Maine primitive skills survival school Knife ESK knife

$240.00 shipped with in the U.S. Bulistic Nylon sheath add $24.95

Just what came into play with the ESK ? The ESK ( Extreme Survival Knife) was wanted and helped in design by the Maine Primitive skills school in Augusta Maine www.primitiveskills.com Nothing is on the market that incorporates what is needed by the survivalist is better offered. With Dan Grays 30+ years of knife making skills tool and die back ground in a heat treating plant and 20 years of being a servicing dealer for Stihl and Jonsered Chain saws particularly here, the interest of Chain saw chain and sharpening all come together in a tool that can be used. With no hype, no Movies to ignite a frenzy of buying just because a star used it on screen, The ESK is a proven survival knife first, then sold. Built into the ESK, Are many things that mass manufactures can not take the time to do solely because of cost of time spent on them. The ESK is outsourced only for water jetting the profile only to keep the price down and to be sure they will be uniform, the rest is in house hand made and heat treated by Dan Gray to make sure each process will be done right. OL is 11 1/8" blade cutting edge is 6" blade width is just under 1 1/2" Flat ground surface 1 1/4" to with-in 1/4" of the spine 5/32" 1095 steel , ( there is no over whelming need in this world to carry the weight of a 1/4" blade) 7 Chain saw style teeth are set so the body of the knife will clear the Kerfs made by them, to keep the knife from binding, ( most saw teeth on knives are not set hence your binding problems ) the 8th tooth near the thumb ramp is not set and is used to ring poles for use of tenting and such. chain saw style teeth can filed with a standard 5/32" round chain saw file at OxO angles with 20 % of file over top plate. the Rockwell will be at just about 55 on the C scale for better chopping and bending with the thinner blade The replaceable Canvas Micarta handles are bead blasted for extra grip and have incorporated in them a bow socket for fire making. The extended end is a 90 sharp edged tool in it self for scraping skins, and pounding the knife into something or you could call it a skull crusher. And last but not least, the lashing holes are for making a spear, just remove the handles and lash to a pole with your boot laces or Para cord.. This knife was not finished to be pretty, but finished to keep the price down and made to be usable..

An email From one of the owners of a ESK ----- Original Message ----- From: jason.richmond To: dangray@knivesby.com Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:11 PM Subject: Re: survival school ESK knife Dan, I have the ESK knife in my hand. Used it yesterday to saw thru a 2" thick green pine branch, a kiln dried fir 2x4 and make some fuzz sticks from dried alder branches. Saw is slow but works better than any other fixed blade saw I have used. I have beck, linger and terrel WSK's and your saw is better. The blade geometry is great for real wood work. Handle is comfortable in all positions and secure when using the saw. I like the spear point blade and the extended tang. The design is a winner. Thanks much, Jason Richmond ----- Original Message ----- From: dangray@knivesby.com To: jason.richmond Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:50 PM Subject: Re: survival school ESK knife Thanks Jason I'm glad to hear that..and in green pine, if that won't bind it up nothing will, Cool ! I'm getting all good reports from the ESK owners. Keep in mind the saw teeth on the ESK I filed with a special flat grind file used mostly by the pro's in chain saw racing and pro loggers that look for a safer chain on regular pro chain.. On a chain saw filed this way the chain will not kick back and the drag is less letting the RPMs stay higher thus cutting more wood.. in the case of these knives filed this way, it cuts down on the aggressiveness but will still cut well.. though a little slower ( lack of RPM's if you will ) Mal mentioned that the prototype was very aggressive being round filed so this was the main fix, though Mike at the school didn't mind the aggressiveness of the prototype, so filing the teeth this way would satisfy both wants with out having two types of tooth configurations. To cut faster but be more aggressive you'll just need to file the teeth with a regular 5/32" chain saw round file , if you do, just make sure you keep about 20% of the file above the top plate while filing, same as filing a saw chain but keeping the angles at 90% Or you could send it back to me for re-sharpening when needed, to be filed either way you want it .. just pay for the return shipping is all I ask .. keep me posted on it.. and Thanks for the email.. Dan ...Thanks...Dan _________________ *send Snail Mail to* Gray Knives, Gray ink 686 Main Road Brownville Me. 04414 Phone 1-207-965-2191 www.kynd.com/~graydg/kniveslist4.html

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