BPS Knives of Ukraine

Jack Black said:
Yes, I agree Rick :) Fair enough, they look good, but I'm happy with the stock knives I've had with them, particularly for the price :thumbsup:
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Totally agree. I typically do not buy a knife and start changing things, unless the knife was purchased as a project knife. The BPS knives do look good and from what I have read here are good knives. I should order a couple.
Was holding out hopeful these would be one of the BF forum knives as suggested several pages back. Have not seen any movement on that front lately so I guess I order direct.
 
Jack Black said:
Same here Jer, I think they're all like that. I think that other knife is just shown as an example of a custom, as BPS sell the blades :thumbsup:
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Aha. Got it.
I bought a nice, flat, straight, slat of oak. This will be faster and easier than cutting straight pieces off a block.
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(I'm changing them because the originals don't reach the edges of the tang, and I don't like the bare tang around the lanyard hole under the heel of my hand.)
 
RLB0414 said:
Totally agree. I typically do not buy a knife and start changing things, unless the knife was purchased as a project knife. The BPS knives do look good and from what I have read here are good knives. I should order a couple.
Was holding out hopeful these would be one of the BF forum knives as suggested several pages back. Have not seen any movement on that front lately so I guess I order direct.
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Me too, though I have to admit that is partly down to laziness! :D Wouldn't that have been fantastic, a great opportunity to produce something really historic :( :thumbsup:
screened porch said:
Aha. Got it.
I bought a nice, flat, straight, slat of oak. This will be faster and easier than cutting straight pieces off a block.
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(I'm changing them because the originals don't reach the edges of the tang, and I don't like the bare tang around the lanyard hole under the heel of my hand.)
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Good idea Jer, I'm looking forward to seeing how that one turns out :cool: :thumbsup:
 
While I'm at it, I don't like this handle either.
The tight radius might be ok without the finger-grooves, or the finger-grooves might be ok in a less tight radius, but together they're bugging me.
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And why must these darn kids nowadays leave a corner of naked tang on everything?
 
Just ordered 2 of their "stand with Ukraine" camp knife, one for me and one as a gift.
It'll probably be a year or so before I can see and handle them since I'm currently traveling, and that's if they ever get to Canada in the first place.
But the fact that those guys still show up for work everyday with everything that's going on is simply amazing, and deserving of support.
Slava Ukraini!
 
screened porch said:
Yeah.
Maybe I'll tackle that savage today. The flat grind was why I had to have that one.
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The flat grind was why I chose the savage as well.

I keep looking at it. The scales are nice enough after being sanded down, but it's not like me to leave something like that alone. There are a few nice pieces of wood laying around here that need a home....
 
bort2.0 said:
Also, I have a question on the HK2 -- what's the purpose of the false edge on the top? Wild looking knife, but I kind of can't figure it out! Lol

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Don't know if you're joking, but those help push penetration of the blade, a method that is used for quickly and humanly dispatching fish and game animals.
 
Floatingby said:
Just ordered 2 of their "stand with Ukraine" camp knife, one for me and one as a gift.
It'll probably be a year or so before I can see and handle them since I'm currently traveling, and that's if they ever get to Canada in the first place.
But the fact that those guys still show up for work everyday with everything that's going on is simply amazing, and deserving of support.
Slava Ukraini!
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Good for you :) Safe travels :) Nobody else has reported any knives going missing, so hopefully you'll have a nice knife to come home to, and a special gift for your friend :) :thumbsup:

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RickHuf said:
The flat grind was why I chose the savage as well.

I keep looking at it. The scales are nice enough after being sanded down, but it's not like me to leave something like that alone. There are a few nice pieces of wood laying around here that need a home....
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Be interesting to see anything you come up with Rick :thumbsup:

bort2.0 said:
Just learned about the blue and yellow micarta handles Ukrainian Independence knife. Wish I could track down one of those!
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That's a shame you missed it, as it took a surprisingly long time to sell out. Good luck in finding one :thumbsup:

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bort2.0 said:
Also, I have a question on the HK2 -- what's the purpose of the false edge on the top? Wild looking knife, but I kind of can't figure it out! Lol

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Heaven knows! :D :thumbsup:
 
Update -- I ended up keeping the nighthawk, and swapping the scales onto the carbon steel blade.

I think the grind of the stainless blade is off a bit on the tang, neither set of scales gets quite flush on the top and bottom. Can be fixed, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Conversely, both sets of scales are a perfect fit on the carbon steel blade.

Here's a photo... A bit of an illusion, these are exactly the same size. With all the BPS knives I've had so far, with a little work on the unfinished handles goes a very long way.

 
bort2.0 said:
Jack Black Jack Black I only learned about BPS knives a few weeks ago, so... :)
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That's a shame. Hopefully they'll be doing another solidarity run before too long :) I sure hope they'll do another run of Hephaestus knives :cool: :thumbsup:
bort2.0 said:
Update -- I ended up keeping the nighthawk, and swapping the scales onto the carbon steel blade.

I think the grind of the stainless blade is off a bit on the tang, neither set of scales gets quite flush on the top and bottom. Can be fixed, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Conversely, both sets of scales are a perfect fit on the carbon steel blade.

Here's a photo... A bit of an illusion, these are exactly the same size. With all the BPS knives I've had so far, with a little work on the unfinished handles goes a very long way.

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Interesting :cool: :thumbsup:
 
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