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Okay guys, I don't usually run around saying you really gotta get one of these. In fact, I haven't until now. I may say how good I think something is or that I think it offers a good value for the money. I may even "encourage" someone who is thinking about a particluar knife, such as, ohhh, a yellow handled Sodbuster. I just don't go telling someone get something before it's gone. This time you really should. I won't plug something intensely for friend or family just to help them out. Only if it works exceptionally well. . If I'm going to rave over something it better really impress the dickens out of me. Yep, this one did.
http://www.vintageknives.com/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jncorrmqq
This was commissioned by our own Waynorth. It is simply one hell of a fine knife. If there were plenty left to go around I'd let you discover it on your own and try not to embarass Charlie by spouting like this. But they are in limited number and not too many left as I understand it. So I'm tipping you off to this. I ain't getting paid to endorse it, push it or sell it, nor am I connected with Vintage Knives. I'm on the using end.
This ain't your pleasant little EDC or your fruit knife or your Daddy's Oldsmobile. This is however, your grandaddy and great granddaddy's heavy user tool. This is a working knife that just happens to look pretty darn good too. I just finished test cutting some different knives on some leather scraps. The shaving sharp blades, the various knives I EDC in both carbon and stainless steels, and this one. Most of the others bind in the leather, make lesser cuts, or require a lot of effort to cut leather. Many of them will skive pretty well, but this harness jack (Farmer's Jack as the website calls it) cuts straight, fast, and clean. The punch practically jumps through the leather. I held up some reasonably thick leather and pushed and pull cut right through it cleanly and with ease. I took some latigo straps, laid them down on a magazine and tried cutting tips off with the different knives. Various results, but none did a really great or easy job. Press the front edge of the blade of this HJ into the strip and the tip (of the latigo silly) just pops off. I find it to be just one fine using knife. Mine has seriously strong backsprings.
If you want one to stick in the safe, go somewhere else and leave the remaining stock to people who will use it. Limited numbers or not, this is made to be used by people who appreciate a fine working knife.
I did have to hit mine a few (very few) licks on a soft stone when I got it. Cutting paper the blade would catch in a few places. Using magnification I could see a tiny wire edge in a place or two. I took three strokes per side on a fine Arkansas stone, a few strops on bare leather, checked it again, then took five more strokes per side and a little more stropping. That was it. I've been using it since. The blade geometry seems to work very well for its intended purpose. It just needed the tiniest bit of cleanup.
Apologies if I got a little carried away, but I love this knife more each time I use it and I think anyone who loves a purpose driven, hard working knife will love it too. Just get your own while they are out there cause you can't have mine!
http://www.vintageknives.com/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jncorrmqq
This was commissioned by our own Waynorth. It is simply one hell of a fine knife. If there were plenty left to go around I'd let you discover it on your own and try not to embarass Charlie by spouting like this. But they are in limited number and not too many left as I understand it. So I'm tipping you off to this. I ain't getting paid to endorse it, push it or sell it, nor am I connected with Vintage Knives. I'm on the using end.
This ain't your pleasant little EDC or your fruit knife or your Daddy's Oldsmobile. This is however, your grandaddy and great granddaddy's heavy user tool. This is a working knife that just happens to look pretty darn good too. I just finished test cutting some different knives on some leather scraps. The shaving sharp blades, the various knives I EDC in both carbon and stainless steels, and this one. Most of the others bind in the leather, make lesser cuts, or require a lot of effort to cut leather. Many of them will skive pretty well, but this harness jack (Farmer's Jack as the website calls it) cuts straight, fast, and clean. The punch practically jumps through the leather. I held up some reasonably thick leather and pushed and pull cut right through it cleanly and with ease. I took some latigo straps, laid them down on a magazine and tried cutting tips off with the different knives. Various results, but none did a really great or easy job. Press the front edge of the blade of this HJ into the strip and the tip (of the latigo silly) just pops off. I find it to be just one fine using knife. Mine has seriously strong backsprings.
If you want one to stick in the safe, go somewhere else and leave the remaining stock to people who will use it. Limited numbers or not, this is made to be used by people who appreciate a fine working knife.
I did have to hit mine a few (very few) licks on a soft stone when I got it. Cutting paper the blade would catch in a few places. Using magnification I could see a tiny wire edge in a place or two. I took three strokes per side on a fine Arkansas stone, a few strops on bare leather, checked it again, then took five more strokes per side and a little more stropping. That was it. I've been using it since. The blade geometry seems to work very well for its intended purpose. It just needed the tiniest bit of cleanup.
Apologies if I got a little carried away, but I love this knife more each time I use it and I think anyone who loves a purpose driven, hard working knife will love it too. Just get your own while they are out there cause you can't have mine!
