Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Mk12 Wharncliffe One-Off

Hey All,

  I'm finally finishing up another batch of Mk12's which will be coming with me to Blade in June.  These knives are all one-off's with some pretty unqiue features and blade shapes, every one of them is it's own unique beast.  In addition to moving more into the full custom market, I'm working on the Mk6, my non-integral design, for a more cost effective entry to the market.

Anyway, here's my Mk12 Wharncliffe, this knife has a CPM-S30V blade, full crown on the spine, moonglow inlays in the blade and frame and all titanium parts.  I decided to go with an "as ground" finish to the blade because frankly, I absolutly hate polishing CPM-S30V, it drives me up the wall.  Something about the steel makes it increadibly difficult to polish properly, maybe it's the vanadium, I really don't know.  I can see why people like CPM-S35VN better though, given it's considerably easier to finish.

 -Will