The "Ask Nathan a question" thread

[Peter S.]

Got my first two CPK´s some days ago and I´m impressed and very happy with these knives!
Just wanted to ask, if I can get burlap scales for my HDFK?
Like the black ones but I would love tan burlap!

 

[Jo the Machinist]

Got my first two CPK´s some days ago and I´m impressed and very happy with these knives!
Just wanted to ask, if I can get burlap scales for my HDFK?
Like the black ones but I would love tan burlap!

I am glad you like them. The only scales we have left for the HDFK are natural canvas.

 

[Peter S.]

I am glad you like them. The only scales we have left for the HDFK are natural canvas.

PM, Jo!

 

[Casinostocks]

My business model has always been to make knives during the week, put them for sale on Friday, sell them over the weekend, and ship the following week. We've had a few years of very brisk sales, but a slower sale isn't a bad thing, it reduces frustration and allows regular people to get the knives they want.

Nathan, so I have a serious questions vis a vis the above:

Let’s say that is your absolute preferred method and that the concurrent preorders which get you all in a tizzy, will then be slowly set aside or reduced substantially to say once a year. Will you then consider taking in and doing some custom shop work along the regular weekly it biweekly sales, since you have increased in size both in. Term so f labor force and also the CNC machining centers?

 

[Forester_01]

Will there be another run of the utility field knives (fk2)anytime soon?

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Will there be another run of the utility field knives (fk2)anytime soon?

Yes, another batch later this year after the Utility Fighter pre-order is done

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Nathan, so I have a serious questions vis a vis the above:

Let’s say that is your absolute preferred method and that the concurrent preorders which get you all in a tizzy, will then be slowly set aside or reduced substantially to say once a year. Will you then consider taking in and doing some custom shop work along the regular weekly it biweekly sales, since you have increased in size both in. Term so f labor force and also the CNC machining centers?

Yes, we may do some custom stuff

 

[Casinostocks]

Yes, we may do some custom stuff

I’m a bad chess player! I was expecting a “no, not now answer” so my next move was planned for the move which didn’t happen!
Check Matty

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

^okay? no?

 

[Hundred Acre Wood]

Yes, we may do some custom stuff

Sign me up for 2 spots on the list please.

Too soon?

 

[Casinostocks]

^okay? no?

I would’ve taken your “no” as just playing hard to get and as an initial step toward negotiating

 

[Hundred Acre Wood]

I’m a bad chess player! I was expecting a “no, not now answer” so my next move was planned for the move which didn’t happen!
Check Matty

Hey now, don't ruin this brief lapse of sanity with your voice of reason. Some of us poor sods need to take advantage of this moment to get our chef and paring knives in AEB-L.

 

[woodysone]

I’d settle for a D2 skinner to replace the one I took the belly out of be sharpening the last 9 years. Please?

 

[TommyGun56]

and I will take an Integral Dagger or 2

 

[NUTRAMAC]

I’d settle for a D2 skinner to replace the one I took the belly out of be sharpening the last 9 years. Please?

Yes please just in time for deer season

 

[Comprehensivist]

Yes, we may do some custom stuff

I'll keep it simple by requesting some "custom" Tero-Tuf scales for the EDC 1.

Please!

Phil

 

[betzner]

^okay? no?

Welllll.............okay!

 

[prom52]

I'll keep it simple by requesting some "custom" Tero-Tuf scales for the EDC 1.

Please!

Phil

I would second that emotion !

 

[Casinostocks]

I would second that emotion !

Emotions cause motions

 

[Casinostocks]

Nathan, is there a limit to the stock thickness below which you will not attempt? Let's say in a fixed blade length of 4-5 inches. Would you be comfortable with 3/16"? How about 1/8"? If possible, can you please tell use as to how thin you may want to go with DEK-1 if that is going to become a commercial offering? With the DEK moniker (Defensive Everyday Knife) I'm assuming that there will be some thickness to it ala the EDC pattern.

Are there concerns that with CPK being well known for its very tough knives yet lighter than the competition(s), a much thinner CPK may expose it to potential damage and bending when being used in a knucklehead manner outside its intended use?