i almost had a Chris Help

555

555

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i need some help from the Chris Reeve guys.

the other night i was reading a knife mag in bed.
my wife looks at what i was reading and says i almost got you one of those for father's day from the kids. when i looked at the wed site i was not sure which one you would like so i ordered something else.:eek: but Christmas is coming up she says.
i'm just hoping that something else doesn't have FROST stamped on the tang.:eek:

i own many knives in my collection but i have never owned a Chris.
what do you owners of this knife think would be a good start for a very first Chris in the collection?

BTW i do live in the wild to give you an idea what i use my knives for.

believe it or not, this is a true story. Thanks
 
Ah 555, it's good to see you joining the ranks of the CR fanatics.

In order to answer your question, you need to give us a little help. What do you want to do with the knife? Carry it daily in your pocket? Take it to church? Build shelters in the woods? Clean game? Put it under glass and stare lovingly at it from time to time? CR knives come in many configurations from folders to fixed blades.

So. What task would you like your CR knife to take on?

Now, having said that, and knowing you as I do, I think there's only one kind of a CR knife for you. And that's this one of these. (Hint: it's all in the finish) :D :D :D

http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm?tnk_gallery-p-CR3192.htm~main
http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm?tnk_gallery-p-CR2739.htm~main
http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm?tnk_gallery-p-CR4001.htm~main
http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm?tnk_gallery-p-CR4676.htm~main
http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm?tnk_gallery-p-CR6400.htm~main

I hope this helps. ;)
 
bulgron said:
Ah 555, it's good to see you joining the ranks of the CR fanatics.

In order to answer your question, you need to give us a little help. What do you want to do with the knife? Carry it daily in your pocket? Take it to church? Build shelters in the woods? Clean game? Put it under glass and stare lovingly at it from time to time? CR knives come in many configurations from folders to fixed blades.

So. What task would you like your CR knife to take on?

Now, having said that, and knowing you as I do, I think there's only one kind of a CR knife for you. And that's this one of these. (Hint: it's all in the finish) :D :D :D

http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm?tnk_gallery-p-CR3192.htm~main
http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm?tnk_gallery-p-CR2739.htm~main
http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm?tnk_gallery-p-CR4001.htm~main
http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm?tnk_gallery-p-CR4676.htm~main
http://www.truenorthknives.com/tnk_1mainframe.htm?tnk_gallery-p-CR6400.htm~main

I hope this helps. ;)
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LOL thats good but it's hard to believe but it does not have to be it camo for if it is it will only be a cameo ownership then.:D

thanks for getting back to me on this.
that Aviator looks good.:thumbup:
to be honest i don't know a thing about this product and this is a good start.
 
So you're looking at fixed blade instead of a folder?

I have a growing collection of CRs: a small micarta sebenza, a mnandi, and a Mountaineer II. The Mountaineer II is extremely strong and well-built, but it's handle is hard on my keyboard-tenderized hands. Any kind of gloves fixes that, though. Or, if you've worked with your hands in your life and have the calluses to prove it, it probably won't be a problem at all.

I've always liked the idea of the aviator as a smaller fixed blade that's comfortable enough to EDC. I especially like the looks of that pancake sheath. I'm not too sure about those serrations, though. I know they have their usefulness in trying to punch through airplane sheet metal. But on a general purpose knife? Well, hopefully they at least won't get in the way. (Maybe someone here has an aviator and can comment?)

Anyway, let us know what you decide. And, oh yeah, pictures WILL BE required. :D
 
oh i forgot and getting tired at this hour eastern time.
i do carry knives all the time so they get used for everything under the sun.
from working with wood, fire starting, defense (bear/mountain lion) cutting rope, tarp, grass from mower parts, critters that get into the car, cooking, bush craft.
and lets not forget those Aliens we were talking about.:D
 
thanks this really helps.
i know i'm looking for a fixed blade now and do like the sable, Mountaineer and Green Beret over the Aviator already.
the green beret reminds me of the BK&T (have 5) that i can not get anymore and can see the Chris are a much better built product.
 
bulgron said:
I have a growing collection of CRs: a small micarta sebenza, a mnandi, and a Mountaineer II. The Mountaineer II is extremely strong and well-built, but it's handle is hard on my keyboard-tenderized hands. Any kind of gloves fixes that, though. Or, if you've worked with your hands in your life and have the calluses to prove it, it probably won't be a problem at all.
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funny that you would mention working with your hands (and back) for that very day i was loading mountain stone in my tractor loader bucket that is six feet wide and will lift about 2000LB. i was useing the stone to fill some of the soft spot on one of my two track mountain roads.
and since i got my Leatherman Charge and i do use it a lot that thing can be rough of the hands with long periods of use.
 
bulgron said:
Anyway, let us know what you decide. And, oh yeah, pictures WILL BE required. :D
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i will be looking to you for help with that in the future.
i'm not having any luck posting pictures on this forum.:confused:
but maybe this is a good thing with my sense of humor i do tend to get a little rowdy at times.:D :D

BTW since i can't seem to post pictures other than copy/paste, i'll fess up to you i did try to copy/paste your jackhammer construction worker from your home page under construction to joke how you are hiring illegal alien construction workers.:D :D
just to let you in on a joke i couldn't get to work.:D
 
BTW the other question i have is, does anybody really put these knives to hard use or are they more like a Buck Yellow Horse that never get used hard?
 
A lot of us use our CRK folders. I think everyone uses the fixed blades hard.

Except one ... I have a Sable with a 12.5" blade, 18" overall. It's hanging by my computer. :)
 
555 said:
i will be looking to you for help with that in the future.
i'm not having any luck posting pictures on this forum.:confused:
but maybe this is a good thing with my sense of humor i do tend to get a little rowdy at times.:D :D

BTW since i can't seem to post pictures other than copy/paste, i'll fess up to you i did try to copy/paste your jackhammer construction worker from your home page under construction to joke how you are hiring illegal alien construction workers.:D :D
just to let you in on a joke i couldn't get to work.:D
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Too bad you haven't sprung for the $10 for a Gold account so I could PM you on this. :)

I've uploaded pictures to BF before, but frankly I like to just stick pictures on one of my domains and then link to it from my BF post. For BF, I use abork.com which is a "playground" domain that I haven't had much time for this year (#$!#@%$ remodel).

Anyway, if you look at the top of the message window (you have to be in "go advanced", not "quick reply"), there's an icon, third from the right, with a yellow background and something that looks like a mountain range. Click on that and it wants a URL (something that starts with "http://..."). Enter the URL to the image and click 'OK' and the image will appear in your post once you click 'Submit Reply'.

You can get the URL for my little jackhammer guy by right clicking on the image and then selecting "Copy Image Location". Then you can do a paste into the Image URL dialog box to get the URL into your post. Anyway, that's how it works with Firefox. You can copy image URLs with IE, but I honestly can't remember exactly how it's done.

Or you can just type it out by hand once you know what the URL is. All you have to do is encapsulate the URL with the right tags. It looks like this, although you have to take the "#" out of the IMG tags:

[#IMG#]http://www.abork.com/images/jackhammer2.gif[#/IMG#]

Without the '#', of course you get this:

jackhammer2.gif


Clear as mud?

Quite a lot of people get a photobucket account so they can do exactly what I described. Photobucket is free to use, and when you do things this way you aren't using Sparks' bandwidth to serve up your images. I'm sure Sparks thanks you for that.

Sorry for the way off-topic post, folks.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
A lot of us use our CRK folders. I think everyone uses the fixed blades hard.

Except one ... I have a Sable with a 12.5" blade, 18" overall. It's hanging by my computer. :)
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Lately my Mountaineer II has been a safe queen. :( Not out of any desire of mine to have it be that way, it's just that I haven't gotten to the woods all year long.

It's making me twitchy, man....

My small sebbie, on the other hand, has been getting some seriously hard use. I'm probably going to baby it when I get done with my house and send it back to CR for a tune up.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
A lot of us use our CRK folders. I think everyone uses the fixed blades hard.

Except one ... I have a Sable with a 12.5" blade, 18" overall. It's hanging by my computer. :)
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thats cool. i can relate to that, i would hate to confess what i have in reach here in the office (what my wife calls the Man Cave) alone.:o :cool: :D
 
bulgron said:
Too bad you haven't sprung for the $10 for a Gold account so I could PM you on this. :)
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you know this is talked about in my house a lot.
i know i've got to up grade my account and stop being a dead beat poster.:o
i keep saying here at home that it will be when i hit 1000 posts, but that might take too long.:D :D
i think it will be sooner than that.:thumbup:
 
bulgron said:
Too bad you haven't sprung for the $10 for a Gold account so I could PM you on this. :)

I've uploaded pictures to BF before, but frankly I like to just stick pictures on one of my domains and then link to it from my BF post. For BF, I use abork.com which is a "playground" domain that I haven't had much time for this year (#$!#@%$ remodel).

Anyway, if you look at the top of the message window (you have to be in "go advanced", not "quick reply"), there's an icon, third from the right, with a yellow background and something that looks like a mountain range. Click on that and it wants a URL (something that starts with "http://..."). Enter the URL to the image and click 'OK' and the image will appear in your post once you click 'Submit Reply'.

You can get the URL for my little jackhammer guy by right clicking on the image and then selecting "Copy Image Location". Then you can do a paste into the Image URL dialog box to get the URL into your post. Anyway, that's how it works with Firefox. You can copy image URLs with IE, but I honestly can't remember exactly how it's done.

Or you can just type it out by hand once you know what the URL is. All you have to do is encapsulate the URL with the right tags. It looks like this, although you have to take the "#" out of the IMG tags:

[#IMG#]http://www.abork.com/images/jackhammer2.gif[#/IMG#]

Without the '#', of course you get this:

jackhammer2.gif


Clear as mud?

Quite a lot of people get a photobucket account so they can do exactly what I described. Photobucket is free to use, and when you do things this way you aren't using Sparks' bandwidth to serve up your images. I'm sure Sparks thanks you for that.

Sorry for the way off-topic post, folks.
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thanks this also is going to help a lot with my problem.:thumbup:

i hope you know this is like giving 5 year olds lighters and matches.:D :D :D
 
Esav Benyamin said:
A lot of us use our CRK folders. I think everyone uses the fixed blades hard.

Except one ... I have a Sable with a 12.5" blade, 18" overall. It's hanging by my computer. :)
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:eek: :eek: Esav Benyamin, you have one of these below?.. one of the 3 Sables from the Special Limited 13pc. set edition. (12" blade 18" overall) Which only 3 Sable's were designed? WOW!...sweet!

Jules

8e42_12.jpg
 
Jules, mine is marked 8/13.

I wish I could take better pics, but a couple of these came out better than usual, so ...
 
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