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TheSkinwalkeR

TheSkinwalkeR

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Hi there!

My name is Bryan Beery...most people just call me Beery. I am a professional artist, a studying martial artist, and it seems my whole life I have had an affinity for sharpened steel.

I can remember huddling over a Smokey Mountain knife catalog in the 5th grade with my best friend Chris. Smokey Mountain must have some way of knowing when boys turn 13 so they can send them endless amounts of purchase-inspiring catalogs. I remember when we turned to the one page that had the SOG Trident. Though it was slightly higher priced then the other offered cutlery, it was clear even in the photo that it was capable of cutting through every other blade within those pages.

It wasn’t long before I bought my first SOG. It was a Paratool I got from a mall in Grand Junction Colorado from a Cutlery store I was regularly kicked out of for pointing out the actual retail value of things to random customers. Now what better test for a tool then a 14 year old boy growing up on a cattle ranch in Colorado with the delusion his steel is the strongest the world has ever known? I cut everything with that serrated sheepsfoot! I sawed down whole aspen trees with the saw...9 inches in diameter at least...took me forever but I did it! Looking back on it I think I abused the heck out of it, but I had projected legendary preconceptions onto this tool.

As soon as caught wind of the new PowerPlier, I bought one. I used half of a paycheck I got working at Burger King part time my freshman year of High school. I gave the Paratool to my best friend Chris since it had shown nothing but scratches in the year of severe abuse. I quickly got away from the nasty King of Burger, and got myself a job fencing...building chain link and barbwire fences...which was ironic because I also was fencing, as in sword fighting, as a sport. Well let’s say owning a PowerPlier made it so I never had to invest in fence pliers. A little innovation and The SOG did everything that expensive specialized tool did, with gust-o. My coworkers oozed with envy.

Ok, now I am a grey-haired 22 years old. I live in the city making video-games for FOX with my self-taught art/animation skillZ. I have a one room apartment by the beach with every chunk of wall real-estate taken by edged weaponry. Not as much use for a knife here as there was on the ranch, but you will rarely find me without my Pentagon Elite and that same old PowerPlier I have had for all these years. Chris was visiting about a month ago; I was not surprised to see him open his beers with the same Paratool I bequeathed to him when we were 16.

Now almost every useful piece of cutlery I own is SOG. I got my father a Paratool and he has since bought many other SOG items that he bursts with pride to show-off. I gotta Seal Pup, Pentagon Elite, PowerPlier, and an incredible Recon Bowie. All the SOG products I have owned have drawn me to them with their exquisite design, structural quality, and personal fit to my techniques.

Thank you SOG Specialty Knives and Tools :D .


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Question for Ron:

My Recon Bowie has the number 072 etched into the pommel. Your exceptionally courteous staff informed me over the phone that it must be the 72nd of the numbered versions of these vicious killers. Unfortunately the nice lady was unable to tell me how many were actually numbered; her manager was devouring his delicious lunch and could not answer.
So my question is: Recon Bowie, 072 out of how many?


Does the SOG/MACV "Ron" action figure really look like you?
PIC from eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1749763261
hehhehhhehehe..hehe...hehe..he......uh..*cough*

Also... How do you feel about stupidly-long, wordy posts on forums?





-Beery
 
hahahaha nice action figure...whats with the mean face Ron??:D
 
Hi Beery,

Welcome to BladeForums.com and great to have your post in the the SOG forum. Please feel free to make yourself at home and post away. We accept both long and short posts alike.
Originally posted by TheSkinwalkeR
My Recon Bowie has the number 072 etched into the pommel. Your exceptionally courteous staff informed me over the phone that it must be the 72nd of the numbered versions of these vicious killers. Unfortunately the nice lady was unable to tell me how many were actually numbered; her manager was devouring his delicious lunch and could not answer.
So my question is: Recon Bowie, 072 out of how many?
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The "nice lady" with which you spoke was Loretta and her lunch devouring manager was me. Interesting though...I only take a lunch hour once every two or three weeks. You must have caught me on one of those very rare occasions. The numbered Recon Bowie count was 250.

Regarding Macv/SOG man...that was in fact modeled after me. They just need to package me now with my Z for those fast getaways.
Originally posted by BOK
hahahaha nice action figure...whats with the mean face Ron??:D
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The mean face is reserved for my kids! ;)
 
72 outta 250 is pretty dern cool. I am not a collector in the sense that when I buy stuff, I use it. But since my intention when I got the Recon Bowie was to get the best fighting knife for my style of martial art...I hope to never be in the situation where I have to use it. But I'll take good care of her, no worries there.

I've called SOG customer service maybe twice in the 8+ years I have been using the knives. Both times it was just to ask some trivial questons. Your staff has always been happy to answer my questions to the best of thier ability. Before I posted I read through some other posts throughout BladeForums and I am impressed with your ability keep cool in heated situations and dispense useful information while maintaining a good sense of humor. So I say Ron deserves his lunch, let him devour!
 
Beery,
Welcome to the Forums.
Great introduction!!!:cool:
Ron almost always keeps his cool, and apparently seldom takes lunch, or any breaks for that matter. Try posting at 3:00 AM (or some other un-godly time!), and see how long it takes him to respond:D .

Try telling him that you are sending your knives to Cliff for testing :D :D :D:rolleyes:, then watch his "cool"...

BTW, if you want to get rid of the #'d Recon Bowie, send it my way:D I'll give you $50 for it:D ;)

Seriously! Nice knife, hang onto it. You should post some pics!
Regards,
Rob
 
Hey Beery,
I'm fairly new to BFC also. Welcome aboard!!!
As for SOG products, have you ever considered getting the tomcat???
Its a good folder to add to your collection.

Hey Ron,
Cool toy. Did you get one for your kids???
 
Originally posted by FC Yuk
Hey Beery,
I'm fairly new to BFC also. Welcome aboard!!!
As for SOG products, have you ever considered getting the tomcat???
Its a good folder to add to your collection.
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Thanks for the warm welcome.

Oh yes. Many a strnge look hve been shot my way by the clerks of knife shops for oogling the Tomcat glassy-eyed and drooling. It was one of my first impressions of SOG. To see a folding knife that was twice as thick as some fixed blades I had seen was pretty impressive. No doubt one will end up in my possesion soon enough. I do like the idea people are throwing around about putting an arc-lock on it. After several months of using my PE, other locks seem awful primitive and cumbersome.

Also my desire for a Tomcat could be undermined by the advent of the new Team Leader. If it has comparable size and blade thickness that would clinch it. Ron, maybe you could shed some light on that before I find a physical example?
 
Originally posted by TheSkinwalkeR
I do like the idea people are throwing around about putting an arc-lock on it.
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Yeah, I agree. I would love to see the tomcat with an arc-lock although I have no complaints about the backlock that it has right now. Because of the blunt part near the rivet of the blade, I am still able to close it with one hand with relative ease.
 
Originally posted by TheSkinwalkeR
Also my desire for a Tomcat could be undermined by the advent of the new Team Leader. If it has comparable size and blade thickness that would clinch it. Ron, maybe you could shed some light on that before I find a physical example?
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The new TeamLeader will be comparable in general dimentions to something like the Vision.
 
Thanks Ron.

I am going to get my Dad one of the Vision series for his B-day in a couple months. He is a sucker for tanto-type bladeshapes and is quite proud of his Tsunami. He also was very impressed by the arc-lock on my PE, so I figured it would be a good gift.

The TeamLeader is very elegant and I eagerly await its arrival. I will certainly seek out Tomcat for myself just for the sheer bulk of it. But alas I am a poor man so it will be some time before I can afford another peice of steel for myself. Thats one of the reasons I got the Recon Bowie: Though it was expensive, the quality and construction of it will satisfy my lust for steel untill I can accumulate more funds.
 
It was one of my first impressions of SOG. To see a folding knife that was twice as thick as some fixed blades I had seen was pretty impressive.
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My sentiments exactly.

During my search for a unique (above average), tough folder, I discovered the Tomcat II from SOG. Not much else has caught my view:D

Check out mine (got it 2 weeks ago):):)
http://ecompute.org/warthog/knifemoss.jpg

...not a bad pic...but I want to take some more with my digital camera that are..."captivating" i guess is the word:D. Ones that have taht special touch that really make you look at them...:)

Warthog
 
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