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Life after Becker.......

Bladeite it looks like he's holding the machete correctly in the picture.... unless that finger choil isn't for fingers?

Cut the man some slack, he's an entertainer that enjoys survival skills, his off the grid house was a far cry from a cave and while building up his property he was often not there because of business. If I were skilled, determined and lucky enough to sell out for cash you can bet I would, they don't pay you if you don't.... same for Cody Lundin.

For the comments that these tools won't or wouldn't work in a survival situation, I have to call blatant BS, if I could chop down a tree with a claw hammer as a kid and build a rudimentary cabin that survived two winters before the roof caved in with snow (no internal columns supporting the roof) with no tools besides said hammer and a dull as heck old hatchet then I am fairly sure that I could use most modern implements just fine.

Gimmiks, the knife world is full of gimmiks, this includes ALL blades, there has to be a reason to sell something. Moras are a great value, so are Opinels etc. Sebenzas are smooth opening... THAT is a gimmik.

Beckers are over built... is that not a gimmik?

I'm not being a hater, I like Becker, I like most knives that aren't fantasy like the Tracker or those Klingon things.... and many of those freaky ones like "spantos" or machetes with a "v' grind a convex grind and a chisel grind with two sections of spine, one rounded and the other squared for striking michemetel or however you spell it.

I can do nothing but applaud the man for bringing something to television that does not include a massive dose of idiocy.
 
We know they are junk.
Let the guy make some money.
As far as losing respect for him, He's proven himself.
 
C'mon
bright green, stainless, titanium? I could sell them to every kid in town. Now if they made different color inserts so you could color coordinate them I could sell them to every kid in town plus every bonehead who's rolling a rice rocket too.
What's not too like?
 
Backwards or not, that machete looks photochopped into his hands for sure... maybe it's just me.
 
I am kind of surprised he would do this, now looking at his other knife.
His other knife is a piece of art.

http://shop.lesstroud.ca/product/les-stroud-signature-knife-the-temagami-pre-order

I wouldnt think he would want to spoil his street cred from this and his program with cheapies, but hopefully he put as much into the Camillus ones as he did with the Helle one.

If that Machete was good carbon steel I might think about it, it looks like a brush clearing machine.
 
DerekH said:
Ew no. Last thing we need is him whispering sweet nothings at us in that ridiculous voice of his.
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If I remember correctly, there is someone here who likes to whisper huskily to his woman "Hey babe." Yes Murph, I'm lookin right at you, although you can't tell with my squinty eyes and all.
 
CCMI said:
Backwards or not, that machete looks photochopped into his hands for sure... maybe it's just me.
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I was thinking the same thing when I saw it. They probably just used some stock photo of him and tossed that on there.
 
F.M.L. They saw how much money Gerber made with Bear Grylls and they want to try the same with Less the mess!
 
Getting in on some of that Gerber/Bear Grylls action. Hmm.

Edit: I should have seen the other pages.
 
Yep looks shopped..... But that's how sales work. Some graphic designer saw the picture thought it looked good and smacked the new machete pic in his hand. If you remember the show Les didn't use a knife as much as he used his multi tool maybe he dosnt need a tough as nails knife hahahaha
 
More. Tactical. Garbage.

I don't like this because the knife market is totally glutted with the crap and there's fewer and fewer traditional knives on the market because of it. It's gone beyond the point of the word "tactical" losing its meaning. Now the stuff is just downright silly.
 
jim62 said:
Les Stroud just dropped MANY notches down the totem pole with serious outdoor folk.
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Serious outdoors people don't generally spend much cash on knives.
It's true...talk to some serious outdoors people sometime.
 
quality knives since 1876, sold out since 2008?
 
stabman said:
Serious outdoors people don't generally spend much cash on knives.
It's true...talk to some serious outdoors people sometime.
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Hmmmm! The ones I know have no problem dropping a few hundred and waiting months if not years for knives.
 
Arkanian said:
If I remember correctly, there is someone here who likes to whisper huskily to his woman "Hey babe." Yes Murph, I'm lookin right at you, although you can't tell with my squinty eyes and all.
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Yeah yeah, I didn't call her "babe" again until days after we got back Indiana.
 
i can understand why he would team up with a knife company but why a company that sells junk?
 
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