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| © Copyright 2010 George Knives, Inc |
Now this has been a long time in the works!
It's a new way for me to work, something that I have been
planning long before I even moved to Texas. It's the
reason that I am taking machinist classes day and night
on top of full time knife making.
If you may recall the Rockeye is named after an
ordnance item of the same name.
There is a variation of the Rockeye, called the VECP.
VECP means Value Engineering Change Proposal,
basically that is a program that finds better ways to get
the same job done. Since they Rockeye's job is to blow
up and send a shape charge jet into a target, they found
a way to do it with a stream lined design and
manufacturing process.
One of the goals of the Rockeye design, was to have a
design that I could scale up and down at will. Since I
have made them with blade lengths from 2.6 all the way up
past 7 inches, I think that box is checked.
One of the hardest parts of custom folder making is
managing the variations of materials. Steel not straight,
titanium bowed and not the same thickness though out,
etc. All these things play havoc with knife function and I
spend a lot of my time on the custom knives fixing those
inconsistencies. A lot of time!
So I had an idea of a project, where I took out as many
of the variables as possible, Keeping the design simple
and speeding things up, adding Value by changing the
engineering.
That's about enough talk for now, here are the specs
and pics!
I give you, the VECP
Steel: .150" (3.81mm) thick, CTS-XHP
Handle: Titanium Frame lock, .150 (3.81mm) thick
Back spacer: Grooved Black G-10
Ambidextrous thumb stud
Phosphorus Bronze washers
Drilled and tapped for tip up / tip down. Hole
configuration is the
standard 3 whole pattern so if you want a different clip,
you have a lot of options. I am actually making up a new
style clip for this project, those are still a few days out
though.
Lanyard hole
4.9” (124mm) long closed
Blade, 3.4" (86mm) long, CNC flat ground to .015 (.
381mm) before sharpening*
Hinderer Lock Bar stabilizer**
*I made a new logo that will go on all non hand ground
blades so there is never any confusion.
** Big thank you to Rick Hinderer for licensing his lock
bar stabilizer to me and for his constant help and
encouragement though the initial phase of this project.
I have a lot of different design elements in this knife that
I will hit on later, but for now this is what we got.
There are a lot of goals I have involved in this project,
versatility and utility being first and foremost.
Hope you guys like it, thanks for looking.
It's a new way for me to work, something that I have been
planning long before I even moved to Texas. It's the
reason that I am taking machinist classes day and night
on top of full time knife making.
If you may recall the Rockeye is named after an
ordnance item of the same name.
There is a variation of the Rockeye, called the VECP.
VECP means Value Engineering Change Proposal,
basically that is a program that finds better ways to get
the same job done. Since they Rockeye's job is to blow
up and send a shape charge jet into a target, they found
a way to do it with a stream lined design and
manufacturing process.
One of the goals of the Rockeye design, was to have a
design that I could scale up and down at will. Since I
have made them with blade lengths from 2.6 all the way up
past 7 inches, I think that box is checked.
One of the hardest parts of custom folder making is
managing the variations of materials. Steel not straight,
titanium bowed and not the same thickness though out,
etc. All these things play havoc with knife function and I
spend a lot of my time on the custom knives fixing those
inconsistencies. A lot of time!
So I had an idea of a project, where I took out as many
of the variables as possible, Keeping the design simple
and speeding things up, adding Value by changing the
engineering.
That's about enough talk for now, here are the specs
and pics!
I give you, the VECP
Steel: .150" (3.81mm) thick, CTS-XHP
Handle: Titanium Frame lock, .150 (3.81mm) thick
Back spacer: Grooved Black G-10
Ambidextrous thumb stud
Phosphorus Bronze washers
Drilled and tapped for tip up / tip down. Hole
configuration is the
standard 3 whole pattern so if you want a different clip,
you have a lot of options. I am actually making up a new
style clip for this project, those are still a few days out
though.
Lanyard hole
4.9” (124mm) long closed
Blade, 3.4" (86mm) long, CNC flat ground to .015 (.
381mm) before sharpening*
Hinderer Lock Bar stabilizer**
*I made a new logo that will go on all non hand ground
blades so there is never any confusion.
** Big thank you to Rick Hinderer for licensing his lock
bar stabilizer to me and for his constant help and
encouragement though the initial phase of this project.
I have a lot of different design elements in this knife that
I will hit on later, but for now this is what we got.
There are a lot of goals I have involved in this project,
versatility and utility being first and foremost.
Hope you guys like it, thanks for looking.
| VECP folder $395.00 |