Condor Knives

FortyTwoBlades said:
Me too. Love the green handle and thinner blade.



Very well in blades of their hardness range. The extra carbon wouldn't be much benefit, honestly.
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There goes my ''I'm blade saturated'' stance. I give up, I just like getting and using these things outdoors. Hi...My name is Chris...and I am a blade addict. :D
 
I have the 15 inch bolo and really like it. I have been meaning to track down an engineer bolo but not that many people have them in stock currently.
 
Yeah--I can tell you right now that most of Condor's distributors are low on stock right now. I imagine some big waves will be coming back in soon if things go as usual.
 
Wow, I'm difinitely picking up a few of those new designs. Condor is absolutely the best bang for the buck for hard use tools and they keep getting better.
 
My only experience with condor was a poor one. I bought a large camp knife and it came terribly dull. The edge was about 0.5mm thick. I'd like to try more of the condors, but I really don't want to take the risk of getting a dud!
 
Condor has the right approach as far as I'm concerned. They really seem to stay up with the market trends and deliver a ton of really cool traditional as well as more modern blades, and some more outlandish stuff at very reasonable rates. My favorite is my Hudson Bay, it has given stellar performance to date, and I feel like I got my moneys worth and then some out of it. Their 1075, while simplistic is about right for a slightly harder use knife, and has decent edge retention for what it is. Given the price it's a reliable choice IMHO.
 
timbit said:
My only experience with condor was a poor one. I bought a large camp knife and it came terribly dull. The edge was about 0.5mm thick. I'd like to try more of the condors, but I really don't want to take the risk of getting a dud!
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I got a few like that also bud, last year, or the year before. I took an axe file to thin the shoulders out, as per advice given to me. It helped a lot. I also had to do the same thing on a few other brands also, particularly with machetes. But the word is that the movers and shakers are working on these old issues.
 
upnorth said:
I got a few like that also bud, last year, or the year before. I took an axe file to thin the shoulders out, as per advice given to me. It helped a lot. I also had to do the same thing on a few other brands also, particularly with machetes. But the word is that the movers and shakers are working on these old issues.
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Maybe i'll order from FortyTwoBlades...I head he inspects all of his knives before shipping. I bought my condor on Amazon, which was probably half the problem.

I've been eying some of their bushcrafters. Might have to grab one and give them another go.
 
timbit said:
Maybe i'll order from FortyTwoBlades...I head he inspects all of his knives before shipping. I bought my condor on Amazon, which was probably half the problem.

I've been eying some of their bushcrafters. Might have to grab one and give them another go.
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Well Bud, to be honest I've had dodgey grinds on Some of my Condors, Beckers and a slightly gimpy Spyderco (not really edge related). Nothing was all that drastic to me and many people don't mind puttering around to fine tune their cutting tools. I still have and like all of the slightly hinkey knives, which were usually easily corrected. It just gave me some more sharpening practice. Take the low price into consideration then assess the entire package and the value is there. Fit and finnish may or may not be a little rough but most of these are tools meant for real work, not created as a mantle piece, although some are lookers also. This is not a slam to you, just how I see Condors.
 
I've found that the WorkSharp Knife and tool sharpener (with the guard removed), does a grand job of thinning out overly thick convex blade grinds. It's been a great investment.
 
timbit said:
Maybe i'll order from FortyTwoBlades...I head he inspects all of his knives before shipping. I bought my condor on Amazon, which was probably half the problem.

I've been eying some of their bushcrafters. Might have to grab one and give them another go.
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You heard correctly. In fact, I inspect them before they're even put in inventory. :)
 
Honestly that's probably the one I'm least excited about myself as the proportions and styling aren't what I'd desire in a piece of the type--however I find the use of a habaki/tsuba very exciting because that means that steel guards are now on the table in terms of possible future designs.
 
timbit said:
Maybe i'll order from FortyTwoBlades...I head he inspects all of his knives before shipping. I bought my condor on Amazon, which was probably half the problem.

I've been eying some of their bushcrafters. Might have to grab one and give them another go.
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Plus, he offers his "special grade". I am sure if you wanted the edge thinned, he could prob do that as well. What say you 42Blades ??? :D
 
Can do! Even on models that don't have the Special Grade option available you can always just shoot me an email and I can chat it out with ya'.
 
Quick response ! Now THATS great service right there. You don't get that level of service with ANY of the big box knife stores. When i was at one of them stores in Tn. , i had them sharpen one of my new knives that i bought. For $1. LOL It came back less sharp than when i gave it to him.
 
I watched a guy SLAM a knife i gave him to sharpen on his diamond wheel. He promised me it wouldn't burn the edge, so I used the knife, and put pressure on the edge to the side. All up and down the blade. The only spots that bent, were the ones he sharpened. He now has a squirt bottle next to his rig.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Oh nylon is plenty easy to clean--just spray it down with a hose and let it dry. :)

I'm most excited for the Matagi this year. What's the width on that? :cool:
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I have never used one, but the Condor knives look to be good for the price. i am curious where they got the name. "matagi" means "wind" in Samoan and perhaps in other Pacific languages.
Faiaoga
 
Oo OOOO! Me!! Me!!! :::Raises hand frantically in the back row of the classroom:::: I know this one!!! (I better since I named it)

wiki:
The Matagi (Japanese: 又鬼) are traditional winter hunters of the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, most famously today in the Shirakami-Sanchi forest between Akita and Aomori. They hunt deer and bear, and their culture has much in common with the bear cult of the Ainu. They live in small hamlets of the mountain beech forests of Tōhoku and engage in agriculture during the planting and harvest season. In the winter and early spring, they form hunting bands that spend weeks at a time in the forest. With the introduction of guns in the 20th century, the need for group hunting for bear has diminished, leading to a decline in Matagi culture.

If you look up Matagi knife, you will see the blade.


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