Capt.

Brass double hilt, brass/black spacers, leather handle, brass butt cap, SS for the blade.

Regards,

Tom Flynn

Capt. Chris,

Commando shaped handle
Scalloped brass collar
Flanged scalloped brass butt cap
Brass FCH
Either stainless or 01

Thanks for these builds!

Here's one like was described above. 7" BM concave handle, all brass jewelry.

SS, FCNSH, NS butt.

In the spirit of providing more ideas via photos, here's a quick and not-so-good photo of my first #2, a #2-8", that I received on Friday:



The options are as follows: stainless steel, nickel silver hilt, aluminum/black spacers, Ivorite handle, and nickel silver butt cap (radiused). I also specified a black no-hone sheath.

I like what Ken just posted with a few changes:
stainless steel, nickel silver hilt, aluminum/red spacers, black handle (micarta or black/dark exotic wood), and nickel silver butt cap (radiused). Black no-hone sheath if micarta used or dark brown if dark brown wood used. My .02.

These are all great knives being shown, but it seems to me we are getting a long ways from Capt Chris's original idea of these 1-28 builds. I thought the intent was for pretty close to catalog, with one or two improvements. Feel free to set me straight if I got the wrong idea.

I'm with Chad. Make it like the catalog and just add a wrist thong.

Cliff Lacey
RKS# 023

Chad, Cliff and the rest of this crew:
Yes: Simple, very similar to the catalog except a "slight" amount of option offered. The first Model #1 had a brass butt cap to match the hilt. Carbon steel is the standard material in the catalog and, to start a collection (aka "Starter Set") not a bad choice.
Having said that, a forward curved double hilt on a model #2 seems doable. A nickel silver hilt to match the duralumin butt cap, a wrist thong..."SOME" small change like "SOME" (but not "ALL") of the above-mentioned things mentioned here is not out of the question. Let's "KISS" folks!
My original intent was offer some "mini-builds" to get new members and folks who have not received catalog-type knives a chance to pick some up in short order. I also wanted to keep the price down. It is quite easy to get carried away with a 5 chargeable option limit. Think about this: Standard catalog Randall knives are quite impressive on their own!!
Best, Capt. Chris

Capt. Chris,

As we all know, we can close our eyes, throw a dart at a Randall catalog and hit a perfect knife every time.
I started out with the build perameters in my mind--including your leather handle and 7" instructions and then.......got a little carried away as I read others' ideas.
Brass hilt seemed a given, so why not FCH and then black/brass spacers morphed into "scalloped brass collar" which then turned into...matching scalloped and flanged brass butt cap.

So, meanwhile, back to the intent of the original build how about:
Carbon blade
N/S hilt to match up with standard duralumin butt cap
Wrist thong

A difference of approx. $35 vs the land of approx. $125 extra or so where I was heading. (Yes, I know my math is probably not exactly accurate but, who cares?).Sounds like a great Randall!

Thanks for more great, interesting builds!