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Greetings.
My name's James and I live in Edinburgh, Scotland's capitol. I've been interested in knives since I was a small boy. I was lucky as a school-friends father owned several camping and outdoors stores, so he and I could get to play with the entire range of Swiss army knives.
I'm just beginning to get a little more serious about extending my collection, slowly building it up as funds allow.
At the moment, I've got the following knives, all of which will be familiar to most of you on the forum. So in chronological order:
An ancient SAK Climber which has seem more fishing trips than I care to remember. Useful as a priest and for cutting though knots.
A Spyderco Tenacious which is now my beater and tester knife. It too has been through a lot!
Next was a Spyderco PM2 with the digital camo scales. I look on this as my posh Tenacious and as a result it's only been used indoors for the lightest of tasks. A waste I know.
I bought a Roselli carpenter and that has proved very useful on a couple of outdoors and fishing holidays. Making fires and gutting fish present it with no problems at all - it feels at home in this location.
Maintaining the Nordic theme I bought a Karesuando Nallo for office use. Lately though it has been consigned to the collection drawer as my Benchmade 707 has superseded it for EDC use.
Finally a month ago I splashed out on a large Sebenza 21, the plain titanium scales and drop point. I must say that it's a beautiful thing. Sadly I do have a bit of a sticky lock but this is gradually improving as the break-in proceeds with repeated openings.
I have my eye on either a Benchmade 940 or a small Sebenza Insingo. Probably the former, as it's cheaper and I was very impressed with the Axis lock on my 707, especially after locktite'ing it to have no play, centre perfectly and still flick open easily. Yet the CRKs are quality!
For sharpening, like many of those just starting out, I use the Spyderco Sharpmaker which seems to me to be the least expensive, least scary, best option. I've had previously managed to round the tip out on my Tenacious before I knew how to use it properly. But now that I do and having bought the Ultra-Fine stones, I've managed to get it very, very sharp indeed. The Tenacious and Roselli Carpenter have come back from usage up a treat on the Sharpmaker. So has the SAK knife which bit me rather well when I wasn't concentrating. The 707 and the PM2 have been given only the lightest touches on the ultra- fine stones to improve the factory finish. The Sebenza is as it came from the factory.
So I'm looking forward to gaining knowledge and tips from the experienced members, particularly on stropping.
Nice to be here!
Cheers
James
My name's James and I live in Edinburgh, Scotland's capitol. I've been interested in knives since I was a small boy. I was lucky as a school-friends father owned several camping and outdoors stores, so he and I could get to play with the entire range of Swiss army knives.
I'm just beginning to get a little more serious about extending my collection, slowly building it up as funds allow.
At the moment, I've got the following knives, all of which will be familiar to most of you on the forum. So in chronological order:
An ancient SAK Climber which has seem more fishing trips than I care to remember. Useful as a priest and for cutting though knots.
A Spyderco Tenacious which is now my beater and tester knife. It too has been through a lot!
Next was a Spyderco PM2 with the digital camo scales. I look on this as my posh Tenacious and as a result it's only been used indoors for the lightest of tasks. A waste I know.
I bought a Roselli carpenter and that has proved very useful on a couple of outdoors and fishing holidays. Making fires and gutting fish present it with no problems at all - it feels at home in this location.
Maintaining the Nordic theme I bought a Karesuando Nallo for office use. Lately though it has been consigned to the collection drawer as my Benchmade 707 has superseded it for EDC use.
Finally a month ago I splashed out on a large Sebenza 21, the plain titanium scales and drop point. I must say that it's a beautiful thing. Sadly I do have a bit of a sticky lock but this is gradually improving as the break-in proceeds with repeated openings.
I have my eye on either a Benchmade 940 or a small Sebenza Insingo. Probably the former, as it's cheaper and I was very impressed with the Axis lock on my 707, especially after locktite'ing it to have no play, centre perfectly and still flick open easily. Yet the CRKs are quality!
For sharpening, like many of those just starting out, I use the Spyderco Sharpmaker which seems to me to be the least expensive, least scary, best option. I've had previously managed to round the tip out on my Tenacious before I knew how to use it properly. But now that I do and having bought the Ultra-Fine stones, I've managed to get it very, very sharp indeed. The Tenacious and Roselli Carpenter have come back from usage up a treat on the Sharpmaker. So has the SAK knife which bit me rather well when I wasn't concentrating. The 707 and the PM2 have been given only the lightest touches on the ultra- fine stones to improve the factory finish. The Sebenza is as it came from the factory.
So I'm looking forward to gaining knowledge and tips from the experienced members, particularly on stropping.
Nice to be here!
Cheers
James
