HF's EDC 260618 BLADE: Boker Plus Exskelibur II Black Carbon Fiber framelock - CPM S35VN LIGHT: Matchbox Instruments Torpedo X (batt=10440) +Matchbox Instruments Torpedo X (spare batt=10250) extendible body with Titanium cap + MBI Torpedo X dual direction pocket clip + Twin dowel leather covered spacer - home made + McGizmo SS Nano Clip ~ 20 mm + Innovo Design Titanium lantern - green Tritium MULTITOOL: Leatherman Skeletal CX black TTPocketTools Chopper 1/4" with cutter - Randy Haas Lace Damascus + Cu lanyard bead twist single wrap weld by Yours truly PEN: Lamy 2000 4 colors ball pen WALLET: Custom leather - Black prototype Mk2 V2 by Yours truly WATCH: Vostok Amphibian Classic - Ref 090662 + SS Bezel with Seiko insert
HF's at hand EDC CF folders 260618 Some of the CF folders here were on holidays during the last photo shoot. Pardon the interventionist, gate crashing silver fibreglass Spyderco GB Air. L->R Lion Steel Roundhead Spear Jack Carbon Fiber - M390 Boker Plus Exskelibur II Black Carbon Fiber framelock - CPM S35VN Lionsteel TRE Carbon Fiber - M390 60-61HRC EnZo Birk 75 /D2 Sc/Carbon fiber Benchmade 940-1 - S90V -> Blow-in Spyderco Air by Gayle Bradley - CPM M4
HF's EDC 100718 BLADE: Lionsteel TRE Carbon Fiber - M390 60-61HRC + Titanium Beadbomb v1 blue + 2 x Tritium ice blue lanyard bead By Tobias Pradel LIGHT: Matchbox Instruments HF-R Titanium (raw) + 10250 LI Battery body x 2 - Titanium + UTT 3 Position tail switch - Titanium with 6 x Green Tritium vials + Standard flood head (emitter = Cree XM-L2 T6 High CRI Neutral) - Titanium + HF-R Momentary Switch - Titanium + Titanium Locator = Hole Spiral Lantern - Titanium with green Tritium vial - by Steve Ku - Veleno Designs + TEC Accessories Python Clip, 28mm MULTITOOL: Leatherman Skeletal CX black Peter Atwood P13 Metric Pry Baby - CPM 3V + Titanium chord clutch beads - Heat anodised to straw gold by Yours truly PEN: Parker 75 Silver Cisele ballpoint (Fisher refill) - Ca 1970s USA Made WALLET: Custom leather - Black prototype Mk2 V3 by Yours truly WATCH: Breitling Aerospace Titanium
HF's EDC 190718 BLADE: Benchmade 940-1 - S90V + Titaner Titanium Lanyard Bead Cord Stopper KEYS: Titanium Rabbit by Magnus Macdonald + Amflo coupler + Tritium vial - Firefly Zip Marker - Blue + Locator prototype - info under NDA LIGHT: Jetbeam TC-R1 Titanium (batt=16340) + TEC Accessories Python Clip, 28mm + Titanium Locator = Chevron Lantern - Titanium with green Tritium vial - by Steve Ku - Veleno Designs + GITD O-Ring MULTITOOL: Victorinox SAK Pioneer Alox silver custom (scissors) Peter Atwood Metwrench - CPM S30V + Titanium chord clutch bead + Aluminium lanyard bead (ex stud wall fastener) NOTEBOOK: Clairefontaine Age-bag, Clothbound 9 x 14 cm black flexible cover 90 gsm paper 86 pages quad lined PEN: Sheaffer PFM V fountain pen — green - BBB 14k nib - Ca 1959 + Sheaffer matching PFM pencil WALLET: Custom leather - Black prototype Mk2 V3 by Yours truly WATCH: Rolex Submariner Ref 114060
HF's EDC 310818 BLADE: Extrema Ratio BF1 CD - Bohler N690 + Cu lanyard bead single wrap in paracord shell by Yours truly LIGHT: Matchbox Instruments Torpedo X (batt=10440) + Innovo Design Titanium lantern - green Tritium + McGizmo SS Nano Clip ~ 20 mm MULTITOOL: Victorinox SAK Danish Alox Bantam black - Red shield TTPocketTools Chopper 1/4" with cutter - Randy Haas Lace Damascus + Cu lanyard bead single wrap in paracord shell by Yours truly NOTEBOOK: Molskine Volant notebook black lined PEN: Rotring Renaissance Fountain Pen - fine nib - Ca 1990s WALLET: Custom leather - Black prototype Mk2 V3 by Yours truly WATCH: Davosa - Argonautic Dual Time PVD - Reference: 161.512.80 + Davosa Argonautic Nylon Nato strap black grey white
HF's EDC 010918 BLADE: Bradley Cutlery Alias II + Titanium lanyard Lantern Ringer bead - satin/blue/satin by Gray Precision with GITD O-rings + Titanium chord clutch bead LIGHT: Matchbox Instruments HF-R Titanium (raw) + 10440 LI Battery via 2 x 10250 halves and a small magnet to contact - Titanium + STT 5 Position tail switch - Titanium with 1 x Green Tritium vial + HF-R Momentary Switch - Titanium + Standard flood head (emitter = Cree XM-L2 T6 High CRI Neutral) - Titanium + TEC Accessories Python Clip, 28mm + Titanium Locator = Hole Spiral Lantern - Titanium with green Tritium vial - by Steve Ku - Veleno Designs MULTITOOL: Victorinox SAK MiniChamp Alox silver + McGizmo SS Nano Clip ~ 20 mm + Mini-D Pocket Clip - Titanium by Gamble Staempfli Titanium multi tool - Kickstarter by Stewart + Cu lanyard bead twist single wrap weld by Yours truly NOTEBOOK: Molskine Volant notebook black lined PEN: Lamy 2000 4 colors ball pen WALLET: Custom leather - Black prototype Mk2 V3 by Yours truly WATCH: Breitling Aerospace Titanium + Breitling deployment clasp + Bob for Breitling Croc brown deployment strap
HF's EDC 050918 BLADE: Lion Steel SR-2A Black Aluminium - Sleipner 60-61 HRC + Titaner Titanium Lanyard Bead Cord Stopper LIGHT: Matchbox Instruments Torpedo X (batt=10440) + Innovo Design Titanium lantern - green Tritium + McGizmo SS Nano Clip ~ 20 mm MULTITOOL: Victorinox SAK Electrician Alox all black custom (scissors) by Syph007 JDR Knife & Tool Hammerhead - Chad Nichols' Lizard stainless Damascus steel + Ti Blue anodised bead by Jools Peter Atwood Pry Baby G5b - CPM S35VN - Via scalloped caddy credit card in wallet WALLET: Custom leather - Black prototype Mk2 V4 by Yours truly WATCH: Davosa - Argonautic Dual Time PVD - Reference: 161.512.80 + Black leather band - Colareb Venezia
HF's Fixed Blades 150918 n.b. Sans all kitchen cutters & favourite per following posts BLADES: L to R ESEE Junglas - OBL 10.38” (23.36cm) BTH: 0.188” (4.8mm) - 1095 Carbon Steel + Kydex Sheath & MOLLE Back Scrap Yard Knife Company — model Sykco 511 - Steel: SR101 Hardness: 58-60Rc + Sheath: Kydex by Al Welke (Bladeforums: azwelke) cKc Thrive - Bohler N690 - 5.5mm ~7/32mm Th + Ost (Cz) Leather Sheath - This custom sheath could not fit better. Can accomodate horizontal or vertical belt carry and has an optional dangler. + Exotac nanoSTRIKER XL - Orange + cKc small hone - AISI 01 Tool Steel - in carry sleeve cKc 1.0B - Uddeholm Calmax Steel - 6.5mm ~1/4" Th + Custom leather sheath by yours truly cKc Pen-Knife - Uddeholm AEB-L Steel @ 60 Rockwell hardness C + Custom Kydex sheath by Nick (YT Menovade) Vid excerpt from seller I purchased the knife … cKc Knives Pendant neck knife - AISI 01 Tool Steel - 4mm ~5/32" Th Tina brass knife & spike ABSENT (@ alternate interim 10-20) cKc Streamline - Uddeholm AEB-L Steel - 2.5mm ~3/32" Th 60 Rockwell hardness C
HF's cKc Streamline knife - AEBL + Bark River Knives: Bushcraft C Sheath - Brown (Sharpshooter Systems)
BLADE: Japanese Santoku Hōchō by Yamawaku - V2 blue steel core & burnt chestnut handle I've had a number of these since late 2012. Never had any problems with them or the Japanese eBay supplier. It's just like a big razor blade so does definitely need special handling and care. Not the blade for cutting boney meat or frozen food. It has been perfect for high speed fruit and vegetable processing. The sheer performance from the thin blade geometry and fine edge make it so much fun to use. It's a hoot every time.
HF's EDC 200918 BLADE: DPx HEST 2.0 Folder - D2 + Cuscadi scale - black canvas micarta + Cu lanyard bead twisted pair Damascus by Yours truly + Cu lanyard bead twist single wrap weld by Yours truly + Custom Titanium short clip by Yours truly
HF's Pinstriped Opinel 011018 Many years ago and well before yours truly had become a teenager, I was enamoured with firearms. Gees, I could recite projectile weights, load in grains, muzzle velocities, distance drops of my favourite cartridges and shoot pretty well too. Gun design and gunsmithing looked very interesting and so set my mind to modifying the stock of my Gecado air rifle. That meant making a tool to make it happen so whilst in my Dad’s workshop, I stole a welding rod (manual metal arc stick), beat the flux off it and wire brushed it at one arbor end of a stone grinder. Next formed it with heat from an oxyacetylene kit to get a desired handle bend and with hammer flatten what would become the cutting end. The cutting head got finally formed with some fine files and heat treated via oxyacetylene and oil. I tried firstly with water but over heated the rod material and cracked it via thermal shock. If you’ve come this far, so what is the significance of this recount. Well, I still have that tool and it is what was used to put the pinstripe pattern on the Opinel shown. On a personal note, my Father was incredibly gifted at making steel do what he wanted. He happened to be working on a project and in a sincere effort to be like him I took on my big checkering tool project at the same time. What a laugh in retrospect and yeah those were wonderful times.
HF's EDC Opinel #8 One-Hand 161019 There are many things I like about the French Opinel folding knife, viz.; Reasonable cost and ready availability; Variety of model sizes; Thin blade with great slicing performance; Convex thin blade profile for easy sharpening; Carbon and stainless steel blades etcetera etcetera. But there’s one significant disadvantage that reduces the amount of use mine get. That is their inability to be practically opened with one hand. So per the pics and description, here’s my current solution … In order for the KWIK thumb stud to sit properly I had to remove a modicum of handle wood. That is so the grub screw could at least completely bite the blade, the blade could land fully in the handle and when open the recasso (not the stud) acted properly as the stop. That locus point necessitated the simplest of handle mod pictured. btw, the KWIK thumb stud also acts a neat thumb ramp when the blade is deployed. Also, operating the Opinel swivel lock with thumb and forefinger is not a problem with one hand.
