Leucadia Blade Co The LandShark - 3.5" MagnaCut Drop Point, Black DLC, Mexican Blanket GCarta, Leather Sheath - Made in USA (LBC-LANDSHARK-MEXBLANKET-DLC)

MagnaCut run at 63 to 64 HRC, blacked out, on a heat treat the inventor of the steel wrote himself.

The LandShark is a 3.5 inch drop point fixed blade from Leucadia Blade Co, built in collaboration with Pro-Tech. This one wears Mexican Blanket GCarta scales with a black DLC blade and a handmade leather sheath.

Specifications

• Brand: Leucadia Blade Co
• Model: The LandShark
• Blade Length: 3.5"
• Overall Length: 8"
• Blade Steel: CPM MagnaCut
• Hardness: 63-64 HRC
• Blade Style: Drop point
• Blade Finish: Black DLC
• Spine Thickness: 0.125"
• Handle: Mexican Blanket GCarta, contoured
• Sheath: Handmade leather
• Weight: 4 oz knife, 6 oz with sheath
• Features: Deep finger choil
• Country of Origin: Made in USA

63 to 64 HRC Is the Headline

Most production MagnaCut runs 60 to 62. This runs 63 to 64, and the heat treat protocol was developed by Larrin Thomas, the metallurgist who invented MagnaCut.

Harder steel holds an edge longer and is usually more brittle for it. MagnaCut was designed specifically to tolerate that trade better than the steels before it, so taking it to 63 is using the steel for what it was built to do rather than pushing it past where it wants to be.

Why the DLC Costs More

DLC is diamond like carbon, applied in a vacuum chamber rather than sprayed. It is harder than the steel underneath it and it is the most abrasion resistant blade coating in common use, which is why it carries a premium over stonewash on the same knife.

On a fixed blade that lives in a leather sheath, the other argument is corrosion. MagnaCut already resists it. DLC puts a second barrier over the top.

Two Shops, One Knife

Pro-Tech grinds the blades in Placentia, California. Leucadia does everything after that, the handles, the finishing, and the sheaths.

That split is the whole reason this knife is what it is. You get blade work out of a shop that has been doing this at volume for decades, on a knife that is still finished by the two people whose name is on it. Almost all of it happens in California.

The Finger Choil

There is a deep choil behind the edge. On a four ounce knife with a 3.5 inch blade, that is what lets you choke up for detail work without your finger riding on a sharpened edge.

Mexican Blanket GCarta

GCarta is a layered composite rather than a solid slab, so the pattern you see is the machining cutting down through stacked layers. Mexican Blanket is the warm multi color version, and against a blacked out blade it is the only color on the knife.

The Sheath

Leather, made by hand. A four ounce knife in a leather sheath carries like something you forget about, which is most of the argument for a fixed blade this size.

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