Did your first Becker change your thoughts on Knives?

Yes, primarily because I stopped carrying a folding knife in favor carrying a small fixed blade.

Also the Becker's are just plain cool.
 
No but it changed the way I looked a woods bumming TOOLS ;)

To me a knife is still an $8 Mora 511, a Becker is for something completely different..
 
Not really changed me but they have changed what knives I use in which circumstance.

I have always preferred quality knives (and all other tools, for that matter). My user knives have always been Kabars and Westerns. What Becker knives have done is expose me to HEAVY-USER knives. Prior to BK2s and BK9s, any chopping I did was with hatchets and axes (or chainsaws :D ). Axes and hatchets still have a place in my outdoors life, but for lighter work, a 2 or a 9 will allow for cutting and chopping with one tools. Vintage Kabars and Westerns will always be my day-to-day EDC users, but Beckers have wormed their way into my farm work and outdoor fun.
 
For me, I've for a loooong time known when I hold a knife if it has "it" when it comes to quality and ability. As has been more eloquently put, the BK&T line has put more quality steel in the hands of true knife hounds than the VAST majority of companies out there. My first becker was a 9, and it is now the reference for all of my other large chopper/outdoor knives. Do I have other brands? Yes of course, I'm a collector as much as a user, but the Beckers are, for the money the best I have found to date .
 
Did your first Becker change your thoughts on Knives?

Yes it did. It revealed how ignorant and naïve I was about knives. I remember missing the non skeletonized twos and buying the newer version, with the intention of breaking it to prove a point. I ripped up and pried the living crap out of many a stump, and the 2 laughed at me. Long before that I had a Brute which gave me great comfort in an isolated location. But it was really the 2 that changed it all for me. I carried my 2 most of a summer and fall while metal detecting in river bush and fields. Years later I know that Becker's aren't high end, nor are they junk. I see them as tough knives for the working outdoorsman, which are affordable for the average Joe.
 
First one was a BK 11 which now belongs to a grandson. The change for me was that I now have a whole bunch of Beckers and other quality knives acquired mostly on Becker mountain. Really too many for me to use but I have 5 grandsons so it will all work out.;)
 
upnorth said:
Did your first Becker change your thoughts on Knives?

... I know that Becker's aren't high end, nor are they junk. I see them as tough knives for the working outdoorsman, which are affordable for the average Joe.
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This sums it up quite nicely... :thumbup:
 
Yes, primarily in that I found that a good outdoors knife didn't have to cost a ridiculous amount of money. You pay your money, you get a good, carbon steel knife, with a great warranty, headed by a really great guy (Ethan) that will serve any realistic purpose you need a knife for, and it will cost you under a hundred bucks. You can get "super steels" that give you a fractional benefit in a few different areas, or that never "break" or "chip" or any of a hundred different styles of handles, colors, sheaths (or not), made by some big name or some other company, but what you cannot get is more value for your dollar than almost any other knife company out there can offer. For all the testing that has been done, all the unrealistic abuse, it is pretty well a given that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, a BK&T knife is going to stand up to whatever you can dish out, and it will do so in all the ways you need it to and none of the ways you don't.

I have many knives. I have many knives in various sizes, and steels, and styles, and no matter what the task when I look at what I would prefer to have with me the answer is always a BK&T knife. Always. There has to be a reason for that, and I think that those of here that own BK&T knives know just what that reason is. Value. Toughness. Reliability. Confidence.

As Pointy said to me, a BK&T knife isn't just a piece of sharpened steel, it is an entire mindset that can turn the outdoors world into a place that isn't some menagerie of wildlife and trees and plants but rather a shopping mall of materials, resources, and projects. It isn't like that for all of us, I will admit, but I will say that for myself, I'm not an outdoorsman with a BK&T knife, I am an outdoorsman because of a BK&T knife, and I know that no matter what the situation, no matter what the location, so long as I have that BK&T knife on my belt, mother nature can do her worst.

But she damn well better be prepared for me to do mine...

(For the record, I have been about to reply to this thread at least five times since it was posted, but it is very hard to do so without it turning into a huge exposition on the subject. This is one of the better threads to come around lately, and definitely one of the most thought provoking. :thumbup: )
 
tanglediver said:
With my first paid job, I bought a knife.
I was maybe 8 or 10, can't remember. I wanted it to be quality, it soon broke. I was given knives, bought quite a few, and broke very many in my time.

Quality is the anti-BS in knife design. Beckers are quality, and they have one of the best handle designs, period.

I still have an old broken dive knife that I repaired the tang on. I was searching for a good handle design to copy when I stumbled onto the Beckers. When I finish with my rudimentary repair, it will be my most sincere form of flattery.

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nice rusty piece of steel and boxcutter you got there
 
Yes, to the extent that I've always preferred small knives and thought that guys touted a honking big knife were Rambo wannabes. I bought a BK 9 a couple of weeks ago after I broke the handle out of a Swiss kindling splitter. I wanted a stout knife as a replacement and wise men here recommended the BK9. It works great and has earned a place by my wood stove. But the ergonomics are so good that it will also replace my beloved Buck 124 for heavy duty woods work. It's a heck of a knife.
 
Since I got the BK2 here in the beginning of the year, what 4 weeks ago? Is been makin' kindling daily, this has convinced me that some fixed blades are meant to be beaten through wood and the BK2 is one of them. :) :thumbup:
 
Yes. Tougher version of a 7" F/U knife.

Since then I've become good friends with the designer.

Moose
 
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