Hey James here. I'm a knife maker in Northern California. I made this fidget spinner knife (https://www.fidgetknife.com/), let me know what you guys think! [image] [image] [video]

How it started: [image] [image] How it finished: [image] [image] [image] [image] And yeah: [image] The udjat glows. BTW I'm all about ZT making knives in the US but if you want aftermarket parts for this knife, you're going overseas most of the time. I had to. The pins and pivot came from an Aussie. The fasteners, I'm pretty sure are Chinese. There are US places making scales but most of them are out of stock. This guy out in Lithuania does the scale I put on this knife. Lietuvos Pastas takes forever to deliver but they finally arrived and after finishing up my evening's work I decided to put this together and I am a happy, happy guy at how it's come together.

[image] I’m trying to create a new poll for asking a drop for the new SOG Terminus with XR S35V steel, but when I go to create a new post and look for the poll option, I only see these options: Photo, General, Guides and Questions. What must I do or what is the right procedure for creating a new poll or asking for a new drop/product? Thanks!

[image] [image] Went with an Anubis knot on the sheath and put an Anubis bead on the lanyard, in keeping with the whole Dogtooth theme. This knife isn't really set up for a lanyard and frankly doesn't need one for balance, but it looks like there's enough clearance to keep from nicking the paracord, and I was bored. There's a tiny touch of irregularity in the flat grind that I mentioned in my review. it's just a bit of curvature in the reflecting light toward the honed edge. Jumps a bit more if you're moving the blade around, as reflections 'swim' across the surface of the steel. But not bad. It's a good little knife.

Just started the second project of our old friend, Gregory Field. This time again a pen, again a unique style, and again an insane variety of forms. What do you think? [image] In fact, this is a mo-tactic, only an improved one, complemented by new buns that will appeal to both the esthete and us, middle managers, sitting in offices. And so that our life became brighter and more diverse, the master threw us classic office bells and whistles, but in his own, a little bit crazy form. [image] New materials, some solid composites, that this very edition is not known, but it looks very cool and costs $ 39, if you still had time for an early bird. You can also purchase a titanium version, but it is more expensive, but it seems to be a perpetual pen in general, and the grandchildren of the grandchildren will play, although children with a knife should not be given a module, and the mini awl looks pretty serious! [image] The ability of the user to collect new types of gadgets is...

I went through all the products available in EDC right now. ~65% of the category of EDC is knives or knife related products. What's worse is that most of the other categories only have one or two products each. I like knives as much as the next guy so I would be thrilled to have them in their own category. However they seems to be overshadowing the other products. [image]

How it started: a FRN Dragonfly 2 with British Racing Green scales and ZDP-189 steel. [image] Broken down: [image] This is a Seki City build. They fuse the two scales together, I didn't bother separating them -- I just extracted the contents. I picked up some Allen Putmans in jade G-10, and goosed the color with a little neon green dye. Starting replacement: [image] So, quite like the Delica/Endura/Native. Well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it I suppose. This setup does work. Unlike the Delica and Endura but like the Native this is another washerless knife, which explains why it can't be easily flipped open one handed in the traditional manner. [image] ZDP-189 is a super steel with extreme high hardness, made by Hitachi, with no Western equivalents. Takes an unholy edge. It's brittle, is the issue -- so not a work steel unless you clad it with something more rugged. But for something like a Dragonfly, a little scalpel of a knife, it's an excellent choice, which is why I...

For reference: on the left is the Benchmade Greg Thompson SOCP. From the top down are the Fox 479TK, the Benchmade 551T, a Kershaw Emerson 6034 trainer with aftermarket modifications, and a Boker Plus Balisong Trainer. [image] Why the Swiss Cheese look? Trainer knives, when properly made, have the exact same shape and weight as the regular knife, but the blade can't have an edge, even an unsharpened one. Because blade blanks that haven't been ground down or sharpened weigh more than ones that have, manufacturers mill speed holes in the blade to give the blade the proper weight and distribution. Often a different steel is used, particularly for knives with high end steel -- good ol' 420 stainless will do you just fine for a training knife, so long as it's milled to have the correct weighting and edge dimensions. The overall idea is to make the training knife exactly the same in the hand as the edged version. Not close, but dead on. Most are red, the better to identify them as...