NASA Knife In 1999, NASA contracted Emerson to build a knife for use on Space Shuttle missions and the International Space Station. Rather than design a new model from scratch, NASA chose an existing model which already met their specifications, with one additional design requirement. The model is a folding...
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Emerson's St. Patrick's Irish Knives We bring to you our annual offering of custom, limited edition, handcrafted, Emerson Lucky Irish St. Patrick's Day Knives collection, available only while supplies last. The Festival of St. Patrick's Day on March 17th is celebrated the world over by both Irish and non-Irish alike...
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Why do some love it and some not so much? I'll give you my best analysis of what I've come to understand about it over the years. The first and most obvious thing people would mention when they saw a CQC-7 for the first time was, "Wow, that's different." Well,...
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In the last installment we discussed the Design Concepts behind the design of the CQC-7 Model. So now let’s get on with the mechanics of the CQC-7 Knife Blade Design. One of the requirements of the blade was that it needed to penetrate Kevlar and soft body armor. Being quite...
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Why it is the way it is. Well, let's start with this. First off, the CQC-7 is a knife, nothing more. Simply, it had to do everything a knife must do. It has to cut, slice, chop, and stab. It had to be a size that will fit in your...
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It all started like this. First there was the CQC-6, and then there was the CQC-7. In fact, if I had not developed the CQC-6 model, there would never have been the CQC-7. And I'm not just talking about the numerical sequence. I had developed the CQC-6 knife at the request...
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