Mercator
"Mercator" Custom Tactical Combat Knife
- Size: Length overall: 11.5" (29.2 cm), Blade
Length: 6.75" (17.2 cm), Thickness: .183" (4.7 mm)
- Weight: Knife: 10.2 oz. (289 grams) Sheath,
Locking Kydex: 9.9 oz. (281 grams), Leather: 7.0 oz. (198 grams)
- Blade: O1 High Carbon Tungsten-Vanadium Tool
Steel, Hardened and Tempered to Rockwell C59
- Bolsters, Fittings: 304 Austenitic Stainless
Steel
- Handle: Canvas Micarta Phenolic
- Sheath, Locking: Kydex, Aluminum, Stainless
Steel, 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 Mercator is ready for business. See the other
half of this great combo (the Phlegra Khukri) here. The Mercator
blade is made of bead-blasted and hot-blued O1 high carbon
tungsten-vanadium tool steel, and hardened and tempered to a very
wear-resisting 59HRC. The blade is a hollow ground tanto style, with a very
slight recurve and an extremely aggressive point geometry with a
thicker grind at the point for support of the razor keen single
bevel cutting edge. The blade
has a full length top swage to reduce point profile for Primary
Edged Weapon piercing. The knife has a slight thumb rise, notched to
engage the locking sheath, and a fully 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 deep into
both sides of
the blued steel blade.
- Sheath, Kydex: The sheath for this knife is one of my
positively locking military tactical combat models, made of double
thickness kydex, 5052H32 corrosion resistant high strength aluminum
alloy welt frame, 304, 302, and 316 stainless steel locking
mechanism and components, bound with blued steel Chicago screws and
18-8 stainless machine screws. The 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 9-10
oz. leather shoulder, dyed a medium brown, hand-stitched
with polyester sinew, lacquered and sealed.
- This is a great Primary Edged Weapon 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:
Phlegra
Please click on thumbnail knife photos