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Hey All,
I post a while back about the mods i'd done to my BK-11. If you're curious to see what it looked like before when it was all shiny, you can check it out here.
I've been EDCing my 11 for almost a year now, and I probably don't have enough good things to say about it. To give some background about the use, I work in a livestock feed mill. My knife gets abused... a lot, though most of it is not intentionally neglectful, it's just a hard environment for knives. Any given week, I may cut open between 100 to 1000 or more woven polyurethane or quadruple ply heavy paper bags, containing a range of materials from wet feeds covered with light acids to prevent mold to rock salt and limestone. Some of these are harder on an edge/blade than others. This usually results in me having to sharpen the edge at least once a week, though that can range from as long as a month, to as short as a day (see limestone, haha). The other thing is that our mill is over 60 years old, with quite a bit of equipment that requires a lot of love to keep moving. I know I will be chastised for this, but I regularly use my knife as a screwdriver, pry bar, wire stripper/cutter, etc. though I am still very careful to not to attempt things that are overly stressful. There have been a few times I've had to put some time in reshaping the edge, but even then, it's usually no more than an hour. This little bugger has just trucked on, I've been super impressed. Here's a few pictures of how it looks after all this abuse.
It's held up so well. You can see along the blade how the edge is a little farther back than it was, but that's just sharpening it so many times, and fixing a big nick a put in it. I need to go and re-darken the patina on it, but really other than the scratches it has held up superbly. The only gripe I had on it at first was how it felt in the hand, and this was quickly remedied by adding the scales. The handle still is a little short, I could stand to have maybe another half inch, but it isn't anything that would hold me back from using it. Can't say enough good things about the BK-11! It's taken a beating and keeps on trucking!
I post a while back about the mods i'd done to my BK-11. If you're curious to see what it looked like before when it was all shiny, you can check it out here.
I've been EDCing my 11 for almost a year now, and I probably don't have enough good things to say about it. To give some background about the use, I work in a livestock feed mill. My knife gets abused... a lot, though most of it is not intentionally neglectful, it's just a hard environment for knives. Any given week, I may cut open between 100 to 1000 or more woven polyurethane or quadruple ply heavy paper bags, containing a range of materials from wet feeds covered with light acids to prevent mold to rock salt and limestone. Some of these are harder on an edge/blade than others. This usually results in me having to sharpen the edge at least once a week, though that can range from as long as a month, to as short as a day (see limestone, haha). The other thing is that our mill is over 60 years old, with quite a bit of equipment that requires a lot of love to keep moving. I know I will be chastised for this, but I regularly use my knife as a screwdriver, pry bar, wire stripper/cutter, etc. though I am still very careful to not to attempt things that are overly stressful. There have been a few times I've had to put some time in reshaping the edge, but even then, it's usually no more than an hour. This little bugger has just trucked on, I've been super impressed. Here's a few pictures of how it looks after all this abuse.
It's held up so well. You can see along the blade how the edge is a little farther back than it was, but that's just sharpening it so many times, and fixing a big nick a put in it. I need to go and re-darken the patina on it, but really other than the scratches it has held up superbly. The only gripe I had on it at first was how it felt in the hand, and this was quickly remedied by adding the scales. The handle still is a little short, I could stand to have maybe another half inch, but it isn't anything that would hold me back from using it. Can't say enough good things about the BK-11! It's taken a beating and keeps on trucking!
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