The Emergency Rescue Cutter features a serrated, stainless steel blade with an injection overmolded handle. It retails for a scant $20.00.
Reaper 01 has adopted it as a gutting knife as well as for other utility uses. Here you can see one mounted to a Reaper Outdoors Tactical Hunting Vest.
Available in OD Green, Black, Red and Yellow.
This is the new hot sauce from Reaper Outdoors, produced by Lendy’s in Va Beach. Lendy’s is a local favorite for wings and on any given day you’ll find a cast of various characters bellied up to the bar.
“Reap Your Rewards with Reaper Hot Sauce,” said Ron Bellan who went on to add that it, “should be in every survival kit.” It’s already so popular back home that they are selling it in bulk.
The Persian Tanto from Wilmont Knives is a fighter design that combines the strength of a Tanto blade with the styling of a Persian design. It’s 4″ blade is crafted from cru-wear steel which is in the D2 family and is acid etched. It’s a full tang design with G10 handles and comes with a Kydex sheath.
Duane Dwyer is well known for his association with a Strider Knives. His other project is Summit Materials and he has been working on the HIPTiNite material since 2006. Over the years, he’s given me updates on its progress and now, his patents have been granted, it’s being purchased for use in bearings and the first knives are being manufactured. The specialized commercial interest is really picking up. Imagine a knee prosthesis that never wears out from friction in addition to myriad aerospace and gas/oil industry applications. Amazingly, some of the biggest interest is in the F1 circuit.
All of the materials that are PM grades (particle metallurgy) go through a process involving atomization individually and then as a combined material. They are all combined in a process called Hot Isostatic Press (HIP).
You’ll notice that Summit Materials’ new HIPTiNite material combines this HIP process as well as the atomic symbol for Titanium and Nickel because it’s a binary alloy of nickel and titanium. It’s extremely light and abrasion resistant. That’s right, it’s abrasion resistant. You just don’t normally test metal for abrasion resistance, especially a metal used in knives. In fact, after testing HIPTiNite, NASA had to extend the scale to accommodate the material’s performance. This measurement is called the Model Factor.
It’s the world’s first through-hardenable material to achieve 60HRC+ in a non-ferrous matrix. I asked what it takes to sharpen this material and Duane said, “patience…” He feels that ceramic is the best bet.
Additionally, it has corrosion resistance unmatched by any other hardenable material in history. This includes sea water as well as acids and other corrosives.
Look for a more comprehensive report on this amazing new material next week.
The early bird line is insane this year! As soon as we can get inside we’ll begin our coverage.
