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These knives are developed from MCKF Italian Forum. LionSteel has made the production. We started froma 2D drawings. MCKF-3

MCKF-4

The rendering of the MCKF3. All the projects are pre-elaborated in this way. When possible, also some stress test simulations are performed
MCKF3

MCKF4

Once again the preferred steel for such kind of knives is the Calmax

After a pool for the scales, we have selected the black and the green micarta

The steel has been delivered at Lionsteel. Unfortunatly the only format available is in thick billets. It will be "sliced" down to 10mm plates.

After the cutting operations:

The flats are then "rectified" to ground flat with a CNC machinery and laser cutted to the final shape. Here the tickness is a little bit over the final to allow the grinding and finishing The MCKF3:

MCKF4

A good amount of steel....

The two brothers

The MCKF3 blanks after the grinding
We have used a Berger machinery

The MCKF4 blanks after the grinding
We have used a Berger machinery

Here is the CNC machinery used for the micarta scales: it's a GE Fanuc 3 axis millin tool

The final result, still wet, mixed with some micarta blanks

Sharpening

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The first MCKF4 assembled

And his daddy, the first MCKF3 assembled

All together now:

Mckf3 with sheath.

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