Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Steel Mini P15 Prybabies

Hi Everyone,

It's a gray and gloomy day here in New England. The air has that raw feeling this morning, the kind of weather that makes you want to curl up with a good book and a hot drink, although no amount of coffee will completely wake you up. But alas, looks like I'll be working instead...

I'm making steady headway on projects. Brand new bronze beads are on deck followed shortly thereafter by stainless GripCoins and then new titanium beads. The new HangMan tool is underway too and hopefully I can get the milling and finish grinding done before too long.

Today I have CPM 154 Steel Mini P15 Prybabies done. These are the SAE version and are identical in size to the earlier titanium ones released this year, but they are the "normal" .160 (5/32) in thickness. Still, they have a satisfying heft in the hand and maintain a slim and unobtrusive profile on your key ring.

The finish on these minis is a little different than usual. For these tools, the back side of the sheet had many scratches but the front side had a pleasing light raw bar texture. So rather than surface grind both sides I decided to give this batch a sort of Jekyll and Hyde two tone effect. Front side is light raw bar and back side is surface ground and stonewashed. Kind of fun!

This whole batch is fairly uniform. No stamps, no extra grinds, nothing unusual with these. A couple have raw bar on both sides, a couple are surface ground on both sides.  

The steel Mini P15 Prybabies will be $65 plus shipping and the link is below. Once again, smallish batch so it will be one per customer on them. Thanks for stopping by folks, and may your week shape up to be a great one!

These are gone for today, thanks so much everyone!




7 comments:

Unknown said...

Merry Christmas to me!

H. Shepherd said...

awesome, I like mini's -- I would appreciate same ground on both sides. :-)

Anonymous said...

Glad I caught the sale. Thank you Peter.

elphant888 said...

@ H.Shepherd - I like minis too, but I'm really hoping for raw on both sides of mine!

Dennis said...

I was on the microscope photographing my GripCoin and missed the sale! Arghhhh! Anyhow, photos coming on ToolBook!

Unknown said...

Made my year, I finally score one off a blog link, happy Christmas everyone

H. Shepherd said...

@elephant888 - now I've received a mixed, raw bar and back side surface ground, however: it is just gorgeous!