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EmpireOutfitters
03-19-2023, 03:19 PM
This is a perfect daily companion with ambi sheath.

https://i.imgur.com/7flX7BB.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Ot9Zop4.jpg
RoyGBiv
03-19-2023, 03:22 PM
Likes for the point on that...

What's the blade length and OAL?

Nice :cool:
EmpireOutfitters
03-19-2023, 03:35 PM
Thanks bud!

7 7/16”
3 1/2” CPM154
3.3oz
Totem Polar
03-19-2023, 03:52 PM
I have the old-school Boker cocobolo version of this blade, with the equally old-school “MCS” sheath in the inside breast pocket of my velvet evening coat with tails. You never know when you might need to cut something in emergent fashion while at the symphony.
:cool:

The Aikuchi is one of Nealy’s best designs. Light, flat, just right.
blues
03-19-2023, 04:05 PM
I have the old-school Boker cocobolo version of this blade, with the equally old-school “MCS” sheath in the inside breast pocket of my velvet evening coat with tails. You never know when you might need to cut something in emergent fashion while at the symphony.
:cool:

The Aikuchi is one of Nealy’s best designs. Light, flat, just right.

Bud's an old friend of ours. We used to spend a lot of time together with him and his wife at shows and dinners with an assortment of other miscreants. (You'd appreciate, Totem Polar that he used to be a professional musician...a drummer.)

I still have one of his Wortac's, (with Daryl Meier damascus), and an Aikuchi 2 in M2 as I recall.

Great guy.
newyork
03-19-2023, 04:11 PM
blues you’re for sure the custom blade guru brother! Love it.
blues
03-19-2023, 04:13 PM
blues you’re for sure the custom blade guru brother! Love it.

Trust me when I tell you that while I have a nice collection, it's nothing compared to the big boys. (I'm not complaining, just telling it like it is.)

Now the friendships I've shared with some of these characters? Priceless.


ETA: Back then, thinking on it, the group was Bud and his wife, Allen Elishewitz and his wife, Al Dippold, Howard Clark, and Hank Knickmeyer. It was a dangerous crew. (Al and Howard, were Master Smiths, and maybe Hank was as well, my memory isn't clear on that...but I think he was because he sold a ton of mosaic damascus.) Some good times...I can't even begin to tell you the stories.