Choilless INFImandu Death Chat

[ScoMa]

Blades without some kind of a choil look funny to me. I would like to see a RMD with a small choil like the SOB and Hog Badger had though.

Agreed. Just enough choil to make fully sharpening a breeze.

 

[bikerector]

I would be down. It's one thing I really noticed about my safety mutt when I was comparing it to the recent FFG RMD I picked up. That little extra space on the mutt was nice when I was processing wood around the campfire last fall.

 

[Father & Son Traditional Sharpening]

I think they pulled the RATmandus off the website in order to make room in the production schedule for these new choilless Ratmandus that are rumored to be coming in 2 WEEKS!!!

 

[lmcq784]

I can't say I like choiless blades. As a matter of fact, I don't like the look at all. For proper sharpening, there needs to at least be a tiny sharpening choil, unless the heel of the blade extends past the handles to an abrupt end like most kitchen knives. But with a talon hole, you need a choil of some sort.

Just my 2¢

 

[Andy the Aussie]

Give me choils or give me death !!!

 

[jdheadrick21]

To choil or not to choil — why waste blade space? That is the question...

I mean really — when the cops measure from tip to where the handle begins — why not make it count???

 

[jdheadrick21]

I don’t care if sharpening makes it look like a funky recurve. I want my blade to be blade (not handle)! Just sayin.

 

[Father & Son Traditional Sharpening]

I can't say I like choiless blades. As a matter of fact, I don't like the look at all. For proper sharpening, there needs to at least be a tiny sharpening choil, unless the hell of the blade extends past the handles to an abrupt end like most kitchen knives. But with a talon hole, you need a choil of some sort.

Just my 2¢

I do not agree at all it is necessary to sharpen, but I sharpen different than most

 

[Father & Son Traditional Sharpening]

This is how I sharpen roughly.... not my video but where I learned this method from.

 

[JACKMANDU]

I wouldn’t mind a choil less model to be offered next. My wallet could use a break!

 

[David Brown]

What about no choil, with serrations where the choil would have been?

Like one single small serration ?

Blades without some kind of a choil look funny to me. I would like to see a RMD with a small choil like the SOB and Hog Badger had though.

This guy gets it

But even smaller.

a small choil or elf choil if you will
kind of like the Choil-less Hinderer's

Choil-less just looks Ugly in my opinion

Even smaller than the SOB

 

[hhmoore]

RMD with sharpening choil...
I'd buy that

 

[clampdaddy]

I get the feeling that the boys in the Swamp are going to give the RMD their mega treatment.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

I'd buy a couple. Kids need knives to work towards too.

 

[MR HAPPY]

A choil-less INFImandu would be amazing. I'd buy a couple at least.

 

[clampdaddy]

A super slicey Elmax version would make a great hunting knife.

 

[Dunner]

I would be in for one or more. That is a great utility knife design *almost. I have been one of those banging the "no-choil" drum for 10 years or so. Knives that are around 6" or less should have a handle design that allows you to get close to the edge without a choil period (FOR ME). If I can't effectively chop with a knife it should not have a choil. There are two problems with smaller knife designs in the family apart from the choil. The painfully gradual slope from the index area to the guard/edge and the need to have a guard big enough to include a talon hole which is a useless but ubiquitous trademarked design feature. If a small/medium knife was made without a choil, with a steep slope to the guard/edge, and NO guard/talon hole I would be buying without any self control. I drifted off when the natural index area of knives made without a choil still left me 1" or so from the edge. I could go on and on...

Still a huge fan and interested in buying "family" products firstly, secondly and thirdly. I like doing small camp chores and carving with a knife and there are designs that make these tasks easier. I still carry and use a Busse SAR Warden for these things because after being a customer and a SAR volunteer for 11 years (no longer active), it is a trophy of sorts.

Edited to add >>> "(...FOR ME)".

 

[Dunner]

I did pull the trigger on a Swamp Rat Mega Warden but I plan to grind the guard down so the choil is actually big enough to put a digit in and to bring my grip closer to the working edge. As designed it's the worst of both worlds. Kind of an obnoxious concession to have to make but the only reason I have been coming back to the forum is in hopes that Assault Shakers (a knife that also has a guard/talon hole?!) have another run. A modified Mega Warden sort of scratches the itch of a bomber skeletonized Busse

 

[Dunner]

I get a small gap for sharpening...

Look at the Badger Dave posted. The index area is WAY too far from the edge and I generally LOVE Badgers (nice, round, distal belly, straight edge, mostly straight spine with little drop). Back when the No-Choils started coming out like the BOSS Jack, Tank Buster and others (which I also bought) they had a long reach for the edge. When the Muck was released, I liked it, I was thankful for something new... but the slope from the index area to the edge was so gradual I passed. Brutal. Great looking knife though and I thought that basic handle design had some legs (with a steeper sweep to the edge).

I'm too old. Sorry.

 

[Currawong]

Knives that are around 6" or less should have a handle design that allows you to get close to the edge without a choil period (FOR ME).

This is what appeals to me. You get a lot more leverage and control if your hand is right next to the portion of the blade you're push-cutting with. Also, things get caught on choils when cutting stuff.