Izula IN a camp fire

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EricFallkniven

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...Hello,
I reluctantly lent my Izula to a friend last night at a camp fire.. shoulda listened to my instincts screaming at me to keep it in my pocket...
Anyway, about 8 seconds later, the knife goes flying into the camp fire.. I stared in disbelief for what seemed like a long, long time.
It was an accident though, my friend was trying to toss a stick into the fire (a stick that was in the same hand as the Izula...:confused:) WTF!

The knife was in a fairly hot camp fire for about 10 seconds before I managed to chop stick it out of there with two large sticks. Is that enough time or enough heat to trash the knife? I really hope not. Please advise, friends!
Sorry for no pics, I'll try to post some soon.
 
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Okay, but do you think the temperature could be enough to mess up the temper? I guess I'm not too familiar with the temperature that the knife was tempered at to begin with. I suppose a camp fire is what, around 300 degrees?
 
Okay awesome.
I mean, you guys have that amazing warranty, but I don't want to cost you money if I don't have to. The coating seems to be okay, the only thing that suffered was the paracord wrap, and that doesn't even look that bad.
I guess it just adds character :thumbup:
 
EricFallkniven said:
Okay, but do you think the temperature could be enough to mess up the temper? I guess I'm not too familiar with the temperature that the knife was tempered at to begin with. I suppose a camp fire is what, around 300 degrees?
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The coals on a campfire are more like a 7 or 8 hundred degrees but I doubt that 10 or even 20 seconds in the fire would be enough to damage the temper.

Just use it and if you find the edge rolling alot or it not taking or holding a good edge, you'll be taken care of.:thumbup:
 
EricFallkniven said:
Okay, but do you think the temperature could be enough to mess up the temper? I guess I'm not too familiar with the temperature that the knife was tempered at to begin with. I suppose a camp fire is what, around 300 degrees?
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Haha a bit hotter, paper burns at 451 degrees soooo.... :)
 
EricFallkniven said:
Okay, but do you think the temperature could be enough to mess up the temper? I guess I'm not too familiar with the temperature that the knife was tempered at to begin with. I suppose a camp fire is what, around 300 degrees?
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Probably closer to 800+. ;)

Though that's also not an instant change. 10-20 seconds shouldn't harm it at all. I mean it might, might, have hit 300 after 20 seconds. Unless you had a really big fire and it landed in and under coals.
 
shotgunner11 said:
The coals on a campfire are more like a 7 or 8 hundred degrees but I doubt that 10 or even 20 seconds in the fire would be enough to damage the temper.

Just use it and if you find the edge rolling alot or it not taking or holding a good edge, you'll be taken care of.:thumbup:
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Wow thanks, you guys are the best. I wish I had known more about you guys and your knives before I created my bladeforums name. EricFallkniven doesn't seem to fit!
 
ha, yeah I really wasn't sure. There's nothing quite like sounding like an idiot on a forum for everyone to see :thumbup:
And I did flip out a little bit :rolleyes:
No one wants to see one of their favorite knives burning in a fire, haha. Even though the lil Izula didn't cost a huge buck, I really like the knife and it's been great. I want to get a olive drab colored one to compliment my fire-victim black one :D
 
I think you're over-worrying the issue. If the paracord was not messed uo that bad then there's nothing wrong with the temper. Use the thing like nothing happened.
 
R.A.T. said:
I think you're over-worrying the issue. If the paracord was not messed uo that bad then there's nothing wrong with the temper. Use the thing like nothing happened.
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Yeah, you're right. I thought the same thing. I was just inspecting the paracord more closely, I'm going to rewrap it, but it's definitely not that bad.
 
Hah, I was there when this happened! :eek: Wasn't worried too much about the knife, because even if something DID happen, ESEE would take care of it. :thumbup: (not that it was MY Izula. If it was mine I'd have flipped out too!)

Here's a little tidbit of info I found funny: The friend that did this is going to school to be a doctor. :rolleyes:
 
I want to share something with you that my father told me when I was a young man.

My girlfriend accidently put a dent in my car and yes, like you I wasn't happy.

My father pulled me to the side and had a talk with me about "THINGS" and putting a higher value on "THINGS" than people.

He said "Never cry over anything that can't cry over you".

In the end, I don't have that car anymore and it wasn't anything great to begin with. It was just a car, and this is just a knife. Enjoy the camp fire with friends, not the knife.
 
MrPan said:
I want to share something with you that my father told me when I was a young man.

My girlfriend accidently put a dent in my car and yes, like you I wasn't happy.

My father pulled me to the side and had a talk with me about "THINGS" and putting a higher value on "THINGS" than people.

He said "Never cry over anything that can't cry over you".

In the end, I don't have that car anymore and it wasn't anything great to begin with. It was just a car, and this is just a knife. Enjoy the camp fire with friends, not the knife.
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The real question is: Do you still have the girlfriend?

Doc
 
MrPan said:
I want to share something with you that my father told me when I was a young man.

My girlfriend accidently put a dent in my car and yes, like you I wasn't happy.

My father pulled me to the side and had a talk with me about "THINGS" and putting a higher value on "THINGS" than people.

He said "Never cry over anything that can't cry over you".

In the end, I don't have that car anymore and it wasn't anything great to begin with. It was just a car, and this is just a knife. Enjoy the camp fire with friends, not the knife.
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Roger that MrPan. But, money is money (Hear me out lol). I'm a poor college student who is saving every penny to do a two week long motorcycle trip in Canada with my Father in a few weeks. I literally have to save every single dollar I can scrounge up right now.
As I said before, initially I felt reluctant to lend him the knife thinking he could lose it in the woods or something because no one takes care of your stuff like you do. But, he's a good friend of mine so I lent it to him, because I do hold people higher than "things". It wasn't even ten seconds later when the knife landed in the camp fire. So , I think you can see my concern. Between my relatively limited understanding of knife tempering and durability when it comes to heat, I panicked. I should point out that I wasn't thinking about ESEE's magnificent warranty at the time. I was thinking about how, if this knife was finished, would I get/afford a new Izula in time for my trip. (Yeah, it's that tight)
As RustyFenrir pointed out, my friend who threw the knife in the fire is a pre-med student and would like to be an orthopedic surgeon when he develops the coordination to do so... :p As you can guess, we did give him flack for his clumsy mistake :p I didn't really explode and call him worthless and whatnot. However, there were plenty of statements such as: "are you serious??", and "Come on!". Perfectly acceptable considering the circumstance.
But, the knife is fine, I didn't kill my bud in the forrest, and all is well. :thumbup:
 
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EricFallkniven said:
Roger that MrPan. But, money is money (Hear me out lol). I'm a poor college student who is saving every penny to do a two week long motorcycle trip in Canada with my Father in a few weeks. I literally have to save every single dollar I can scrounge up right now.
As I said before, initially I felt reluctant to lend him the knife thinking he could lose it in the woods or something because no one takes care of your stuff like you do. But, he's a good friend of mine so I lent it to him, because I do hold people higher than "things". It wasn't even ten seconds later when the knife landed in the camp fire. So , I think you can see my concern. Between my relatively limited understanding of knife tempering and durability when it comes to heat, I panicked. I should point out that I wasn't thinking about ESEE's magnificent warranty at the time. I was thinking about how, if this knife was finished, would I get/afford a new Izula in time for my trip. (Yeah, it's that tight)
As RustyFenrir pointed out, my friend who threw the knife in the fire is a pre-med student and would like to be an orthopedic surgeon when he develops the coordination to do so... :p As you can guess, we did give him flack for his clumsy mistake :p I didn't really explode and call him worthless and whatnot. However, there were plenty of statements such as: "are you serious??", and "Come on!". Perfectly acceptable considering the circumstance.
But, the knife is fine, I didn't kill my bud in the forrest, and all is well. :thumbup:
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Well, I'm glad you didn't really come unglued on the guy. If that happened to me today, I would have said the same thing to him as you did. I can see your point, but I don't think you are as poor as you think you are. I think you are a richly blessed young man who has a chance at a great future.

Poor to me is when you don't have a chance to be in college, or own a nice knife, or take a two week trip with your father, or a computer and the internet to talk about your friend and what he did.

Don't worry, I said the samething to my father as you did, I said I am poor. He said you are lucky to own a car, and don't use poverty or anything else as an excuse to treat people poorly. You did MUCH better than I would have at your age. You are well on your way to being a great American man.

And Doc, no they are both gone. My father died in 1979 and she died in 1976 to breast cancer, but I'm a better man for knowing them both.
 
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