Gahagan Customs is owned by Kyle Gahagan an ABS Journeyman Smith, US Army Veteran, and lifelong outdoorsman. Gahagan’s ardour for knife making took root in his youth the place he would form numerous supplies into practical instruments and started to coach with knife makers to hone his expertise. Years later after serving in Afghanistan and Iraq with the US Army’s 1st Ranger Battalion Gahagan settled in North Carolina along with his spouse and rekindled his knife making passion in his storage. What began as a passion turned a full-time enterprise that’s Gahagan Customs. Along with operating his personal knife enterprise, Gahagan based Resilience Forge, a corporation that helps present group and a way of function for Veterans by studying the abilities to form metallic into practical instruments.
Gahagan’s mounted blade designs are versatile masking compact on a regular basis carry designs, sturdy outside knives, and practical tactical knives. No matter which fashion you’re searching for Gahagan’s life expertise and fervour for considerate and practical designs is clear in each knife he makes. Gahagan design ethos is centered in making knives that fist a selected want or solves an issue the particular person carrying it might have – Gahagan’s Warrior Edge Sequence is a definitive product of his design beliefs. The Warrior Edge Sequence at present has three fashions with widespread design components.
Floor Department Tactical Knife
Gahagan designed The Floor Department Tactical Knife (GBT) in collaboration with Jospeh Teti a Particular Operations Veteran with over 20 years {of professional} expertise. One have a look at the GBT and it’s evident that this knife was designed as a practical tactical knife for army and legislation enforcement use. The GBT is available in at 10 inches over all with 4.76-inch blade discovering practical in-between dimension a compact EDC knife and a full-sized area knife. Although smaller and lighter when in comparison with a typical area knife the GBT packs most of the similar fight and utility options present in its bigger counter components.
The GBT is constructed from a single piece of .16-inch 80CRV2 excessive carbon metal making certain sturdiness in exhausting use or excessive stress duties. The blade gives loads of practical innovative and the blade tip and prime swedge guarantee optimum piercing efficiency. The highest of the blade gives a serrated portion that can be utilized to chop by fibrous supplies together with rope and seatbelts if wanted. Behind the serrated space is a pleasant sized “thumb ramp” that can be utilized to offer management when performing extra detailed duties. The rear portion of the blade gives guards on each the highest and the underside to make sure your hand isn’t by chance slipping onto the blade throughout use.
The deal with is contoured and options textured micarta handles making certain sturdiness and grip even when moist. The rear of the hand gives a textured placing space that doubles as a retention level in some grip types. The contoured deal with feels good within the hand with or with out gloves.
The kydex sheath has wonderful retention however offers a clean draw. The sheath gives a textured space that permits you to push your thumb down on making blade draw simpler and serves as a reminder that that’s the prime of the blade, so you understand precisely the place your edge is when unsheathing the knife. The Sheath is configured to just accept quite a few attachment level choices that enable versatility in carry fashion.
Spec Sheet
- Total Size: 10″
- Blade Size: 4.76″
- Blade Thickness: .16″
- Total Weight: 6.49 oz
- Blade Metal: 80CRV2
- Deal with Materials: Canvas Micarta
- Sheath: Black Retention Sheath
- Manufactured: Made within the USA
Fight Functions Group Knife
The Fight Functions Group Knife retains most of the options that make the GBT shine with some distinctive design adjustments. The CAG is available in at 10.5 inches general and incorporates a 5 3/8th inch Wharncliffe blade.
Wharncliffe fashion blades present a straight innovative and a advantageous tip. The Wharncliffe advantageous tip permits for extra exact slicing in detailed purposes and has wonderful piercing capabilities. The sloping of the Wharncliffe blade offers some tip reinforcement mixed with powerful 80CRV2 metal makes it sturdy for tactical purposes. The straight fringe of the Wharncliffe will not be supreme for angled slicing duties or processing recreation, it does carry out very properly for slicing, carving, and slicing on flat surfaces. The straight edge can also be simpler to sharpen in comparison with blades with a outstanding stomach.
Along with the longer Wharncliffe blade the CAG additionally gives a number of extra deal with materials choices together with quite a lot of micarta and G10 colours. Just like the GBT, the CAB knife has serrations on the backbone, blade guards, textured placing floor on the deal with, and a flexible kydex sheath.
Spec Sheet
- Total Size: 10.5″
- Blade Size: 5 3/8″
- Blade Thickness: .165″
- Total Weight: 6.5 oz
- Blade Metal: 80CRV2
- Deal with Materials: Canvas Micarta or G10
- Sheath: Black Retention Sheath
- Manufactured: Made within the USA
Regimental Reconnaissance Firm Knife
The Regimental Reconnaissance Firm Knife (RCC) is available in on the similar general dimension because the GBT knife at 10 inches general – the foremost distinction is the RCC’s 5-inch tanto blade. The tanto offers an extremely sturdy tip for piercing duties and a robust angular blade. Tanto-style blades are nearly solely used on tactical knives for his or her sturdiness. Past fight purposes Tanto blades can present a bunch of utility features. Tanto’s carry out properly in scraping and digging duties. The strengthened tip can pierce exhausting or dense supplies whereas lowering the probability of main blade harm this could embrace cans and automotive doorways. The secondary edge is useful intimately work and just like the Wharncliffe tanto’s carry out properly in flat floor slicing. Greatest practices will let you know to not use a knife as a pry bar, however in a pinch, I’d use a tanto blade over different blade types. The Tanto blade angles are additionally straightforward to sharpen within the area.
All the advantages to the tanto’s blade fashion are additional enhanced by Gahagan’s use of powerful 80CRV2 metal. Like the opposite knives within the Warriors Edge sequence the RCC has the blade guards, textured strike floor, textured deal with scales, partially serrated backbone, and versatile sheath.
Spec Sheet
- Total Size: 10″
- Blade Size: 5″
- Blade Thickness: .165″
- Total Weight: 6.62 oz
- Blade Metal: 80CRV2
- Deal with Materials: Canvas Micarta or G10
- Sheath: Black Retention Sheath
- Manufactured: Made within the USA
Last Ideas
Gahagan’s Warriors Edge sequence gives the flexibility of a full-sized tactical area knife in a neater to hold package deal. Starting from 10 to 10.5 general inches, none of those knives will be thought-about small however their slim design makes them simpler to hide if wanted. The thick blade inventory, sturdy 80CRV2 metal, and properly thought function set offers sufficient performance to make any knife if the Warriors Edge sequence a wonderful addition to your chest rig or plate service.
Every mannequin within the sequence has its deserves and choosing the proper one for you really is dependent upon how you propose to make use of it. The GBT is probably going your best option for somebody searching for a bigger EDC mounted blade that can be utilized within the widest number of conditions. The CAG’s added half inch actually makes the knife really feel a lot bigger and is an effective choice if you’re searching for one thing that’s closing in on the full-sized vary. If exhausting use sturdiness is what you’re searching for the RCC and its sturdy tanto blade fashion might be a great choice.
Regardless of which knife within the Warriors Edge Sequence you find yourself selecting you should have a flexible and sturdy device designed by individuals who have seen among the world’s harshest and most hostile environments – and these knives are constructed to get by it!
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