Chris Caracci pendulum?

There was a lot of posting about the Pendulum in the aborted Caracci forum in the Tactics section on Blade Forums. You should be able to search and find some info.

Most of the posts, and my previous ones, noted that at $ 300 no one was going to be buying many.

Chris promised a lower cost version was coming but I never saw one.
 
It's too expensive.
It's too limited in its' application (It is just a "slasher").
It's too small.
 
My momma always taught me that if you can't say somthing
nice about something not to say anything at all..........

So it is with the Chris Caracci Pendulum........
 
Wasn't he the same guy that designed the BM AFCK, ya can't bowl a 300 every game. The AFCK was, is, and will always be my #1 favorite EDC.:)
 
Kokalis reviewed it for Shotgun News about 1-2 issues ago. Admittedly his specialty isn't knives and the review was a bit of a love letter, but it's out there, anyway.
 
I can tell you for a fact it is not just a slasher...:D

This was proved to me by Chris himself. Very cool hidden applications/purpose on this blade. And I was as skeptical as you all were before I saw it and tried it.
 
Originally posted by Brian Jones
I can tell you for a fact it is not just a slasher...:D

This was proved to me by Chris himself. Very cool hidden applications/purpose on this blade. And I was as skeptical as you all were before I saw it and tried it.
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Ok, it looks like a slasher to me also... so I'll bite... what are the "hidden applications/purposes" for this blade?
 
The blade curve, combined with the way the handle angles it in your hand, when you hold the knife in foreward grip and do a punch, causes the thing to penetrate like a pointed blade. He put immense amounts of design and redesign until he got it just right. The idea of the blade is to keep it easily hidden, and keep its purpose easily disguised. I would not have believed until I saw and did it. That's just one thing, but many other ways he used it not really easily described in print, but easily shown. But it really works this way very, very well.
 
Brian, thanks for the reply.

I'll have to take a closer look at this piece... like you say, proof is in holding / handling this piece.

Overall, how robust was the Pendulum's construction... compared to some popular blades say. Maybe the AFCK or the Commander, the BM710, etc.
 
I've never doubted that the Pendulum is a good self defense tool in trained hands. Chris is a consumate practical martial artist and a true gentleman.

I personally couldn't afford a Pendulum at $ 300 each.

Same comment others made much earlier, it looks like a nice $ 100 knife.

Maybe Chris will team with Benchmade, Delta, Camillus, etc. and bring out a reasonably priced alternative.
 
It is exceedingly robust -- very solid feeling, custom folder feel. Not light, not heavy, but with presence -- it comes alive in the hand. The construction feels like a more expensive blade. That's about the best I can describe it here.
 
I have to agree with earlier posters; I would buy this if it were in the $100 range and made by one of the "better" knife makers. I just cannot afford $300 for a seldom, if ever, used defensive piece.
Also, I believe there was another magazine acticle on the Pendulum not too long ago. They seemed to really like the design also.

-SB

Whoops! That looks bad, I don't mean to imply that it's not currently made by a "better" maker...I just meant a better production house instead of Chinese slave labor.
 
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