If you're interested in this knife, it is for sale. The cost is 235$ in the US. Please email me and willmooncustomknives@gmail.com for additional details.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Monolithic Scales for the Benchmade 425
While I may not be customizing full time anymore, I will from time to time release one-offs and knives that I customized for fun and giggles. This is one such knife: a Benchmade 425 Gravitator. I added monolithic scales to this one, much like the Snody customs. The scales have mosaic pin inlays in them, which I believe make the scales look a little more class and custom, and I flipped the pocket clip for tip up carry using a blue anodized Benchmade small clip. After a quick polish of the liners, this one's good to go.
Customization Service Changes
I just wanted to take a couple minutes and talk about my customization services. I posted back in December that I was discontinueing customization services over the holiday season, and I think that I will continue to refrain from accepting new orders until further notice. Going on into the new year I have a lot of very intensive builds planned. The Orion Balisongs for one, but other custom knives which are in the works currently which will likely demand my full attention. As such, I will NOT be accepting any new orders for customization or custom work in the forseeable future.
That said, my custom knives will be my top priority from this point forward. Putting out the best quality product I possibly can has always been first and formost, and I have a lot of great ideas on how I can make my own custom knives as awesome as possible. Happy 2012!
Will
That said, my custom knives will be my top priority from this point forward. Putting out the best quality product I possibly can has always been first and formost, and I have a lot of great ideas on how I can make my own custom knives as awesome as possible. Happy 2012!
Will
Orion Inertial Opening System
One of the many new and innovative features I'm putting on the Orion Balisongs is what I'm calling my I.O.S., or Inertial Opening System. This uses a spring loaded ball bearing detent to retain the latch of the knife which is located in a removable modular trunnion. This trunnion will come in a kit soon after the release of the Orion Balis and will allow users to swap their latchless precision ground spacer kit for the I.O.S. kit via the 440 machine screws located towards the rear of the handles.
Basically the way the latch works, it allows the user to give the knife a sharp flick and it will simply unlatch itself with a predetemined amount of pressure. This latch in essense allows for the knife to be opened without the need of an over spring or T latch, and I believe it's a much more elegant solution to keeping the knife closed when the blade is not in use. I did put in for mechanical and design patents on this latching system because it's unique to me and no other makers are offering this kind of latch.
Here's an initial video showing how it works, bear in mind the latches will be much beefier in the final versions, so no worries about flimsey latching mechanisms. These are constructed from solid 6Al4V titanium and will come in a variety of different finishes to suit your knife.
Basically the way the latch works, it allows the user to give the knife a sharp flick and it will simply unlatch itself with a predetemined amount of pressure. This latch in essense allows for the knife to be opened without the need of an over spring or T latch, and I believe it's a much more elegant solution to keeping the knife closed when the blade is not in use. I did put in for mechanical and design patents on this latching system because it's unique to me and no other makers are offering this kind of latch.
Here's an initial video showing how it works, bear in mind the latches will be much beefier in the final versions, so no worries about flimsey latching mechanisms. These are constructed from solid 6Al4V titanium and will come in a variety of different finishes to suit your knife.
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