Educate me on my blades!

[Terry Houin]

The purpose of this thread is for you guys to share your knowledge of blades with us of the less informed tribe.

So I was looking at the Rare Knife thread from @Ron Dan and went loking for my CQD folder. Didn't find it and got sidetracked be these other folders I've picked up along the way. I don't know much about them individually so enlighten me please.

Also if your like me and have something cool and want more information drop it in here.

 

[Terry Houin]

Here's the first to discuss, Benchmade Mel Pardue auto opener. Tell me about Mel and this design or anything else interesting about it.

 

[jeff]

I got nothing but am now watching this thread.

 

[gibsonknives]

As a lifelong knife guy (since I was a kid); you have some cool stuff there. Mel oardue designed a lot of great blades for Benchmade. Microtech, Harsey designed Dpartan blade, and Emerson speak for themselves in terms of tactical knife badassery.

 

[Al "Shifty" Schultz]

The purpose of this thread is for you guys to share your knowledge of blades with us of the less informed tribe.

So I was looking at the Rare Knife thread from @Ron Dan and went loking for my CQD folder. Didn't find it and got sidetracked be these other folders I've picked up along the way. I don't know much about them individually so enlighten me please.

Also if your like me and have something cool and want more information drop it in here.

I don't know anything more about these knives than anyone else, or that you couldn't find from a Google search.. what amazes me, is I have or had 3 of those knives in your picture myself, what are the odds, LoL.. the Benchmade Emerson CQC 7 I carried as a duty knife for years until I lost it on rappel, recovering a body that had been tossed over a cliff and hung up on a root ball of a tree.. the Mel Pardue was carried on my SWAT kit, and the Spartan Blade I also carried for awhile.. I'll be following this thread to learn more for sure!

 

[Ron Dan]

As a lifelong knife guy (since I was a kid); you have some cool stuff there. Mel oardue designed a lot of great blades for Benchmade. Microtech, Harsey designed Dpartan blade, and Emerson speak for themselves in terms of tactical knife badassery.

Came to say this but all I didn’t realize uncle Terry had a legit little knife collection.

 

[Terry Houin]

Came to say this but all I didn’t realize uncle Terry had a legit little knife collection.

These are some of the folders, I have a lot more than any normal person should have as a non collector.

 

[Terry Houin]

Here's another auto opener and a gift from a fundraiser for some special operations guys. I will admit I need to get this out and use it as a couple of these look a little too fresh.

 

[Chiro1989]

Well, I can only speak to the Benchmade, 154CM is high-carbon so it will spark well with flint to start a fire, good corrosion-resistance , good edge retention, and easy to sharpen. I have sent my assisted Benchmade in for warranty work when the spring mechanism took a dump and they had it fixed, sharpened and sent back in like a week, so they have good customer service

 

[Terry Houin]

Well, I can only speak to the Benchmade, 154CM is high-carbon so it will spark well with flint to start a fire, good corrosion-resistance , good edge retention, and easy to sharpen. I have sent my assisted Benchmade in for warranty work when the spring mechanism took a dump and they had it fixed, sharpened and sent back in like a week, so they have good customer service

thats good info to know about the 154cm steel, thanks.

 

[Terry Houin]

This is an easy one. Boker Ceramic for working with bombs so they don't boom when I'm working on them. This was a gift from my EOD buddy when we started working on some sketchy projects.

 

[gibsonknives]

Here's another auto opener and a gift from a fundraiser for some special operations guys. I will admit I need to get this out and use it as a couple of these look a little too fresh.
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That kestrel is bongos!!