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I recently picked up a Trident Oberland 01 with a 6.5" Blade. I did a few tests at home, and then got a chance to put it to some heavy use at camp last weekend. The pics are from the few tests I did at home. I hope this is somewhat helpful. Here's my amateur review:
Here's a pic of the knife as new. For determining edge retention, I sliced into tomatoes. (It's what I could think of and had handy.
) Blade was sharpened by me to ~24* per side on my edgepro using course, medium, and then fine stones. (Pic is before I refinished the edge):
The first thing I did was some chopping in a rather large pine log. I did this just to see edge retention.
The knife held a great edge and there was no noticeable difference when cutting tomatoes.
Next I used a small log as a baton to drive the knife as a wedge into some pine wood to make 3 or 4 pieces of kindling. This worked pretty well, but a hatchet would do the job a lot faster. (The baton is leaning against the wood behind the knife).
I did hit a nail at one point while batoning the Trident. I thought it was just a knot in the wood and proceeded to beat the hell out of the knife in an attempt to get through the knot. When I finally got through and split the piece off I found that I was hitting a nail and not a knot. The result to the knife was a couple of very small chips in the blade. They would probably disappear after abot 5 minutes on the Edgepro.
Again, no notable difference in sharpness after splitting.
Next I decided to chop throgh the the piece of wood I was using as a baton. The Trident is balanced well for chopping and feels very sturdy as a chopping tool. The small log was easily defeated in about two minutes.
I also dug a small hole with the knife. The result was a slightly dulled point, and leading edge. This made it a bit tougher to cut with the curved part of the blade, but not with straight edge.
Heres a pic of the knife after my home tests:
The weekend after I did these few trials, I took the knife to scout camp and really hammered it. I used it for everythig from food prep, to felling small trees, to carving tent stakes, to cleaning fish. I also let some of the scouts use it for splitting and chopping some firewood. They somehow managed to cause about a 1/4" long very small roll on the edge. They said they were just chopping wood with it, but I suspect it saw more than simple chopping. Regardless, the rest of the edge stayed reasonably sharp, and was still very useful for everything we threw at it.
Here she is good as new again!
:
Overall, I am incredibly pleased with my Trident. It survived everything I needed it to survive, and will be my camp knife for a long while to come.
Here's a pic of the knife as new. For determining edge retention, I sliced into tomatoes. (It's what I could think of and had handy.
) Blade was sharpened by me to ~24* per side on my edgepro using course, medium, and then fine stones. (Pic is before I refinished the edge):
The first thing I did was some chopping in a rather large pine log. I did this just to see edge retention.
The knife held a great edge and there was no noticeable difference when cutting tomatoes.
Next I used a small log as a baton to drive the knife as a wedge into some pine wood to make 3 or 4 pieces of kindling. This worked pretty well, but a hatchet would do the job a lot faster. (The baton is leaning against the wood behind the knife).
I did hit a nail at one point while batoning the Trident. I thought it was just a knot in the wood and proceeded to beat the hell out of the knife in an attempt to get through the knot. When I finally got through and split the piece off I found that I was hitting a nail and not a knot. The result to the knife was a couple of very small chips in the blade. They would probably disappear after abot 5 minutes on the Edgepro.
Again, no notable difference in sharpness after splitting.
Next I decided to chop throgh the the piece of wood I was using as a baton. The Trident is balanced well for chopping and feels very sturdy as a chopping tool. The small log was easily defeated in about two minutes.
I also dug a small hole with the knife. The result was a slightly dulled point, and leading edge. This made it a bit tougher to cut with the curved part of the blade, but not with straight edge.
Heres a pic of the knife after my home tests:
The weekend after I did these few trials, I took the knife to scout camp and really hammered it. I used it for everythig from food prep, to felling small trees, to carving tent stakes, to cleaning fish. I also let some of the scouts use it for splitting and chopping some firewood. They somehow managed to cause about a 1/4" long very small roll on the edge. They said they were just chopping wood with it, but I suspect it saw more than simple chopping. Regardless, the rest of the edge stayed reasonably sharp, and was still very useful for everything we threw at it.
Here she is good as new again!
:
Overall, I am incredibly pleased with my Trident. It survived everything I needed it to survive, and will be my camp knife for a long while to come.
