Mount Franklin: F1 and Recon Scout Pair (with pics)

Glad you picked up the recon scout after your thread a while back.
I really like my trailmaster and recon scout, some of the best cold steel's out there.

Even if you don't convex it, knock the shoulders off and taper the edge back into the stock an extra 1/8 of an inch. My trailmaster is a cutting machine afterwards.
 
The Recon Scout and Trail Master are definitely a lot of knife for the weight. I would really be in love if they made a full tang version without the guard. My Trail Master is probably my best batoning knife, it blast through wood. I think it's because of the thickness + flat grind + it's not a very wide blade. The blade is thick enough to push the wood apart like a wedge and because it isn't a very wide blade there isn't as much surface to jam as it goes down through the wood. Mine is also SK5 which I find hard to sharpen vs. 1095 or my Carbon V SRK. I definitely want to pick up either a Recon or TM in Carbon V one day. I've seen a few in the exchange, but haven't been able to bring myself to spend what people are usually asking for them.
 
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JCK said:
Nice pics mate :thumbup: pretty good quality for an iphone

I really wish I had the time to get out somewhere, I'm so busy with uni, however I think I have a break round september, so I'm gonna go camping/hiking with some mates at Lake Cootharaba, so hopfeully by then I'll have my knife to practice some bushcraft skills.

How many times had you been out to practice random skills?
Oh and did you have to make that fire pit with the rocks, or was it already there?
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I've only been out camping a handful of times and have always gone on my own. I camped out on the side of mount Wellington in tassie last winter about 700m above sea level. Great experience!

That fire was made using the rocks others had left around to ring their own fires. I made a fire reflector on one side to push the heat towards the hammock which worked ok.
 
Cool stuff in this thread. I'm especially excited because my Fallkniven F1 blade blank just arrived from Knifesupply. It's very close in size to my Laconico HWK and I won't worry about using it hard because it's replaceable, unlike my HWK.

Now I've gotta decide on handle scales...
 
That's actually my only gripe about the F1, the handle is just a little flat on the sides. Maybe I have odd shaped hands but prefer some thing a little more rounded in the hand.
 
PB Wilson said:
Cool stuff in this thread. I'm especially excited because my Fallkniven F1 blade blank just arrived from Knifesupply. It's very close in size to my Laconico HWK and I won't worry about using it hard because it's replaceable, unlike my HWK.

Now I've gotta decide on handle scales...
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you should get micarta, I have no experience with the F1, but from those that have the micarta F1, its meant to be a step above the standard F1. However I think they were talking about the ones done by bark river, but all the reviews and comments I've read, said that the knife, and the blade was much better than what Fallkniven did, I'm not too sure if brkt actually regrinded the convex edge on the F1 as well.

Of course you would put some nice wood handles.
 
"That's actually my only gripe about the F1, the handle is just a little flat on the sides."

+1. Although extremely functional I must agree. I'd have loved the F1 to have the handle my Boker has exactly because of that.

Just for fun here's a more hand filling F1 version although I forget by whom.

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HandofCod said:
That's actually my only gripe about the F1, the handle is just a little flat on the sides. Maybe I have odd shaped hands but prefer some thing a little more rounded in the hand.
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For a more rounded handle, check out the H1. A slightly different knife, but excellent in the woods. Just ask Mick (Southerncross)... he'll tell ya all about them!
 
baldtaco-II said:
"That's actually my only gripe about the F1, the handle is just a little flat on the sides."

+1. Although extremely functional I must agree. I'd have loved the F1 to have the handle my Boker has exactly because of that.

Just for fun here's a more hand filling F1 version although I forget by whom.

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Owwww Creeamy!
 
bmgillies said:
Fantastic area, my grandparents are in Kyneton so I've been up around there alot
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Are there are any nice spots in the Hepburn Springs park? I found Mt Franklin by chance but want to look for new areas within a similar distance from Melbourne.
 
HandofCod said:
That's actually my only gripe about the F1, the handle is just a little flat on the sides. Maybe I have odd shaped hands but prefer some thing a little more rounded in the hand.
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The very reason why my favourite knife for bushcraft & hunting is the Fallkniven H1 in 3G, with my own personalised grind :thumbup::thumbup:

Better in hand and superior edge holding without being a PITA to sharpen :D




Kind regards
Mick
 
Great pics! I was torn between the F-1 and the A-1 when I finally decided on the A-1 I just got in. The edge on my A-1 is awesome too. I've always liked the looks of the Recon Scout, I'm always hoping I'll run a cross an older one with some wear I can get at a decent price just to check out. Which steel is your R.S. made of?
 
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