Blades

[JB in SC]

Since we're coming clean on blade addictions, here's another of my favorites.

Jerry Halfrich, CPM 154 CM, carbon fiber scales, no liners.....weighs 2 oz.

[gusstrand]

Gonna take a lot more than two photos for YOU to come clean...

This one is my latest... I have to take real pics of it...

[JB in SC]

Gonna take a lot more than two photos for YOU to come clean...

True...but I divest my "holdings" from time to time.

Nice Emerson, Tom does a great re-grind. I was going to get him to re-grind a Mini CQC-7 lefty and remove the wave feature, always wound up cutting myself.

This is a lefty Voorhies 9s flipper, CF scales with Ti liners (.080", more like a frame lock), and a .145" thick CPM 154 CM blade. Chunky little rascal @ 3.6" closed, I will probably be cutting this one from the string (it's a little thick for such a small knife). Nicely made and solid as a rock. Has the IKBS ball bearing system, opens with zero wrist action.

[gusstrand]

I divest often as well... but not usually my Emersons.

Lefty's... I have the three Emersons that come that way (Cmdr, 7 and mini7,) and have had ferrrk convert three others... That one I just got from the Cove... Got rid of my lefty Umnumzaan (not sure why, almost bought it back the other day. It's posted...) two lefty SnG's... realized I'm not Highspeed or Hardcore. :)

Anyway, here is a better pic of that 7. I REALLY like it as it's the A blade, kreined, and one of the old ones that is tapped for tip down.



...and I added a little "lefty-ness" to the opposite scale to make it more openable...

[JB in SC]

I much prefer the A type blade too. The tip up Emersons bite occasionally, just not quite enough detent to suit me.

[gusstrand]

They DO bite. I have scars. Many, many times.

[greendrake]

Gus,
Me thinks you have a knife FETISH.
Will

[gusstrand]

Maybe.

I think it's a collector gene (or fetish) that transfers... It was rods and reels at one point. :) I stepped back a couple years ago and realized I had like 25 or 30 pairs of rods and reels and lines... Even with the knives, I've had many, many more than I do at previous points... after a few years or more on journeys like this, be it rods, reels, knives, watches or whatever, you find your niche... and sell the rest. Even from there, I'll end up paring down. Eventually. My knife journey has included major stops at Spyderco, Benchmade, Strider, Chris Reeve and small stops at plenty of others. It started with slipjoints and bird and trout type fixed blades as a kid, moved to balisongs in High School and College, then Spyders...

...and I've landed on Emersons. Production ones. I may eventually end the journey with a couple of customs that I'll use for the rest of my life and pass on after that...

But it's the journey that's the fun part, right? :crazy:

[pszy22]

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[gusstrand]

Buck 110 is an awesome knife.

I had one for almost 30 years, and ended up giving it to a soldier in the sandbox as a gift/memento last year.

Ought to get me another one... :)