RD 6 is a good mid sized and small tasked knife. There I said it. I now confirmed my suspicions why OKC still makes this one. Its a great all round small to mid sized knife that is harder than heck work horse of a tool. It can do bigger knife things also, have to say that, and probably easier because of its weight than lighter knives in its class trying to step up to do them.
Being heavy it seems would be a bit of a fatiguing factor to it, but the heft to the handle counter balances the fine fu-fu and other whittle work you do with the blade. The generous choil, and bit extra distance made for it that makes the cutting edge a bit small bit shorter than if it ran straight from the hilt to the tip of the blade, allows for great control to do bushy crafty stuff. A smaller knife may have more finer control, but one can get great control on this blade. For smaller stuff I use smaller tools that can include an smaller bladed knife, but really the RD6 seems to be able to full fill most small knife needs. But the weight of the knife itself might be a factor, for me it isn't, but that's for the individual to make a choice about. The RD 7 as I stated earlier can do about the same stuff but have to give the edge to the RD6 can do it a bit easier.
The RD7 though in my opinion is still the best of the Ranger series batch for the one knife to take if only one knife is needed for an all round middling knife for general use for small and big knife things. And probably better than most other knives especially at its price point. But OKC stopped making that one so for middling to small and some times big jobs the RD6 seems perfect for that niche.
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Once nice thing of all the Ranger Detachment Series I have, 6, 7 and 9, is they all do small stuff to decent levels and they all got great Thumpin and Whumpin Hilts!
Being heavy it seems would be a bit of a fatiguing factor to it, but the heft to the handle counter balances the fine fu-fu and other whittle work you do with the blade. The generous choil, and bit extra distance made for it that makes the cutting edge a bit small bit shorter than if it ran straight from the hilt to the tip of the blade, allows for great control to do bushy crafty stuff. A smaller knife may have more finer control, but one can get great control on this blade. For smaller stuff I use smaller tools that can include an smaller bladed knife, but really the RD6 seems to be able to full fill most small knife needs. But the weight of the knife itself might be a factor, for me it isn't, but that's for the individual to make a choice about. The RD 7 as I stated earlier can do about the same stuff but have to give the edge to the RD6 can do it a bit easier.
The RD7 though in my opinion is still the best of the Ranger series batch for the one knife to take if only one knife is needed for an all round middling knife for general use for small and big knife things. And probably better than most other knives especially at its price point. But OKC stopped making that one so for middling to small and some times big jobs the RD6 seems perfect for that niche.
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Once nice thing of all the Ranger Detachment Series I have, 6, 7 and 9, is they all do small stuff to decent levels and they all got great Thumpin and Whumpin Hilts!
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I just brought the RD 6 along a few times because the sheath was better and my RD 7's kydex was on the way. Of course I used it just to use it and found it paired good with my SP-51.
