Is the svord peasant knife worth it?

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imacf90

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i think i should ask you guys before i actually go out and spend my christmas money haha. so what do you guys think about the svord peasant knife? when its opened, is the tang uncomfortable in the hand?(considering i wouldnt be wearing gloves most of the time)
i cant really think of many knives that are $25 or under(shipped) that would be worth it for me other than this. any other recommended knives for that price point?
 
I've got a svord peasant. It's a fantastic knife, great steel, good blade profile. If you feed a lanyard through the hole at the end of the tang it will provide some padding if the end of the tang digs into your hand.

Mine came kind of dull but i successfully reprofiled it on my sharpmaker and it takes a really good edge.

my only complaint is the handle is a bit big.
 
imacf90 said:
...i think i should ask you guys before i actually go out and spend my christmas money...
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A great knife with a savage blade.



I got a test knife a couple of years ago,

...I used it hard for a while,

...gave it to the foreman of my sandblasting crew and he uses it even harder,

...I sharpen the convex edge when needed, but that blade keeps cutting.


He cuts a lot of meat with it, and it's got a great patina,

...aside from the time the police confiscated it :eek: (another story),

...it has worked well for us. :thumbup: :cool: :thumbup:




Big Mike





Big Mike
 
imacf90 said:
...i think i should ask you guys before i actually go out and spend my christmas money...
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A great knife with a savage blade.



I got a test knife a couple of years ago,

...I used it hard for a while,

...gave it to the foreman of my sandblasting crew and he uses it even harder,

...I sharpen the convex edge when needed, but that blade keeps cutting.


He cuts a lot of meat with it, and it's got a great patina,

...aside from the time the police confiscated it :eek: (another story),

...it has worked well for us. :thumbup: :cool: :thumbup:





Big Mike
 
I love the hell out of mine. It's been in my pocket everday for the last year or so. Mine came extremely sharp but with just a little light honing, it became one of the sharpest knives I own. I do recommend the wood handled version over the synthetic though. I haven't experienced any discomfort problems with the tang. For the price, it's a pretty tough act to follow.
 
I've heard from a couple of different people that the steel used on the Peasant knives is L6 tool steel or at least something quite similar...does anyone know if this is actually the case or not?
 
Yes it is I don't remember what steel it is but it cuts. The car got flooded during a rainstorm and I was not about to unbolt the seats trim and whatever else was holding the carpet down.

I took my non gravity non locking peasant knife and sliced off big enough squares (4 big squares front and back) of wet carpet to get to the rubber drain plugs. It was a quick enough job.

Well it sure did not shave hair anymore after that but it was still sharp and it still cut very well. I imagine it will touch up again with no problem (lazy me.) It is a great tool.

It took about 1 month for those carpet slabs to fully dry out. I left them on the seats with the car windows open for the first couple of weeks then stored them in the trunk. I recently fit them back in.

The carpet was always faded and shabby anyway so I would be hard pressed to notice any difference also the fact that the knife cut the carpet very cleanly helped quite a bit.
 
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I was gifted a Peasant today, and I have to say, it's pretty cool. :thumbup:

It comes with a decent start to the edge, but with about 15 minutes of work, it took a verrrry nice edge. The construction overall is a tad crude, and I LIKE it, lol. It has a very rustic feel to it that none of the other knives I own have. For the price, it's exceptional, if you ask me.

Kyle.
 
It's meant to cut..and that's what it does! It's a throwback to earlier times, but once you've used it, you realise it's the perfect tool for the job!
 
All Svords are great!
They use L6 Swedish high carbon tool steel. They heat treat there own blades.

They are just BRILLIANT.
I am having Bryan custom make me a knife right now.
The steel is just to easy to make hair spliting sharp. They flex like a spring and hold a edge for a very long time.

They are one of the best knives you will ever buy. I rate them above Fallkniven and right along side Busse.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
I have a peasant knife with the wood handle, I too thought it was a bit big so I sanded all the edges and oiled it with boiled linseed oil and It came up nice, they are a good little knife and like all svord knives they hold a mean edge
 
just got it today, took 2 days to ship from maryland. i was surprised. and now i realize what you guys meant by its crude but so genius. look at how imperfectly that blade is ground. its like they don't even care lol. it did come pretty sharp, though. I'm sure i could get it sharper. i had to sand the ends down a bit cuz it looks like when they routed the handle scales it chipped a little at the end. anyway im happy with it!




 
Love the idea. got a wood handled one awhile back and have never carried it, because I could not get the tension right for opening/closing. finally took both adjusting screws completely out the other day and figured out it wasn't with how they were adjusted. I think I just need to sand out some wood from the center so it's not so tight.
 
For the price...it's OK. Blade is ground asymmetrically, but the L6 takes a nice, albeit "toothy" edge.

Worth the price. Nice knife to play with. Been putting a mirror finish on mine and convexing it.
 
wouldn't it be OK to just saw off the part of the tang that protrudes? That isn't what keeps it in place anyway and really only takes up space in the pocket and gives you the lanyard option... just a thought if someone got annoyed with the tang digging into their palm or they don't want it as large in their pocket... thoughts...?
 
engle's-wilder said:
wouldn't it be OK to just saw off the part of the tang that protrudes? That isn't what keeps it in place anyway and really only takes up space in the pocket and gives you the lanyard option... just a thought if someone got annoyed with the tang digging into their palm or they don't want it as large in their pocket... thoughts...?
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Isn't that little tang the only thing that keeps the blade from closing while you're holding it?
 
engle's-wilder said:
wouldn't it be OK to just saw off the part of the tang that protrudes? That isn't what keeps it in place anyway and really only takes up space in the pocket and gives you the lanyard option... just a thought if someone got annoyed with the tang digging into their palm or they don't want it as large in their pocket... thoughts...?
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Really? What do you think "keeps it in place"?

Do you understand the "friction folder" concept? :confused:
 
If you look at the thing the little pin stop is what keeps it there ain't it? not the long tang... all you really need is about a few centimeters of the tang actually...
 
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