Changing clothes on the Archangel

[mav]

A while back I acquired my grail knife, a double-Ti bolstered Todd Fischer Archangel XL in S90V with a skull crusher backspacer.  I loved the knife, but I was never all that wild about the sheep horn scales that were on it.  It just so happened that one of the scales started to bow a little and I could see a small amount of separation between the scale and liner, which was killing me.

 

 

Sheep horn is a natural material, so it can shrink, expand, etc... with a change in weather and humidity.  It is an easy repair with a little heat and soak in oil, but since I didn't care for the scales anyway I opted for a replacement material.

 

I had originally spoke to Todd about some moku-ti scales, which would have been badass, but he talked me out of it.  While they would have looked great, the moku-ti scales would have just added too much weight and would have been way too expensive. I guess the moku-ti would have also pushed the knife more towards a legacy/presentation knife than a user, which is not what I want (no safe queens),

 

We finally settled on silver lightning strike carbon fiber, and that turned out to be an excellent choice.  I received my knife back today, and it is just down right mean with the new scales.  Here are some pics.

 

 

 

 

How about this for some absolute rock solid early lockup?

 

 

 

 

 

[Grand Torino]

That's a beautiful knife....great choice on the scales. Congratulations. :up:

[willis68]

If you ever want to sell it, I'm your man, remember that!

 

Awesome knife and it looks a hell of a lot better with the carbon fiber, 

[mav]

Awesome knife and it looks a hell of a lot better with the carbon fiber, 

 

I agree 100%.  I did not like the sheep horn at all.  The only reason I bought it with the original scales is because it was available, I could get it at a good price, and I wanted one of his knives badly.  He has a 3-4 year backlog, and a XL version, especially double bolstered, rarely comes up for sale.  One with a S90V blade?  Hmmm.., never.  Ever now and then he will auction one off on Instagram, and they will get even more expensive.  The last one he did was a double bolstered 4" model with a damascus blade.  It went for $3300.

 

I think he is gonna do another one this month with a san mai blade and moku-ti bolsters.  I can't even possibly imagine what that one is gonna bring.

[hipower]

May I just say... that is freaking beautiful!!!

I am in awe of it. I won't even ask, I'll just try to google some info on it and crawl back into my little cave and sulk.


EDIT OK, I looked. Wow. Out of my league. Totally and completely. Edited November 7, 2014 by hipower

[hipower]

Mav, thanks for the pm info.

These are awesome blades. Some of the most beautiful I have ever seen. Granted, I'm not big into blades, but I do know what is good, and what I like.

This covers both very well.

[Major Kong]

That is bad ass. If you want to sell it I'll give you $5 more than Steve offers for it :)

[willis68]

That is bad ass. If you want to sell it I'll give you $5 more than Steve offers for it :)

 

 

You can take it Fred, I just spoke with the maker about making me a similar one in double action!

[tnhawk]

Congrats on a very nice knife!