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I've been for a year owner of Queen made Dan Burke small Barlow. Up till recently, it had factory edge sharpened with ceramic rods. Anyway I got Lansky set and used hours and hours of elbow grease and reset bevels. However this is not about that but Knife itself.
In past year this knife has been my number one choice. After getting many GEC's which I carry daily, small Damn Burke Barlow is my fave knife. The thick D2 blades can take punishment. I've cut various materials though factory edge was sharp it could not rival some of my modern folder's of GEC's. But it was still pleasure to use. Main spear blade is able to do anything I need to do and small wharnie is perfect for small chores like peeling apples, opening letters and so forth.
Back spring has loosin from original 8½ near nail breaker into smooth 7-7½ making main blade deployment smooth and nice. Secondary small wharnie has come down from 8½ to 8. Perfectly manageble blade.
I got two Dan Burke small Barlow's. My only knife beside SAK's that I own more than one piece. It says alot especially since I bought both full MSRP price + 23% VAT. I took worse one of the two into my main rotation while keeping better on in wrapped wax paper and in original box. Worse one had minor blade play and very minor needles point size gap. I managed to fix blade play and knife hasn't developed blade play since.
My original grief with this smaple had that in factory bevel near tip, bevel had flat spot that was on different angle from main bevel. After regrounding blade no problem. Spearpoint and wharnie got reground into 20 degree per side. Main blade is much more polished looking as I used more hours to ground it, sharpen it and strop it. Now both blades push cuts paper easily thruought the blade length.
Here's my current traditional champion:
After a year, this small traditional tank hasn't budget. I am so glad I bought two of these. Because this is still the knife I would not separate no matter what. of course I keep carrying other knives with me but this is my ultimate favourite one so far.
- Jani
I've been for a year owner of Queen made Dan Burke small Barlow. Up till recently, it had factory edge sharpened with ceramic rods. Anyway I got Lansky set and used hours and hours of elbow grease and reset bevels. However this is not about that but Knife itself.
In past year this knife has been my number one choice. After getting many GEC's which I carry daily, small Damn Burke Barlow is my fave knife. The thick D2 blades can take punishment. I've cut various materials though factory edge was sharp it could not rival some of my modern folder's of GEC's. But it was still pleasure to use. Main spear blade is able to do anything I need to do and small wharnie is perfect for small chores like peeling apples, opening letters and so forth.
Back spring has loosin from original 8½ near nail breaker into smooth 7-7½ making main blade deployment smooth and nice. Secondary small wharnie has come down from 8½ to 8. Perfectly manageble blade.
I got two Dan Burke small Barlow's. My only knife beside SAK's that I own more than one piece. It says alot especially since I bought both full MSRP price + 23% VAT. I took worse one of the two into my main rotation while keeping better on in wrapped wax paper and in original box. Worse one had minor blade play and very minor needles point size gap. I managed to fix blade play and knife hasn't developed blade play since.
My original grief with this smaple had that in factory bevel near tip, bevel had flat spot that was on different angle from main bevel. After regrounding blade no problem. Spearpoint and wharnie got reground into 20 degree per side. Main blade is much more polished looking as I used more hours to ground it, sharpen it and strop it. Now both blades push cuts paper easily thruought the blade length.
Here's my current traditional champion:
After a year, this small traditional tank hasn't budget. I am so glad I bought two of these. Because this is still the knife I would not separate no matter what. of course I keep carrying other knives with me but this is my ultimate favourite one so far.
- Jani
