Collaboration: Good Knife Co. / David Mary Custom - S.I.T.R.E.P.

I've forwarded your shipping info and will let you know when it ships via email. Thank you.

 

Here’s just a few comments on the sitrep knife designed by Chad and David.
First off very comfortable with the finger groves and slab handles, would love to see a little more meat and contouring though. With around a 6” blade it covers just about anything except chopping larger material. Nice weight so using the breaker end is effortless to get good penetration but would like a rounded breaker end with a lanyard hole. Nice having the spline with the squared off section making it nice for mag sticks. All in all this is just what Chad envisioned, a grab and go do anything blade with enough weigh and curvature to make a deadly self defense tool. Nice job Chad and David, in Abe-l this is going to be a great tool.

 

So the lanyard is going to end up near the top of the handle, I just haven't decided if we put it in the exposed pommel or in the handle and use a lanyard tube. I'll probably have to make that decision this weekend but I have the supplies in hand already to cover both options.

As far as handle thickness, several things there. One, the final blade stock with be slightly thicker so that will help. Two, we ordered some thicker micarta along with a lot of liner material for big handed fellas or those that like thicker handles (like myself). Three, we are probably going to have one made in 1/4" thick AEB-L (actually two, but I'm claiming one for testing ) as a special offer simply because I'm curious how this design would handle in the thicker stuff and if it would tend to be more "survivally" in character. It's going to weight a lot more, that's for sure. Lastly, despite the handles being thin I personally didn't find them uncomfortable and it kind of reminded me of the feel of the BK62, thin but comfortable and it indexed well, as Ethan would say. That's not for everybody and we're going to address that with some different options and contouring of the sides but I wouldn't expect it to be too extravagant.

The handle materials arrived today so I'll start spec'ing that out and see what combinations we go with. I have 6 different handle combos now which doesn't include the different pin choices we have.

@woodysone Thank you much for the honest review of both good and bad aspects of the knife. That will certainly help us fine-tune the design a as we get ready to finalize the blank and what we do afterwards with the actual grinding of the knives.

 

We have a good update! We finally settled on the design and put in the order for steel. I think we're going to have around 15 for the 1st run of these, but we decided to skip out on the more robust 0.25" option for now as we wanted to focus on the original concept to see how well people take to it before offering a wider variation. I think we're going to have about 6 different handle combinations between the liners, scales, and pin selection and tube selection.

There is a bit of a lead time with the steel and heat treat so I think we're still 2-3 months out but we're moving along nicely.

 

So a choice in handles, this should be fun.

 

Bling it up baby! We ordered a few handle materials that should be really fun including one that is a layered G10 and rubber material. As long as it shapes well, there will be at least one available for sale (I'm taking one for testing).

 

Fondling is testing. Gotta make sure it feels good in hand.

 

There are parts of the knife development process that I do greatly enjoy.

 

Looks like a great all-around utility blade, and also very stabby. I might have to pick one up.

 

We are reserving spots for these if one of the handle combinations really peaks an interest, along with the pricing for these. Blanks should be arriving any day and then we should be knocking some out pretty quick once USPS makes the delivery.

https://bladeforums.com/threads/sitrep-a-collaboration-with-david-mary-reservations.1746024/

 

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