Buzzbait
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Yah it's me again, the cheesehead of knives! I've been thinking over my weekend purchase, as well as doing a little more reading. The M16 Carbon Fibre I ordered has an AUS118 blade with a bead blast finish. CRKT's marketing info says that the blade is "extremely hard, durable, tough and rust resistant". Is the rust resistant statement actually true, or just stretching the truth? Remember that I'm the guy that carves up walleye in the perpetually rainy Adirondacks. I'm wondering if I should remove the bead blast finish before I go poking wet food with this baby. And if so, what to remove the bead blast with. Would jewelers rouge do the job?
I also got to thinking, as I often do while reading magazines on the john, about that Tuf Cloth I ordered. Let me throw a little scenario at yah. I give my pretty new M16 a good rub with the Tuf Cloth, in preparation for some great fishing. Then I head to the mountains and catch that perfect eating size walleye... or trout... or perch... or some tasty little morsel of natures delight. So I gut this fish and cut its head off with the M16 in a barbaric fury of hunger. Scales fly everywhere, and entrails cover me head to toe, but the blade stays nice and rust free. Later on, the wife cooks up my forage on the charcoal grill and gives it (the fish not the charcoal) a taste. Will she tell me that it tastes rather... Tuf? What Im getting at here is whether the Tuf coating is safe and tasteless when preparing food. Id hate to go through all this work and have my own head lopped off for spoiling the meal!!!!! I can read the headlines now. "Fisherman killed with his own uncorroded knife, for the attempted poisoning of his wife."
Oh yah. Thanks for all the great responses to my last post. They made for some great reading, as well as some fevered panic. I checked out those Talonite blades and ZOIKS (as shaggy would say)!!!! Thats some big bucks, and I didnt see any Talonite folders anywhere. Now if Camillus wants to make some good use of that Talonite corrosion resistance, they should look at making a Talonite folder with an added marlin spike. That would be absolute heaven to Navy Seals ..... and barbaric entrail covered fishermen.
I also got to thinking, as I often do while reading magazines on the john, about that Tuf Cloth I ordered. Let me throw a little scenario at yah. I give my pretty new M16 a good rub with the Tuf Cloth, in preparation for some great fishing. Then I head to the mountains and catch that perfect eating size walleye... or trout... or perch... or some tasty little morsel of natures delight. So I gut this fish and cut its head off with the M16 in a barbaric fury of hunger. Scales fly everywhere, and entrails cover me head to toe, but the blade stays nice and rust free. Later on, the wife cooks up my forage on the charcoal grill and gives it (the fish not the charcoal) a taste. Will she tell me that it tastes rather... Tuf? What Im getting at here is whether the Tuf coating is safe and tasteless when preparing food. Id hate to go through all this work and have my own head lopped off for spoiling the meal!!!!! I can read the headlines now. "Fisherman killed with his own uncorroded knife, for the attempted poisoning of his wife."
Oh yah. Thanks for all the great responses to my last post. They made for some great reading, as well as some fevered panic. I checked out those Talonite blades and ZOIKS (as shaggy would say)!!!! Thats some big bucks, and I didnt see any Talonite folders anywhere. Now if Camillus wants to make some good use of that Talonite corrosion resistance, they should look at making a Talonite folder with an added marlin spike. That would be absolute heaven to Navy Seals ..... and barbaric entrail covered fishermen.
