This video is made in the workshop of Bulgarian knife maker Stoil Manchev – well known here in Bulgaria like “Silverman”.
During the two days project I spent more than 10 hours with the knife maker and I filmed parts of his work on this beautiful knife – “Model 1″ in Carbon Fiber and M390 Steel.
The knife is special Carbon Fiber edition to the basic “Model 1″ in M390 or K110 steel with green micarta.
Overall length – 20.5 cm
Blade length – 10.5 cm
Blade thickness – 4.5 mm
The M390 steel blade is heat treated to 62 Hrc at 1075 C in stainless foil and have a cryo in liquid nitrogen.
M390 composition:
Carbon 1.90%
Chromium 20.00%
Vanadium 4.00%
Molybdenum 1.00%
Silicon .70%
Tungsten .60%
Manganese .30%
The hollow grind was made on a 20 inch wheel – during the video you will see the thickness of the blade behind the cutting edge.
The abrasive belts for grinding and finishing the blade are:
- ceramic – 36 grit
- cubitron-II 60 grit
- ceramic – 120 grit
- trizact gator – A65
- scotch brite – medium
Final sharpening on diamond rotation wheels.
The knife is skeletonized full tang with SS corby bolts and SS lanyard tube.
The prices starts from 150$ to 350$ (depending the steel choice and handle material + leather sheath) with free shipping to EU or USA
You can reach the knife maker on – stoilmanchev@abv.bg
Post time: Jun-30-2017