Hey TW! Let's see your knives!

you know when you promise your wife your just gonna drink "one" beer?..so you reach for that gigantic can of FOSTERS..or a 40oz..

it's like that. i have knives everywhere. we are on an ANTI-hoarder movement at my home. i find one knife and will ditch a bunch of them.

one..okay..maybe five..max..oh..six. Mora's are so cheap, they dont count. i am driving my wife insane with my obsession with things. archery..got my bows down to one..rifles..two.

shotguns..i have a problem, but garage sale time..maybe. cars? yah.

 

i get this thing..you're gonna have to show me how to take care of that edge, Bud.

 

How old is your newest Bark? Out of curiosity.

 

With scandivex, all you'll need is a good quality leather strop and some compound. Stropman is a good one, I have one from another maker but I can't remember the maker. I think it's in my center console.

I haven't taken a stone to my convex blades in years. Just stropping. If you use yours for skinning, just take a few more breaks than you normally would and strop before the edge gets too dull, it will make it a razor in short order and you can keep going. A stropped edge is a maintained edge!

For scandi, I avoid the strop as mine is too soft of leather and rounds the cutting edge and dulls it. I use a stone on the flat bevels.

When's the sharpening class at that place you were talking about before? I checked their site, pretty awesome.

 

That would be useful.

 

dunno..i havent signed up yet. soon.

but Spring turkey season is about to come up..hahhaha..my poor wife. damn lucky i figured out how to make a turkey breast "tonkatsu" that she loves.


you are the second person to tell me to only use a strop. what compound oo you like? i do use an old belt. i stand on one end, pull the other up tight and strop away. i use it as my last move..and usually as my only move. my Benchmades have never been sharper. i dont use a compound, but it seems to still work some. enough.

 

I use black and green compounds from BRKT myself.

 

I love collecting knives, but love to get use out of them even more. I'll never spend more than $100 on a knife, because you just don't have to! Anyway heres what I got, most are gifts the rest gifts from myself


-FOLDERS-
Sog Micron II (QAD Edition free with a rest I bought for my bow)
Kershaw 1990 Brawler Speedsafe (A gift, excellent edc)
Spyderco Native (My favorite edc, discontinued model, much better than native5)
Spyderco Delica Stainless Steel combo (my first edc ever, bday gift from my bro)
Gerber Bear Grylls Scout ($8 on ebay, wear it on my vest boating and jet skiing)
Free Knife came with a Hunting trail camera from cabelas my dad bought years ago and gave to me (my first knife)
Gerber Freeman Folder (Xmas gift, great knife, very heavy and beefy)
Spyderco Endura 4 VG-10 (Most used edc at work and camping/hiking, abuse and sharpened the crap out of it, totally love this knife)
Buck 110 (wanted one since I was a kid. saw this year had a 50th anniv. stamp and had to have it. got it for christmas this past year.)



-Fixed-
Kabar Kukri (Fantastic tool. Use it from camping, backpacking, to yard work and bushcraft. Comes with crap sheath updated with kydex with fire steel)
Schrade SCHF26 ($30, amazing knife not just for the price but all around. My new camping knife. Used it for bushcraft. Sharpens incredibly for stainless)
Kabar Full Size Half Serrated (First fixed blade knife. A bday gift from my brother years ago. Came with the ballistic sheath, and I wanted a classic leather one so I got a plain one on Amazon thats great)
Mora Companion Stainless ( Best sharpest knife under $20. I have a few of them around. One in the tacoma. this one with the upgrade kydex sheath I take camping)
Kabar Zombie Killer Skeleton (a gift a long time ago. wrapped in paracord. great neck knife, I wear it fishing for cutting line and what not)

 

Beav I think yours pre-date the bad edge grinds. I'd think yours are also more hand finished than the normal production blades, too, but I could be totally wrong.

I just remembered my strop is from Flexx Strops. Stropman makes a good one also, both can come preloaded with compound, my Flexx still wears it's original green and black.

 

ll I like this one.

 

Good site for deals on cheap and $100+ knives
http://www.dealsergeant.com/knives-tools.html

 

I like the Fox River (or something)

 

^ hell yeah!

 

My EDC. mini paraframe $11 from walmart

 

I had a Pframe a long time ago, it was great. No shame! Half my EDC folders are Walmart Gerber's or Kershaw's.