Microtech custom Scarab Double Action OTF with stainless Damascus dagger blade & blued hardware from 08/2006
The blade opens by pushing the actuator forward, and closes again by pulling it backwards.
Specs:
Length open: 21,8 cm (including "glassbreaker")
Length closed: 12,5 cm
Blade length: 9,0 cm
Blade thickness: 3,23 mm
Steel: stainless Damascus
Handle material: hard anodized 6061 aluminum with blued titanium screws & glassbreaker
Weight: 118 grams
Microtech custom "Winter" Scarab Double Action OTF with polished dagger blade, silver colored handle with matching grip inlays, transparant actuator, and oversized titanium "glassbreaker".
Specs:
Length open: 22,5 cm (including "glassbreaker")
Length closed: 13,9 cm
Blade length: 9,0 cm
Blade thickness: 3,25 mm
Steel: most likely S30V stainless
Handle material: hard anodized 6061 aluminium with grip tape inlays
Weight: 106 grams
Specs:
Length open: 21,7 cm
Length closed: 12,4 cm
Blade length: 9,2 cm
Blade thickness: 2,99 mm
Steel: Rados Turkish Twist Damascus
Handle material: hot gun blued steel with 59 inches of 24 kt gold wire inlays plus a 2,0 mm sapphire in the firing button
Weight: 157 grams
Comes in padded pouch
(specks in some of the pics are dust particles in reality)
Specs:
Length open: 21,7 cm
Length closed: 12,4 cm
Blade length: 9,2 cm
Blade thickness: 2,99 mm
Steel: Eggerling Damascus
Handle material: stainless steel with a combination of mirror finishes & 2000 grit finishes, multicolor engraving with 24 kt gold domes and screws plus a 1,5 Zirconia in the firing button
Weight: 134 grams
Comes in padded pouch
(specks in some of the pics are dust particles in reality)
Specs:
Length open: 21,7 cm
Length closed: 12,4 cm
Blade length: 9,2 cm
Blade thickness: 2,99 mm
Steel: Explosion Damascus
Handle material: stainless steel with a combination of mirror finishes & 2000 grit finishes with "Barb Wire" engraving.
Weight: 152 grams
Comes in padded pouch
(specks in some of the pics are dust particles in reality)
Handle parts & washers fine sanded, polished and waxed, filework & swedge also polished a bit & the blade stropped on hard cardboard with 1.0 micron diamond compound to remove the burr.
Specs:
Overall length: 20,9 cm (8.23 inches)
Blade length after the regrind: 10,0 cm (3.94 inches)
Max blade thickness: 3,1 mm
Blade grind: full convex zero edge
Edge angle: between 22,5 and 25 degrees inclusive
Blade steel: forged 1045 carbon steel
Handle materials: 1 x JB-Weld/Leather/Brass washers, cowbone, Argentinan hardwood, brass pommel
Sheath: brown leather (left-hand model)
Weight (knife only): 98 grams
Weight (knife + sheath): 120 grams
Blade & swedge colored with a blue magic marker before refining step with 1000 grit wet & dry SiC paper, used with oil on glass.
After the refining step:
New JB-Weld "washer" sanded flush, and the blade hand reground to it's original full convex shape on the green silicon carbide side of the Foss 7205 bench stone used with oil.
The first leather washer had rotted and had to be removed.
Then the gap was sanded, cleaned, and filled with some JB-Weld.
Wet ground a new point & a rough new swedge on the side of my Tormek SB-250 Blackstone (black silicon carbide):
This traditional Argentinian Ju-Ca brand fixed blade belongs to a friend of a friend, and as you can see the point was broken off and the handle was also in need of a bit of TLC.
Website of the Argentinian father & son team, who have been making these knives since 1959: http://ju-ca.com.ar/
Pictured are two Norwegian Foss 7205 combination black/green SiC sharpening stones; the one used with WD40 oil for regrinding the two Pontus Holmberg knives, and an unused new old stock one i intend to use with water.
Sometimes i remodel worn out or discarded meat carving knives into very narrow shank-like knives, which i then give away to certain Chefs & butchers.
This old Swibo i did a few years back, and it has quickly become the favorite bird & trout knife of a local Chef.
The rigid blade is hand convex ground up to 400 grit wet & dry SiC, it has an edge angle somewhere between 25 and 30 degrees inclusive, and the back of the blade is also convexed to a degree (which thins the blade a bit more & allows for better twisting & turning)
The hard rubber-like handle has no real guard, only a few shallow finger grooves, which provide for quite a lot of grip.
Very useful knife according to it's owner.
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