Revolver H Quick review. (pictures of course)

[Fonly]

Well, First I want to say, I made this one a quicky today because I'm not having the best day with the chronic fatigue, so forgive me for getting this more less "done"

The first thing I want to get out of the way is that I didn't baton this knife, I personally think its too small to do so. Its only a tad larger than a Mora, and just isnt made for it, though I know it can due to a few other reviews.

The first test was to try the ol' revolver H at some fire starting. Now I tested two things here, one; how well it could shave some dry spruce, and two; how well it through sparks from the spine of either the knife or saw blade.

As you can see it did a fine job of making shavings for the "step up" from tinder. (I did this inside, just to have a little more control)




Now we move it outside and try out some fire making. So the spine of the saw and the knife only through a few sparks. So I sanded the spine of the saw with some 1500 grit sand paper and it would through sparks like the saw on a sak.
I did this and got a fire going the first run (something though, I like to use the stuffing out of a pillow, And it works so amazingly well. If you can ever find a pillow for sale at walys or somewhere for a dollar pick it up and take the suffing. I had an old neck pillow, took the stuffing out and have been using that).

So this is where we were outside, some shavings and some pillow fluff ready to go.



Then, with on swipe of the ferro rod, Fire




Now, after this test I thought mabye the only reason the fire went so good was because of the tinder, and not the amount of sparks coming off the ferro rod (sunny and cant see the sparks) So I tried it with some normal drier lint and got the same result on the first run.

(it is burning, just cant see the flame due to the other light)


Ok, at this stage we now know the knife can easily get the stuff to make me nice and warm. And I know no doubt it could baton small branch's, but I didn't want to.

Now the next step is the obvious, trying the saw. I tried the saw on a piece of 4X4 because if it can do that it I would be good.
So just imagine a 3d rectangular prisim in your head, this first picture is the "front" face.


The "top"


And finally the "back"


After doing, what seemed like double what it took for the fiskars and gerber saws, I had done about half of what was acheived from the fiskars and gerber saws. understandable though, its saw is half the size, or close to it.


\/\/\/ Little bit more in an hour os so\/\/\/

[Robbie Roberson]

Fonly, sorry you don't feel well, thanks for taking the time to do this. Really good pics too.

I found the Revolver cuts round poles much easier like trees or poles in the woods.

I once tried cutting a pressure treated 4 by 4 pole and realized quick the teeth needed to be shorter to slide accross the flat edge.

I think the teeth may have a harder time ripping accross the flat edge. It just seems to cut much easier when I cut with a natural taper as a round pole has.

Any way, great job and keep us posted, hope you like it.

Oh, what is all that white stuff on the ground ? It's 80 degrees and sunny here in Tenn.............



Robbie Roberson.

[Fonly]

Yeah, that nasty white stuff is snow, hate it haha. No, the teeth would work great I think on some greener wood. Just it was woulmenized, and dry as dry can be. But it did good considering.

[Fonly]

Well, what I wanted to show finally was the completed sheath, on my utility belt for in the woods.





At the end of the day, this is just plainly a great knife. It cuts well, does a great job a sawing, and is very comfy to hold. After all the cutting was done, there was a bit of rolling, but it was so small of a lip I couldn't see it just feel it. A few swipes over a stone fixed that no problem. The aus-8 takes a great edge and holds it, even after the testing it was still as sharp as out of box, and after a few runs over it with a stone, it was even sharper. I difently recommend this knife to someone looking for this style of blade, I payed $130 cdn for it and though a little over price, I got more than what I expected and more than what I wanted.

Thanks for taking the time to read this guys, Ill be taking a break for a bit

[SkunkWerX]

Fonley,

Very nice review! thanks.

[Robbie Roberson]

Fonly, thank you for the great review and time spent on the sawing and pics.

I really like your sheath and belt set up, great idea on the piggy back.



Robbie Roberson