Kephart

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Right before Thanksgiving I did a little horse trading and came away with an 5/32 01 Kephart in Black ash burl with natural liners and white pin stripes. I had originally settled on trying one of the mid tech versions after reading the great reviews (any may still down the road) but when the opportunity came up to get one in trade, I jumped. The knife showed up right before we left town to visit family for Thanksgiving so I tossed it in thinking I could try it out prepping some stuff for dinner.

I snapped a few quick picture in the misty rain before we left. The burl on this handle deserves a photo shoot with my good camera (and probably some photography skills beyond my capabilities).














Gorgeous burl on this one!




First order of business was to slice up some onions to put down in the roaster pan with the turkey drippings to later make gravy. While I know food prep isn't the Kephart's main function it quartered and sliced onions well for as thick as it is.





Turkey browned up nicely, after it rested I took it apart with the Kephart.







I'm happy with the model so far. Food prep isn't its main purpose but I wouldn't be disappointed in camp if that was all I had to use. I also used it this weekend to help butcher a doe my buddy go. It did a nice job removing the backstraps. I need to settle on some leather pants for it soon, once that happens I can see it getting a lot of belt time.
 
Damn that turkey looks good. Nice knife as well. I'm loving my Kephart as well.


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i mean, nice knife and all but that turkey looks killer!:thumbup:
 
lol...thanks guys! It was my best do on turkey, especially given since it was oven cooked.
 
Nice post Westy. We have some similar thoughts on the Kephart. It is maybe my all around favorite Fiddleback model. It sort of goes back and forth between the Kephart and the Gaucho, and my grail Fiddleback would combine elements of both. The Kephart is better at almost all tasks I use a knife for in the woods, but the Gaucho is better at a cutting board for food prep and I like to cook. Though like you I don't mind food prep with the Kephart at all when I am out in the field. I had wanted one in CPM S35VN for a long time, and was glad to get the midtech version when they came out. I have long wanted a tapered stainless one, but I doubt that will ever happen. So now after a lot of tests of the A2, I am hopeful of landing one in tapered 5/32 A2 later.
 
Cool review. I love to hear about those pretty burls working on game processing and the like. I hope you get lots of joy out of that tool.
 
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