Browning/Barker Competition knife(pics)

very fine swell made and designed knife, especially after some edge touching up. sharpens easily something i like in a user. would trust my well being to this one. 1085C rusts quickly though so keep well oiled and enjoy. hard to beat for value.


held up very respectably against handmades in a cutting competition we ran last weekend in the taunus (germany) at markus balbach's hamemrin.

ref.: thread
http://www.messerforum.net/showthread.php?t=50359
 
hi, can someone tell me where to find this knife for under $110? I'm looking for a nice new one...looks like I gotta check out this "competition" style knife.

thanks...
 
jnanson said:
I would like info on the best place to buy this knifes also Thanks.
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The Exchange right here, on BF!

Awesome knife; couldn't resist reprofiling the handle a bit on mine (felt a bit blocky), and rounding the area where the index finger is in contact with the blade:

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I do believe that's a Chris Reeve cane. If so, you have to post some more pictures of it, either here, or linked here to somewhere.

Please. Please.

Also, where did you get it? When, and how much.....?

Lucky skunk, you.


brians said:
More gratuitous Barker pics:


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Looks like a great knife for the price.

As long as we're talking tweaking it, I would grind away the choil until I had a dropped edge, all of which could be easily sharpened.

I do the same thing for the drop-forged Wustof, Henkels, etc.

I just like a dropped edge.
 
John Frankl said:
Looks like a great knife for the price.

As long as we're talking tweaking it, I would grind away the choil until I had a dropped edge, all of which could be easily sharpened.

I do the same thing for the drop-forged Wustof, Henkels, etc.

I just like a dropped edge.
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There's no choil on this knife. I don't get what you're sayin'.
 
The Browning is a great knife for the dough for sure.

It is a bit light to be competing with the big boys in the BSI competitions though. I found the edge on mine was a bit thick as well like Gabe says. All in all a superb buy. Thanks for the art shots Just a Buyer.
 
Well I sold my DFLE after I got the Browning. To me the Browning is a better chopper than the DFLE and I love those convex edges. Has for egde retention, I chopped a lot with it in the winter time and it hold up great....amazing knife!!!! btw I keeped my DFCGs just in case...:)
 
fionafa said:
I do believe that's a Chris Reeve cane. If so, you have to post some more pictures of it, either here, or linked here to somewhere.

Please. Please.

Also, where did you get it? When, and how much.....?

Lucky skunk, you.
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no such luck. It's a cabelas hunting stick, and I broke it :thumbdn:
 
brianNH said:
FWIW- I'm sure some of the more literate members know what you meant, and that you weren't crapping on the thread or the knife. :)
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reholli said:
FWIW...if you were one of the more literate members here, you would have understood that my point was that what was said is not what was subsequently claimed. My issue was exactly the fact that neither myself nor anyone else is a mind-reader (as pointed out by Bladeandbarrel). I tend to respond to what is actually said (i.e. take what's said literally)...after all many of us here are not personal friends or long-standing acquaintences automatically able to ferret out what's really meant.

As for me, I said exactly what I meant. [FYI I was already reading and writing at upper collegiate levels in early elementary school awhile before you were even a gleam in your father's eye, and I'd match my literacy quotient (or any other measurable quotient for that matter) against yours any day.]

So you might want to follow Bladeandbarrel's suggestion to me and go and patrol elsewhere.
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You might want to learn a little more about Anthony Lombardo (A.K.A. Bladeabdbarrel) before you go taking a dump on him and what he has to say. He has a unique, "insider's" perspective of the knife industry that I'm quite sure you're not aware of, because if you were, you'd probably be listening to him instead of dumping on him, Doogie.;)
 
3Guardsmen said:
You might want to learn a little more about Anthony Lombardo (A.K.A. Bladeabdbarrel) before you go taking a dump on him and what he has to say. He has a unique, "insider's" perspective of the knife industry that I'm quite sure you're not aware of, because if you were, you'd probably be listening to him instead of dumping on him, Doogie.;)
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He might listen if it were not for the fact that he said that in 2008 and hasn't been active since 2/09. ;)
 
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