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Let me start off by saying I now realise there is no one perfect knife, there is always going to be a compromise of sorts if selecting one knife for all tasks !
Choosing a knife is going to depend on what your primary uses are and also your location will come into play. Someone who lives in a desert area is unlikely to have the same uses for a knife as someone in a rain forest. Top and bottom is that there will never be one knife that will be right for every person.
With each knife I order the design is fine tuned by lessons learned from the previous knife. What I have come to find is that a wide thin blade with a hand filling handle seems to suit my needs the best.
When I recieved my Koster Nessmuk the design really appealed to me but it is let down by very thin handle slabs. I also think a convexed edge suits me better for a wide variety of tasks even though they don't quite measure up to a scandi when working on wood...IMO !
My TTSK Design that I had John of JK Knives make me didn't turn out exactly as I'd wanted due to my lack of info on my drawing, I'd wanted the blade with the edge running all the way back but as you can see in the drawing I didn't explain that. John is one of the very best at bringing designs to life but he ain't no mind reader so if you order a custom from any maker always ensure you explain the details !!!
Here is the finished knife.
The TTSK is still a great blade though and I do use it quite a lot.
A knife that I really do like is my Dave Farmer Camp knife, an awesome blade that is very sharp, holds a great edge but is also easy to touch up. This one loses points for me though with the handle being a tad too thin and the blade to handle transition being too shallow which causes me to fear my hand sliding down the blade. This has never happened though so maybe my worries are unfounded !
My 6 month design is very closely modeled on the Farmer knife.
My Booshway was the blade that really sold me on the wide blades, this is still probably my favourite all round knife but at 3/16" stock is a little excessive for food prep etc.
And finally the last knife that influenced my 6 month knife is my little ML Survivalist. I love this knife, for it's size I don't think it could be any better, pretty perfect. I incorporated the handle blade transition of the ML into the 6 month knife, having a right angle like that gives me far more confidence.
Snicker approves of these knives as well !
This was my first drawing I sent to Bryan Breeden~
And my second with the blade/handle transition changed~
Choosing a knife is going to depend on what your primary uses are and also your location will come into play. Someone who lives in a desert area is unlikely to have the same uses for a knife as someone in a rain forest. Top and bottom is that there will never be one knife that will be right for every person.
With each knife I order the design is fine tuned by lessons learned from the previous knife. What I have come to find is that a wide thin blade with a hand filling handle seems to suit my needs the best.
When I recieved my Koster Nessmuk the design really appealed to me but it is let down by very thin handle slabs. I also think a convexed edge suits me better for a wide variety of tasks even though they don't quite measure up to a scandi when working on wood...IMO !
My TTSK Design that I had John of JK Knives make me didn't turn out exactly as I'd wanted due to my lack of info on my drawing, I'd wanted the blade with the edge running all the way back but as you can see in the drawing I didn't explain that. John is one of the very best at bringing designs to life but he ain't no mind reader so if you order a custom from any maker always ensure you explain the details !!!
Here is the finished knife.
The TTSK is still a great blade though and I do use it quite a lot.
A knife that I really do like is my Dave Farmer Camp knife, an awesome blade that is very sharp, holds a great edge but is also easy to touch up. This one loses points for me though with the handle being a tad too thin and the blade to handle transition being too shallow which causes me to fear my hand sliding down the blade. This has never happened though so maybe my worries are unfounded !
My 6 month design is very closely modeled on the Farmer knife.
My Booshway was the blade that really sold me on the wide blades, this is still probably my favourite all round knife but at 3/16" stock is a little excessive for food prep etc.
And finally the last knife that influenced my 6 month knife is my little ML Survivalist. I love this knife, for it's size I don't think it could be any better, pretty perfect. I incorporated the handle blade transition of the ML into the 6 month knife, having a right angle like that gives me far more confidence.
Snicker approves of these knives as well !
This was my first drawing I sent to Bryan Breeden~
And my second with the blade/handle transition changed~
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