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Anyone gotten anything new lately? I’m still waiting on my custom to arrive in the mail.
 

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This was a full custom from a guy named Stoil Manchev in Bulgaria. He offered about a half dozen different steel choices and a ton of handle materials. He does the heat treat himself.

Best of all it was well under $200.
 

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This was a full custom from a guy named Stoil Manchev in Bulgaria. He offered about a half dozen different steel choices and a ton of handle materials. He does the heat treat himself.

Best of all it was well under $200.
Deets needed.
 

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Steel options - Aeb-l, 14c28n, N 690, k110 and rwl 34

Handle options were micarta or G10 in numerous varieties and the wood handles in this shot

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Prices from $130-160 usd. The whole process from first contact to delivery was just over 3 weeks.

How did you find this guy? Easiest point of contact? I might need something made...
 

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Eh... it'd an excellent way to get arrested at the airport and in many countries. Also, feels like lead weight in the pocket. They shoulds just have made it regular key fob, and I would have ben all over that, but no... we gotta be undercover ninjas. I mean, you could easily just make a sap from old socks and aa few rolls of pennies, but now they make this perfectly good key fob into an ineffective weapon and an uncomfortable item to carry. Sigh.
 

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Eh... it'd an excellent way to get arrested at the airport and in many countries. Also, feels like lead weight in the pocket. They shoulds just have made it regular key fob, and I would have ben all over that, but no... we gotta be undercover ninjas. I mean, you could easily just make a sap from old socks and aa few rolls of pennies, but now they make this perfectly good key fob into an ineffective weapon and an uncomfortable item to carry. Sigh.

Ha! I didn't read the description and thought it was a regular key fob.
 

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How did you find this guy? Easiest point of contact? I might need something made...

I had seen a handful of his knives posted on bladeforums and I found the same website you did.

I emailed him - [email protected]

He responded quickly to all my emails. I think he makes other designs but I didn’t even ask since I knew what I wanted.
 

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How did you find this guy? Easiest point of contact? I might need something made...

What do you have in mind to be made?
 

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What do you have in mind to be made?
I’m thinking about something like the Carter mini kajiki, which is like an edc fixed blade under 3”. Good for pocket carry, you can just drop it into a kydex sheath with an ulticlip, etc… Good for small tasks around camp. A bit thicker than most bird and trout knives. The Bark river psk edc is the one I have, in magnacut with black Micarta and mosaic pins.
 

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Looking at $500-1,000 folding knives.

What are the realistic use case and downsides for a stainless damascus blade (made by a US workshop like Chad Nichols) versus Magnacut / S45VN? Any functional upsides or is damascus only for the looks?

To be clear, I am no outdoorsman and won’t be batoning this thing.
 

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