K20 | Picture Gallery

[DrBC]

Everyone post your K20 pictures here!
This is to showcase the beautiful K20 in all its glory. Post new & shiny + used & abused

 

[yoko]

 

[jlauffer]

It also left a man's decapitated body
Lying on the floor
Next to his own severed head
A head which at this time has no name
"I know his name..."

 

[yoko]

 

[Cap’n Smudge]

"Now you die!"
"I have something to say!"
"It's better to burn out
Than to fade away!"
"There can be only one!"

 

[SwarthyGnome]

 

[jlauffer]

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[XtianAus]

Will it cut lead chains though?

 

[gunslinger387]

Will it cut lead chains though?

Or cold butter?

 

[Murphjd25]

I hate all of you.

 

[clinton1]

These are awesome, everyone! Congratulations on the amazing piece (or pieces in some cases!) Completely in awe..........

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

in on page one.

I'll add my photo when mine shows up.

 

[Grenock]

Here's a start.....

 

[Retired UPS Driver]

Really happy for you guys, living in enjoyment through your pics and excitement

And Grenock , those are just awesome
Is that the wood you asked Nathan for when he showed off that block? Regardless, just AWESOME

Most excellent thread DrBC , A+

 

[woodysone]

Trying hard to look away, got in on the third page, now constantly looking for email from Jo

 

[jlauffer]

I hate all of you.

Hey, not our fault you bought a Ram!

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

The wood I acquired for this project was purchased over a year ago and was already dry. But the yields from that wood was much lower than I had expected and demand for the wood was much more than I expected

The wood that I acquired for the balance of the order has been here for a while. It is continuing to lose weight which means it's not ready to be made into scales yet. (Moisture meters don't work well on wood this hard, so we use a precision laboratory scale to monitor weight loss over time which is a good indicator of when the wood is ready. When the weight starts to oscillate, meaning sometimes it puts on weight, it's ready)

We cut it up into smaller scale size pieces a couple months ago to speed the process, but there's really only so much I can do.

This means the majority of the wood for the scales is not going to be ready to be made into scales until after the turn of the year. Unfortunately.

Since all of the swords come with TT scales, we can go ahead and ship everyone's swords and ship the wooden scales later. That's an option.

However if a person would prefer to wait until their wooden scales are ready and have their sword assembled with the wood scales, that is also an option. We are going to need to communicate with people individually and determine their preference.

I apologize for this oversight. I miscalculated.

 

[M67]

These look amazing. Really wish I wouldn’t have dragged on the pre order now. Congrats to the guys that scored

 

[Blues]

Magnificent blades, guys. Really seem to capture the spirit.

And massive kudos to the CPK team.

My envy is far surpassed by how happy I am for all of you.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Yeah, these really turned out really well. After the difficulties with the K18, I was afraid doing a long skinny blade like this with our heat treat process but we did some development work with Peters with the fixturing and have developed a process for keeping these straight.

Machining the K18 was a real bear, fixturing a complex multi-sided piece like this and getting everything just right is tricky.

I really exceeded my own expectations on this one. It's such a relief these turned out so well, I'm very proud of our accomplishment with this one. Some of our finest work.