Were you talking about the steel thickness or the handle thickness?
As far as blade slab thickness goes, the LC is .25 and the NOe is what, .27?
You will never be able to bend either blade, not with your bare hands.
Anyone who can 'destroy' either one of theses knives in a survival situation, is too stupid to carry out the necessary skills anyway and deserves to die.
Eric tempers the 3V for 3 days{!} in computer controlled environment. He may very well be the current master of this incredible steel.
The edge on these knives is stropped smooth and is razor sharp. I was surprised how much thinner the edge was on the LC than on any other ‘chopper’, {name your brand}, I’ve seen. It’s really a different geometry.
The choil on the LC is better designed IMO, than any other one out there.
You loose very little cutting edge, unlike most designs, and yet it is still usable. The blade guard isn’t as deep as a Busse which means it doesn’t constrict any slicing effort. Don’t worry, your hand isn’t going anywhere near the blade.
The handle fits MY hand, [my hand, not necessarily other peoples hands who may own Busse’s], better than Busse. The thin rubber material between the grip and tang is a useful anti-shock feature and I predict other makers will follow suit.
Some of the Busse snakeskin micarta handles were really neat looking. Some were not, it depended on which slab you got and what knife it was on. The Ferhman handles are quite unique in their own right though, and look better in person than in pictures.
I was looking for a heavy duty survival knife that would be carried during bushplane flights, among other things. The last thing I really care about is how pretty a knife is.
However, the LC does look very ‘cool’ in its own way. There is no doubt that this is a purpose built knife when you see it. I have several pretty nice fixed blades but the LC is in a different league altogether.
The one term people use when they see this knife is: Wow, that’s a TANK!
It is.
The nice thing is that it only weighs 15oz.
Read Brian Jones threads on Fehrman knives in the Wilderness forum.
Chad Ward had a thread on this forum about several knives including a Fehrman, check those out.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244576&highlight=chad+ward+fehrman
Survival instructor extraordinaire, Ron Hood, has an article or two about them. Fehrmans are his favorite knives now.
http://www.survival.com/fehrman.htm
I don’t think you will be left wishing you had bought something else. I know I wasn’t.
