1095CV vs. SR101

t1mpani said:
Or I could weld the ends of the handles together and have a spinning dervish of death... :D

How much taper is there towards the point? Is it a distal grind, or mostly full-thickness?
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use end bolt hole, get 5, open in spiral, throw. krull time.

it's very thin at the tip...

0.190 inch at the pommel end

0.155 inch approx middle point spine

0.145 inch 1/4 length from tip

0.114 inch 1 inch from tip

0.075 inch 1/2 inch from tip

0.141 1/8th inch from tip

lots of taper
 
The 5 really does slice and dice.
And I just batoned my lawnmower through a front-end loader.
 
t1mpani said:
Okay, but my lawnmower is totally better than yours. Later I'll post pics of me batoning through rebar with it.


Back to knives, I'm sitting on the fence waiting for light to shed on whether or not I need a BK-5. I've always loved its looks, I'm just not sure on the design. From purely a weight perspective, I wish it was 1/4" instead of 3/16", but I've never held one.
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You batoned a lawnmower through rebar? You must have strong wrists. Buy the pudding blade.
 
Why do you want baton through midgets? Thats not nice. Tiny people are still people.

Sort of...
 
You ever seen a tiny person baton a Swiss Army pen knife through a Coke can with a match stick?

I mean, I haven't. But I'd like to see the video.
 
t1mpani said:
Okay, but my lawnmower is totally better than yours.
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Doubt it. :D

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Moose
 
cramsey3006 said:
Yeah, Bladite, I'm not seeing any broken Becker pictures either? It's kind of like the broken Kabar talk. "Don't get a military Kabar for woods use, it'll break!" How many people have broken one or know someone who has? Moose is the only person I can think of off the top of my head who's broken one. Sure, there've been a few over the years, but so what?
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River-8 has broken at least 2 IIRC. I think it's more of a design thing. The knife is designed to kill people not baton through a stump. Use it for it's original purpose and it's an awesome knife. I would imagine. LOL To make it a woods knife all you'd have to do is thicken the tip and either make it full tang or do the stick tang correctly.
 
Bladite said:
it's meant to be one of the thinnest Beckers... for slicing, for speed. quite lovely really.

the tweener version is so light as to be truly amazing, coming from the sharpened prybar types in the rest of the line.

not really sure about the thickness with this one... i've handle some of the thicker pig-stickers, and they have nice balance (and THICK), but they don't feel like they can slash like the BK5 can. Fisk wanted SPEED.

maybe you can bolt two together for twin-bladed action too... it lifts, it separates...
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What's funny is the native tribes in this area actually used a knife similar to what you describe. It looks like a large roman spear head and a small spear head welded together end to end. You can see it at the lewis and clark fort on the OR coast near Astoria.
 
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