HOW are the RODENT 9's?

[jspaxton]

Im thinking about ordering one, but haven't seen much on the forum but how they are. How is the balance? How does the handle feel in large hands (like mine)? Lets hear the good and the bad. Besides, the order tab on the website isn't working, are they available?

 

[Allcaps321]

I have been wondering about them too, do we need to preorder them or are they simply going to become available on the site?

 

[M67]

I've handled a few, but I don't own one or have used one. I love the weight on it, it's failry beefy and has a lot of forward balance/weight that I think would be awesome for chopping. The ridge in the handle is odd for some, it feels great for me either choking up, regular grip, or going low.

I think it would be a beastly user :thumbup:

 

[snwbrdr202]

I really like it man! I had one up for sale, but decided to pull it and make it a user. Stay tuned for a review

 

[jazub]

It's a sweet blade for sure. Heavy and crazy comfortable in 3 positions. Go for it :thumbup::thumbup:

 

[rabidsurefire]

I too was wondering about the comfort of the bump on the handle. I suppose if I bought one and didn't like it (I doubt that would happen ) I could always sell it later.

 

[drbarnes]

I have one and am on the fence about it, choked up or back feels great but my medium sized hands find the bump a bit much. I wrapped some paracord around, and its more comfortable to me.

 

[jazub]

Here are a couple of pics with my favorite using 'kin knife, the B11.

R9 is very stout with robust heft. What, am I talking about beers now? :foot: Balance point is just behind the "T" in Swamp Rat logo. Choked up feels amazing. It also feels great in standard grip [i.e.; hump dividing middle and ring finger], and would seem to be so regardless of hand size (although index finger may not reach top of inner handle with smaller hands).

In rear grip [hump dividing index and middle finger] it has what feels like identical forward weight to the B11. Pic below matches grip locations and shows equal reach when held as such. I'll be sure to put a lanyard on when I try it in that position, though.

Hope to do some coastal camping and try it out soon before the weather turns. Too bad these weren't around in the summer when everybody could have given them a shot. On faith, I'd say it's a great camp knife design.

 

[hookahhabib]

I used mine this much before I had to sell it, and even knowing that selling it enabled me to get myself an SHBM I'm missing my R911 more and more every day and already planning to get myself another:

The more I used it the more I came to appreciate its design. The handle is comfortable in all three positions and I imagine it probably works best on a large hand...felt great on my bigmedium/smalllarge hands (latex glove size is a barely loose fitting large). With my hand in the middle position, the hump came between my middle and ring fingers, with my index coming up just a couple mm short of the guard. I thought this would be an issue but in use it never was. It chops securely with good blade control from both middle and rear grips, even without a lanyard although the confidence a lanyard brought did improve confidence and as a result, performance when using the rear position grip.

I haven't handled many big choppers so I can't comment much about balance other than it does feel faster in hand than a CGFBM, although I will say that could have been due to the MAGs on the fusion handle (it seems that hand shaped work better for me on the busse fusion handles, the mags are a bit big for me)...Still waiting on my SHBM to get here but I'll let you know how it felt compared to that when I get it

So yeah, I'd say the R911 is an awesome, BEEFY knife with versatile enough design to make for a great camp knife or large size primary user. It was so fun to use that I found myself volunteering to help a friend with yard work, just in hopes that I'd have an excuse to put the R9 to use!

Most of my use invlolved chopping but I wouldn't have hesitated to at least try using it for any other tasks that came up. It tore through some ridiculously hard & dense oak and some bamboo and would still shave.

Alan put a great factory edge on it although I'm sure that it would perform even better with a little edge work to maximize the SR101's potential for sharpness...


So yeah OP, I highly recommend it...seems like a deal at $200