All jokes aside, I am in fact employed by a major European defence contractor as a mechanical design draftsman and I work on a Naval base here in Sydney. We work on repair and maintenance of Naval Surface Vessels, admittedly we don’t design knives.
My experience in knife design is limited to a picture I once sketched of a knife many years ago. I have however consulted our design team with the goal to resolving the unacceptable balance and blade to handle ratios that plaque the Manix 2. It is for these very reason I refuse to buy a Manix 2 myself!
We would like to propose an alternative to your complete blade replacement proposal. Would you consider removal of handle material? That being, we could remove excess material from the fore end of the handle and still maintain the handles integrity. How much material would be dependent on several factors we cannot calculate at this time without physical handling the knife. This would significantly increase the blade length and resolve the balance and the blade to handle ratio. Furthermore you many also choose to remove material from the rear of the handle and further enhance the overall balance and handle to blade ratio which is understandably causing you such concern.
Should you wish, you could post us your knife for a detailed analysis of the issues you raise and we will submit a comprehensive Detailed Proposed Change document for you to review.
If Mohamad won’t go to the mountain, we’ll take the mountain to Mohamad!
