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Franquixote
Bring back the Ferrum Forge Stinger in SM-100
Who else wants a quality flipper in SM-100?
I will do everything possible to bring together the right people to get the best possible stock of SM-100 made (heat treat, QC, etc.) for an EDC.
Oct 9, 2019
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Jviloria
Berg Blades Bottle Butcher
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How sweet is this little multi tool? It's sold out right now. But priced at $34 I don't doubt it stays in stock for very long. What do you say, we get a drop on this mini cleaver?
Sep 29, 2018
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FrontierBlades
Affordable Knives To Help Start Your Own Knife Collection
Knife collecting is one of my favorite hobbies. Whenever I come across a new knife I've never seen or don't own, I feel a level of excitement I can't put into words. Previously, before I started collecting knives, I never understood hobbies comprised of gathering items, whether it be coins, postages, antique items, etc. I had never seen myself starting a collection of my own for fun until I stumbled upon my first knife. When I purchased my first pocket knife from a local flea market, I immediately knew I wasn't going to use it, although that was my intention when I brought it. I knew I had to keep it in pristine condition, and store it away in a safe place immediately. This is when I first realized my enthusiasm for gathering knives, and every since I have been seeking and accumulating hundreds of knives of all varieties.
I cannot pinpoint the exact reasoning for my love of all things knife related, however there is something about growing your own assortment of something you...
Jul 25, 2019
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SargeII
Sand. Drifter.
I make it a point to always bring a knife and multitool even when I go abroad, I always want to be sure that I'm ready for whatever life throws my way. However, not all counties look kindly to travelers with blades and I've heard many horror stories of knives getting confiscated abroad. When travelling, I take my CRKT Drifter, a small cagey little knife with nestled stainless liners and a coated blade measuring less than 3 inches. Its robust design makes it light to carry and easy to clean even after a day in Mui Ne's beautiful sand dunes 😎 (Nha Trang, Vietnam)
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Nov 11, 2019
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DTLTACTICAL
This is the FIDUS automobile escape tool is a well crafted solid Ash CNC milled box with laser cut acrylic cover.
Dec 8, 2019
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MooTaters
Looking for 18350/cr123 ish sized EDC flashlight
~$50 for price I'm looking for a better(smaller) EDC light that I can more easily bring to work when my pockets are pretty full as is. For reference I have an Eagletac D25LC2 clicky, I love a lot about it, the moonlight "secret" low mode is great to start at in low light, and the medium level is just right in my opinion. One of the biggest boons for it is the pocket clip, and size...which is great for an 18650 light but not quite small enough for me most of the time.
Anyways, if there's one must beyond it being small around 18350/cr123 battery size, it's that it have a neutral white LED, not a fan of the cool white...also a deep carry pocket clip as I don't like my eagtac light's tail sticking out. As I'd be using this at work(IT crawling under desks, etc.) max throw isn't the absolute most important thing, but I would like it to be decent.
Beyond that here's a few preferences that boost value to me:
-A nice really low "moonlight mode" ~1 lumen or less and if possible to start...
Dec 7, 2019
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reswright
Copper Skyline
You can't buy it in stores but you can make your own.
1) Get 1 Skyline with G-10 and 1 set of copper scales for it. These are from Flytanium. The Skyline's the one I bought from Drop.
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2) Break it down. The pivot is T8 and the fasteners on the clip and spine are T6.
Don't miss the fact that two fastener bolts are embedded in the thin G10 scale that you need to pop out and then set into the thin copper scale, so the long T6 fasteners running through the spine and backspacer have some steel threads to bite into on the other side. Be aware that these can be tricky to pop out. They're easier to 'rip' out by taking a pair of needlenose pliers and ripping away nearby G10 which of course ruins the old scale, but it won't be usable without the bolts anyway.
Aside from that it's a simple breakdown that I believe I've documented elsewhere on this site already: you're just disconnecting Torx fasteners and the pivot and it all pops apart after that. Here it is all broken...
Dec 7, 2019
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TwentySixAnd
My two higonokami blades I bought last year. I tactically misplaced (you can't prove I lost it!) one for 6 months after using it.
Dec 6, 2019
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c1234n
what wallet brand is the best?
Tothe fellows, what wallet brand is the best? With different kinds of wallets, which wallet or wallet brand is the best?
Nov 28, 2019
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reswright
How To Dye Knife Scales
This is something I got into a while ago because I kinda like the idea of personalizing my knives and I like how certain colors look in the light. It's turned into a hobby. I don't know that there's a deeper meaning to it than that - I try to do things I like :)
There's lots of resources available if you want to learn about dyeing things online, and considerably fewer out there about dyeing knife scales. There's walkthroughs for doing this on the stove, and you can try that if you want. Some of the methods I have seen are... well, dangerous, and not in a good way. Others work but have little room for error. so I ended up experimenting and drawing on background information a bit to come up with a process to do it. I use a microwave! In a lot of ways, it's much easier, and you aren't staining up a metal cookpot, and especially once you get used to it, it's a lot easier to get just the effect you want, no darker or lighter.
The first and arguably most important step is the...
Nov 27, 2019
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reswright
Ontario RAT Model 1, Copper and D2
wherein I braze a rat.
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Specifically a RAT 1 in D2 and G-10 from Ontario Knives. The RAT is Ontario's best known collaboration with Randall's Adventure and Training (hence the RAT name), an outfit better known for their association with ESEE and for teaching people how to evade capture and survive in the jungle. The RAT Model 1 (and its slightly smaller brother the RAT Model 2) are fairly well known, very good budget knives. Fast flip, good ergos including a bit of thumb ramp, strong liner lock. No wiggle, no nonsense. The standard models come with AUS-8 -- with a good heat treat AUS 8 can be ok steel, but I wanted to go a little better for the Copper Rat. So I grabbed a D2 version with some light colored scales that I might customize later for some other project (light scales are a lot more interesting to dye.)
So I have my threadlocker, my Torx T6 and T8, some lanyard stuff, and a pair of aftermarket copper scales from Flytanium. And a nearby pair of needlenose...
Nov 24, 2019