CRKT over Buck

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cgusek111

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I have read many Buck over Gerber threads. Well, I wanted to throw this into the mix and share with you my experience with CRKT. My CRKT First Strike holds an edge better than my Buck 119. They both batton, and handle the minor chores of the outdoors great, but my 119 lost an edge faster. I not trying to put down a legend here. I was surprised myself. The 119 is a great knife and I still love it. But, when I head out into the bush I'm grabbing my CRKT. I was always able to do the same thing with a tanto outdoors that I could with any other style blade so that really wasn't an issue. CRKT:thumbup:
 
Hey, if you ever get a Cold Steel G.I. Tanto, I'd like to hear how it stacks up.

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The CRKT First Strike and the Buck 119 are very different knives. I don't think I would want to assess the merits of two entire companies by comparing one sample each of such very different knives.
 
OK. The CRKT works better for your purposes. So does that mean that all CRKT knives are better than all Buck knives for all purposes? Of course not, and I actually don't think you meant that. But that was how I read your first post.
 
Yep, it sure does. But so what?

The tanto grinds are different. The steel is different. The color is different (the CS employs no cameo design; it's just black, which I would prefer). Oh, and the prices are different.

The tanto blades are nothing new; in fact, it was Cold Steel that helped popularize them in the shapes shown here. Hilts also are nothing new. Steel blades with paracord aren't new, either. There's not enough originality offered by Strider to win any sort of a court case. In fact, if you review Strider's other flatware paracords, you'll see that he has designed every single type of blade configuration, with and without hilts. In short, it would be almost impossible to design a flatware paracord that didn't already look like one of his "creations."

I'm not crazy about the way the CRKT's design, as I believe that hilts should be on a knife of this type. I also favor the carbon steel used on the Cold Steel over the premium stainless steel used by the Strider. Finally, CS left more steel behind the primary point than Strider's design, which would make it stronger in that area.

Overall, and regardless of price, if you dropped me somewhere where I'd have to live off the land in a survival mode, I'd take the CS G.I. Tanto over the Strider any day.
 
Wow, just what we need. Another CS/Strider slam fest. Nice hijack.
 
cguske111, what were the two steels on the two knives?

Any idea if it was one chore in particular that dulled the Buck?

I dont understand how the post on Cold Steel vs. Strider has any place on this thread, at all...
 
sirahren said:
I dont understand how the post on Cold Steel vs. Strider has any place on this thread, at all...
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Neither do I, however, I think Confederate was trying to say that Buck is to CRKT as Strider is to Cold Steel, or something along those lines.:p

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I hope this doesn't turn into a slam fest either. That wasn't my intention. And I hope everyone understands that I wasn't intending to bash Buck either. I love my Buck just as much. If I remember correctly it was the batonning and chopping that dulled the Buck faster. The CRKT is 440A and the Buck is 420 HC.
 
Thanks for answering my questions cgusek111!

I've had a lot of "high end" knives come up lacking when chopping.
I've chipped and dulled high end emersons and Spydercos. I know if you supposedly sharpen them further in they retain edges better because of how a lot of heat treat processes work. Maybe thats the case with these? Either way, thanks for the interesting findings!
 
I've had my First Strike a few years, it's an excellent value. I use if for my camping knife. It's sharp enough for food duty, and sturdy enough for light chopping and batoning. Not to say it's a great knife, I'm saying it's a great value.
 
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