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$

New Knife Completion: Lone Wolf T2 in OD Green G10

I recently fixed up a used Lone Wolf T2 in my shop and wanted to share some photographs with my Blog.  This was a pretty involved project.  For those unfamiliar with the Bill Harsey T2, it's a now discontinued Lone Wolf knife from the Pre-Benchmade Era.  The original scales were made of a plastic nylon molded material and the pocket clip was mounted tip down.  Additionally, the finish of the blade was a plain bead blast, one of my least favorite and one of the most non-rugged finishes on the market.

For this T2, I decided the original bead blast finish on the blade had to go.  After pulling the blade off the knife, I used scotch-brite pads to hand rub a satin finish on the blade.  The horizontal striations are quite fetching I have to admit.

Naturally, I had to build some scales.  Lets be honest, nylon scales suck, they're plasticy, don't feel right... just not high quality.  I built  a set of custom G10 scales out of some OD material I had left over from a run of my custom knives.  I think the results were pretty good.

In this photo you'll notice two large holes near the pivot and three smaller ones towards the base of the scales.  The original pocket clip can still be mounted for tip down carry using the two large holes near the pivot, but I decided a standard three hole pocket clip would be better and I prefer to carry my knives tip up.  

The pivot area was tricky on this build.  I had to hand carve out a small recess for the pivot to sink into.  It's one of my least favorite things to do, but it came out pretty well.  

Overall I'm pretty happy with how the knife came out.  I think it looks a heck of a lot better than the standard nylon handled T2's, and functionally it's better now that I've mounted the pocket clip in the correct position.