I'm Done with Beckers! For now...

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Thanks to having to get a "New" car...older but it fits the budget and runs good... There goes getting other Beckers and other knives...

Two BK2s
One BK4
Three BK3s
One BK5

Will have to do for now. ;):cool::thumbsup:

Lesson I learned is if you can get some thing you want and can get it... GET IT WHILE YOU CAN! Or life will conspire to keep you from getting it! That's what happened to me. The Beckers fill my need for multi-tools with a good thumping and whumping hilts. I got enough heavy use middling blades and one BK 2 is going to be dedicated big game and bull cutting.

*Is Sure No One Will Notice!*
 
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I hear ya. I have a new doctors bill I have to make payments on, not to mention my income tax bill. Making payments on it too. Definitely puts the damper on it for me. That said, I still have a 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, and necker proto to keep me busy, haha.
 
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Roguer said:
Thanks to having to get a "New" car...older but it fits the budget and runs good... There goes getting other Beckers and other knives...

Two BK2s
One BK4
Three BK3s

Will have to do for now. ;):cool::thumbsup:

Lesson I learned is if you can get some thing you want and can get it... GET IT WHILE YOU CAN! Or life will conspire to keep you from getting it! That's what happened to me. The Beckers fill my need for multi-tools with a good thumping and whumping hilts. I got enough heavy use middling blades and one BK 2 is going to be dedicated big game and bull cutting.
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Hey Rouger are your 3s different variations or do you just have a fondness for the 3.
 
One has a Micarta handle I put on one, other are two standard Zytel handles. One kept getting loaned out, I wanted another one and it got stolen at the door, ordered another just as I got a replacement blade for the one that got gone...so got 3 now and keeping them!
 
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I'm done with them (for now), too. Too many other expenses, and not enough new BK&T models. I'm not exactly lacking for Beckers to play with, though...I can make do with what I have.
 
Yo Roguer did not see a 5 in your haves
As Clich said if you dont have a 5, you never have had a Becker
Did you let the 5 go or never Had ?
 
Blade looks to floppy, as others call "Flexible!" I had to many bad calls with floppy blades to trust them. Its a knife I want not a piece of stamped sheet metal! I like blades that don't bend to easily.
 
Roguer said:
Blade looks to floppy, as others call "Flexible!" I had to many bad calls with floppy blades to trust them. Its a knife I want not a piece of stamped sheet metal! I like blades that don't bend to easily.
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I have batoned my 5 thru 4-5 inch seasoned oak, apple, and cedar wood. I cut a 4x4 in half the day it showed up in my mail box. Sheet metal my ass!!!
 
Yea no flex in dis
A Fisked 5
Its A slicer not a pry bar and yet to hit a bone it could not handle

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Yea no flex in dis
A Fisked 5
Its A slicer not a pry bar and yet to hit a bone it could not handle

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incorrect. it is not Fisked.

let me be specific.

Fisking is regarded as one of Jerry's techniques for sharpening. "Badger marks" on a newer knife are good indication of this, esp if Jerry did it at at Gathering. that's not going to happen anytime soon again (esp since the holy KMG at the Gathering is no longer there)

this knife was never touch by Jerry almost certainly.

while it is surely a desirable early model of which his design is strongly influenced, chances are 99.9999% he did not sharpen it, nor did a trained person under his guidance.

thus, not a Fisked, Fisking, Fisk, other than the original design. just saying for clarity.

Fisking means something entirely different to non knife people.
 
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a few of my friends comment why i buy these"old tools"... buy now, have later...

i figure, at some point, i can choose the best of what i have, and carry that with me, to rebuild civilization :D

but you can't buy that shit later. sure, MY tools should last a few generations, and many more, but when you NEED them, if you don't have them, good luck. no amazon same day shipping.
 
Tanker 1/66 said:
I have batoned my 5 thru 4-5 inch seasoned oak, apple, and cedar wood. I cut a 4x4 in half the day it showed up in my mail box. Sheet metal my ass!!!
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i reviewed the first KaBar BK5 some time ago... chopped into season oak log, bucked and split, batoned (it destroys batons due to the silly spine relief :P dumb idea that, the origials didn't have that non-sense)... no chips, no damage. gave that away in a contest - don't recall who - but that's why we have records :D

the OLD style BK4 and the OLD style BK5 were and are the best of the best of the best. i can esp say that now since KaBar disco'ed them. no offense, but well, pre-Camillus is where it's at for those. KaBar rocks several other models quite assiduously :D
 
Bladite said:
i reviewed the first KaBar BK5 some time ago... chopped into season oak log, bucked and split, batoned (it destroys batons due to the silly spine relief :p dumb idea that, the origials didn't have that non-sense)... no chips, no damage. gave that away in a contest - don't recall who - but that's why we have records :D

the OLD style BK4 and the OLD style BK5 were and are the best of the best of the best. i can esp say that now since KaBar disco'ed them. no offense, but well, pre-Camillus is where it's at for those. KaBar rocks several other models quite assiduously :D
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Have the link for the review? Would love to read it.

Why change the BK4, and BK5, if those designs worked so well?
 
Didn't mean the BK 5 was stamped sheet metal. Had a few knives break on me that weren't stout and the and they broke like flexed sheet metal whipping in to me. Had one nasty gash. Stout fix blades that broke on me just snapped. The more stout blades I find are better for more precise work. Not saying the BK5 would fail like that but once literally gashed, twice not want to be gashed.

Heh, learned some thing about BK5s today from real users. Maybe a BK 5 if I feel a need for one.

From what I understand the spine of the BK if is a "Bone Breaker" for getting to the marrow of a bone in the wilderhood for survival. Yes I researched the heck out of it when it was in the BK 29 package. Figured it wasn't for me. Besides I got other BK large blades instead to work with now. :D
 
The only Becker that passed through my hands with some regret later, was my 16. My favorite is the 5 for its size to weight ratio. I have wayyyy to many other knives that fit the primary niches many times over, to seek any more. If someone is starting out to build a collection I would definitely mention Becker's as a good value in outdoor knives. Up here in Canada Becker's are about half the price of an ESEE. Esee makes great knives ( I have a 4, a 6, and 2 Izula 2's) and has a fantastic replacement policy, but I don't see them as being twice as good as a Becker. Actually Becker's may have slightly better steel. Go ahead ESEE owners ravage me, I'm used to it by now.
:D
 
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