Mistwalker
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I've been pretty busy lately with a lot of different projects but over the last few weeks I've been playing around with a small knife I got with thoughts on a more urbanized environment. I have this thing for small, tough knives that can take some abuse and also have nice sharp points. I think I've managed to take enough pictures to show the perspective from which I got the knife.
The knife is a Delta Unit 3 from TOPS knives. It's a heavy duty little tank of a knife with a flat ground 1/4 thick blade that still slices and whittles well.
The specs from the TOPS website.
O/A Length: 7 1/4"
Blade Length: 3"
Thickness: 1/4"
Steel: 1095 High Carbon
Handle: Blue/Black G-10
Blade Color: Tactical Gray
Sheath: Kydex
Weight: 14.4oz
I had seen it a few times on the website but for whatever reason thought it was larger than it really is. Actually it isn't all that large at all, and looks a bit less menacing than a black bladed knife.
I have incorporated it into a maxpedition organizer kit I put together. The kit is a modular type thing that I can carry in a pack, in a shoulder bag, or at need in a cargo pocket.
It has served well so far in all the uses I've tried it in. I like a nice sharp tip, and it worked fine for eating my snack of smoked oysters.
It came in handy when I was checking it out at dinner one night and needed to spread the goat cheese spread on my bread for my soup, and didn't cause any alarm just laying around on the table afterward.
It even came in handy when the little one thought my brat looked much more interesting than her hotdog and wanted to try a bite.
I've even used it as a mini pry bar on a couple of construction projects. Once when I was installing french doors in my mother-in-law's bedroom. I used the knife to cut the plastic banding and wrapping from the door, then used the knife as a mini pry bar when I was shimming it. Then when I was replacing our back porch steps at home and needed to pry a riser back out to trim it.
Of course I had to play with it in the woods and beat it up a bit to see how it would do in fire craft. Didn't actually do sustained fire as I really didn't have a need or the time, but I learned what I wanted to know. I used the knife to truncate a section of hardwood limb that was just barely smaller in diameter than the length of the blade, and and the flat grind sank into even very hard seasoned wood.
Then I split it down and whittled some shavings. Even in the very hard wood fine shavings for igniting with a fire steel were no problem.
I'm thinking it's a good addition to a small kit.
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The knife is a Delta Unit 3 from TOPS knives. It's a heavy duty little tank of a knife with a flat ground 1/4 thick blade that still slices and whittles well.
The specs from the TOPS website.
O/A Length: 7 1/4"
Blade Length: 3"
Thickness: 1/4"
Steel: 1095 High Carbon
Handle: Blue/Black G-10
Blade Color: Tactical Gray
Sheath: Kydex
Weight: 14.4oz
I had seen it a few times on the website but for whatever reason thought it was larger than it really is. Actually it isn't all that large at all, and looks a bit less menacing than a black bladed knife.
I have incorporated it into a maxpedition organizer kit I put together. The kit is a modular type thing that I can carry in a pack, in a shoulder bag, or at need in a cargo pocket.
It has served well so far in all the uses I've tried it in. I like a nice sharp tip, and it worked fine for eating my snack of smoked oysters.
It came in handy when I was checking it out at dinner one night and needed to spread the goat cheese spread on my bread for my soup, and didn't cause any alarm just laying around on the table afterward.
It even came in handy when the little one thought my brat looked much more interesting than her hotdog and wanted to try a bite.
I've even used it as a mini pry bar on a couple of construction projects. Once when I was installing french doors in my mother-in-law's bedroom. I used the knife to cut the plastic banding and wrapping from the door, then used the knife as a mini pry bar when I was shimming it. Then when I was replacing our back porch steps at home and needed to pry a riser back out to trim it.
Of course I had to play with it in the woods and beat it up a bit to see how it would do in fire craft. Didn't actually do sustained fire as I really didn't have a need or the time, but I learned what I wanted to know. I used the knife to truncate a section of hardwood limb that was just barely smaller in diameter than the length of the blade, and and the flat grind sank into even very hard seasoned wood.
Then I split it down and whittled some shavings. Even in the very hard wood fine shavings for igniting with a fire steel were no problem.
I'm thinking it's a good addition to a small kit.
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