My first Opinel

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Lavan

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Finally found a store that had Opinels for sale. HADDA get one. Jist to see wot it's all about. Kinda neat. PRIMITIVE, but neat. Makes ya see just how good a cheap knife can be. THIN blade. Wow, thin.
I got da DEE-LUXE No. 8 with the ....INOX.... blade. :D
It may be "stainless" but it sure does want to keep fingerprints.

Crude, neat, an of course requiring great maintenance consisting of keepin it dry so it won't swell up an quit. Course, I hadda put a crude carvin of a ship on it in case I go to sea an need a "sailor's" knife.

Now I gotta figger how to make it an ...AUTO!!!!

Knives are a sickness.

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Now you're really addicted. Something I cooked up today:

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And they're so cheap, you can afford to mess up - keep in mind mine ain't DEE-LUXE, just carbon steel ;)
 
FILEWORK!!!! Do I see.....FILEWORK????

My God, the beast is LOOSE! Run for your lives!

:D
 
Hey, you even changed the handle profile. Is that allowable? I'd hate to get the FRENCH mad at us.

:rolleyes: :D
 
The blade reprofile needed a smaller more curved handle, plus I lost the nail nick, so the well is access and better grip. And yes, that's my first try at filework - figured for $6 if I screw it up, oh well...
 
Lavan said:
Hey, you even changed the handle profile. Is that allowable? I'd hate to get the FRENCH mad at us.

:rolleyes: :D
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Yeah, don't make em mad. Spinich suffle is sticky to wipe off! :D
 
:confused:
So what retail stores DO carry Opinels? Haven't been able to find 'em aaaaaanywhere. Heck, even at the gun and knife show, only one guy had 'em. And he was asking too much.
 
Agreed on Lee Valley. I have a couple as well - they are really underrated IMHO. In Calgary, I really haven't found a place other than Lee Valley. Mora's can be had at most camping/hiking type stores. Knifecenter has them (opinels) if you want to shop online.

Hope this helps - gord
 
The Rolling pin cooking stores in the mall have some, as do williams sonoma, I think. Every so often, restoration hardware has some.
 
arghh you change blade profil !
I am going to ask my friends to curse you...
Only us, french are allowed to do such thing ! :D

nice job anyway !
(compared to mine ! ;) )



Personnaly, i prefer the carbon blade to the stainless one, but it's purely personnal taste !
 
Seems a pretty popular knife to practice filing on... and yes, carbon is the way to go on these. Do your mods, file, then cut a pinapple or mango... you get a beautiful patina on the steel immediately.
 
freddy1 said:
arghh you change blade profil !
Only us, french are allowed to do such thing ! :D
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Nice! You made a "pocket scramasax".

Wait! You're not allowed to do that! That's an Anglo-Saxon blade shape! :D

(I see "Gillette" is French also. :))
 
no, it's a new shape i just create !
I will named it..... "reverse-tanto"
it sounds good !
i'll probably make billions with that idea !

argh, i just create it and benchmade already stole my idea :eek:
 
it sounds good !
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Ah, mon Fred-ee, vous have blown ze covair. Een Frensh, eet wood bee "eet SOUND good."

Now lissen up, boy, us here Mairkun fokes don't want no rusty stuff in our Velveeta. Now maybe YOU like rust to enhance your Gruyere, but hereabouts we wants STAINLESS. It's more TACTICAL.

Harrumph!

:p :D
 
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