Phlegra
"Phlegra" Custom Tactical Combat Khukri Knife
- Size: Length overall: 18.2" (46.2 cm), Blade
Length: 12.25" (31.1 cm), Thickness: .2375" (6.0 mm)
- Weight: Knife: 1 lb., 14.5 oz. (865 grams), Sheath,
Kydex:
1 lb., 7.0 oz. (652 grams), Sheath, Leather: 13.9 oz. (391 grams)
- Blade: O1 High Carbon Tungsten-Vanadium Tool
Steel, Hardened and Tempered to Rockwell C58
- Bolsters, Fittings: 304 Austenitic Stainless
Steel
- Handle: Canvas Micarta Phenolic
- Sheath, Tension: Kydex, Aluminum, Blued Steel, Engraved Black Lacquered Brass
- Sheath, Leather: Engraved and
Hand-Stamped Leather Shoulder
- Knife: One of a great pair of custom made
combat knives, this Phlegra is a large and serious khukri and ready for
combat. See the other
half of this great combo here.
The Phlegra blade is made of bead-blasted and hot-blued O1 high
carbon tungsten-vanadium tool steel, and hardened and tempered to a
very tough 58HRC. The blade is a hollow ground forward recurve
khukri style, with a high strength and thick point geometry to
support the tough razor keen single bevel cutting edge. The blade
has a half- length top swage to reduce point profile yet preserve
strength. The knife has a neat and clean hollow grind and the inside
recurve is supported by a thick and meaty spine, while the wide
khukri blade body allows a forward center of percussion and deep and
long belly for slicing. The knife has a full and tapered tang that leaves
plenty of thickness in the butt for strength. The knife is bolstered
with zero-care 304 austenitic high nickel, high chromium stainless
steel, and the bolsters are multi-pinned and dovetailed to bed a
pair of tough canvas reinforced Micarta phenolic handle scales
secured with six through-tang 304 stainless steel pins. The rear
hawk's bill bolster pair has a through-tang chamfered lanyard hole
for extra security. All metallic
surfaces of the knife have been bead blasted for low reflection, and the
custom Guardian's Paw Print is diamond point machine-engraved deeply into
both sides of
the blued steel blade.
- Sheath, Tension: The tension fit sheath for this knife is made of double
thickness kydex thermoforming acrylic/pvc, 5052H32 corrosion resistant high strength aluminum
alloy welt frame, and is sealed and bound with blued steel Chicago screws. The
four die-formed, high strength aluminum belt loops
are reversible for a variety of wear positions and can also be moved
up and down the sheath body for a variety of wear options. The
sheath has a custom machine-engraved flat black lacquered brass
flashplate honoring the Steel Dragon and the multiple combat tours
of the client which is removable for service and can be later replaced for
legacy honors.
- Sheath, Leather: The client
also requested a legacy leather sheath, sturdy enough for
civilian wear and custom and unique. I machine-engraved
a bold rendition of the Guardian Paw Print into the
sheath face, and hand-stamped and tooled the front,
back, and belt loop of the sheath that is made of heavy 10
oz. leather shoulder, dyed a medium brown, lacquered and sealed.
All sheath parts including the double position belt loop
are hand-stitched with double rows of polyester sinew.
- This is a great and tough Workhorse of a combat knife pair with
dependable and useful accessories ready for action and honored legacy.
Thanks, C. C.!
Hi, Jay.
I got the knives today. They are Gorgeous. Hopefully, I'll never need to use them for combat, but at least I know
that if I do need to use them, I'll be using the best.
Thanks again,
C. C.
Note: This is one knife of a matched pair. See the other knife:
Mercator
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