Everyone's latest acquisitions!

Taichung Taiwan Large Nilaka. Such a cool Puukko design. Full length liner lock. Zero blade play in any direction and simply the best action I’ve ever experienced with a Spyderco. Perfect detent with a closing action that is in between hydraulic and drop shut with ZERO lock stick. I cannot believe how smooth this knife is.

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Second hand six inch Baja-6 model from Town Cutler. It's got a very slight belly from tip to heel. Like some of us, it never really straightens out. 😉
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I have seen these and was really tempted. The handle is just gorgeous. What steel, and have you used it yet to rate its cutting characteristics? Looks slicey, about how thick is the spine?
 
Olumin said:
I snatched this one off the bay at a very good price yesterday. I’m really hoping it to be ww1 or at least ww2 era. Identical to German trench knives carried in both world wars. Condition of the leather makes me think it could also be 60s or 70s, but that alone isn’t enough to draw any conclusions. Ive seen 200 year old knives look better than this, mostly depends on storage. Will be looking for a makers mark once it arrives, that might give me some idea as to its age.

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Here a ww1 sheath for comparison, absolutely identical in construction:
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May be wrong, but it looks 1930s to 40s. Doesn't look like a postwar knife to me looking at the retainer snap and hardware on the sheath - and the crown stag handle and handle hardware
 
RPZIP said:
I have seen these and was really tempted. The handle is just gorgeous. What steel, and have you used it yet to rate its cutting characteristics? Looks slicey, about how thick is the spine?
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Thx, it's a laser! It slid through a tender flakey croissant lengthwise very readily, leaving behind cleanly sheared dough web faces. The ease with which it smoothly entered the fragile thinner-than-paper outer layers of the pastry was breathtaking. A bit of back & forth sawing was required to get all the way through the bread both to accommodate the relatively short blade length and because, even with a sharp knife, a croissant lacks enough structure to not collapse under a purely push cut.

Steel is purported to be Nitro V. It felt plenty hard as I gave it about a dozen strokes on a Sharpeak 1200 grit diamond rod and some light stropping on a ceramic rod to get it crazy sharp.

Spine is 0.07" (1.77mm) at ricasso with distal taper down to ~0.011" (0.28mm) at the tip. So yes, it's very slicey. Handle is 0.6" x 0.9" (16 x 22 mm) rectangular cross-section with radiused edges. It's good for my smallish mitts, but folks with bigger hands could easily be wanting more beef to hang onto. Weight is only 2.5 oz (72g) so it is super lightweight & dextrous in hand.
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BP Green said:
I don’t necessarily buy the most popular or expensive, but I do know what I like and this one spoke to me. Thanks to @jldavid for my latest acquisition, the RR Station. Couldn’t resist the beautiful, hollow ground barber style Vanax blade or the awesome milling throughout the handle. Supposedly designed to look like a train, which I can definitely see in an art-deco sort of way. Smaller and lighter than I anticipated but it’ll be a nice addition to my light summer clothing edc.

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My only gripe with knives like these are the clips. Wish to hell they were deep carry.

Beautiful knife though :)
 
RokJok said:
Thx, it's a laser! It slid through a tender flakey croissant lengthwise very readily, leaving behind cleanly sheared dough web faces. The ease with which it smoothly entered the fragile thinner-than-paper outer layers of the pastry was breathtaking. A bit of back & forth sawing was required to get all the way through the bread both to accommodate the relatively short blade length and because, even with a sharp knife, a croissant lacks enough structure to not collapse under a purely push cut.

Steel is purported to be Nitro V. It felt plenty hard as I gave it about a dozen strokes on a Sharpeak 1200 grit diamond rod and some light stropping on a ceramic rod to get it crazy sharp.

Spine is 0.07" (1.77mm) at ricasso with distal taper down to ~0.011" (0.28mm) at the tip. So yes, it's very slicey. Handle is 0.6" x 0.9" (16 x 22 mm) rectangular cross-section with radiused edges. It's good for my smallish mitts, but folks with bigger hands could easily be wanting more beef to hang onto. Weight is only 2.5 oz (72g) so it is super lightweight & dextrous in hand.
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Wow. Really like the blade profile too. My mitts are average, maybe less so probably about right for me. The rest sounds really good and might get bumped to the top of my budgeted shopping list. Thanks!
 
fuyume said:
Just arrived in the mail, today. I wasn't actually in the market for a Pioneer, but for $22 USD, can you blame me?? Oddly enough, this is my first ever 93 mm Alox model. I've owned many different Victorinox knives over the years, but never a 93 mm Alox until today.


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Good find! This Pioneer's been in my left front pocket every day for over three years. It gets used a lot.
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