splitting maul like most kids swing a tennis racket ....


Blackbird- That is some really cool shit you have rounded up. I love stuff that was made hundreds of years ago with such craftsmanship and attention detail it could be mistaken for something made much more recently. Things that have survived the centuries and were used in a manner that would destroy most things made today in a week of average use when the original was made.