gerber steadfast

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siguy

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i was recently gifted a gerber steadfast, but it was no good for woodsduty in its stock condition.

the stock it is ground from is 1/4" thick, making a very heavy knife. the edge is about 1/16" thick i would say, and the secondary bevel angle was about 50 degrees inclusive.

well, it would be decent for urban survival, an edge that robust would do great punching out metal sheet and deanimating sentries. :barf:

so i took it to my new 1x30 belt sander and turned it into a slightly convex scandi, and it works pretty well now.

the edge is about 30 degrees inclusive, and sufficiently thin for slicing and cutting.

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so with some modding, the gerber steadfast is a decent woodstool. i don't think i'll be carrying it much because its a very heavy knife and even with the new grind it still doesn't cut quite as well as my mora. i suppose it will become my loaner knife for when i take someone into the woods with me who doesn't have a good knife.
 
Siguy,

Very cool. I know a lot folks here have high standards for knives, but I would feel pretty comfortable with that as a "primary" woods knife. I grew up in rural North Carolina and just about lived in the woods, that Gerber is a better blade than 3/4 of the knives I had then.....
 
it could handle light chopping, and its more than capable of battoning wood. it would certainly serve as a primary woods knife.

growing up running around in the woods my friend and i usually just had a paring knife snuck out of his kitchen. if we had had this gerber we wouldn't have known what to do with it. we would have just trucked it around and scraped some bark soemtimes, just because it is so cool looking.

EDITED to add:
Caine, that sounds like a good idea...i will have to look around to see how passarounds are usually done, but i will certainly consider it.
 
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