Condor Rodan

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I was curious wether the Condor Rodan is a good knife for batoning and general utility use?

If you have one could you take pics?
 
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I've been wondering about this as well. Don't hear too much about them.
Maybe Joezilla could give some info on them?

Cheers
 
Everything I have read seems to indicate that it is a great hard use knife. Haven't had the pleasure of handling one yet, but I did fill out the order form for SMKW......just trying to figure out how to get it into the mail without the wife finding out :D

Doc
 
It is a brute, Much like the BK2. You will never hurt it. I got one about a year ago.
 
42blades says: tough like a BK2 and cuts like a mora (and priced similarly).

Bunch to like about that reference
 
Handled one, and it felt like a very nice blade, especially considering the price that it hovers around. Very nice.
 
theedge13 said:
42blades says: tough like a BK2 and cuts like a mora (and priced similarly).

Bunch to like about that reference
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I do say that. :D It's one of my favorite hard-use woods knives. Tough, comfortable, and REALLY easy on the wallet. Decent sheath too! It's one of the best $20 knives around. :cool::thumbup:

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By the way, the coating isn't worn off--that's just pitch from the fatwood.
 
man, if they could charge 5 bucks more for a full tang version with cheap walnut scales... this knife would be undoubtably the best budget survival knife out there.
 
Do you have any idea how beefy the tang on that thing is? :eek: It would be cool to see one with wooden scales, but it would kind of be overkill! Whenever Joe pops his head in here he'll be able to post up a pic he has of one he sawed the handle off of. It's essentially an encapsulated full tang, if there could be such a thing. It goes all the way down to the lanyard hole and a little beyond, and is only just far enough under the plastic for there to be a little meat around it.

Honestly, the polypropylene handles are awesome when it comes to survival, since there's no way you could possibly damage them short of throwing it in the fire! :D

A nice leather sheath comes with the knife, regardless of who you buy it from.
 
Hmm, I may wind up stripping mine down then and doing a leather grip on it. We'll see how I like it when it gets here, I'm on a rustic gear binge right now
 
I like everything about the Rodan, except for that looks like a good 1 1/2 of the blade wasted by the grind. :(
 
Mine is a first-gen Rodan. The second-gen ones look much nicer. :)
 
samhain73 said:
I like everything about the Rodan, except for that looks like a good 1 1/2 of the blade wasted by the grind. :(
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Looks like a great knife, I wonder too why the grind stops so early though.

Also curious about the need for guys to have a full tang on a knife this size. Have you guys ever broke a knife like this on the tang?
 
GrinderMcgee said:
Looks like a great knife, I wonder too why the grind stops so early though.

Also curious about the need for guys to have a full tang on a knife this size. Have you guys ever broke a knife like this on the tang?
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Yeah--I seriously doubt that a 400-pound gorilla could bust this knife at the tang if he was using a sledge hammer to baton it through granite. The blade would be turned into a twisted mess (good luck doing that!) before the handle or tang failed.

In terms of the grind, again, mine is a first-gen which had more sloppy grinds. The present production ones are WAY better looking. Here's a pic that Joe had posted on another forum of a second-gen one.

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Erdbeereis said:
I'm pretty sure it does, but if you get it from knifecenter you get a sheath right?
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Checked out knifecenter and they wanted to charge me more for shipping
to Canada than they were charging for the knife itself.

Any other shippers out there that I can check out?
 
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