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Buck Selkirk Knife
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I love how it looks, very clean lines, nice transitions into the handle scales. Looks like a real work horse. Last I checked there were a couple review threads on BF. I'm sad about the China thing though, last year they said they would have 100% American produced knives by now.
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No, but it does look very much like an evolution of their Vanguard, a knife I enjoyed a fair bit mebe as long back as the late '80s.
I wouldn't trip on the China thing at all. In common with a lot of other knives one can often get way more for the money buy purchasing foreign built knives. Without handling one I can't be positive but this looks like a knife that is a big bunch nicer than the Vanguard for the same sort of price.
For my taste the blade itself look like a far more useful grind [although on a vid I saw it sounded like a Scandi when going through broccoli mebe 'cos the **** had been cutting on textured glass though]. Tuned up properly I envisage it to cut a lot of things way better than the Vanguard.
I tend to prefer rubber handles [one of the things that attracted me to the Vanguard at the time]. That said, the handle of the Selkirk does look far better to me. And it undoubtedly looks like more money went into making it.
As far as design goes I'd only have two reservations:
1] Cosmetic I really don't like the end of the pommel. Sure custom makers can often use fluting and whatnot to good effect, but with production pieces like this it just strikes me as cheesy. Skull beads, hackneyed playing card logos, Mexican cartel spider tattoos under the eye, all that imagery is tacky. If it is a production piece leave all the fluting and other adornments on the kiddies pudding moulds.
2] Useless area Opinions on choils seem to polarize people in a way that makes no sense to me. I tend to love 'em, but they aren't prerequisite. My stance is if you are going to have one have a genuinely advantageous one. The one on this offering sux. It is too small to use as a choil, and way to big just to be a notch cut out to aid those that find sharpening a challenge. In fact, going from a Buck spokesman, it is there for the purpose of dragging a fire rod across. That's just daft. Personally, I round inappropriate sharp bits off working knives to make them more comfortable to use. Deliberately having sharp corners at the places where your hand might want to be is to reduce the performance of the knife so you can do what, fire steel stunts. On that, even if you had tiny hands or the choil area was bigger one is still going to need to go in and soften that area for comfort if not radius that whole section.
Sort version = It looks like a great evolution of the Vanguard design to me. And that has been successful for Buck for decades. They know better than I what magpie features are required to sell in bulk on today's market, but for me, no need to guild the lilly. Strip the bling and the ferro scraping crap and I'd like it more.
I wouldn't trip on the China thing at all. In common with a lot of other knives one can often get way more for the money buy purchasing foreign built knives. Without handling one I can't be positive but this looks like a knife that is a big bunch nicer than the Vanguard for the same sort of price.
For my taste the blade itself look like a far more useful grind [although on a vid I saw it sounded like a Scandi when going through broccoli mebe 'cos the **** had been cutting on textured glass though]. Tuned up properly I envisage it to cut a lot of things way better than the Vanguard.
I tend to prefer rubber handles [one of the things that attracted me to the Vanguard at the time]. That said, the handle of the Selkirk does look far better to me. And it undoubtedly looks like more money went into making it.
As far as design goes I'd only have two reservations:
1] Cosmetic I really don't like the end of the pommel. Sure custom makers can often use fluting and whatnot to good effect, but with production pieces like this it just strikes me as cheesy. Skull beads, hackneyed playing card logos, Mexican cartel spider tattoos under the eye, all that imagery is tacky. If it is a production piece leave all the fluting and other adornments on the kiddies pudding moulds.
2] Useless area Opinions on choils seem to polarize people in a way that makes no sense to me. I tend to love 'em, but they aren't prerequisite. My stance is if you are going to have one have a genuinely advantageous one. The one on this offering sux. It is too small to use as a choil, and way to big just to be a notch cut out to aid those that find sharpening a challenge. In fact, going from a Buck spokesman, it is there for the purpose of dragging a fire rod across. That's just daft. Personally, I round inappropriate sharp bits off working knives to make them more comfortable to use. Deliberately having sharp corners at the places where your hand might want to be is to reduce the performance of the knife so you can do what, fire steel stunts. On that, even if you had tiny hands or the choil area was bigger one is still going to need to go in and soften that area for comfort if not radius that whole section.
Sort version = It looks like a great evolution of the Vanguard design to me. And that has been successful for Buck for decades. They know better than I what magpie features are required to sell in bulk on today's market, but for me, no need to guild the lilly. Strip the bling and the ferro scraping crap and I'd like it more.
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Really happy with mine.