John From Survival Wisdom (who I make the DSK Wisdom Edge knife for their Survival tin)
With his other hat on as Chief Instructor from the DSTO's (Defence SERE Training Organisation)
Asked if I could make a modern version of the jungle parang with a full tang (the blades fly out of the local made ones)
oh and needs it in about 3 weeks as hes of to run the Next Jungle Survival Instructor Training Cadre. Training the next gen of jungle instructors in Brunei.
No pressure then
Then about a week later ...... Can I have 2 the Australian army instructor on exchange fancies one
so a quick flurry of Design emails and we have profile and some basic ideas and limitations due to time
Blade shape and angle etc is a direct copy of Johns local made Parang this is 500mm long handle is fairly smooth in profile to allow lots of grip options
material is 75Cr1 spring steel in 3/16" for a lightish fast blade
Laser cutting took longer than quoted ( as usual)
Chris Grant did a great fast turn around on the HT edge quench and tempered to 55 Rc
and got them to me Thursday (John flys next Saturday So ive been busy over the Jubilee weekend )
made up one quick for Johns approval
this is std Coyote Brn G10 3/8" thick which is ok but I felt it needed a bit more meat to grip
came in at 752gms and balance point 50mm in front of the handles
For the 2 For John
No 1
Ive used the same CB G10 but packed it up with 2.25mm Olive Drab Kydex liners and put a little more shape in the handle.
it also needed a groove in the front to give the Kydex some thing to grip and stop it rattling about (there is also a Cam grip on the blade tip)
Scales are bolted on with 5 sets 1/4" stainless stand offs and blacked stainless Torx Bolts
This one is in matching CB kydex with a basic webbing loop for now
No 2
This is 3/8" Multi cam G10 glued to 4mm black G10 to make up the thickness bolted on with 4 Bolts as above and has a lanyard hole
Sheath as above but in Olive Drab kydex
the pair
Luckily I have kydex in big enough sheets for these as they needs 2off 5" x 17" bits
and my large press was actually used
tho I did have to resort to the house oven to fit them into heat up
So hopefully these get posted Wednesday and of to the jungle next weekend for a good thrashing to see if any changes are needed
there are some that will happen any way but i didnt have time to get done
not bad for a Rush job
ATB
Duncan
With his other hat on as Chief Instructor from the DSTO's (Defence SERE Training Organisation)
Asked if I could make a modern version of the jungle parang with a full tang (the blades fly out of the local made ones)
oh and needs it in about 3 weeks as hes of to run the Next Jungle Survival Instructor Training Cadre. Training the next gen of jungle instructors in Brunei.
No pressure then
Then about a week later ...... Can I have 2 the Australian army instructor on exchange fancies one
so a quick flurry of Design emails and we have profile and some basic ideas and limitations due to time
Blade shape and angle etc is a direct copy of Johns local made Parang this is 500mm long handle is fairly smooth in profile to allow lots of grip options
material is 75Cr1 spring steel in 3/16" for a lightish fast blade
Laser cutting took longer than quoted ( as usual
)Chris Grant did a great fast turn around on the HT edge quench and tempered to 55 Rc
and got them to me Thursday (John flys next Saturday
So ive been busy over the Jubilee weekend )made up one quick for Johns approval
this is std Coyote Brn G10 3/8" thick which is ok but I felt it needed a bit more meat to grip
came in at 752gms and balance point 50mm in front of the handles
For the 2 For John
No 1
Ive used the same CB G10 but packed it up with 2.25mm Olive Drab Kydex liners and put a little more shape in the handle.
it also needed a groove in the front to give the Kydex some thing to grip and stop it rattling about (there is also a Cam grip on the blade tip)
Scales are bolted on with 5 sets 1/4" stainless stand offs and blacked stainless Torx Bolts
This one is in matching CB kydex with a basic webbing loop for now
No 2
This is 3/8" Multi cam G10 glued to 4mm black G10 to make up the thickness bolted on with 4 Bolts as above and has a lanyard hole
Sheath as above but in Olive Drab kydex
the pair
Luckily I have kydex in big enough sheets for these as they needs 2off 5" x 17" bits
and my large press was actually used
tho I did have to resort to the house oven to fit them into heat up
So hopefully these get posted Wednesday and of to the jungle next weekend for a good thrashing to see if any changes are needed
there are some that will happen any way but i didnt have time to get done
not bad for a Rush job
ATB
Duncan
