{"id":181,"date":"2011-05-20T19:16:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T00:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/titaniumworx.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2011-06-25T22:02:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T03:02:30","slug":"peter-atwood-atwoodknives-blogspot-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Peter Atwood (AtwoodKnives.blogspot.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Atwood makes great little tools out of premium cutlery steel and Titanium.  I have been fortunate to obtain a small handful of his wares.  I think my favorite is the &#8220;Prybaby&#8221;&#8230;I have one that was made quite a few years ago that has a spanner cut into it to adjust Strider folding knife pivots.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_184\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/atwoods21.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/atwoods21.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/atwoods21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"atwoods2\" width=\"750\" height=\"365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/atwoods21.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/atwoods21-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right - Atwood Nibble, PerfBaby, and SpannerBaby<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He also makes really cool machined beads (&#8220;Lanslides&#8221;)&#8230;I have one in Teflon and one in Titanium.  Sure wish I could get some more.  They work great for lanyards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_219\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lanslide.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lanslide.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lanslide.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lanslide\" width=\"696\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lanslide.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lanslide-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teflon Lanslide, Titanium green Lanslide, and a third bead by another maker<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_186\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dlcwildcard3.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dlcwildcard3.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dlcwildcard3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dlcwildcard3\" width=\"750\" height=\"260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dlcwildcard3.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dlcwildcard3-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atwood DLC WildCard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His latest item is called the &#8216;Roid Rench&#8230;it is a Prybaby made of almost 1\/4&#8243; thick stock!  They are huge!  My other one is made of about 3\/16&#8243; stock and the difference is huge&#8230;also, the steel he used on these new ones is CPM 3V and MUCH tougher than previous steels due to the heat treatment he did with these (Rockwell 57-59).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_217\" style=\"width: 1347px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_1.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"g3vsg5_1\" width=\"1337\" height=\"581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_1.jpg 1337w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_1-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_1-1024x444.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1337px) 100vw, 1337px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">G3 PryBaby atop a G5 &quot;Roid Rench&quot; version for thickness comparison<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_218\" style=\"width: 1599px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_2.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"g3vsg5_2\" width=\"1589\" height=\"729\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_2.jpg 1589w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_2-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/g3vsg5_2-1024x469.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1589px) 100vw, 1589px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">G5 &quot;Roid Rench&quot;, top...G3 PryBaby, bottom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anyway, great stuff from a gentleman.  He is a pleasure to deal with and has all sorts of great ideas.  I admire him for his ability to create these items from his ideas.  Here are some pics of items I have or have had in the past:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_189\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ringleader2.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ringleader2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-189\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ringleader2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ringleader2\" width=\"750\" height=\"459\" class=\"size-full wp-image-189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ringleader2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ringleader2-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atwood RingLeader<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_188\" style=\"width: 532px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sopt1.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sopt1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sopt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sopt1\" width=\"522\" height=\"275\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sopt1.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sopt1-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atwood Son of PryThing (SOPT)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_187\" style=\"width: 363px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/msopt2.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/msopt2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/msopt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"msopt2\" width=\"353\" height=\"279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/msopt2.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/msopt2-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atwood Mini Son of PryThing (DLC coated)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_185\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bigshotproto11.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bigshotproto11.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bigshotproto11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bigshotproto1\" width=\"565\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bigshotproto11.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.titaniumworx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bigshotproto11-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atwood Big Shot prototype (Yes, it is mine...no, it is not for sale.)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Atwood makes great little tools out of premium cutlery steel and Titanium. I have been fortunate to obtain a small handful of his wares. I think my favorite is the &#8220;Prybaby&#8221;&#8230;I have one that was made quite a few years ago that has a spanner cut into it to adjust Strider folding knife pivots. 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