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So, if you don't know how to sharpen, what do you do when a knife gets dull?
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I think I'm gonna get a BK15....
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Well I do have a sharpmaker and a good strop for maintenence, but I want to learn how to sharpen freehand so that I can do more than just touch ups.
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Oh, I see. I thought you meant you didn't know how to sharpen at all. I'm not great at freehand sharpening, but really it's pretty simple. Just keep your angles right.
I need to make me a strop some time..
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Oh, I see. I thought you meant you didn't know how to sharpen at all. I'm not great at freehand sharpening, but really it's pretty simple. Just keep your angles right.
I need to make me a strop some time..
Well if you wanna buy one I would suggest strop man strops their hand made and very affordable.
It doesn't quite feel at-home carrying the sheath into the kitchen with me, but I do sure love using that blade for at home food prep. Depending on what the wife decides our meals will be over Memorial Day, may bring it in with the camp kitchen set. I'm trying to figure out if I will be able to get around with having a dedicated food knife and a separate carry knife, but it definitely surpasses all expectations in the food prep realm.
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Famous last words.
You dirty rats aren't gonna help me a bit are ya'?
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But we ARE helping you ... to buy more.
Oh lookie! Memorial Day weekend sales are starting!
Mmm...gee thanks. ;')
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I'm starting to really think about my next Becker too the knife addiction in general never stops.
Tell me about. In the past 3 weeks I've purchased BK 9-5-15, SOG Seal Pup, Tech Bowie & Seal Team Elite and...umm, let's see....oh yeah...Swamp Rat SR77 Proto (s'posed to be here today and is on USPS truck out for delivery
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Glad it arrived. Congrats! Looking forward to seeing pics, but really wanna see pics of that bad boy being used/abused
I can see it as well, after only one day. . The only thing bad about this knife is breaking in the retention straps. I know the reasoning behind making them so bloody tight when new, but Jesus...I sprained a finger, tore off a cuticle and almost caused a cerebral aneurysm, trying to button that lower snap. LOL
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I hear you they are pretty awful out of box, but mine broke in after a couple days.
Ya' I left mine snapped overnight and they have already improved. With all the actually, seriously nutso things going on in my life at the moment...What a pussy thing to bitch about. LOL
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Haha yeah I hear that.
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I removed the top snap on mine because it was keeping the whole rig in a straight line. I like how the loop now curves away from the handle when the bottom of the sheath is strapped to my leg. The bottom strap, which most folks complain about, was the easy one to snap. The top one, now gone, was the really tight one.
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Yeah...it was the lower on mine that almost made me bust a blood vessel. Largely irrelevant now. After two days of screwing with them, and leaving them snapped overnight, both of mine function just as they should. Sure glad I wasted all that energy being pissed off, screaming obscenities at in inanimate objects and unknown people who work in the factory where the sheath was made...I'm sure that helped as well.