Chinook Question for Sal...

[JD Mandrell]

Any chance of a smaller version of the Chinook?

Same blade thickness and heavy duty quality, just a little shorter?

 

[Carlos]

How about this?

<img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid27/pc69eda89ee1c2ad2f1c74b3d1c31b41a/fe195ec0.jpg.orig.jpg">

3" CPM-440V blade, 4mm thick. MBC rated compression lock, dual steel liners. 4.5oz.

Not exactly a Chinook Jr., but pretty close.

Scan borrowed from collectors club member #015.

 

[ThinkOfTheChildren]

Originally posted by Carlos
Scan borrowed from collectors club member #015.

Actually, I'm not a collectors club member but that is my knife/picture Feel free to use it however you want.

BTW, the Temperance Jr. has a more delicate blade than the Chinook so I wouldn't say it's as much of a "hard use" piece.

 

[Carlos]

Originally posted by ThinkOfTheChildren
Actually, I'm not a collectors club member but that is my knife/picture Feel free to use it however you want.

Thanks.

Originally posted by ThinkOfTheChildren
BTW, the Temperance Jr. has a more delicate blade than the Chinook so I wouldn't say it's as much of a "hard use" piece.

Could you give us some insight into how the Temperance Jr. blade is "more delicate?" I thought they were both ground from stock of the same thickness.

 

[ThinkOfTheChildren]

Well, Carlos, the spine of the Temperance Jr. is very thick indeed. It is fully-flat-ground, however, so the blade does not retain much of that thickness. The Chinook, however, does not start its hollow grind until much further down the blade. The trailing point Temperance Jr. is also more delicate than the leaf point because of the decreasing spine thickness.

Not to say that the Temperance Jr isn't a tank of a small knife but I wouldn't use it for any kind of chopping (not sure how a knife this size could chop anyway) and I definitley wouldn't do any prying with a Temp Jr. But that aint what a knife is for anyway, right?

 

[Brandon -B-]

haven't there been similar knives but smaller than the chinook such as the Renegade? if you look very hard I'm sure youcould find one somewhere for sale on the net.

 

[The Fisherman]

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