EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

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Sharp & Fiery said:
That’s crazy cool. Next time, I want to be there when ya do it! So interesting.
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It’s one of my favorite things to do in the spring. The fire is cool to witness, but the grow back of the pasture over the next few weeks is absolutely amazing. Life is great out here in the sticks. God bless
 
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Sharp & Fiery said:
I don’t want to light the fire. I can do that here in my fire pit. Haha. More interested in hearing the why, the benefits and watching how it is controlled. 👍🏼
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It’s actually fairly easy. I don’t need much help, only took 15 gallons of water to control the backfire. Dog is there for moral support. Wife came along to pick me up after my drip torch stroll starting the fires. Our pasture is cut up into five different sections because of a creek, draw between the two ponds, an old abandoned railroad right of way and roads on both sides north and south. Our property has a lot of history. It’s been in my wife’s family since it was homesteaded in 1870. We have the signed deed on our wall from President Ulysses S. Grant. God bless
 
ChazzyP said:
Thanks for the quote, reply, and input maxjeg.

Have you seen that knife somewhere with the name "snatch"? All I'd seen naming it "Snach" was the original seller's listing, followed by the subsequent seller's listing. I know that's not a Russian word. What I posited was the original lister using English alphabet letter equivalents to approximate as closely as possible a Russian pronunciation. Again, even though it's not a Russian word, type "Snach" into the Russian side of the Google Translate app opposite the to English side and see that it says "Translating снах" below. Hit the speaker icon (pronunciation) to listen, then replace "Snach" with "снах", hit the speaker again, and also note that below "снах" it says "snakh", type that in and hit speaker. All three pronounce the same and all three translate to "dream" on the English side. Maybe this is just a stretch, though....

As far as the lock patent goes, it was held, not by Benchmade, but by its creators, McHenry and Williams as Mentor Group LLC, who licensed its use to BMK, who subsequently trademarked it as the AXIS lock. The patent ran from July 1996 and expired in July 2016. Russia did not continue with its ratification of previous international patent agreements after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 and its obligations as signator to two subsequent international agreements are somewhat difficult to ascertain, perhaps regarding only trade re intellectual property and uniform internal patent application procedures. Perhaps, if the English name for this knife is indeed Snatch, then it would be some amusingly black humor from Alex, although he did produce several other differently named models using the sliding bar lock both before and after.

More to the point, I looked around again today for another knife like mine and found some at a Russian dealer that I do not favor despite them having customers on this side of the pond. Those knives have the same handle shape, scales, and locking mechanism as mine with differently configured clips and full flat ground blades. The several there are "not available" and each is listed as a "Scout". Looking at my knife in question next to my two frame lock Scouts, the handles are all but identically shaped aside from a slight difference at the butt and the accommodation for thumb studs at the other end. Perhaps what I have here is indeed an early Scout.

I just now Googled "Axis lock Cheburkov Scout" before posting and found a few other iterations with handle shapes and locks like mine, but with different blade grinds and scales--all called Scout--so, after all that searching and my two walls of text these last couple days, here's today's carry--my sliding bar lock Scout (?) again.

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In this case, Google Translate has found a word that sounds close. In Russian, this word in this form cannot be used as a name. Then the knife would be called Сон (Son) .

I want to ask, what year is written on your knife?
Yes, you are right, your knife is based on the Scout model, with a blade from Snatch. Apparently, it was a custom order.
And yes, you are right, the knives Скаут (Scout) , Лидер (Leader) , and Ворон (Raven) were produced with this lock.
Based on the Scout model, two folding knives, Охотник (Hunter)

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and Snatch

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, were released in 2010. Photos from the old website of Cheburkov's workshop http://www.tarpan.biz

All these knives differ in the shape of the blade and handle. Pay attention to the finger grooves.

Earlier, you wrote about the name of the knife Bars (leopard). In Russian, Bars is not an ordinary leopard, it is a Snow leopard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_leopard
 
1346wildcat said:
It’s actually fairly easy. I don’t need much help, only took 15 gallons of water to control the backfire. Dog is there for moral support. Wife came along to pick me up after my drip torch stroll starting the fires. Our pasture is cut up into five different sections because of a creek, draw between the two ponds, an old abandoned railroad right of way and roads on both sides north and south. Our property has a lot of history. It’s been in my wife’s family since it was homesteaded in 1870. We have the signed deed on our wall from President Ulysses S. Grant. God bless
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That’s one of the coolest things I’ve heard in a while.
 
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