Got a new BK15 in the mail, my wife stole it.

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Survivormind

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Well, I owned a BK15 for about 30 seconds today before my wife told me she was talking it. :mad:

Awesome knife with great feel in the hand. We both fell in love with it but she used a veto :jerkit: since I just bought an ESEE 3 two weeks ago. Oh well. I'll still get to use it here and there at least.

Survivormind
 
I wish I could but I've never bought two of the same knife. There are just too many great designs out there to try. I could do it if I was convinced that one certain knife was the best knife in the world but it would be hard to convince me of that regarding any knife.

Survivormind
 
I may get a 16 at some point but I'm fine right now. I'm not a knife collector. I only have two or three at any one time. Two I use the crap out of and another for backup. That's how I recently was able to do that three year review of the 5. I need to break out lose something before I buy another one. Occasionally, my situation changes and I need a new knife to better serve my new circumstances. But that's it so far. That's the only reasons I buy knives.

Survivormind
 
I think this is the only time in my life I bought a knife I didn't need. The price on the 15 was too good to pass up and I love the 5 so curiousity got the best of me. My wife will keep it busy though.

Aggressive coating on this thing though. May need to strip it. I think it's hurting the potential...
 
Hard to believe they are going to stop making the 15

I have two 15s. I should get another :cool:


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The other day, my wife was looking at my wish list in our big river cart. She looked at me and asked "why do you need a fixed blade knife?" I explained it, but not sure I convinced her. In reality, I was probably supposed to interpret the question as "why do you need ANOTHER fixed blade knife?" [emoji2]
 
Survivormind said:
I think this is the only time in my life I bought a knife I didn't need. The price on the 15 was too good to pass up and I love the 5 so curiousity got the best of me. My wife will keep it busy though.

Aggressive coating on this thing though. May need to strip it. I think it's hurting the potential...
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I had the same feeling about the rough coating. I took the advice of a forum members modification and carefully used wet sandpaper to smooth out the rough "peaks" in the coating. Go slow with a touch of 220 paper followed up by 400 and 800 if you really want a polish. The swedge and spine will wear off 1st so be careful there. This mod really transforms the knife to the smooth finish you have on your 5. Of course, if you buy a spare and do it to " yours", there's no risk of damaging "hers". :eek:
 
The coating has to come off so that it has a smooth cut and not a saw cut and I took both of my #15's down to almost a glass like finish and they slide through anything you ask of them.!** 75% of all my BK's are polished to a slick glass like
finish ( and all of the ones I use to cut any food are like that.!^^ )
 
Survivormind said:
I may get a 16 at some point but I'm fine right now. I'm not a knife collector. I only have two or three at any one time. Two I use the crap out of and another for backup. That's how I recently was able to do that three year review of the 5. I need to break out lose something before I buy another one. Occasionally, my situation changes and I need a new knife to better serve my new circumstances. But that's it so far. That's the only reasons I buy knives.

Survivormind
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I'm only interested in knives I would actually use, and I keep telling myself that once I figure out which work the best for a given role I'll thin the herd...:rolleyes: If I could get down to even just 10 knives just for woods use I'd be doing pretty good. But that'll never happen.



Survivormind said:
Aggressive coating on this thing though. May need to strip it. I think it's hurting the potential...
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Yes, the coating does need to come off. Or at least get smoothed out with sandpaper.



Korben_Dallas said:
They are getting discontinued?
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Ethan Becker said they're not great sellers, someone else said they saw them listed as discontinued for 2015 in a KB catalog, and they are price to move right now. I haven't seen anything official myself but all signs point to yes. Along with the Zombie line and most of the Johnson Adventure line. On the up side, it has been hinted that other Becker knives besides the BK21 will be added to the line.
 
bigghoss said:
I'm only interested in knives I would actually use, and I keep telling myself that once I figure out which work the best for a given role I'll thin the herd...:rolleyes: If I could get down to even just 10 knives just for woods use I'd be doing pretty good. But that'll never happen.





Yes, the coating does need to come off. Or at least get smoothed out with sandpaper.





Ethan Becker said they're not great sellers, someone else said they saw them listed as discontinued for 2015 in a KB catalog, and they are price to move right now. I haven't seen anything official myself but all signs point to yes. Along with the Zombie line and most of the Johnson Adventure line. On the up side, it has been hinted that other Becker knives besides the BK21 will be added to the line.
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Since hearing about the discontinuation of these I've already bought 1 bk4, 2 bk5's, 2 bk15's and plan to buy a second bk4 tonight

If I found out they weren't getting discontinued after buying all of them I wouldn't even mind! Haha is actually prefer that lol
 
The 15 is a fantastic blade at twice as much as they are going for right now. I am right there with you though man, hardly has ever occured where I have 2+ of the same knife. Too much variety out there! I am really sad about the possible discontinuation, there really are no other knives on the market like the 5/15.

Your wife is going to love carrying that knife around, its like a mini 5 but at the same time it is its own beast

As far as the coating goes the rough stuff will wear with time and use, it is very durable though, but for food stuffs/general utility I like a smoother knife. You can sand it down, making it smoother which will keep some on for rust resitance, or just strip it. Me, I held out for a long time on stripping it, but I let it wear down. Then it got stripped and reground thinner.
 
Semper Praesidio said:
The other day, my wife was looking at my wish list in our big river cart. She looked at me and asked "why do you need a fixed blade knife?" I explained it, but not sure I convinced her. In reality, I was probably supposed to interpret the question as "why do you need ANOTHER fixed blade knife?" [emoji2]
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Buy her a fixed blade knife. It should fix that problem.

Survivormind
 
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