Won a custom knife

[j_h_smith]

Congrats!!!

Jim Smith

 

[velociROBtor]

He makes some nice stuff. Gonna keep an eye on his page.

Agreed... the two that were sold I liked very much.

 

[Blaster229]

Love these hardened, primitive looking stuff. Ryan Smith dynamik blades on FB. Has some cool stuff posted.

Looks like yours is a "Kwaiken" model.

 

[navyis2]

He has a few more up on his website and has a really cool batch coming up soon for those interested. The site is dynamik blades. I may have just bought this one.

 

[Hawkeye]

That is a seriously cool-ass looking knife.

 

[navyis2]

That is a seriously cool-ass looking knife.

Yeah he has a black one that has an even cooler acid etching on it.

 

[navyis2]

Some if his other stuff in the works.

 

[Blaster229]

One more shot of Jameson and I'm going to pull the trigger on this.

 

[navyis2]

I almost bought that one sober!

 

[amoebicmagician]

yeah, super weird choice for the chisel grind.

As long as it is hardened properly, this knife should stand up to some hard hard use.

I love that micarta too.

You should make some yourself, it will really give you and idea of the beauty and balls to the wall durability of the stuff.

I made some scales out of some old work shirts and polyester resin, and I had some left over after cutting out what I needed for the scales.

So I sanded it down into bookmarks

so one day i decide to try to break one just to see how hard it would be to do so.

I figured since I had sanded them so thin it would be relatively easy

It was not easy.

After putting it in a vise and exerting some leverage, it started to bend.... here it comes, it about to snap....

Nope.

It just bends

And bends

And bends some more

After finally bending it almost double the thing doesn't snap so much as it kind of 'peels' the polymer coating asunder.

HAHA I FINALLY BROKE IT!

Nope.

The fabric was still holding it together, and try as I might I could not get it to come apart. I finally had to saw it with a utility blade- it took like two concerted had working minutes

Micarta is awesome

 

[navyis2]

At some point i might. I have some old blades i would like to re-scale. I wasn't too sure about the chisel grind, but have to say, that it has really been nice when using it to "work with" instead of just using it to toy around with.

 

[Blaster229]

I almost bought that one sober!

I just bought this one.

 

[justsand]

I just bought this one.

give us a review when you get her

 

[navyis2]

I just bought this one.

Good thing you did. I wasn't going to be able to hold out too much longer, and the wife wouldn't have been happy.

 

[Blaster229]

Good thing you did. I wasn't going to be able to hold out too much longer, and the wife wouldn't have been happy.

I don't know if $140 is expensive or not for a knife like this.

 

[Blaster229]

Yeah he has a black one that has an even cooler acid etching on it.

He e mailed me back because I didn't mention the black one. He said that the Brown one is sold and did I mean the black one.

 

[teratos]

I don't know if $140 is expensive or not for a knife like this.

Probably pretty good. The Benchmade I EDC costs about that much.

 

[navyis2]

He e mailed me back because I didn't mention the black one. He said that the Brown one is sold and did I mean the black one.

Trying to steal my brown one. I was pretty interested in the black one, because it is the first hollow grind double bevel I've seen him put up, but the acid pattern on the brown one was too awesome to pass up. For them coming with Kydex holsters and Teklocks I don't feel like it could be beat for a hand made knife.

 

[Blaster229]

Knife is gonna be here today. CANNOT WAIT.

 

[j_h_smith]

I personally think $140 is a steal. Great deal in my opinion, I've got knives like that where I spent $300 and more. Don't know how he sells them so cheaply. Buy them, buy all of them. Unless they are made from really bad steel, you'll never find them anywhere else for that price.

Jim Smith