Got it for a friend who often goes to Germany with it’s strict knife laws and who “needs” a bottle opener
8Cr13MoV is pretty meh to me usually, but this balde is so thin that it’s absolutely perfect for it (A Vic SAK blade has no better steel).
If I eventually gift it to him I must decide if I want to get the black one. Maybe better I order another shiny one for him.
Today it’s my new Free Tiger FT11. Very impressive all around. 14C28N blade, G10 scales and ball bearing pivot. Great pivot action, super sharp out of the box, and very good ergonomics.
Thank you. I was debating between the SRM and the Land 961. I don’t buy tons of knives so, I get two in my sights then can’t decided. I should just buy both.
I just went over my friends battered knives with my work sharp belt sharpner, one of them a tanto shaped Kershaw knife, and i was able to get a good result just fine.
ATM i am looking at a bushcraft kind of knife, my big choppers i dont really need as i got a saw, so want something a little lighter and smaller to carry on those days and i think the Boker above fit that bill just fine.
And i still want a little Ooomp as Denmark have become a country with wolfs roaming again, and i dont want to go without a fight, one of them i met one night testing a flashlight, he did look at me in a way that let me unbutton my big Bowie but a flash of several 1000 lumen sent him running, but i did keep my flashlight on a higher output for the rest of the walk.
But then again i should really steer some of my money towards my computer case project that have been shelved for several months now.
Will hack into it with the angle grinder on Tuesday, that way i can figure out what size of parts i need to order to get on with it.
I got the bottom one, but with smooth scales, like it a lot and carried it a lot too.
It is lying right here in front of me on the foot of my computer monitor
Interesting grind on that NZ knife, but i would have reversed it so it was thin or should i say low in the pointy end.
I dont really need a knife to be stab able, if i do need something like that i bring my DIY stiletto in some obscure Bofors steel ( i made it when i was 16, and i am 54 today )
That is ? if i can find it, i think it is in my long time storage place.
It’s a full flat grind with a convex ground cutting edge which has been polished and stropped, it’s very sharp.
The back of the blade has been etched to simulate carbon, much in keeping with the stock look from Svörd.
The handle has beef reshaped and treated with New Zealand bees wax.