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I read the review - it echoes a lot of my initial thoughts about the TT version, but there's one thing I take issue with - and in saying this, let me point out that I like Horn Dog, I really do - I've even proxied for him in the past to help him snag a cool blade.
But he's repeating the same incorrect assumptions about batoning that so many other people were repeating on the SY forums, and that I got banned for constantly correcting them. The reason the regulator sucks for batoning is not because you shouldn't hit the handle - those of us who damaged the guard did not hit the handle. The real answer is that you can't baton a log nearly as thick with the regulator as you can with a knife in a comparable length without a rubber top guard, because with the regulator there is too much chance of the blade rotating and driving the guard into the log you are batoning, if it binds up when you hit the blade tip.
That constant misinterpretation, and assumption that those of us who damaged the guards batoning were doing so because of some sort of user error, is what ticked me off so much about the situation. I've been batoning knives since I was a teenager - cheap hollow handled rambo knives and spydercos and old slipjoint folders, building forts and blinds and fires on the farm where I grew up, and never once damaged a blade doing so - until the regulator.
The deregulator is a good fix to a flawed design. I just wish they would admit that they released that fix because the design was flawed.
And I wish they wouldn't charge an extra ten bucks to fix their mistake
But he's repeating the same incorrect assumptions about batoning that so many other people were repeating on the SY forums, and that I got banned for constantly correcting them. The reason the regulator sucks for batoning is not because you shouldn't hit the handle - those of us who damaged the guard did not hit the handle. The real answer is that you can't baton a log nearly as thick with the regulator as you can with a knife in a comparable length without a rubber top guard, because with the regulator there is too much chance of the blade rotating and driving the guard into the log you are batoning, if it binds up when you hit the blade tip.
That constant misinterpretation, and assumption that those of us who damaged the guards batoning were doing so because of some sort of user error, is what ticked me off so much about the situation. I've been batoning knives since I was a teenager - cheap hollow handled rambo knives and spydercos and old slipjoint folders, building forts and blinds and fires on the farm where I grew up, and never once damaged a blade doing so - until the regulator.
The deregulator is a good fix to a flawed design. I just wish they would admit that they released that fix because the design was flawed.
And I wish they wouldn't charge an extra ten bucks to fix their mistake