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Well I carried my K294 mule in Moab and Arches National Park for the first week of April and didn’t notice the sheath damage till a couple of days ago. Can’t carry a gun in National parks so I carried my mule in its place on my gun belt. Well apparently the rock scrambling and sitting down (sheath ...

Neat! I have heard mostly good things about the Tormek, I expect it can really speed things up. I have been sharpening a lot of kitchen knives lately, but I do it all free hand, so things can be a little slow depending on what I am doing. There can be some inconsistency with freehanding too, althoug...

If the Bow River had been made in the U.S., it would have been something I'd have a hard time resisting, but I have a feeling part of the reason it is so successful is because of it's low price tag as a result of being made in China. To me though, it would be an awesome knife if it was made in Golde...

It certainly seems like trying to judge the average intelligence of any given generation has never made us much smarter.

Here are the specs on my custom: It is 225mm long, 52mm tall, about 3.2mm at the spine, with 80crV2 carbon steel at 62hrc. The profile is basically a taller, longer version of a Kurosaki Raijin, the grind is a high full convex, and the handle is an octagonal sandwich construction with reddish wood l...

This is my current go-to, a bit of a splurge knife. I didn't really need something this fancy, but I really appreciate American hand made knives, so I had this made custom. I like custom knives so much I plan on getting more in the future, but that will have to wait until I work up the budget for it...

If you can just sandpaper it, I'd just do that and call it good. Probably easier than bothering to mail it out. I took apart my Endura, cut down the first finger bump, and chamfered the inside edges of the handle scales. Now it feels exactly how I want and I didn't have to send it anywhere and wonde...

Skimming this I am surprised that it seems well informed. None of the info is new to me after having done a deep dive into culinary cutlery about two years ago, but it is quite nice to see an article that is much more educated than what you usually see. All of the knives mentioned are ones that are ...

Well, I have no problem if that's your opinion, I just can't pretend something that happened, didn't happen after all because "youtube wouldn't do it."

OK, in simplest terms my instructors got banned for posting gunsmithing videos. This was either intentional or totally arbitrary. Either way it happened, and I'm sure anyone here can infer what they will from that. Or you can assume I'm making it up, which is up to each person's discretion of course.

And that doesn't mean my instructors didn't get banned.

Watching tanks blow stuff up doesn't teach people how to maintain the tools that we use for defence. Being able to do your own work on firearms to keep them in working order does. They don't care if you are watching useless content.

Maybe it just wasn't a Spyderco? That could make sense of it.

My gunsmithing instructors had their content banned from youtube, so stuff like this is nothing new to me. And no it is not because they were promoting violent or stupid behavior, they are some of the best instructors in the world. It is really just a continued effort at an anti-weapon agenda, that ...

You both may be right. I see it as an indicator of the insanity in which we are forced to live. Here, knives are verboten. Yeah, knife laws, obviously bad, but this decision makes sense as far as Victorinox is concerned. I imagine even if the U.S. was the last customer standing for bladed models, t...

I guess I'm gen X, but I seem to only get along with people who are 45 years of age or older, so no, I don't seem to fit into the stereotype of my generation. Gen X is approx. 44+, so that sounds quite right. I never think of generational stereotypes in my own relations. There are people who impres...

If you have a few simple tools, taking it apart for farther inspection should be fairly easy for you and might save a you a lot of hassle if you can fix it yourself. Just be reasonably careful about how you position the knife as you disassemble and reassemble, especially when working with the lock s...

I've looked at that Nata before, seems like a pretty cool tool. Your evaluation in actual use is pretty much what I supposed it might be from reading specs. It seems like it could do a pretty good job at multi-tasking if the amount of work you have to do with it isn't excessive. Well, as for me, I g...

It's been my personal experience that most of the people born after the year 2000 have a lot to be desired. It seems like that entire generation are nothing but cell phone addicts, computer game addicts along with being extremely lazy for the most part. When you've got people so lazy that when they...

It doesn't surprise me that there are more and more restrictions on what can be discussed on social media platforms like Facebook. I'm talking restrictions on basic interests, like knives, for example. A lot of content creators on YouTube are having to go to other platforms to freely discuss certai...

I guess I'm gen X, but I seem to only get along with people who are 45 years of age or older, so no, I don't seem to fit into the stereotype of my generation. I was born a couple generations late it seems. I take people as they are on an individual basis, everyone is different. This is undoubtedly t...