Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Introducing the Will Moon Custom Alien Autopsy fixed blade

Most folks know me for my modifications of factory knives, but I also make custom knives too.  This is a particularly cool one called the Alien Autopsy.  It has my custom crop circle handles that are unique to me, and I have to say, they are wicked awesome.  



The blade itself is made of .2 inch thick 5160 on the prototype, but future versions will be in other steels as yet to be determined.  On this one I chose to V hollow grind the blade with a "Hinderer" style slicer grind.  The result is a knife that cuts and slices like no other even though it's of pretty beefy stock.


The really cool part about this knife, however, is the way the handle glow.  Using proprietary techniques, I create a layered G10 material that has glow in the dark "Crop Circles" that shine through the handle scales.  They are bright enough to be seen in daylight and take only a little sunshine to get them started.  


The best part of the way my handles are put together is they're totally non toxic, food safe and will last hundreds if not thousands of times longer than other maker's glow material because the glow in the dark material is not directly exposed to the outside and is fully incased in G10.  My glow handles are also stronger than acrylics like Moonglow because they're fiber reenforced.  


Here you can see the handles glowing in broad daylight, albeit in a shady corner of my room.  The handle scales are also removable on this particular model in case you need to maintain the knife.  


It pitch darkness the scales look really cool.  They glow so bright that you can use the handle as a makeshift lantern if need be, but the real purpose of the glow is so that you can locate the knife in the dark.


Overall I'm really happy to begin to offer this wicked cool design.  They're 100% handmade from the profiling to the grinding of the bevels and will come with a handmade Kydex sheath.  My MSRP on these is 250$