The Mini Marlin turned out to be one of the most deceptive and difficult projects I’ve ever worked on — and I think it fooled everyone, including the factories.
A lot of factories prefer fixed blades because they’re much easier to make than folders. The factories I work with kept encouraging me to design more fixed blades, so I came up with the Mini Marlin. They were excited to produce it, and I assumed it would be a quick, straightforward project.
I was wrong.
The blade design — with a hollow grind on the front and a flat grind on the back — turned out to be extremely difficult. Getting clean, consistent grind lines was a major challenge. One entire batch was completely scrapped. The factory even asked to charge me double the original quote. What was supposed to take three months ended up taking a full year.
Another factory thought the issues were just due to poor execution and wanted to try making it themselves — but they eventually gave up too. The original factory no longer wants to produce it again.
So this batch may be the only Mini Marlin run ever made.
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Great craftsmanship…great packaging..highly recommend
Awesome Knife, I love the shape of the blade. Very sharp, fits my hand well, well balanced. I’m looking forward to the next drop.
It came sharp and had two options to mount the sheath
Good quality knife and even better value!