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BK9 and I Gotta get used to the no choil of the Becker families!! :)

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for the past year or so i have been using pretty much only choiled knives. If not ,ones like the Esee junglass that has a flat part like on the BK2.

Well I was playing around with my buddies BK9, first time holding one and I automatically went to change hand positions to a close up choil grip while talking to him and .....

:eek: Yup, she bit me!:D

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It sliced pretty good just from finger pressure, boy she is sharp:D

I want one of the BK9s but may have to mod it with a choil if i cant teach my dumb self she doesnt have a choil!

p.s. maybe he will sell me his cheap since now it is used and bloody:D:D


sorry for the bad pic but my buddy was laughing too much to get a good shot!

take care fellow BeckerHeads!!!
 
It's a love nibble, they all do that eventually. Just like real women, feed her wood, that'll satisfy her. You can always choil her.
 
sar5 said:
for the past year or so i have been using pretty much only choiled knives. If not ,ones like the Esee junglass that has a flat part like on the BK2.

Well I was playing around with my buddies BK9, first time holding one and I automatically went to change hand positions to a close up choil grip while talking to him and .....

:eek: Yup, she bit me!:D

CIMG9867.jpg


It sliced pretty good just from finger pressure, boy she is sharp:D

I want one of the BK9s but may have to mod it with a choil if i cant teach my dumb self she doesnt have a choil!p.s. maybe he will sell me his cheap since now it is used and bloody:D:D


sorry for the bad pic but my buddy was laughing too much to get a good shot!

take care fellow BeckerHeads!!!
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Well, you can certainly fix that !

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I LOVES me some choils !
 
Damn Sar5 that sucker got you, better watch out because the Brute bites alot harder........

Did you get that brute????

If so you lucky sucker
 
Sorry for the following rant. I just do NOT get why some folks need a long choil.

As a hunter. I choke up on knives as much as anyone. but for the life of me I cannot understand why anyone would want a long choil on a knife!

It is an answer to an imaginary problem. You can't choke up on a knife forward of the cutting edge anyway, unless you grip the blade along the side ABOVE the edge. In that case, the choil doe nothing for you. Either the blade is short enough to control or it's not. Period. All a long cloil does is teach folks very bad habits like wrapping your finger around the front of the guard.

Hence the blood on this thread.:eek:

The other aspect of long choils is they prevent any kind of mechanical leverage when making pushing or pull cuts whittling much of anything. I have found the long choil the BK 5 to be VERY annoying and something that limits the overall uses of that knife. It's the worst feature of that design.
 
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Jim, I can totally agree with ya there. I hates me some choils. Except on the BK-5, that is the only knife that would (imo) look horrible and not function good if it was choil-less.
 
Different strokes for different folks Jim. For 18 posts in five years, I wouldn't really consider it a rant, so much as a quick interlude of an opinion and some reasoning behind it.
 
I love having a choil on my bk9. Imaginery or not :-).

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I still need to smooth it out some but it is darn functional!
 
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I choiled me some 7 I love it. Chopping, batoning, carving, has never got in the way.

Now I will admit carrying a large and small knife works better. But some days I just like bringing the one.

Also! I hate choils on smaller knives, like the ESEE 4

To each their own.
 
Would a choil made too deep create a potential weak spot on the blade? It seems to me that the left to right, up and down movement however small that occurs during wood splitting or other heavy use would be increased greatly at the choil resulting in breakage at some point.

I'm with jim62 on this one, I have no use for a choil just more cutting edge.
 
DerekH said:
Different strokes for different folks Jim. For 18 posts in five years, I wouldn't really consider it a rant, so much as a quick interlude of an opinion and some reasoning behind it.
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I truly believe in personal choices etc as well.

Hence the labeling of it as a "rant"..

But thanks you for appreciating what I posted.

To the choil junkies here. -godspeed and good luck..;)
 
I see no reason to have a choil on any blade over 7"

If you need to choke up on a 10" blade I say bring a smaller more versitile blade maybe in the 3-4" area to cover both areas (Chopping and Bushcraft)
 
I have to agree with Jim62 on the choil hate

one of the reasons I love the bk-9 so much is the lack of choil and usable edge to the handle, just like a good butcher knife it reminds me of, never seen a choil on any knives in the meat trade. My only complaint about my 3 esee's is the choil, the 3 and 4 would be infinitely better without.

I want a bk-5 this year but the choil is going to be an ongoing annoyance to get comfortable with

I am no poet but IMOP........."A knife choiled is a knife spoiled"
 
that looks like red ink...let's see the actual bleeding finger for proof :D
 
I don't like choils either. Willis, you can just kiss my ass. :D

I use them if they are there, but for the most part, I like having a full flowing edge.

Now, the choil on the BK5 actually works, mostly because it is big enough for 1066vik to get his freakin' meat beaters on, without cutting himself. :D

On the 5, it also allows you some more control, which for a blade that long and thin, with the balance point, it lends itself for more precise movements.

Different choils for different folks, me, I'll leave the choils for the others.

Moose
 
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