Becker BK-7

Well...from what I see from working with it for a few days it is a good one to want and a greatd one to have around. And though the sheath may look bulky it really isn't heavy, just a little longer than I am personally used to . However I carried it for miles yesterday and not one single complaint yet.
 
Hmmm, this might just put me over the edge for a hard-use knife I can use to clear brush and do light chopping for my landscaping work.
 
Rockywolf said:
Hmmm, this might just put me over the edge for a hard-use knife I can use to clear brush and do light chopping for my landscaping work.
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I think the BK9 is likely a better chopper. but I really like the tip better on the BK7, it's made more for my style of fieldcraft.
 
mistwalker said:
I think the BK9 is likely a better chopper. but I really like the tip better on the BK7, it's made more for my style of fieldcraft.
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I believe it, however I don't need something that big to carry as I do any hiking or the various things I may be doing for my customer's projects. You have been very candid about the knife and your style of fieldcraft is like my own (except you have waaaaay more of a skill set!). Thanks again, my friend, for the info!
 
Rockywolf said:
I believe it, however I don't need something that big to carry as I do any hiking or the various things I may be doing for my customer's projects. You have been very candid about the knife and your style of fieldcraft is like my own (except you have waaaaay more of a skill set!). Thanks again, my friend, for the info!
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All it takes is practice :) , any time my friend.
 
A friend gave me some new material to play with yesterday. I can get as much as I want so I started thinking about things I can make with it. I am going to make some blinds and stuff for sunshades later but I started making this last night, did this in about thirty minutes just sitting on the porch. Then I whittled on it some more today and wrapped it. I know there is a ways to go yet thinning down the prongs, but it does show the two knives make a good team.

All I used was this…

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this,

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A bamboo stalk, some braided cord, and then whittled a stick to fit inside and spread the tines.

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It can serve well as a defensive weapon or as a hunting spear simply sharpened like this.

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I split one end on the stalk in quarters down to the second joint where I had tied the braided cord tightly around it, and then started whittling on the tines with the little BK13. The 13 worked really well for this

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Now I’ve got the cord wrapped, but I think I may whittle on the spreader stick some more and re-wrap it later.

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and it is about 8 feet long.

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and I have been playing with some larger pieces as well.

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You're having way more fun with your new Beckers than most people get out of a trip to Disneyland. Good (and interesting) stuff. Good pics, too!
 
Great reviews, Mistwalker. I've already got my eye on a BK 11, but after reading this I may just add the BK 7 to the list as well.
 
dawsonbob said:
You're having way more fun with your new Beckers than most people get out of a trip to Disneyland. Good (and interesting) stuff. Good pics, too!
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Shoot DB, this
dawsonbob said:
You're having way more fun with your new Beckers than most people get out of a trip to Disneyland. Good (and interesting) stuff. Good pics, too!
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Shoot DB, this http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=643285 is my Disneyland, now I wish I hadn't deleted the vids of the trip in that I was afraid to post for making people dizzy...then you could have seen the water rides :D

I did one of the tines with nothing but the BK7 just to see how it went and it wasn't bad at all...could easily be made with just the larger of the two but the 13 was just less fatiguing to the hand.

street soldier said:
Great reviews, Mistwalker. I've already got my eye on a BK 11, but after reading this I may just add the BK 7 to the list as well.
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They are great tools, I think you'll like it if you get it.
 
Yeah, Mist, it makes me jealous. You get the fun of Disneyland, and I've got the parking lot. I might be able to get a trip or two in over the summer, but for sure I'm doing a week or two in September: that will be my Disneyland trip.
 
mistwalker said:
“Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature”

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Off topic sorry, Not to take anything away from your most excellent reviews but each time I read one I see your sig and think I know a lot of beasts that are far wiser with a much greater ability to reason than the average man.

Should you doubt that look at who is president.:jerkit:
 
Long.Rider said:
Off topic sorry, Not to take anything away from your most excellent reviews but each time I read one I see your sig and think I know a lot of beasts that are far wiser with a much greater ability to reason than the average man.

Should you doubt that look at who is president.:jerkit:
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Look at the people who elected him, Long.Rider; kinda proves your point.
 
Long.Rider said:
Off topic sorry, Not to take anything away from your most excellent reviews but each time I read one I see your sig and think I know a lot of beasts that are far wiser with a much greater ability to reason than the average man.

Should you doubt that look at who is president.:jerkit:
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It's an inside joke....our friends jokingly refer to Lisa and I as The beauty and the beast.

I tend to spend so much time in nature because animals have a hierarchy without politics. I know that I may some day be killed by one, and I have had them steal from me many times...however I have never had one lie to me or pretend to be a friend when in reality it wasn't.

dawsonbob said:
Look at the people who elected him, Long.Rider; kinda proves your point.
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Ok guys...we all have our opinions, I'm not sure this is the place to express certain ones so don't go getting the thread locked over politics.
 
Apologies. Your threads are too cool and full of good knives and green vegetation to let politics creep in.
 
mistwalker said:
I tend to spend so much time in nature because animals have a hierarchy without politics. I know that I may some day be killed by one, and I have had them steal from me many times...however I have never had one lie to me or pretend to be a friend when in reality it wasn't.
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I don't think there is such a thing as too much time in the woods, I did live all the way off the grid cept the wife really likes her dishwasher. So I live as far out on the sticks as I can. The rest of your post is spot on.
 
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