A knife designed by the forum

[bearfacedkiller]

10 inch Bowie style chopper in CPM 1V with 3/16 blade stock, a high saber grind and a weight just over a pound.

The Darn Dao looked great but I want something more utilitarian. Spyderco covers most my needs but I still want a bushcraft chopper.

[Kevinim82]

10 inch Bowie style chopper in CPM 1V with 3/16 blade stock, a high saber grind and a weight just over a pound.

The Darn Dao looked great but I want something more utilitarian. Spyderco covers most my needs but I still want a bushcraft chopper.

Sometime this week I’ll dream it up. How would this be different from the Respect as far as form?

Would you want the Cadillac of scales or Kia?

[bearfacedkiller]

10 inch Bowie style chopper in CPM 1V with 3/16 blade stock, a high saber grind and a weight just over a pound.

The Darn Dao looked great but I want something more utilitarian. Spyderco covers most my needs but I still want a bushcraft chopper.

Sometime this week I’ll dream it up. How would this be different from the Respect as far as form?

Would you want the Cadillac of scales or Kia?

More like a bigger Province. Smaller clip on the point to move weight more forward, less aggressive swedge for batonning, longer blade, more secure handle for full power swinging and maybe a slight negative blade angle.

Combining qualities from the BK9, Junglas and Province.

[Paraguy]

What's going on here? Did you just pawn this off on the new nurse? It's okay to just walk away from the idea...as Mr. O'Leary would say, "Take it behind the barn and shoot it.".

I don't wanna shoot it... Maybe I'll sit on it till I have more time...

[Kevinim82]

10 inch Bowie style chopper in CPM 1V with 3/16 blade stock, a high saber grind and a weight just over a pound.

The Darn Dao looked great but I want something more utilitarian. Spyderco covers most my needs but I still want a bushcraft chopper.

Sometime this week I’ll dream it up. How would this be different from the Respect as far as form?

Would you want the Cadillac of scales or Kia?

More like a bigger Province. Smaller clip on the point to move weight more forward, less aggressive swedge for batonning, longer blade, more secure handle for full power swinging and maybe a slight negative blade angle.

Combining qualities from the BK9, Junglas and Province.

My first thought, I wonder if my wife’s blender will fit all three choppers inside? That’s the easiest way to combine knife properties right? That’s how Triple B does it. Gas Station knife + empty Belgium beer can + blender = super steel in a crazy grind!

In all seriousness sounds like a fun knife idea. Challenge accepted.

[wrdwrght]

Designed by the forum? I wince at the thought. The “collaboration” would give new meaning to a FrankenSpydie.

[benben]

This will definitely gets some crunched up faces, what about a pair of high quality, tough, Spyderco branded scissors? Not for paper cutting school projects, those years are just about over for me. I’m talking about scissors for in the kitchen, and in the garage, and if you need to go prune something, these are the scissors you take! So let’s hear it…..what a stupid idea, I can take it!

Or….Stretch with a leaf shaped blade (think Manix or Native) with the Spyder crews choice of steel, scales, and scale color?

Hit submit or delete….

[JRinFL]

Naysayers or pragmatists?

[Naperville]

You can’t have your cake and eat it too. I looked at a lot of marlin spikes. I really like the blood grove ornamentation I discovered in a few examples. I am also a big fan of the tri angled blade found in an epee (lots of strength in a blade like that.) Problem; epee blade won’t fold into a pocket.

Amalgam blade is leaf shaped. To give strength and ergonomics of cutting I can’t see making this blade leaf shaped. I don’t see the spike having as much function and the blade having as much function with the leaf shape. Wharncliffe happened kinda naturally while drafting.

So it’s not quite a marlin spike, and it’s more a knife blade with a mean thrusting portion.

I think for a thrusting weapon a not super high flat grind would give more strength too.

Hope this is a good start. Tell me how I can adapt it.

It's not bad. It's a different idea to have a chisel grind. I think my idea was more unobtanium. Your idea works and can be manufactured.

I'd straighten the curve of the blade a bit more, and have the chisel tip out at least 1/2 an inch from where the cutting edge begins. You can remove 20% of the "bladed area" once you straighten it the top and add the 1/2 of tip on.

But overall not too bad.

[Bloke]

I’m off to herd the neighbourhood cats into a small ruly mob.

It’s bound to be easier than us, as a group deciding on a knife we’d all like.

[Airlsee]

I'm pretty sure the cat herder has already taken a sabbatical.

[Mushroom]

I'm pretty sure the cat herder has already taken a sabbatical.

LOL!

“Here’s this idea that I have… someone else should do the extensive amount of work required for it though.”

Creating a thread like this comes with the responsibility of coordinating the whole thing.

[Paraguy]

I'm pretty sure the cat herder has already taken a sabbatical.

LOL!

“Here’s this idea that I have… someone else should do the extensive amount of work required for it though.”

Creating a thread like this comes with the responsibility of coordinating the whole thing.

You make a valid point. Although my reason for making this thread was to get someone with more time and organizational skills to make another thread. Yes I know, I'm a terrible cat herder.

[tonijedi]

Instead of a new design, we could start we the "polls of death" to get to know which forum knife we want for the year 2025

[Paraguy]

Instead of a new design, we could start we the "polls of death" to get to know which forum knife we want for the year 2025

"...but who will bell the cat?..."

[Blerv]

I recall the Superhawk was basically designed by the forum. Splendid knife that didn’t land as well in the market

[Danke]

I heard the Stovepipe was something something forum.