Fact check: 1095 vs 1084

Willie71 said:
I love B&T knives! I just did four of them, and have three more in progress. 1/16”, 2.5-3” blade. Cuts like a light sabre.

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If you have those you could cut your way out of anything and they are light enough you could still bring a axe. Those things are awesome. I have been hand sanding a .065 fillet knife tonight and can appreciate the skill of getting those with a perfect grind.
 
skillgannon said:
If you have those you could cut your way out of anything and they are light enough you could still bring a axe. Those things are awesome. I have been hand sanding a .065 fillet knife tonight and can appreciate the skill of getting those with a perfect grind.
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That's the key. I want a knife I can use as a knife. I carry a 2.5# iltis oxhead for the "hard use"
 
Geoff Flato said:
I feel like I must be the only person in the world who relies on a bird and trout knife.... It does everything I need.
I've got a bar of 5/16x2" ATS34 kicking around, no idea what I'll do with that.
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Bird & trout in .110 AEB-L at around 62rc is my outdoor knife. Do everything with it. Bird, fish,deer, small game etc.. maybe just a touch bigger than a classic B&T but still small by most standards
 
In recent times, I have become interested in slightly prettied up versions of the classic Kephart in that same general thickness. I have one in 115W8 and one in AEB-l in various stages of incompleteness on my bench right now. I scored 5 "factory second" JRE bushcrafter sheaths from LT Wright a while back for like $11 a pop so I plan to make a couple of more. I plan to do one in CruForgeV and one in Don Hanson W2. I may do the last one in some of the Schrade bankruptcy sale 1084 that I bought from Aldo years ago.
Kentucky said:
Bird & trout in .110 AEB-L at around 62rc is my outdoor knife. Do everything with it. Bird, fish,deer, small game etc.. maybe just a touch bigger than a classic B&T but still small by most standards
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Is that schrade 1084 like the 1084 admiral use to sell? I bought the last six sticks admiral sold in a close out sale. Got 36 feet of 1 1/4" x 1/8" for less than $60 shipped. It was good steel
 
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skillgannon said:
If you have those you could cut your way out of anything and they are light enough you could still bring a axe. Those things are awesome. I have been hand sanding a .065 fillet knife tonight and can appreciate the skill of getting those with a perfect grind.
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No one told me super thin knives were impossible to grind four years ago. I just figured it out lol! I’ve done 7 or 8” chef’s knives in 1/16 with offset d-grinds because I didn’t know it was difficult. Oh well. I just thought I was slow at grinding.
 
Phillip, this was the 1/4 x 1 round edge bar stock. IIRC, Aldo found it early on in his Steel Baron career not long after he found that load of big 1095FG stock. I never saw Admiral selling 1084 so I don't know. I bought 1075/1080 from them years ago. The Schrade stuff is good and has the reputation for getting as dark as the inside of your hat in the etch. (there is a good old Kentucky saying that you can use in front of the preacher, unlike say "darker than 6 inches up a buffalo's ass." LOL) I think that still have about 75 feet of the stuff.
Kentucky said:
Is that schrade 1084 like the 1084 admiral use to sell? I bought the last six sticks admiral sold in a close out sale. Got 36 feet of 1 1/4" x 1/8" for less than $60 shipped. It was good steel
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