The Sam Cade Thread of Knifey Goodness
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Sam Cade
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It is pretty easy to heat treat as well. It takes a bit of careful soaking but that isn't much a challenge one you have the hang of it.
It is basically 1075 with added Ni.
Ni. Heh.
It is basically 1075 with added Ni.
Ni. Heh.
Sam Cade
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Later today I'm going to try some 80crv2.
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I that is some stuff I have been wondering about. I haven't read too many people using it. They will start a threat about making one and never finish. So I was never sure how good it was.
Sam Cade
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Great looking grip, but the POB is probably too far back for a knife that size if it is just behind the forward pin. That takes too much "weight" from the blade and puts it in the hand leaving no feel in the blade. Index finger or guard typically would be better. Wrap some lead foil around the blade so the balance moves forward a scoonch and feel if that doesn't make the whole thing feel better.
blarby
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When Sam gets my commission for my kitchen set, I'd like a more "blade forward" weight.
Until then, I reserve judgement until it's in my hand.
I think a more rearword weight shift into the Palm with a knife that small will make the action quite fast.
We'll see.
I have faith in the maker. "D
Until then, I reserve judgement until it's in my hand.
I think a more rearword weight shift into the Palm with a knife that small will make the action quite fast.
We'll see.
I have faith in the maker. "D
Sam Cade
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This is a fairly small general utility knife, spec'd out for a guy with larger than average hands with a strong design directive toward grip security.
As a reference,pictured with a BK2 and a 3" Res-C SYCO.It has has a similar balance to either of these.
With the heavily tailhooked tang shape it is very secure in a choked back three finger grip that would facilitate more chopping grunt, though it is far from being a chopper. It is a slicer.
All that jimping isn't intended just for looks either. It runs up so far to offer purchase for the off hand on the spine to power through hard push/compression cuts.
As a reference,pictured with a BK2 and a 3" Res-C SYCO.It has has a similar balance to either of these.
With the heavily tailhooked tang shape it is very secure in a choked back three finger grip that would facilitate more chopping grunt, though it is far from being a chopper. It is a slicer.
All that jimping isn't intended just for looks either. It runs up so far to offer purchase for the off hand on the spine to power through hard push/compression cuts.
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blarby
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Fantastic.
Sam Cade
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I dunno John. Those Grecos and Breeds and Wheelers were POB on the guard or the "lighter" ones were index finger. I'd want to choke back like Sam's done to put the balance forward for hacking instead of getting the index finger POB. I'd need to play with it to feel what I'm missing.
Sam Cade
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Pretty good. Very secure. It feels oddly Japanese.
The scales are nominally a quarter inch thick, tapering down to under an eighth of an inch at the finger groove and nearly full thickness at pommel, making it very round.
A perfectly flat 1/8" scale was just all kinds of wrong.
No broken-tipped-Americanized tanto there!
Sam Cade
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I guess it is isn't it. Sort of in that nebulous area between true tanto and kwaiken.
Sam Cade
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The Red Scalliwag POB is right on the front pin, FWIW.
blarby
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Falls more towards kwaiken to my eyes.
Beautiful blade.
Beautiful blade.
Sam Cade
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Sam Cade
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I agonized over it. Finally I decided I was over-thinking it and just started grinding.
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