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I've really enjoyed this Hardcore Hammers Survivalist Hatchett. I also really love my $40 Schrade too. The Hardcore is very well made. The head is 4140 steel. Gets super sharp and bites deep. Well I noticed this earlier in the thread. Not cast I take it, but same steel. I have seen a couple custom ...

I've been looking at this tomahawk just for something fun. It's fairly cheap and I like that it is traditional and wood handled. Cast head which I have never heard of before and presumably why it is cheap. Not sure if there is any reason to be leery of a cast head. It's a throwing axe so it is suppo...

It took me about 3-4 hours to thin it to this point with nothing but a 10 in. coarse file, so power tools could definitely be a help at speeding things up. If you do use power tools, obviously watch out for heat build up, but also, watch out for over thinning too. When thinning with hand tools, I en...

I have a Vic paring knife myself and certainly don't have a problem with the thinness. My Dexter is only a little thicker. For what I use a paring knife for, thinner is almost always better, but I would worry about my mom using something this thin for anything other than tomatoes. That said, for mos...

I have been thinking that my mom might like a serrated paring knife. For years she has only used dull knives. I learned to sharpen but for the most part nobody is allowed to touch my kitchen knives. I also sharpen the Cuisinarts that everyone uses, but they get the snot beat out of them and don't cu...

Worst case scenario is you have to grind down the tip as WilliamMunny has demonstrated with a nifty graphic. For the sake of my own knowledge and the OP's though, what would everyone think is the least expensive tool you could use to regrind a tip? Would a Dremel do the trick with enough patience an...

What are you doing for scales? I haven’t quite made up my mind on it yet. I got some cherry wood I think would look nice, but my ideal scales would be polished black linen micarta, sourcing and machining those with what tools I got sounds challenging though. If anyone knows, Is sanding and hand fil...

Most materials that I know of are some variation of what is the typical construction of Micarta and G-10, usually some mixture of a given material held together with resin/epoxy. Kirinite I believe is just some sort of solid resin not mixed with anything other than coloring. C-Tek is resin with a gr...

Cool, looks like a Spyderco mule knife.

Care to share some specs on that knife there? Not exactly my style, but it does look impressive, ha ha! Differential heat treat from the look of it?

I kinda curious what people here think of bigger, heavier knives and whether or not they have a place in your kit for any particular application. Many big knives are made to help you survive the apocalypse, chunks of steel that Rambo might use, but still there is a group of people who seem to believ...

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."