But as you can see in the pictures all hardware is included if you want to reinstall the pocket clip. NOTE: I don’t like pocket clips so the first thing I do with any knife is to remove the pocket clip – which I did with this knife. This is a great knife – but I have two of them so I decided it’s time to thin the herd a little and let one of them go. It’s in excellent condition and includes everything that came with if from Hawk as shown in the pictures. The handle length is 4.9” with a 3.5” blade and it weighs 4.7 oz. It includes titanium hardware and a traditional carbon fiber handle. “This is the first project that we’ve decided to focus on production.Up for sale is a G & G HAWK Deadlock (Model B) OTF Auto with double-edged dagger blade that I purchased NEW in May 2019 (Batch 5 I believe). Coming up with a design, making 20-25 prototypes and then moving on to the next design,” Gavin adds. “We’re looking forward to doing our own thinking on our OTF and going forward with being in complete control of all the decision making,” says Grant. It’s a new direction for the father-son team, but an exciting one. “We’re in complete control of all the decision making” That was the key to making it work, and that’s the big difference between what we’re doing and the way it’s been done,” says Grant. “The trick that we developed was the way that we catch that flying blade and lock it at the same time in all directions.
“You need to give the blade plenty of room to fly to the front – or if you’re closing it, to fly to the rear,” Grant continues. Also like a conventional OTF, the blade relies on a certain amount of extra space inside the handle to freely extend and retract. “When you press forward on the button to open it, the first part of travel of that button is loading the spring, and the last part of the travel trips it, turning it loose, working a lot like a crossbow,” explained Grant. Like them, it’s operated by pushing and pulling a spring-loaded switch in the handle. Grant & Gavin’s Deadlock shares an outward similarity with conventional OTF knives. “That’s the big difference between what we’re doing and the way it’s been done” “What we did is we started from a totally fresh approach and invented our own locking mechanism, and then invented our own stabilizing mechanism, and just reinvented everything.” Instead, their new approach ditches the conventional wisdom about OTF design: “Before, everybody was trying to take the same principle and just make it more precise – the more precise they made it the less blade play there was in it,” says Gavin. Grant & Gavin didn’t want to depend on tiny tolerances for a solid lockup. “We started from a totally fresh approach” #gghawk #hawkknives #knifecommunity #OTF #comingsoon #usnfollow #usnstagram#automatic #nobladeplay #usn #usnfollow #usnstagram #knifefanaticsĪ video posted by Gavin Hawk on at 5:30pm PST The deadlock against a benchmade infidel. The only way for these manufacturers to combat blade play is to tighten their machining tolerances, leaving less ‘wiggle’ in the mechanism.įigured this would be good to repost. “I don’t think we’ve ever seen one that locks up really solid,” says Grant Hawk. Conventional OTF knives all share the same fundamental flaw: the space that the mechanism needs to work properly introduces a certain amount of blade play. “They’re all pretty much the same, from Microtech to Benchmade… it’s the same principle but the parts have been rearranged,” says Gavin. Grab a Pack of 5 Microfiber Blade Sleeves for $8.99 < <Įven though many manufacturers make OTF knives, they’re not that different on the inside. Eventually we’ll probably start hiring employees and actually trying to meet demand.”
“We’ve got another small shop that we’re building so we can make more parts faster. “We’re turning down offers from manufacturers and we’re focusing on producing them ourselves,” says Gavin.
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But you won’t find a Deadlock on a factory knife – at least not until Grant & Gavin take a crack at making it first. “I think that may be a record,” Gavin, the younger Grant, points out. Their original designs are currently being manufactured by Buck, Chris Reeve Knives, Kershaw, Mantis, Quartermaster, Boker, and Camillus. When the duo come out with a new innovation like the Deadlock, customers expect to see a big brand production implementation sometime soon. A video posted by Gavin Hawk on at 11:24am PDT
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