Mail Call! Tasman Salt Hawkbill - How do you like yours?

[DansGunBlog]

After getting my Dragonfly (SpyderEdge) just over a week ago, I was impressed with the serrated blade, and decided to try a Tasman Salt Hawkbill - Serrated.

Again, the focus is still finding the "right" companion blade alongside the Military.

So this is very preliminary... but damn, this is one ridiculously useful and handy knife. Just for general stuff, packages, etc.

The claw tip is particularly handy for "opening things up". Fed it some of that particularly hard clamshell packaging... the Tasman Salt ate it up like no knife before.

Fun example... I was getting ready to put a raw chicken in the crockpot yesterday (I've been cooking real food for my pups for years, and bone broth is VERY nutritious), and the chicken is frozen and shrink-wrapped. This curved Tasman Salt blade was PERFECT for getting that shrink-wrapped plastic off.

So... anyone else have one of these?

How do you like it?

Dan

 

[bro5.0]

I love mine, for certain applications hawkbills offer some serious cutting power. I also have a Ladybug serrated hawkbill salt on my keychain that gets as much use as any of my other knives.

 

[Metric]

I really, really like mine -- a black handled PE model. It gets way more pocket time than I expected. So small and light, but with greatly amplified cutting power. And the H1 means that it's going to be my new dive knife, which is a pretty amazing concept -- you can come out of the ocean and then go to dinner with the same knife in your pocket. The one weakness is push-cutting against a flat surface, but that has yet to be an issue for me.

 

[DansGunBlog]

I love mine, for certain applications hawkbills offer some serious cutting power. I also have a Ladybug serrated hawkbill salt on my keychain that gets as much use as any of my other knives.

@Bro5.0 I sure like that picture... I'm getting ready to publish a first impressions type review of the Tasman Salt SE on my gun/knife blog. Would you be ok with using that photo in the post? If so, could you send me the high res image pre-cropping (horizontal) if you have it.

Granted my photos tend to include some sort of alcoholic beverage or another lol, but in this case, it's just a nice angle, nature, water, etc.

Thanks!
Dan

 

[DansGunBlog]

I really, really like mine -- a black handled PE model. It gets way more pocket time than I expected. So small and light, but with greatly amplified cutting power.

Same here... I got it mainly as a curiosity... I liked the Dragonfly SE, which led me to this, like an serrated and beyond type design. I've been very surprised just how useful this knife is for general purpose tasks.

The one weakness is push-cutting against a flat surface, but that has yet to be an issue for me.

Agreed... tho I think it works great as a companion blade for a plain edge larger folder, i.e. the Military.

But I've for most general purpose uses it just works, surprisingly well.

Dan

 

[tradja]

I love mine as a beach EDC. Delica size, but great for "opening things up" as you note. I thought it would not be that versatile but it is, for all of my EDC tasks except cutting fruit.

I picked up a black-handled one and just wish it was yellow.