Recreational design - One

[RobertoP]

Here I am!
I don't have much time, since I'm now developing my graduation thesis, but I managed to design other recreational stuff. As I said, this time is for a knife inspired by a classical italian hawkbill: the Roncola knife, which is a agricultural tool designed mainly for plants care, even used for mushrooms hunting.
Roncola > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roncola_(attrezzo)

[RobertoP]

and after a simple roncola, I designed even a big brother inspired by Tucano bird > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ramphastos_toco5.jpg

[RobertoP]

the G-10 handle is just for simplicity, since it's simple to simulate in 3d.. I chosed a orange handle because Tucano birds are so colorful!







Others two recreational design knives are on the way, I'll post them as soon as possible..

[buglerbilly]

Love it Roberto! I'd definitely buy that one...........

Mind you I love Hawkbills and Kerambits more than just a bit......... :D

Regards,

BRIAN

[DrBlade]

Nice knives. The tao would be a cool addition to any collection.

[vito72]

Grande!!!!
Roncola its very very nice and can be used much more than 100 scopes without problems, in garden, SD as a concept karambit, mariner scopes,and confortable EDC i think want be more usefull of classic hawkbill with the back straight blade and the mid-final part recurved exactly like we know
Roncola!

I think compression lock want be nice and strong..
Hope to see in production FG!!

Roberto complimenti ancora.

[RobertoP]

Thanks to all, I really appreciate your support.. :)

I wonder if Spyderco has ever announced a design contest..

however, I'll keep them coming, time permitting: since I've got others in progress

Best Regards,
Roberto P.

[Spyderknife]

Great work! +1 for the Baracuda.

[RobertoP]

Hi everyone! It's passed a lot of time since my last post here, I've been really busy, starting my own business as a sole trader freelance designer, and studying deeply web development.
I'm currently working for italian national broadcasting company Rai as web applications developer, while I do other works as well. I was going to 3d model and render some others Spyderco-like knives, which I sketched some time ago, but I didn't manage to find the time to do it. Anyway, I will upload three other pictures of the Tucano, I did some months ago. :D



the (c) sign on pictures is just meant to claim intellectual property on images themselves, obviously. nothing really serious.

[buglerbilly]

Loved it before and love it still, great knife design Roberto!

Regards,

BRIAN

[ChrisR]

Superb designs - really exciting - have a word with Sal and see if the guys are interested to take some of them into production :)

I particularly like the Barracuda and the Pet ... and the Roncola (with the reversed handle) reminds me of a Biltong knife I saw a while ago - very good for pull cuts on curved materials. :D

[dcmartin2001]

Ciao Roberto! Love ALL of your designs! Especially the reverse curve renderings, I wonder how the sleeping cub designed would look with a reverse S blade??
Consider me a Fan.

[Pinetreebbs]

Recreational Design - Two. A knife inspired by Barracuda head...

Excellent!

[tonydahose]

very cool looking knives. maybe Sal will contact you about one of them. i like the tao especially, it would be a perfect money clip. would it be possible to change the tip so it would have the same profile as a dodo? just a thought as some people might want a point on the blade. again, nice designs, bravo!

[SmoothOne25]

wow i never saw these designs. they are great. i love the piranha the most!

[RobertoP]

Thank you all! :) Your kind comments are encouraging and make me want to put even more energies into these things. Next Christmas days I'll look for the time to 3d model another 'recreational design' to share here with you.

[RobertoP]

Ciao Roberto! Love ALL of your designs! Especially the reverse curve renderings, I wonder how the sleeping cub designed would look with a reverse S blade??
Consider me a Fan.

Thank you! :) mmm, I could try to edit the line and the 3d model to experiment, it shouldn't take too long. If I'll find the time to do it, I will post some images and keep you informed.

[RobertoP]

very cool looking knives. maybe Sal will contact you about one of them. i like the tao especially, it would be a perfect money clip. would it be possible to change the tip so it would have the same profile as a dodo? just a thought as some people might want a point on the blade. again, nice designs, bravo!

Actually, I'm not fully satisfied with the Tao blade shape, it looks a bit too rounded to my eyes (I think that the most important thing to be a good designer, is to not endear Yourself with your own ideas). I will try for sure to change the tip to make it 'dodo-like' (at first just on 2d blueprints).

[224477]

Lovely designs :)

I would place the clip on a different part of the Tucano knife, due the curving shape of the handle, the current tip down position of the clip would force the knife to ride in the front side of the pocket making sitting with it possibly quite discomfortable. Maybe a curved clip that follows the natural line of the handle, but tip up mounted would solve this, I guess you can try to render that.

Would love to see the Baracuda, flat ground in CF in production. (That one was for Sal :D )

[Donut]

I like Four, it looks like a Lum with some extra angle to it.