Sam Cade
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Hyde Tools offers a large variety of knives and other assorted tools targeted toward the industrial consumer.
Hyde Tools is an offshoot of Dexter-Russell and many of their items are simply re-badged, however, there are a few knives sold under the Hyde marquee that do not appear in the standard Dexter-Russel catalog.
Most interesting among them is the Hyde 514.
14" flat ground blade.
The absolute worst palletwood scales I have ever seen in my life.
Blade polished to a wobbly mirror finish.
Thin stamped steel guard.
Being Dexter produced we can safely assume that the blade is 1095 with nominal Rc being 55-56 and well heat treated.
http://www.amazon.com/Hyde-68180-14...=UTF8&qid=1372206768&sr=8-1&keywords=hyde+514
I notice that Amazon has sold their last remaining 514 after it was mentioned in a thread yesterday. Go THR!
One of the THR family sent the above pictured 514 to me for a bit of a tune up.
Step one is to drill the compression rivets and ditch the scales.
Easily done.
See the notch?
That is where the guard indexes.
I grind the spine side of the tang down flush with that notch so that we can have a little more meat on our faux-carta grip without it being too large. Probably was a stress riser anyway.
Hmmmm.... End of the tang is a bit warped. I wonder if it is from heat treat or is an artifact of the stamping on the blank? Ah well no matter but good to know.
Raided the parts bin for some wee nuts and bolts.
Cleaned and scuffed the tang, cut out a template so I will know when to say when.
I then gird my loins and begin the wrapping process to the dulcet sounds of Die Antwoord's paen to young love, Cookie Thumper.
Hyde Tools is an offshoot of Dexter-Russell and many of their items are simply re-badged, however, there are a few knives sold under the Hyde marquee that do not appear in the standard Dexter-Russel catalog.
Most interesting among them is the Hyde 514.
14" flat ground blade.
The absolute worst palletwood scales I have ever seen in my life.
Blade polished to a wobbly mirror finish.
Thin stamped steel guard.
Being Dexter produced we can safely assume that the blade is 1095 with nominal Rc being 55-56 and well heat treated.
http://www.amazon.com/Hyde-68180-14...=UTF8&qid=1372206768&sr=8-1&keywords=hyde+514
I notice that Amazon has sold their last remaining 514 after it was mentioned in a thread yesterday. Go THR!
One of the THR family sent the above pictured 514 to me for a bit of a tune up.
Step one is to drill the compression rivets and ditch the scales.
Easily done.
See the notch?
That is where the guard indexes.
I grind the spine side of the tang down flush with that notch so that we can have a little more meat on our faux-carta grip without it being too large. Probably was a stress riser anyway.
Hmmmm.... End of the tang is a bit warped. I wonder if it is from heat treat or is an artifact of the stamping on the blank? Ah well no matter but good to know.
Raided the parts bin for some wee nuts and bolts.
Cleaned and scuffed the tang, cut out a template so I will know when to say when.
I then gird my loins and begin the wrapping process to the dulcet sounds of Die Antwoord's paen to young love, Cookie Thumper.