NEED small 4'' fixed blade

ROCK6 said:
Ragweed's got a great site overall for quality, inexpensive knives of that type. Helle is just a brand and can be found other places...a lot of the "nordic" type knives are excellent wilderness knives, just a different flavor. I will say, he's got some of the best service around though.

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Best service around! I was extremely pleased in my dealings with him too. He goes WAY above and beyond the call.
 
I've been using the Mora 2000 for a while now and find it much better than the standard Mora with the red painted wood handle. The 2000 has a wider blade , is stainless and the handle is larger with a comfortable grip. It holds a sharp edge . Pretty impressive blade for the money. The sheath is deep and the knife won't come out even if it is upside down..... yes I like it :cool:
 
if i have mentioned this before sorry, but id get a mora. a good laminate steel one. i bought the cheap carbon model and still LOVE IT! the laminate will gbe better quality though. make sure to read how to sharpen them properly. its the whole bevel that gets sharpened. you dont add a edge to the bevel like most knives, the bevel is the edge! very sharp knives indeed.
 
The Swamp Rat Howling Rat is a cool little knife. The Becker Crewman looks great too.
 
crewman or compainion dont look bad, but if your having a blade only 4" long you dont need a very tough blade. what you want is more of a keen edge, because a barely tempered 4" blade wont even snap under normal use. its just short and thick enough to resist stresses.
if my life depended on either a becker or a mora id have the becker just cause i know for sure it wont fail.
 
I just handled a Crewman at the local AG Russell because I had been considering one too. From the pictures I thought that it would be a good smaller belt knife. However, to me it was a large knife, although not in the same league as the BK-9, and very thick and heavy. Kind of on the opposite end of say a Mora. I still plan on getting one but for a 4" belt knife I just ordered a Helle. I plan on getting a couple of Frost Moras just to throw in the pack as backups just because they're so cheap and light and everyone says that the quality is excellent.
 
There's a lot of knives in that 3.5" to 5" range...both custom and non-custom:

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I really like the Grohmann, Howling Rat, Dozier and Mora-type scandi-knives.

ROCK6
 
I'd skip the Beck Campanion -- too much prybar and not enough sharp -- without time on a belt sander or hours on a hand sharpener.
 
ROCK6 said:
There's a lot of knives in that 3.5" to 5" range...both custom and non-custom:

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I really like the Grohmann, Howling Rat, Dozier and Mora-type scandi-knives.

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Nice collection :)

Just curious, is the Buck-Strider flat ground? Thanks :)
 
The Buck-Strider Solution fixed blade was flat-ground in the BG42 pre-production veriosn.

The ATS 34 model I got later is unfortunately hollow-ground. That's not a grind that fits the market slot the ad copy seems to assign for this knife (when failure is not an option).

What's coming out now/future could be learned at the Buck Forum.
 
Thomas Linton, not sure about that...I think it may be the other way around, my Solution is ATS-34 and flat-ground...I'm surprised they did a hollow-ground Solution...it excells with the flat grind.

ROCK6
 
ROCK6 said:
Thomas Linton, not sure about that...I think it may be the other way around, my Solution is ATS-34 and flat-ground...I'm surprised they did a hollow-ground Solution...it excells with the flat grind.

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Rock6, I am sure about the facts I wrote. My ATS-34 has a hollow grind precisely 1.5 mm deep at its deepest point modway between the edge of the flat and the edge .

Perhaps there were negative comments to Buck (besides mine) from knowledgable persons like yourself and changes were made.

I never "got" making a numbered pre-production run one way and a production run the other.
 
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