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CEO is definitely getting used at work. Its replaced the CRKT Minimalist as my work knife (minimalist was out anyway since my neck is screwy and any weight even that knife bugs it).

Been cutting sheetrock, spray foam (even when wet, thus the hard residue on the clip that will probably be there forever), vapor barier, fiberglass insulation. I use it as a poker, pointer, small chisel, and yes a super light duty pry tool..

Thats expanding spray foam residue and black death** among other things.

The tip 3/4″ or so needs sharpened now probably from scorring sheetrock, the rest is still laser sharp.

I think that’s why its getting so much use, its one handed and easy, and fast! But unlike most any other modern folder it is a thin narrow laser blade.

I’m realizing that thin narrow laser blades are a good sized factor, I think so anyway, in my use of trad. folders. And general distaste for modern knives. Just didnt really know it cause I’d never had that kind of blade in a modern folder till now.

Closet I’ve ever had before this was my Ontario RAT, it was thin light and sharp, but still a relatively wide blade. It got this kind of use working for a while, but then I got away from locking one hand knives again.

My Kershaw Cryos’ always go this kind of rough use, and by no means were they a sharpened crow bar, but they were compared to this!

Anyway, I find it interesting and surprising how much im using this thing.

On the flip side too, because I haven’t worried, ok maybe once, when i knew I was being stupid, about breaking this blade…

(**curtainwall/ acoustical, amd vapor barier sealant… has that nickname because it NEVER sets up/ stops being sticky, and is a bitch to get off of anything.. like your hands. Acetone will take it off easy… gasoline would too. But they’re not real good for the hands I actually found that you can scrub small spots off your hands with sanitizer gel and a paper towel… but it takes a Lot of sanitizer to do it… ). I’m actually not sure thoygh why it has that rep, and spray expanding foam doesn’t. Black death is 10x easier to get off than the residue from that foam is!! I know. I’ve managed to get both all over me a few times on this job.. lol.

I got the specks of foam inside the lock bar on the knife once… grabbed a towel and pick and got that out FAST or this thing would never close again without a solvent bath (and I’m not sure even acetone will take that off!). And im not looking forward to evervtaking this knife apart… I’ll never get the perfect action back I’m sure! )

Something new this week, a new hank;

But I didn’t exactly buy it.

This is version 1.0 of the Ak-Adventure hank. 😀

I’ve had the quarters of material for a couple years(like, 3 or 4), about 6 prints on 100% cotton, that I got to do my own hanks. Just never get around to it.

Took them with me last weekend for a house/dog sitting gig I did for some friends for 4 days. Figured if the dogs would quiet down (Ha!) one evening, I’d sit down and hand sew some hanks.

Didn’t work.

So, having some time to kill last evening, I sat down and did one. A little fiddly at first, but I’ve been doing more and more sewing of light leathers, and compared to that fabric is dead easy. Took about 45 min. start to finish. Not fast, but not bad. Its actually fun and really, really relaxing.

Sewed face to face, left about 1″ unsewn, and turned it… should have taken a pic of that process! Feeding a double layer of 11″ square through a 1″ open seam is…. entertaining… 😉

Where I closed that 1″ seam isn’t perfect, but it worked ok. It’ll get better. 🙂

Turned corners came out great;

Its the same size, more or less as the PhoenixHanx I have, @ 10.5″ Sq. I ended up at 10″ Sq. Hers are the size I’m used to, folded half, then thirds is the way I carry, so I wanted to mirror them for that same carry.

This would be easier and faster if I could ever get my Moms’ sewing machine moved and set up where I can use it, but then again even those things have a learning curve. And as I said, this is relaxing. So I think I’ll stick with doing them by hand for a bit. 🙂

Thinking about what I want for a true AK Adventure hank. Like maybe a micro fibre towel(think msr or seat to summit camping towels) on one side, and arctic fleece or heavy flannel on the other…

Super absorbent, soft and warm, cushy.

or fleece and denim. Soft for face etc, rougher side for greasy hands (old jeans make great shop rags, takes some texture to get grease off sometimes. )

Also like the idea of an XL version, like bandanna instead of hank sized, terry cloth towel on one side and the micro fibre camping towel on the other, a perfect Hitchhiker’s guide hank;Do you know where your towel is? 😉

(If you don’t get that reference, Google The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the books, not the movie, and towels. 😀 Fantastic books, well worth the read, in my opinion, if you like classic, contemporary sci-fi. )

The Hitchhiker’s towel, snd tgevapplied concept, is a lot of how I apply carrying a hank. After all, it is basically a mini towel.