How do you use your Condor Rodan ?

[cziv]

Survival/bushcraft/camping. The taper to the point can make battoning a bit wierd sometimes-not a whole lot of surface area on the spine there... but all general camp tasks from battoning to skinning brook trout to dicing veggies for dinner to bolting for one-stick fires, to whittling spoons when bored. The Convex grind that came on mine is extremely sharp, so I have been trying to maintain it. It has become flatter as I sharpen, which I'm not complaining about, it's effective that way.

I have no reason to call BS - but my Rodan would do well to use as a wedge with it's 60 degree, semi-sharp edge. Perfect for use with a sledgehammer for splitting small logs.

I like how the sides are ground or is that paint?? Big swath of really shiny silver so it looks like a razor too. I spent another hour and 1/2 tonight and it's not much different than my last marathon sharpening of this knife. I have to have 4 hours of DMT stones on this thing.

I figure it'll last a lifetime cuz I can't sharpen it enough to carry it w/o embarassment. Filet a few inches of Cape Buffalo after batoning into the carcass maybe, but fish - uh uh!!

I jest and am not bitter about the knife but the joke's on me. I really got a lemon.

 

[endurawave]

I have no reason to call BS - but my Rodan would do well to use as a wedge with it's 60 degree, semi-sharp edge. Perfect for use with a sledgehammer for splitting small logs.

I like how the sides are ground or is that paint?? Big swath of really shiny silver so it looks like a razor too. I spent another hour and 1/2 tonight and it's not much different than my last marathon sharpening of this knife. I have to have 4 hours of DMT stones on this thing.

I figure it'll last a lifetime cuz I can't sharpen it enough to carry it w/o embarassment. Filet a few inches of Cape Buffalo after batoning into the carcass maybe, but fish - uh uh!!

I jest and am not bitter about the knife but the joke's on me. I really got a lemon.

LOL I think you would do yourself a huge favor buying yourself a belt sander. Seriously though, I haven't found a factory edge yet that I couldn't improve with my Kalamazoo.

Regarding the Rodan, mine was just average sharp. It really struggled whittling wood, it barely sliced paper, overall wasn't usefull the way it came out of the box.

I made 3 or four passes with 220grid, then 320, then stropped with leather belt. And It turned into a arm shaveing, wood chewing animal. It now slices thru wood almost like a Mora. I actually really like it now.

Oh and my sheath was really tight too. I made it slightly wet and stuck a screwdriver handle (larger than the knife handle) into the sheath opening, and put it out in the sun to dry... That fixed it ...Overall great knife with a great sheath, IMO, well worth the money.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

No need to stretch the sheath--it'll do so over time and take on the form of the knife. Both my Rodan and Kumunga sheaths are formed perfectly to the knife now and are easy to withdraw while providing very good security.

 

[endurawave]

No need to stretch the sheath--it'll do so over time and take on the form of the knife. Both my Rodan and Kumunga sheaths are formed perfectly to the knife now and are easy to withdraw while providing very good security.

Actually yes I needed to. The opening on the sheath would catch the SHARP front edge of the handle and it required some fiddling to shove it in, in other words it I couldn't just slide it in it would catch the handle... Sorry I don't like fiddly.

The larger handle of the screwdriver only flared the sheaths opening a bit, now I can drop in, then push it the rest of the way in, for a snug fit.

The only other option would have been to round off the sharp front edge of the knife handle, this would have worked as well.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Yeah I would have just trimmed the front of the handle a little. Injection molded handles can sometimes have a little flash to them that creates that effect. Easily fixed.

 

[endurawave]

Yeah I would have just trimmed the front of the handle a little. Injection molded handles can sometimes have a little flash to them that creates that effect. Easily fixed.

Yup that would work as well:thumbup: 42, I was looking at your website, and see you have a Condor Axe in the 2nds dept. What can u tell me about it? How is it faulty?

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

The only things wrong with it are a very small (and totally normal) gap between the wood of the haft and the top of the eye and the haft is a little too aggressively lozenge-shaped for all but the bottom 1/3 of its length so it would need a little additional shaping to be comfortable choking up on it. The haft is on the beefy side anyhow so you still have plenty of leeway in shaving the shape down for improved comfort.