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- ILikeStilettos
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Scrawny Monkey
The picture is a dual action automatic from the Vallottons and called a "Chunky Monkey".
Inspired by this unique grind I narrowed the width and created a 12" picklock swing guard with a bottomless fishtail design. I guess you could call mine a Scrawny Monkey. The extra pin near the top of the swings (about 2-3/8" from extreme to extreme, centered on the handle) keeps them from scissoring. They should have very little movement in the open and deployed position.
The thought process was to create a nice heavy blade that could be hollow ground on the bottom and fully sharpened. I drew this based on 3/16" stock and 1/16" stainless liners. It has plenty of kicker to be a fast knife. It uses a heavy 5/32" pivot and 3/32" scale pins throughout. Only the mid pin is 1/16". I was able to place this almost on center so that there should be little opportunity for scales warping and twisting the liners.
Using a trick stolen from the Russian Prison Knives, the swings collapse partially into the handle.
I drew it with a hexagonal lock tab and a big 1/8" pin.
For those who appreciate this sort of thing, here's the open view showing the internals. It has a dovetailed kicker with a large ball on the end. This protects the sharpened edge when the knife is closed and compensates for the set-back ricasso from the original design.
It's no small knife, but it closes up quite neatly. Only the liners are cut away to make room for the swings, the bolster and scales are full perimeter. The unusual pin positions at the front of the knife compensate for this.
My old monitor failed and the new one is a 29" ultra-wide. This made for lots of distortion in my CAD program and motivated me to find a way of correcting the scale. The screen captures are now 100% accurate. The angled view should fit on a standard 8-1/2" X 11" sheet of paper in landscape orientation at 100%. I find that printing these out gives me a much more realistic feel for the design than merely viewing it on screen.
Regards,
Inspired by this unique grind I narrowed the width and created a 12" picklock swing guard with a bottomless fishtail design. I guess you could call mine a Scrawny Monkey. The extra pin near the top of the swings (about 2-3/8" from extreme to extreme, centered on the handle) keeps them from scissoring. They should have very little movement in the open and deployed position.
The thought process was to create a nice heavy blade that could be hollow ground on the bottom and fully sharpened. I drew this based on 3/16" stock and 1/16" stainless liners. It has plenty of kicker to be a fast knife. It uses a heavy 5/32" pivot and 3/32" scale pins throughout. Only the mid pin is 1/16". I was able to place this almost on center so that there should be little opportunity for scales warping and twisting the liners.
Using a trick stolen from the Russian Prison Knives, the swings collapse partially into the handle.
I drew it with a hexagonal lock tab and a big 1/8" pin.
For those who appreciate this sort of thing, here's the open view showing the internals. It has a dovetailed kicker with a large ball on the end. This protects the sharpened edge when the knife is closed and compensates for the set-back ricasso from the original design.
It's no small knife, but it closes up quite neatly. Only the liners are cut away to make room for the swings, the bolster and scales are full perimeter. The unusual pin positions at the front of the knife compensate for this.
My old monitor failed and the new one is a 29" ultra-wide. This made for lots of distortion in my CAD program and motivated me to find a way of correcting the scale. The screen captures are now 100% accurate. The angled view should fit on a standard 8-1/2" X 11" sheet of paper in landscape orientation at 100%. I find that printing these out gives me a much more realistic feel for the design than merely viewing it on screen.
Regards,
Dave Sause
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"And you're telling me this because, somehow, I look like I give a shit?"
"Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
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(405) 694-3690
"And you're telling me this because, somehow, I look like I give a shit?"
"Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
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Re: Scrawny Monkey
Thanks, Luke, that's a great one word description.
Dave Sause
oldandfat@cox.net
(405) 694-3690
"And you're telling me this because, somehow, I look like I give a shit?"
"Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
oldandfat@cox.net
(405) 694-3690
"And you're telling me this because, somehow, I look like I give a shit?"
"Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
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Re: Scrawny Monkey
Dave, I was just kidding a little. Hope your not mad, I'm bald too!
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- ILikeStilettos
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Re: Scrawny Monkey
Mad as in angry? Of course not, my email is oldandfat for a reason. Mad as insane? Definitely. You're my bud, Sam!sammy the blade wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 3:10 pm Dave, I was just kidding a little. Hope your not mad, I'm bald too!
Dave Sause
oldandfat@cox.net
(405) 694-3690
"And you're telling me this because, somehow, I look like I give a shit?"
"Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
oldandfat@cox.net
(405) 694-3690
"And you're telling me this because, somehow, I look like I give a shit?"
"Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
Re: Scrawny Monkey
Dave
Love the shape and blade profile on this design.
Hope you get around to building it my freind.
Even better its great to see you posting again .
Hope your keeping well
gravknife
Love the shape and blade profile on this design.
Hope you get around to building it my freind.
Even better its great to see you posting again .
Hope your keeping well
gravknife
- ILikeStilettos
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Re: Scrawny Monkey
I've been posting, just mostly on Facebook ...
Good to hear from you, too. Thanks for the kind words.
Good to hear from you, too. Thanks for the kind words.
Dave Sause
oldandfat@cox.net
(405) 694-3690
"And you're telling me this because, somehow, I look like I give a shit?"
"Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
oldandfat@cox.net
(405) 694-3690
"And you're telling me this because, somehow, I look like I give a shit?"
"Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
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Re: Scrawny Monkey
I heard somewhere that Facebook was having problems with gun and knife stuff on the site. Tried Facebook years ago and I just didn't dig it.
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- ILikeStilettos
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Re: Scrawny Monkey
It's alive and well and my group has 900+ followers.
Dave Sause
oldandfat@cox.net
(405) 694-3690
"And you're telling me this because, somehow, I look like I give a shit?"
"Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
oldandfat@cox.net
(405) 694-3690
"And you're telling me this because, somehow, I look like I give a shit?"
"Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
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Re: Scrawny Monkey
Forget where I saw it but it may have been about selling.
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Re: Scrawny Monkey
Facebook has really become a great source of switchblade info and knives for sale... I have gotten some great deals and seen some ridiculous prices too.. Dave has a group called Artistic Switchblade Knives and I think it's one of the better groups there.. Also Mark Erickson has a good group called Old Switchblade Knives. These and a few others are about the only reason I use Facebook anymore..
Mike
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Re: Scrawny Monkey
Dave has posted quite a few really nice knives here, worth checking out!
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