This was a problem in my design that Ed Chavar (Rip) and I had come to solve somewhat.
I have used mine in the Corps to test and had others to test for me.
It was the resheathing was a little more hard to do that deploying out.
This was a problem in my design that Ed Chavar (Rip) and I had come to solve somewhat.
This was done on the Ceya's Hawk . The back of the head was sharpened enough. It was to be serrations also and on the primary edge.
There is a market for something.sal wrote: ↑Fri Nov 23, 2018 3:17 pmHi JD,
While I admire your interest and passion, I'll admit that I'm not in a hurry to meet your request. Hawkbills are a small market at best and I don't have much faith in plain edge Hawkbills as working tools. I agree with suggestions that an existing design (Enuff, Swick, etc.) would be a better investment. I think my preference would be for the Swick. The blade is shorter and the angle not so severe for the sheath.
Hi Stuart,
The tip of the Civilian does not drop as much as designs like the Spyderhawk. It's the dropped tip that creates sheath problems.
sal
I'm just dying to try that bad boy in Spyderedge :cool: I do think that a Hawkbill version of the SWICK can be a great tool in spite of it's size.
The reason I came back was seeing the request of the blade.JD Spydo wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 4:07 pmWell Mr. Glesser would something along the lines of the old SUPERHAWK model in curve and degrees be more suitable for a possible sheath set up?? Also on my old "Now's The Time: For A New Hawkbill thread ( vintage 2005 :D ) our good Brother "Ceya" presented his Ceya's Hawk design ( it is a fixed blade Hawkbill by the way) and it has a curve consistent with the curve on the SUPERHAWK model.
Even if you all went with something like EVIL D suggested in the JUMPMASTER size range>> as aggressive as that model is in SE you probably wouldn't need as radical as a curve as we have now with the smaller folders i.e. Harpy Spyderhawk ect. However I do admit when working with my H-1 Spyderhawk I have had times when the increased curve did help on those types of cutting jobs.
One more tidbit I could add>> I have an older BUCK linoleum knife which is a really curved Hawkbill like most linoleum knives. It came with a really nice leather sheath that accommodates it well>> you just kind of got to use a bending/twisting type move to get it out. I'm sure there is a practical design which would enable easy deployment with a little bit of thought and I bet there are Brethren here with some good suggestions on sheath design.
I would be very content to start out with a SWICK Hawkbill and especially in SE. Because again my personal uses for a plain edged Hawkbill are so few and far between I've decided that only SE Hawkbills make any sense for me at all. What the heck it would be a step in the right direction if we could even see the return of a Spyderedged Dodo.
Brother you just hit that one out of the park with men on base :cool: That is one possibility that I suggested early and please let me explain. The more I look at that great fixed blade Hawkbill the more it looks to me like a fixed blade Spyderhawk with all the great qualities combined. I also love that 1 inch plus plain edged tip. If Spyderco doesn't make something similar to this one you just shared with us I will buy one of these>> and I might just go ahead and buy one irrespective of what the Great Spyder Factory decides to do. That is one super colossal fixed blade Hawkbill.
And my question is "Why Didn't The Great Spyder Factory Come Out With This Model or Something Like It"???? :confused: I would think that once someone would test drive this blade you would have trouble keeping it in stock.ThePeacent wrote: ↑Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:03 pmI've had one of the H1 G.SAKAI Sabi Knives for 3 years now, and it is
and a lovely sheath too
Thin, sharp and pointy slicey blade :cool:
Perhaps a sheath with part of the back cut out, sort of like the Darn Dao https://www.google.com/search?q=spyderc ... &ie=UTF-8 . Inspired by this thread, I just played around with my Schrade Shasta McNasty https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CH ... dICP8cnnrA on a belt; while the retention method and shape could have used some more development, it draws easily due to the cutout.
Stuart Ackerman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:42 pmKK
Chad Los Banos has the Boomerang with it's sheath, and made an offer to myself to send it to Sal years ago, if he was interested in looking at it.
It was a belt carry with a vertical draw, and Chad coped quite okay. :)
I do not have a Civilian anymore, but I can do a sketch with an image off the Interwebs of a Civilian...
I've said before that I thought something in the size range of the SWICK model would be a great first fixed blade Hawkbill for the main Spyderco line up.
They had the Dot, but it was tiny.JD Spydo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 1:03 pmI've said before that I thought something in the size range of the SWICK model would be a great first fixed blade Hawkbill for the main Spyderco line up.
Or you could also entertain the possibility of maybe a Reverse S fixed blade. I've said for some time that a Dodo model in a bigger/wider scale would be an excellent utility knife for all kinds of hard work jobs. Especially if they offered it in Spyderedge.
And I don't think the "sheath" would be that big of an obstacle in either model IMO.
Heck I would even take a plain edged version if they used LC200N blade steel. But those are nice and it just drives home the fact that a fixed blade Hawkbill would fit nicely with Spyderco's great line up of Hawkbill folders.steelcity16 wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2019 10:42 am
These are very cool. I would love to see a larger version of these with an FRN grip and H1 SE blades.