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Since I bought my BK 9 and used the heck out of it for a few days batoning firewood and etc, I want another Big Blade cause variety is good and fun, and cause like them

Ive been researching other Big Blades, RTAC2, Jungles, Ontario spec51, RD9, browning, etc

I might get a RTAC2. Saw a vid that the Isee junglas $ is a refined RTAC2.

Yeah I know,,, the 4...

What other big blades do you own and like? Pictures !
 
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JDMiller said:
Since I bought my BK 9 and used the heck out of it for a few days batoning firewood and etc, I want another Big Blade cause variety is good and fun, and cause like them

Ive been researching other Big Blades, RTAC2, Jungles, Ontario spec51, RD9, browning, etc

I might get a RTAC2. Saw a vid that the Isee junglas $ is a refined RTAC2.

Yeah I know,,, the 4...

What other big blades do you own and like? Pictures !
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Imma gonna state the obvious: BK-21
 
Bk4,9,21 ESEE Junglas, TM Hunt M-18, a cheap-o machete, zombsro, parangatang, ... I think that's it... I like all of them. The Junglas cannot act small very well.
 
Variety is the spice of life but the Becker Handels trumps all for me . Rbk21 if you like big blades the 9 is hard to beat . Wheight and proformence wise .
 
OK, first of all, there is NO comparison between the Junglas and the RTAK - in use that is. The Junglas is, IMO, FAR superior to the RTAK. Like daizee said, BK-21. Hell of a blade. The Machax is probably one of my favorite woods bumming tools. And the cheap Tramontinas are great big blades in the "thin but useful" cheap category. Since you asked for pics:

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Brute, BK-9, BK-4, Junglas, Condor Boomslang, TOPS Machete .230, RTAK II. TBH, I like the RTAK least - and the Brute gets a LOT more love since I reground it and actually put a cutting edge on it. The Boomslang is the surprise performer of the group, on par with the BK-4 (not as nice or durable steel) and with comfy Micarta scales for pretty cheap dough. Not pictured is the RBK, since it wasn't yet released when I took this pic. I really, really like it.....but I'm going to need a lot more time using it to develop a more educated opinion. I like big knives. Gonna have to do another chop-off with the Kershaw Outcast, CRKT Halfachance, RBK.....and whatever else I find between now and spring.
 
5160 Sinampaloc/JEST Bolo

Piece of ash kindling sheared in two at Becker Northeast


Distal tapered convex zero grinds can be a lot of fun...
 
J W Bensinger said:
5160 Sinampaloc/JEST Bolo

Piece of ash kindling sheared in two at Becker Northeast


Distal tapered convex zero grinds can be a lot of fun...
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I will attest from personal experience, that thing is a BEAST of the first order. That piece of wood was cleaved in one stroke......quite amazing.
 
The 4 and 9 are perfect for me. The 21 is cool, but I feel it's too heavy to be practical. I have thought about a Junglas before. I hear it chops well. I may end up getting a cheap machete too. I got my wife a Tramontina for Christmas, haha. Hey, she wanted one. ;)
 
tobiism said:
I have always loved the looks of those. Where does one acquire one here in the states? An importer?
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You can get one from Jim Bensinger. He's the guy who posted and also made the knife he's holding in the pic. He knows a thing or two about making knives.......

He also knows a thing or two about carrying them. A LOT of them. Probably has at LEAST a dozen (or more) on his person in that photo...
 
J W Bensinger said:
5160 Sinampaloc/JEST Bolo

Piece of ash kindling sheared in two at Becker Northeast


Distal tapered convex zero grinds can be a lot of fun...
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ahhhh

y0u have my attention sir

if that was only 50% bigger

i *am* a size queen :D
 
I'm a big fan of the Condor stuff when I'm not using my Beckers....the villager parang and engineers bolo....the new mini Duku....lotta great blades from those guys for a reasonable amount of coin compared to what you get.

 
oh yeah, i keep forgetting about that KaBar grass machete. love it.

just get an M18 :D

or one of Jim's :D

go big!

then go bigger :)
 
I carry a serrated lightsaber with a triple covexed blade.

All kidding aside...the BK9 has changed my entire perception of big blades.
 
The BK9, as well as the BK4, brings to light the fact that a big knife can be called upon to do the work of a smaller knife ... albeit without the same precision and finesse, but the converse proposition fails.
 
SALTY said:
The BK9, as well as the BK4, brings to light the fact that a big knife can be called upon to do the work of a smaller knife ... albeit without the same precision and finesse, but the converse proposition fails.
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So true. Try chopping with a Buck 110. Yeah, I know, carry an axe. I just like getting close to that one tool system.
 
YellowSwiss said:
So true. Try chopping with a Buck 110. Yeah, I know, carry an axe. I just like getting close to that one tool system.
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I honestly would rather go with a 9, or a JEST or a khuk...little stuff-saplings and such-gets silly with an axe-and if I'm in the woods if it's too big to chop with a big knife I probably don't need to chop it :D
Now an axe in the truck is an essential.
Bladite, it wouldn't be hard to forge out a bigger JEST...you've handled the Beckerized pinuti for yourself, after all...
And a traditional build sinampaloc I did for my youngest daughter:
 
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