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Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Or like comparing a garden hose to vise grips. Both useful items but for completely different purposes.The way I see it for what it’s worth (not much) trying to compare knives & hatchets is like comparing apples & oranges,
I like to have a hatchet/hawk to have a butt I can use for hammering different things from nails to wedges, but if I was looking for one with a spike- your choice would be at the top of the list. I hope you really like it.
This is going to completely depend on the intended application, size and weight constraints, location, and your own ability. For example, I'm a seasoned backpacker and as such I spend a great deal of my life in the mountains and in the wood. When I'm out backpacking, i'm very concerned with being as lightweight as possible without sacrificing too much comfort because I am generally on trail for several days. When I make camp, I always have a fire when permitted, but I don't forus my energy on building anything that would require big lumber to sustain. So, I generally bring something like a Mora knife with me for processing small quarter inch pieces of wood and to make shavings for tinder. If I'm doing something like making a base camp and then day hiking from there only to return later that night, I'm more likely to bring a saw. As you can imagine, my lightweight backpacking system is going to look very different when I'm car camping or just tramping around in the wood practicing building a shelter or something. In those cases, you will likely see me with an axe, a hatchet, large knife, and a saw!
^ weight savings, how much do those weigh with the skrama's (240?) sheath and garden hose (or whatever you use to cover the bare silky blade). Intresting concept to just use the replacement blade, I hadn't thought of that, that must be for weight savings as well? because the cost difference is negligable between the replacement and the full Gomtaro with the advantage of comfort going to the full handle.
The Skrama 240 weighs 525g/18.5oz without sheath (i got both, plastic and leather sheath) and the Silky weighs 75g/2.5oz..sheath weighs less than 30g/1.05oz.
you may have just converted me
Very nice. Have fun!
Maybe I need to use mine more???Honestly, I'm not gonna' feel arrogant or braggadocious when I post that the DT-12 will handle WHATEVER you can throw at it. My ESEE Junglas felt completely abandoned when I threw the DT-12 in my truck box and didn't look back.
This is cross-posted from one of the Busse threads...
I've beaten this ^^^ big knife ATROCIOUSLY, with absolutely no regrets or concerns.
Not sure if I wanted to keep it, I didn't want to ruin its "resale value"This ^^^ would be the answer, right here.
...as well as spending some time putting a "useful" edge on it, as I did. (*Most of the "factory" edges, on my Busses, have absolutely sucked)
My DT-12 replaced my Junglas, as my "under-box" knife, in my big/bad Ram 4X4 3500 C&C, "Big Sid Vicious"...
Both "Big Sid", and the DT-12, have been used like $2 hookers.
With a BIG knife it’s super easy.
That is some might impressive chopping.
