Blade Blasphemy: Are Randall Knives Users?

[craytab]

My dissatisfaction is

misplaced.

You bought a product wanting a feature that it did not include. 100% on you. Stop complaining.

 

[craytab]

I love the new argument that a certain brand of knife isn’t good or user grade if you don’t see it being used on TV



You’ve succeeded in making your position on the subject even dumber now. Of course you could just trust Bear Gryls and buy cheap ass clamshell knives from Walmart to use, I mean, he survives everything on TV because of them.

You read the rest of that BS? I stopped after it wa clear he still doesn't understand the problem. I do thank you for summing it all up though

 

[Niddhogg]

Along another line of thought: I have never served in the Armed Forces of the US.

I have.

What was "good enough" in December of 1941 was different from the "As good as we can do right now" in June of 1945.

What would cut rope, necks, or cardboard in 1941 will in fact also cut rope, necks, and cardboard in 2022. We're not talking about the difference between Starlight scopes in 1945 and modern thermal optics, we're talking about a sharpened piece of steel. The Afghani's are using 40 year old Russian surplus, and you wouldn't sneeze at them.

A close friend viewed a few photos of our son in Iraq in 2005, and this was his immediate reaction: "Wow! Look at that web gear. We never had anything like that in Viet Nam." It is hard to tell from that image, but a close look shows the Randall #16-1 in a sheath on a drop-leg rig. And after the high polish had been bead-blared to a dull grey, it was again deemed to be "good enough" for EDC in a combat zone in the 21st Century.

I carried a noncoated knife in-country and get this-- when I did want a coated knife.... I didn't buy a shiny one! How did bead blasting it make it more combat effective than just hitting it with some spraypaint?

It would absolutely shock you how many cheap and uncoated knives were over there, I guess we just weren't "good enough" for a combat zone in the 21st century.

 

[eveled]

goldie iI thought the same way. Until I realized if I had ordered one when I first thought about it I would have had it already.

So I chose my options sent my deposit kept using my other knives. Before i knew it i got an invoice in the mail then shortly after that my knife showed up.

A $50 deposit locks in todays price. So when its ready you are paying less than retail for a new knife.

The best way is to think ahead. I ordered my kids graduation presents when they were 12. My 50th birthday present when i was 44.

 

[craytab]

goldie iI thought the same way. Until I realized if I had ordered one when I first thought about it I would have had it already.
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So I chose my options sent my deposit kept using my other knives. Before i knew it i got an invoice in the mail then shortly after that my knife showed up. View attachment 1732443

A $50 deposit locks in todays price. So when its ready you are paying less than retail for a new knife.

The best way is to think ahead. I ordered my kids graduation presents when they were 12. My 50th birthday present when i was 44.

Ah! Too shinny

 

[JohnWE]

What is it with this OP?! Looking back at his older posts in the forum, it’s just a perpetual repeat of this thread’s subject. Same story, same questions, same knock against Randall.

Check this one out from 2016.

V VorpelSword are you expecting some sort of explanation from Randall or why do you keep posting this same story over and over again about them not dulling the blade finish?

He’s a troll. His stories are laughable.

 

[goldie]

Eveled: nice knife i guess on the other hand its a nice surprise down the road and you can get the options you like :always liked those 14 attack models and they do make nice sheaths….

 

[eveled]

Thanks goldie $50 deposit, they go up about $25 a year. All of mine came quicker than the estimated time. None even took 5 years. So in 4 years you will pay $100 less than retail about sixmonths later it will arive.

The model 14 Attack does look nice. Check out the model 16 special fighter too.

Go for it! You only live once.

craytab i know you are poking fun at the OP, but mines not shiny anymore. Its all patina and grunge now. Lol.

 

[VorpelSword]

misplaced.

You bought a product wanting a feature that it did not include. 100% on you. Stop complaining.

It might appear that way but that is not actually the case.

I committed to buy the knife in the late 1990s as our son entered college, knowing that he intended to become a Marine on graduation in 2002. At the time I ordered the knife, we had not yet experienced the 9/11 attacks or thought of committing troops to intense fighting in a desert environment. At that time, the knife I ordered seemed to be what was needed. Four years later things were different. By the time the knife was delivered, the USMC, or that portion of it in charge of what the 3rd LAR Bn deployed with decided on reduced reflection knives among other things. Among these "other things" was a discussion about deploying with M-4 rifles or an M-16 variant and full-auto or three shot burst control (they took burst controlled M-4s).

By 2002, there seemed to be an industry-wide evolving consensus on mirror polished vs nonreflective blades. At the time our son was sworn-in the Randall had not yet been delivered. Instead, I gave him a Ka-Bar "21st Century Utility Fighter" with a bright D-2 Blade (an up-dated clone of the WW-II knife) . . .what I could find that seemed to be right for the event. That same knife model was soon after discontinued with a bright blade and only offered with a dark blade.

So, yeah; I did get what I ordered, but the real-world situation changed. Most other knifemakers changed too. Randall Made did not.

 

[craytab]

So, yeah; I did get what I ordered

Time to shut up then.