Hi everyone!
I want to show off some Fehrman knives that are now my favorite knives. (Pics below.) I have owned Busse, Swamp Rat, several khukuris and many large fixed blade knives and I absolutely love these Fehrmans.
I have literally spent hours on the phone with Eric Fehrman of http://www.fehrmanknives.com/ and he gave me all the time I wanted and then some. I called him up several times to ask him questions about the steel they use and how to sharpen their knives, etc, and I literally had to cut him off practically every time to ask him something else because he wouldnt stop talking. He is one of the nicest guy I have ever dealt with on the phone. He never once was too busy to talk to me and I called him many, many times.
I also spent quite a while on the phone with Andy Howell at Fehrman knives and he is a very honest person. You can trust what he says. Him and Eric talked me through the process of how to put a mirror finish on one of my new Fehrmans, and I will soon be posting the before and after pics of that.
I have extremely abused these knives and they truly are fierce tools, there is no doubt about that. They feel great in the hand and they are sharp, sharp, sharp. I have accidentally cut myself way too many times playing with these knives. I have thrown them into tress and chopped trees and dug holes through 2x4s and done anything I want to them and they just ask for more. I threw one of them into a tree real hard and pried sideways and it just popped out a piece of the tree. And after much hard chopping on wood, they still slide straight down through paper without even having to be sharpened. Wow! Very nice.
I have been asked how my Fehrman Final Judgment compares to Busse knives, so let me elaborate on that here. While you may think they look similar in pictures, they are completely different in person. They feel much different in the hand. I have two Busse Battle Mistresses, and my brother has one. I really like the way the Ergo handle of the Battle Mistress feels for chopping, but I prefer the Fehrman because it feels a little bit more like a real knife than a machete. If I want to do a lot of chopping, I will use my Khukuri, it excels at that. Dont get me wrong, the Fehrman is excellent at chopping too, in fact, I prefer the edge on it because the A-Symmetrical edge of the Battle Mistress gets stuck in the wood from time to time where my Fehrman never has, not even once.
Fehrman knives have a V-grind edge bevel. In other words, the edge is flat on both sides. In the beginning, I thought that I would prefer a convex edge, but Eric told me on the phone that they prefer flat edges on their knives, and I wanted to give that a try since thats what he though was best. Now that Ive given the flat edge on these knives a good try, I like them very much. They are easy to sharpen and they stay sharp for a long time. They really hold an edge good.
The first day I got my Fehrmans, my brother tried to through one of them into a tree, but he did a bad throw and it bounced off pretty hard and flew threw the air and the tip hit a rock on the ground. That messed up about a ½ of a millimeter of the tip, barely visible, but it was brand new and I was sad that there was a mark on it at all, (you know how that goes), and I didnt have any sharpening equipment at the time to try and fix it, so I called Eric and told him what happened, and he said, Thats what were here for, so I sent it in for a little fix-up.
The funny thing is, before I got it back, one of my other brothers tried to stab his Fehrman into a piece of wood on the ground in our house, but he missed the wood on a full power stab, and he hit the concrete floor in our house, and it didnt even chip the tip at all, it just bent over a tiny bit. So I took the knife out into the garage and laid the tip on a piece of steel and tried to hammer it straight by hitting down on the top of it with another hammer, but I chipped the very tip. Then I realized how stupid that was, but it was too late. I had to call Eric and tell him I messed up another tip. When I called him, he just laughed. He told me to send it in and he would fix it. He said that if he couldnt fix it, he would replace it. Talk about a GUARANTEE! Fehrman makes no joke about backing up their knives.
The knives I got from Eric that you see in the pictures below are prototypes. The only difference is the fact that they have an extra front guard accessory hole, and the blade tapers a little less so that the edge is thicker on my knives than the new ones. Other than that, they are the same as the ones on their website.
The steel in these knives is CPM-3V.
Here is a picture of someone at the factory trying to break a Final Judgment:
Click here for pic
Jay was pushing pretty hard with a 2 foot pipe wrench and he couldn't break it.
And here is another picture of a bend test where a Fehrman "Final Judgment" was placed into a jig to see how far it would bend before snapping. It bent under tremendous pressure but it wouldn't break. It returned to "True' as soon as the pressure was relieved.
Click here for pic
Now on to the pictures!!!
Be patient, these pages may take some time to load, theyre pretty big.
Satin Final Judgment pics:
Pics 1
Crinkle coated First Strike pics:
Pics 2
Satin First Strike pics:
Pics 3
Satin Last Chance pics:
(Note: This knife has a new pair of handles that I ordered from Fehrman Knives for this knife.
Soon, all of their knives will come with handles like this.)
Pics 4
Shane - Psalm 150
I want to show off some Fehrman knives that are now my favorite knives. (Pics below.) I have owned Busse, Swamp Rat, several khukuris and many large fixed blade knives and I absolutely love these Fehrmans.
I have literally spent hours on the phone with Eric Fehrman of http://www.fehrmanknives.com/ and he gave me all the time I wanted and then some. I called him up several times to ask him questions about the steel they use and how to sharpen their knives, etc, and I literally had to cut him off practically every time to ask him something else because he wouldnt stop talking. He is one of the nicest guy I have ever dealt with on the phone. He never once was too busy to talk to me and I called him many, many times.
I also spent quite a while on the phone with Andy Howell at Fehrman knives and he is a very honest person. You can trust what he says. Him and Eric talked me through the process of how to put a mirror finish on one of my new Fehrmans, and I will soon be posting the before and after pics of that.
I have extremely abused these knives and they truly are fierce tools, there is no doubt about that. They feel great in the hand and they are sharp, sharp, sharp. I have accidentally cut myself way too many times playing with these knives. I have thrown them into tress and chopped trees and dug holes through 2x4s and done anything I want to them and they just ask for more. I threw one of them into a tree real hard and pried sideways and it just popped out a piece of the tree. And after much hard chopping on wood, they still slide straight down through paper without even having to be sharpened. Wow! Very nice.
I have been asked how my Fehrman Final Judgment compares to Busse knives, so let me elaborate on that here. While you may think they look similar in pictures, they are completely different in person. They feel much different in the hand. I have two Busse Battle Mistresses, and my brother has one. I really like the way the Ergo handle of the Battle Mistress feels for chopping, but I prefer the Fehrman because it feels a little bit more like a real knife than a machete. If I want to do a lot of chopping, I will use my Khukuri, it excels at that. Dont get me wrong, the Fehrman is excellent at chopping too, in fact, I prefer the edge on it because the A-Symmetrical edge of the Battle Mistress gets stuck in the wood from time to time where my Fehrman never has, not even once.
Fehrman knives have a V-grind edge bevel. In other words, the edge is flat on both sides. In the beginning, I thought that I would prefer a convex edge, but Eric told me on the phone that they prefer flat edges on their knives, and I wanted to give that a try since thats what he though was best. Now that Ive given the flat edge on these knives a good try, I like them very much. They are easy to sharpen and they stay sharp for a long time. They really hold an edge good.
The first day I got my Fehrmans, my brother tried to through one of them into a tree, but he did a bad throw and it bounced off pretty hard and flew threw the air and the tip hit a rock on the ground. That messed up about a ½ of a millimeter of the tip, barely visible, but it was brand new and I was sad that there was a mark on it at all, (you know how that goes), and I didnt have any sharpening equipment at the time to try and fix it, so I called Eric and told him what happened, and he said, Thats what were here for, so I sent it in for a little fix-up.
The funny thing is, before I got it back, one of my other brothers tried to stab his Fehrman into a piece of wood on the ground in our house, but he missed the wood on a full power stab, and he hit the concrete floor in our house, and it didnt even chip the tip at all, it just bent over a tiny bit. So I took the knife out into the garage and laid the tip on a piece of steel and tried to hammer it straight by hitting down on the top of it with another hammer, but I chipped the very tip. Then I realized how stupid that was, but it was too late. I had to call Eric and tell him I messed up another tip. When I called him, he just laughed. He told me to send it in and he would fix it. He said that if he couldnt fix it, he would replace it. Talk about a GUARANTEE! Fehrman makes no joke about backing up their knives.
The knives I got from Eric that you see in the pictures below are prototypes. The only difference is the fact that they have an extra front guard accessory hole, and the blade tapers a little less so that the edge is thicker on my knives than the new ones. Other than that, they are the same as the ones on their website.
The steel in these knives is CPM-3V.
Here is a picture of someone at the factory trying to break a Final Judgment:
Click here for pic
Jay was pushing pretty hard with a 2 foot pipe wrench and he couldn't break it.
And here is another picture of a bend test where a Fehrman "Final Judgment" was placed into a jig to see how far it would bend before snapping. It bent under tremendous pressure but it wouldn't break. It returned to "True' as soon as the pressure was relieved.
Click here for pic
Now on to the pictures!!!
Be patient, these pages may take some time to load, theyre pretty big.
Satin Final Judgment pics:
Pics 1
Crinkle coated First Strike pics:
Pics 2
Satin First Strike pics:
Pics 3
Satin Last Chance pics:
(Note: This knife has a new pair of handles that I ordered from Fehrman Knives for this knife.
Soon, all of their knives will come with handles like this.)
Pics 4
Shane - Psalm 150
