Andaltool Canadian Forest Knife

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Bushcraft Forever said:
You truly know nothing about steel..... A2 is an excellent steel, and is very easy to sharpen if you have any sharpening skills. And for your information it will throw a spark with Flint, not as good as 01, but it WILL throw a spark. And A2 is not a stainless steel. Now go start trouble in another thread.
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A2 has a fairly high chromium content, not quite enough to qualify for what most consider stainless but its more "stain resistant" than many other carbon steels. It not a bad steel if you want a shiny toy. You are going to have some issues with sparking off a flint to make fire. Just read Rod Garcias website, he even says this in the knife description....
A2 has a little too much alloy to get a good spark
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If you can't get a good spark off a flint when you need it, its not a knife that I would depend on. Stainless knives are pretty popular because they don't get discolored or corrode easily when used and not maintained properly, and as such are easy to sell off in a couple weeks when you get bored and find a new best knife of the month....
 
Arathol said:
A2 has a fairly high chromium content, not quite enough to qualify for what most consider stainless but its more "stain resistant" than many other carbon steels. It not a bad steel if you want a shiny toy. You are going to have some issues with sparking off a flint to make fire. Just read Rod Garcias website, he even says this in the knife description....

If you can't get a good spark off a flint when you need it, its not a knife that I would depend on. Stainless knives are pretty popular because they don't get discolored or corrode easily when used and not maintained properly, and as such are easy to sell off in a couple weeks when you get bored and find a new best knife of the month....
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A2 sparks plenty well enough to ignite char cloth, and I've done it plenty of times.

Be realistic, how many times have you NEEDED to spark Flint of your knife, I'd venture to say never. I always have several different ways to start a fire so it will never be a concern. And no, the Skookum will never be for sale, and if it is the price will be outrageous, to most.

Now if we can all just get along that would be great.
 
Bushcraft Forever said:
It's obvious that none of you know anything about knives costing more than $50.... Go play in your backyard with your junk, and let us real men actually use our good knives in the woods. TRUMP 2020!
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Actually, when you include the sheath (the Andal also comes with one included that seems to be rather essential to the whole package) a Jääkkäripuukko does cost a little more than 50 bucks. The Finns with their centuries-long knifemaking traditions might be offended if anyone describes their blades as 'junk' just because they manage to make reasonably priced puukkos and leukus.
As for the usefulness of affordable blades.... When I was building a pergola this summer and needed to finish and fit a series of square notches in the beams, I found that the best tool for the job was... a Hultafors Craftsman costing 7 euros end 50 cents. Excellent knife. Thin, narrow, good steel (SK5), useful grind, comfortable handle with rubber inlay (this is the 'luxury' version; the cheaper one with a basic hard plastic handle is 2 euros less, lol). Stick tang of course, about halfway into the handle. I batoned it for the job (more control, both along the grain and crossgrain for precise fitting) and after a day's work it still sliced newsprint. I would not mind having that one along on a day hike in the woods. It would do a good job cutting bread and hard sausages for lunch... and scraping mud off my boots. ;-)
 
Arathol said:
A2 has a fairly high chromium content, not quite enough to qualify for what most consider stainless but its more "stain resistant" than many other carbon steels. It not a bad steel if you want a shiny toy. You are going to have some issues with sparking off a flint to make fire. Just read Rod Garcias website, he even says this in the knife description....

If you can't get a good spark off a flint when you need it, its not a knife that I would depend on. Stainless knives are pretty popular because they don't get discolored or corrode easily when used and not maintained properly, and as such are easy to sell off in a couple weeks when you get bored and find a new best knife of the month....
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You're thinking of D2.
 
Bushcraft Forever said:
It's obvious that none of you know anything about knives costing more than $50.... Go play in your backyard with your junk, and let us real men actually use our good knives in the woods. TRUMP 2020!
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EEEEEP
Wrong answer.
No one has insulted you on your choice.
Yet you insult many who believe there are "better" (note quotes) blades out there of "better" (note quotes) steels such as 1085; 1095; 5160; and 56100.
The 1065 is a good "low end" hard performing steel. I believe axe heads are made from it, and some machettes. (Does Cold Steel use 1055 or 1065 for their various machette blades?)
1095 is the "standard" for carbon steel blades. The difference between it and the other 10xx steels is the amount of carbon. 1065 is a lower carbon version. (0.065% if menory serves, compared to 1095's 0.095%.)
As for not knowing squat about knives that cost over $50 ... in my case, about the only thing I know about most such blades is they cost over $50.
I currently have and have had several blades that cost over $50, but still well below $100.
The venerable Ontario 499 "Jet Pilot Survival Knife" and the Ka-Bar "Marine Fighting Knife" for example.
Others who have bothered responded to your thread have knives costing well over $500, and have posted pictures of them here on BF once in a while.
The fact that I persinally can't see spending over $30 for a knife does not insult them or threaten their manlihood.
Fact is, I have been afield with as little as a standard production Mora Number 1, and a inexpensive Rough Rider, or Old Timer, stockman, or even an vintage/antique Imperial RI or Imperial Ireland Barlow.
I've never been "under knifed" for any task that required a knife to cut, whittle, or carve something out on the field.

Millions of others around the world have gone afield with nothing but a Mora, or a SAK of some sort or a 4 blade BSA Scout knife, or a "Demo" knife, or even an Opinel of one size or another (I'd guess the most popular Opinel sizes for use in the wilds are the number 5 to number 9) and they survived just fine during the last several hundred years.

It is unnecessary to spend more than $50 for a good "boonies" knife.
To call all such under $50 knives junk, and accuse the users of them to be less than "real" men ... is stupid, wrong, insulting, and uncalled for.
The tools and clothing do not make the man.
I'm truly sorry you feel your tools and how much they cost define your manhood.

I would not accuse a deer or larger game hunter using of the "latest and greatest" bolt action rifle of not being a "real" man, anymore than I would accuse someone using a flintlock (or percussion) sidelock muzzleloader or using any type of bow after the same critters of being more or less a man, or a better hunter, come to that. (provided no daRn tree stands are used. In that case they are less a "hunter": No skill required to ambush game from the tree tops.)

Since June of this year, a "minor" stroke has cut my spendable income after rent and bills to $100 or less a month.
My appologies that I cannot afford to spend $180 or more for a knife. To truth to tell, even if I could afford such, I wouldn't. There are far too many knives that cost considerably less that will do exactly the same tasks just as well as the more expensive brands.
I'm also sorry to inform you that if I can go afield again (with my sub $15 knives) I will will not stay home.

To quote my late Great Grandfather, W.F. Moore (1891-1974)
"You don't have to spend a lot to get a lot."
and
"Why pay a premium for a name?"

I'm out of here. Your disrespect, rudeness, driving folk down and ridiculing them for their choice of cutlery ... Sorry. I don't need that kind of BS.

As I stated in my original post. You got a fine looking blade. It just isn't one I would ever buy. My appologies that that insults/offends you.
 
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I don't think this one can be put back on the tracks.
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