1eyefishing
...just joking, seriously.
This past early fall, I lost (or hopefully misplaced) my 2nd Benchmade in about 4 yrs. It stung like losing an expensive pair of sunglasses and I decided to swamp myself with cheaper knives for my convenience instead of putting all my eggs into one expensive basket.
I bought SOG Flash AT, a couple Gerbers (a second Air Ranger and an Evo Jr.), a Camillus, and a $60 Chinese made Spyderco Emphasis. The Flash and the Emphasis were the most expensive at about $80 and $60...
The Emphasis's easy to use ergonomics and the edge that the entry level 8Cr13Mov steel took was beyond anything I'd imagined for the money. The knife would flick open with ease by using your thumb in the hole like you were flipping a coin. It would then drop shut without anything touching the blade (except gravity) to the point where it would hit your thumb that was depressing the liner lock. It would be sharp enough to damage your thumb there, except for the fact that the finger choil in the back under side of the blade falls exactly where the liner lock is. So I let it drop till it touches my thumb and then use the same thumb to finish closing the knife...
Soon I began to wonder if I could get a knife this good for 60 bucks. What on earth could I get even better for a little more $$$ ?
I fell into the Spyderco hole. And I was right back to $150-$200 knives.
So just like when I fell into the reloading hole, I did not save any money. I just had 10+ times more ammunition with the same $$$.
Turns out that Spydrrco is a very bold company that is not afraid to experiment with all sorts of top end knife steels on their plethora of solid models.
Their probable most popular model would be the Paramilitary 2 that has been released in over 70 different versions with different knife steals handle materials and liners/no liners etc. It is very user serviceable and easy to modify with the ton of after market parts and scales (handles) made for it. You could probably take a look at dozens of peoples' PM2s and never see the same thing twice.
So I bought one of those and it has been off to the races but more about those later
I've never been into daggerish/fighting type knives but if thats what you EDC, then lets see them.
Personally, I am more into the kind of knives than the southern sportsman would have in his pocket or the woods or in camp or on the trail at any given time.
I love some fixed blade EDC and skinning knives and bushcraft knives also.
It took me a lot of reading and rereading to actually get the feel of what is going on with today's top end knife steels, and I've fallen into that hole too.
There are even some steels beyond my level of interest that won't be found on a under $400.
But smokem if ya gottem...
Also very interested in sharpening techniques and their applications. I do most of my homeowner/novice level sharpening on ceramic rods, but am starting to experiment with diamond plates, stones to a lesser extent, and stropping.
Here is the Emphasis (the largest of 3 models that based on eacher) that started this ball rooling for me...
For $60 I was super impressed...
Whatcha got?
I bought SOG Flash AT, a couple Gerbers (a second Air Ranger and an Evo Jr.), a Camillus, and a $60 Chinese made Spyderco Emphasis. The Flash and the Emphasis were the most expensive at about $80 and $60...
The Emphasis's easy to use ergonomics and the edge that the entry level 8Cr13Mov steel took was beyond anything I'd imagined for the money. The knife would flick open with ease by using your thumb in the hole like you were flipping a coin. It would then drop shut without anything touching the blade (except gravity) to the point where it would hit your thumb that was depressing the liner lock. It would be sharp enough to damage your thumb there, except for the fact that the finger choil in the back under side of the blade falls exactly where the liner lock is. So I let it drop till it touches my thumb and then use the same thumb to finish closing the knife...
Soon I began to wonder if I could get a knife this good for 60 bucks. What on earth could I get even better for a little more $$$ ?
I fell into the Spyderco hole. And I was right back to $150-$200 knives.
So just like when I fell into the reloading hole, I did not save any money. I just had 10+ times more ammunition with the same $$$.
Turns out that Spydrrco is a very bold company that is not afraid to experiment with all sorts of top end knife steels on their plethora of solid models.
Their probable most popular model would be the Paramilitary 2 that has been released in over 70 different versions with different knife steals handle materials and liners/no liners etc. It is very user serviceable and easy to modify with the ton of after market parts and scales (handles) made for it. You could probably take a look at dozens of peoples' PM2s and never see the same thing twice.
So I bought one of those and it has been off to the races but more about those later
I've never been into daggerish/fighting type knives but if thats what you EDC, then lets see them.
Personally, I am more into the kind of knives than the southern sportsman would have in his pocket or the woods or in camp or on the trail at any given time.
I love some fixed blade EDC and skinning knives and bushcraft knives also.
It took me a lot of reading and rereading to actually get the feel of what is going on with today's top end knife steels, and I've fallen into that hole too.
There are even some steels beyond my level of interest that won't be found on a under $400.
But smokem if ya gottem...
Also very interested in sharpening techniques and their applications. I do most of my homeowner/novice level sharpening on ceramic rods, but am starting to experiment with diamond plates, stones to a lesser extent, and stropping.
Here is the Emphasis (the largest of 3 models that based on eacher) that started this ball rooling for me...
For $60 I was super impressed...
Whatcha got?
