VECP Knife overview Media
Published: 13 years ago
A first look at the finished VECP knife!
Now this has been a long time in the works!
It's a new way for me to work, something that I have been planning long before I even moved to Texas. It's the reason that I am taking machinist classes day and night on top of full time knife making.
If you may recall the Rockeye is named after an ordnance item of the same name.
There is a variation of the Rockeye, called the VECP. VECP means Value Engineering Change Proposal, basically that is a program that finds better ways to get the same job done. Since they Rockeye's job is to blow up and send a shape charge jet into a target, they found a way to do it with a stream lined design and manufacturing process.
One of the goals of the Rockeye design, was to have a design that I could scale up and down at will. since I have made them with blade lengths from 2.6 all the way up past 7 inches, I think that box is checked.
One of the hardest parts of custom folder making is managing the variations of materials. Steel not straight, titanium bowed and not the same thickness though out, etc. All these things play havoc with knife function and I spend a lot of my time on the custom knives fixing those inconsistencies. A lot of time!
So I had an idea of a project, where I took out as many of the variables as possible, Keeping the design simple and speeding things up, adding Value by changing the engineering.
That's about enough talk for now, here are the specs and pics!
I give you, the VECP
Steel: .150" (3.81mm) thick, CTS-XHP
Handle: Titanium Frame lock, .150 (3.81mm) thick
Back spacer: Black G-10
Ambidextrous thumb stud
Phosphorus Bronze washers
Drilled and tapped for tip up / tip down. Hole configuration is the standard 3 whole pattern so if you want a different clip, you have a lot of options.
Lanyard hole
4.9" (124mm) long closed
Blade, 3.4" (86mm) long, CNC flat ground to .015 (.381mm) before sharpening*
Hinderer Lock Bar stabilizer**
*I made a new logo that will go on all non hand ground blades so there is never any confusion.
** Big thank you to Rick Hinderer for licensing his lock bar stabilizer to me.
Now this has been a long time in the works!
It's a new way for me to work, something that I have been planning long before I even moved to Texas. It's the reason that I am taking machinist classes day and night on top of full time knife making.
If you may recall the Rockeye is named after an ordnance item of the same name.
There is a variation of the Rockeye, called the VECP. VECP means Value Engineering Change Proposal, basically that is a program that finds better ways to get the same job done. Since they Rockeye's job is to blow up and send a shape charge jet into a target, they found a way to do it with a stream lined design and manufacturing process.
One of the goals of the Rockeye design, was to have a design that I could scale up and down at will. since I have made them with blade lengths from 2.6 all the way up past 7 inches, I think that box is checked.
One of the hardest parts of custom folder making is managing the variations of materials. Steel not straight, titanium bowed and not the same thickness though out, etc. All these things play havoc with knife function and I spend a lot of my time on the custom knives fixing those inconsistencies. A lot of time!
So I had an idea of a project, where I took out as many of the variables as possible, Keeping the design simple and speeding things up, adding Value by changing the engineering.
That's about enough talk for now, here are the specs and pics!
I give you, the VECP
Steel: .150" (3.81mm) thick, CTS-XHP
Handle: Titanium Frame lock, .150 (3.81mm) thick
Back spacer: Black G-10
Ambidextrous thumb stud
Phosphorus Bronze washers
Drilled and tapped for tip up / tip down. Hole configuration is the standard 3 whole pattern so if you want a different clip, you have a lot of options.
Lanyard hole
4.9" (124mm) long closed
Blade, 3.4" (86mm) long, CNC flat ground to .015 (.381mm) before sharpening*
Hinderer Lock Bar stabilizer**
*I made a new logo that will go on all non hand ground blades so there is never any confusion.
** Big thank you to Rick Hinderer for licensing his lock bar stabilizer to me.