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Agreed. Svord makes some good products. Alternatively, you could save up further and go with an esee 3 with a kydex sheath.
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Need a new cheap fixed blade for hiking season
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Agreed. Svord makes some good products. Alternatively, you could save up further and go with an esee 3 with a kydex sheath.
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I hope you like the BK15 Fuori. Use it.
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Glad you like it. Now use it! It just fits my concept of a general purpose woods knife; not too big, not too small, pretty tough, and good finesse knife. I was working on the edge on mine the other day and have it just a tad under hair popping sharpness with stones (meaning I can't shave with it, but I do loose some arm hair. 
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Sounds like you've about got the "cheap fixed blade" category covered by now. Maybe instead of getting 10 more of 'em in the coming years, ya aught to have a really nice custom made to your specs.
Does anyone know what the blade is above? I'm still curious.My favorite budget blade by far !
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Thank you sir!!! :thumbup:
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Sorry buddy I've only just seen this post, the knife is just a 511 that I modded and sprayed !
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I saw that one last year. It definitely caught my interest.
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I liked mine enough to say that if you are tempted
Mine died, but the fault was mine: After seeing oh-so-many otherwise pedestrian knives selling for way in excess of their worth seemingly by dint of a new fad virtue someone had scalloped out quasi-haphazard scoops into the micarta by touching it on the wheel bit of a belt or Dremmel, I thought I'd give it a go on the polypro of the Svord. I made a pig's ear of it. If I could have been arsed cutting the handle off or melting it away and making a new one wouldn't have been very hard. It would have been a labour of love though 'cos I would have to have drawn a pittance for time taken to do it. And the blades on any of these sorts of knives are well short of lovable. Bin.
Anyway, the unmolested version is pretty good. What I especially liked is that the design is rather more big dumb catering / butchery knife, that works well will gloves, rather than a big dumb neo-bushcrafter. Aside from disposition to rust it is one of those knives that I could lend to a cook, commercial fisherman, thatcher, bodger, squaddie and they'd all love it, and there would be no concern at my end about getting back a battered wreck. Just the thing for reducing Walter Palmer into edible portions.
I tweaked the grind of mine just a touch as well as the edge. Being as this is a modest steel [L6], at a modest hardness, combined with the thinness it is very easy to do. Taken to P2500 and finished on green compound with a shallow convex and powered by that handle it cut with remarkable authority. I dropped the point down a touch just so it was a bit less like a boring straight backed boning knife. That cost me some belly but gave me a more precise point. It's far from necessary but unless I have a distinct use for a lot of belly for meat work I find big bellied jam spreader knives aesthetically objectionable and lacking in poise. As NIB the knife is fine though if one accepts all the usual caveats about what you trade off in singleness of purpose when one buys any general utility knife.
I won't be getting a new one to replace my dead one. Despite what I have said about it, and my firm conviction that it is as good if not a lot better than every other knife mentioned in this thread, for my purposes it does lack an element of usefulness. My Svord Peasant does nearly everything I habitually do with a knife better than this does because of the shape. When you add in that the Peasant is a folder there is an immediate handiness advantage to it. Further, for my purposes the Peasant gives nothing away in terms of strength. One sees a lot of ranger bands on forums but I am the only person I have ever seen use that same material cut lengthways into thongs. Cut into about 3mm or 5mm strips I use it for all sorts; from uber light bungee to hold fishing rods to the bike to quick lashings round 3 sticks to make a tripod [does away with the tension in the string issue when you whip it round anything]. Accordingly, I've often got a few lengths of that on me. Well, if I am to use the Peasant for any reasonable length of time it takes a moment to spin a few turns of that around the handle of the open knife and over that long tang spur. In a few seconds I can add a super grippy stopper to the knife that makes it impossible to close. I've never tried it 'cos I'm not a headbutt[sic], yet I'd be willing to wager that the Peasant gives away nothing I prize in terms of robustness to the Kiwi. The fact I can carry the Peasant legally for no good reason at all wherever the hell I like means I often do. It feels very weird to do that for a couple of days of urban and then go home to swap that out for the Kiwi just because I am taking a pack into the sticks. The only real world advantage to that would be the fixed blade doing better in grime and slime. I'd sooner pick a stainless knife for that from a similar sort of handled Swibo or Victorinox catering knife to something more sporty.
Yep, there's a lot to like here yet a lot to dislike too. I do think they are over priced given what they are made from and their simplicity, but they are hardly alone in that. Mine came fine but given what else I know about Svord's inconsistent grinding I'd be very vigilant to where I bought it. I command a decent amount of legal firepower and understand the distance selling regulations in the UK. I'm not certain you have the same type of cover in the US given all the whinging I see on this forum about lemons, people not being able to get their money back, and people complaining about having shipping costs on their dime to get stuff fixed / replaced. If I'm right about that go brick and mortar if you can 'cos it's a punt. Full disclosure: I largely mentioned it 'cos of the orange in the original brief combined with that it'll blow the other pedestrian carbon steel blades at mediocre hardness [like ESEE] completely into the weeds at a cutting authority challenge for a tiny fraction of the price.
Mine died, but the fault was mine: After seeing oh-so-many otherwise pedestrian knives selling for way in excess of their worth seemingly by dint of a new fad virtue someone had scalloped out quasi-haphazard scoops into the micarta by touching it on the wheel bit of a belt or Dremmel, I thought I'd give it a go on the polypro of the Svord. I made a pig's ear of it. If I could have been arsed cutting the handle off or melting it away and making a new one wouldn't have been very hard. It would have been a labour of love though 'cos I would have to have drawn a pittance for time taken to do it. And the blades on any of these sorts of knives are well short of lovable. Bin.
Anyway, the unmolested version is pretty good. What I especially liked is that the design is rather more big dumb catering / butchery knife, that works well will gloves, rather than a big dumb neo-bushcrafter. Aside from disposition to rust it is one of those knives that I could lend to a cook, commercial fisherman, thatcher, bodger, squaddie and they'd all love it, and there would be no concern at my end about getting back a battered wreck. Just the thing for reducing Walter Palmer into edible portions.
I tweaked the grind of mine just a touch as well as the edge. Being as this is a modest steel [L6], at a modest hardness, combined with the thinness it is very easy to do. Taken to P2500 and finished on green compound with a shallow convex and powered by that handle it cut with remarkable authority. I dropped the point down a touch just so it was a bit less like a boring straight backed boning knife. That cost me some belly but gave me a more precise point. It's far from necessary but unless I have a distinct use for a lot of belly for meat work I find big bellied jam spreader knives aesthetically objectionable and lacking in poise. As NIB the knife is fine though if one accepts all the usual caveats about what you trade off in singleness of purpose when one buys any general utility knife.
I won't be getting a new one to replace my dead one. Despite what I have said about it, and my firm conviction that it is as good if not a lot better than every other knife mentioned in this thread, for my purposes it does lack an element of usefulness. My Svord Peasant does nearly everything I habitually do with a knife better than this does because of the shape. When you add in that the Peasant is a folder there is an immediate handiness advantage to it. Further, for my purposes the Peasant gives nothing away in terms of strength. One sees a lot of ranger bands on forums but I am the only person I have ever seen use that same material cut lengthways into thongs. Cut into about 3mm or 5mm strips I use it for all sorts; from uber light bungee to hold fishing rods to the bike to quick lashings round 3 sticks to make a tripod [does away with the tension in the string issue when you whip it round anything]. Accordingly, I've often got a few lengths of that on me. Well, if I am to use the Peasant for any reasonable length of time it takes a moment to spin a few turns of that around the handle of the open knife and over that long tang spur. In a few seconds I can add a super grippy stopper to the knife that makes it impossible to close. I've never tried it 'cos I'm not a headbutt[sic], yet I'd be willing to wager that the Peasant gives away nothing I prize in terms of robustness to the Kiwi. The fact I can carry the Peasant legally for no good reason at all wherever the hell I like means I often do. It feels very weird to do that for a couple of days of urban and then go home to swap that out for the Kiwi just because I am taking a pack into the sticks. The only real world advantage to that would be the fixed blade doing better in grime and slime. I'd sooner pick a stainless knife for that from a similar sort of handled Swibo or Victorinox catering knife to something more sporty.
Yep, there's a lot to like here yet a lot to dislike too. I do think they are over priced given what they are made from and their simplicity, but they are hardly alone in that. Mine came fine but given what else I know about Svord's inconsistent grinding I'd be very vigilant to where I bought it. I command a decent amount of legal firepower and understand the distance selling regulations in the UK. I'm not certain you have the same type of cover in the US given all the whinging I see on this forum about lemons, people not being able to get their money back, and people complaining about having shipping costs on their dime to get stuff fixed / replaced. If I'm right about that go brick and mortar if you can 'cos it's a punt. Full disclosure: I largely mentioned it 'cos of the orange in the original brief combined with that it'll blow the other pedestrian carbon steel blades at mediocre hardness [like ESEE] completely into the weeds at a cutting authority challenge for a tiny fraction of the price.