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One of our fellow iKC members, Jack Walker wrote me a question. Thought it was a good discussion.

Here it goes- "Would anyone like a elephant toe to use as a EDC ?. Maybe with G10 scales. ats 34 blade? Maybe with one blade, to help keep the weight down? Maybe have some made up for every day use? Just a thought."

What do you say? If you could have one made tell us about it.

Tags: custom, modern, toenail

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Like the stonewashed blades, myself.
Urban Camo
870 Macro Love
How about 4 1/2 inches closed. a hair under 1 1/2 inches wide, both handle and blade. The dblade of my prototype is .215 not quite the .240-.250 I wanted. Flat ground to the top of the blade with a common swedge and a thumb notch like the 2008 Texas Ranger on each side for easy one hand opening. Handled in Black Rucarta as the 2010 Texas Ranger and then in various exotic woods. Stag this size would cost a couple of hundred and pearl would be out of sight in price and hard to find enough pairs to do a project.

Do you think that any one besides Scott will be interested in such a knife costing under $100???

You have twenty folks here, beside Scott and I, how many would like to see a pic of the prototype?
LOL. Trent, that is really good. Sorry, it just struck me funny :) Yeah, I could go for it. Tiger stripes too.
The truth is this knife could go "tactical" real easy- the standard style or the jumbo. Can't you just see NutnFancy or cutlerylover doing a youtube review on one?. Even keep the name- Jumbo. It'd have to be made by a non-traditional knife company to qualify though...like maybe ZT or Strider? It'd sell like hot cakes to all the young guys and they'd never know they were one step away from being an antique toenail collector :)

It already is "customized" by Hanson, Bose, Claiborne and I'm sure any others with lots of fancy stuff and exotic handles.

Ya know the more I think of it, it needs to be "modernized" (the jumbo that is) and the potential buying market would broaden dramatically....but it would need to be keep under $500, if possible.

I mean look at this by Strider-


Now compare that too this--


Tell me you can't see this knife gone tactical. Can't you just see it with a dual ti thumb studs :)

....sorry, I got off carried away with that idea.
go to facebook and talk to Phillip W Gibbs about this pattern, he did the engineering on it and when the prototype came in yesterday he went nuts.
Can you see it now? :)

Since it's so big it'd need a clip.
I'm getting a Schatt & Morgan Wildcat Driller Whittler. I'm going to throw the box away. Sharpen it. Put it in my pocket. Right by my gun.
ROFL!!

Well Scott
I joined the group I guess I HAVE to buy a toenail now!!
Did Western ever make one??

I collects all things urban camo ;)
.....talk to me about quality. what would the RC be? Sharpness? Edge life, etc. Got concerns on the movement of what I call "Surface Nice"....."Internal Junk". Would the above knife be a Using EDC or just a EDC for the "look what I got for cheap" crowd? When You tag on the "mark up" on the $100....doesn't look like there's too much of a "knife" there.
Glad you got the little humor I added up there. Yeah, you need a toenail- everyone needs at least one.

You can go with handle material, age, location of the factory, brand, color, shield, price, etc. Give me a little info and I'll point the way.....

One good place to look around is eBay under Sunfish, elephant toenails. Great Eastern is now making a good quality one. Got me a stag not long ago.

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