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I have 3 real nice hunters listed on my site from Dale. Deep hollow razor ground blades. His handle work is awesome,the knives nest in your hand secure ! Good Stuff
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Finished this one up. 1/8" D2,pushed the 12" hollow grind to the limit. Ghost Jade G10, not sure what IO think of it yet. Handy little knife though.
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This one is the Zombie Apocolipce knife, It is the only knife know to man that will kill a Zombie. 5/32" D2.
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It is the only knife know to man that will kill a Zombie. 5/32" D2.
Hope nobody took me serious on that crap!!!
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They look real good Dale I like the Zombie knife & think everyone needs one . But to be truthful,I might want my zombie knife bigger.
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Been learning to taper tangs with a little instruction from Rick. Here is one that turned out good. I wanted to see how thin I could go but chickened out at .020
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Plenty thin & looking good Dale
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dale the 1st one is a real handy looking knife. good job on that tapered tang--dammed hard to get it that thin w/o blowing thru. cranky72
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Just remember Dale that when you put liners and scales on that tapered tang it will appear twice as thick as it looked bare. Rick shoots for the optimum.
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Ricks .005 tangs.are amazing. You have to squint to see if there os metal in there.
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Just remember Dale that when you put liners and scales on that tapered tang it will appear twice as thick as it looked bare. Rick shoots for the optimum. I dunno Mike, although I realize I have a biased opinion, it still looks pretty thin to me. Not Menefee thin. The only other person I personally knew that tapered that thin was George Englebtretzen.
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great job on the taper. Trick is getting to where you can do it as fast as Rick does. I swear he can taper a tang in about 3 minutes. Just flat pisses me off, but he's also got the only turbo charged grinder I've ever seen. That sucker raises the temperature in the room 5 degrees when he turns it on.
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have you ever heard him snore while tapering a tang??
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That tang looks real nice, and that natural canvas micarta with those yellow liners is not commonly seen and it looks exceptionally well...! Great combination of materials and workmanship.
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Tired of the hassles of etching, so I got a stamp. This one is not as deep as I would have liked, but still like it better than the etch. I'm building a larger press that should do the trick.
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I like your new stamp. Looks good. Rick says those real knife guys (collectors) really go for the stamps more so over etchings.
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Well there were two reasons for the stamp. I got tired of etching with the set up the chemicals and the clean up. And I wanted a better look to the finished product. I know I have a high quality knife with an excellent steel proper heat treat. But showing knives on here up against Menefee Miller Dowell Ingram and some of the others I need all the help I can get. I hope to someday be in that caliber of makers.
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dale i think that is a real nice taper;trying to get a perfect super thin tang simply means at first you are going to blow thru lots of knives.having watched menefee do this process i realized it has a lot of expearance behind it. cranky72
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For sure amd he makes look so damn easy.
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