Hi folks,
I'm hoping to make a combination thread here covering a few related topics.
First off is a bit of an introduction and quick background info about myself. My username is Seabring and I'm 33 years old. I come from 10 plus years of working in the commercial fishing industry and I now currently work in the oil fields of Alberta , Canada. In both these industries a good blade is kept close at hand and used regularly. I have allways appreciated a quality knife but never given much more than a cursory thought to the development and research that goes into designing and manufacturing them, until now!
Having just broken another knife (leatherman Skeletool) I started to look more closely at the demands I was putting on the tool and the options available for a more substantial and application suitable replacement. The Skeletool was a Xmas gift from my girlfriend so for the sake of relationship longevity I will be trying to get it repaired before she notices!
I have ordered a Benchmade 275 BKSN Adamas folding knife as a replacement for the Skeletool. Honestly the Skeletool was way outside it's intended use range with what I was doing with it and I wasn't surprised it broke. So I've gone to the other end of the spectrum and ordered the most hard use suited knife I could come up with through my research on this forum and on the internet.
During the course of my working day I use a knife for all kinds of things and it gets used to the full limit of it's intended design capabilities and more every day in all conditions. Dirt, sand, water, oil , and extreme cold temps in winter are the most common elements that the tools I use are exposed to on a daily basis. I allways carry my knife in my side pocket and it gets constantly banged and crashed into things as I move around doing my work. It gets thrown on the ground if I'm using it when I'm lying under a piece of equipment performing maintenance and repairs, it gets dropped to the ground from reasonable heights on occasions by accident. Basically the tools I use get the crap kicked out of them on a daily basis.
From what I can see the Adamas should be well suited to what I need!
I'm hoping to have the knife this coming week sometime. I ordered it from a supplier in the city of Edmonton and that's only a few hundred miles from my town so it should get here fairly quickly after it's shipped from the supplier. I want to do an initially review of the knife when I receive it and then I thought it would be of interest to this section of the forum if I do an ongoing review of how the knife performs in the field with daily use and abuse. Pics and detailed description of what I put it too would show how it copes with, and holds up to, daily use in the field.
Any thoughts or ideas from forum members are much appreciated and I look forward to hopefully providing an interesting and ongoing knife review for the forum to enjoy.
I'm hoping to make a combination thread here covering a few related topics.
First off is a bit of an introduction and quick background info about myself. My username is Seabring and I'm 33 years old. I come from 10 plus years of working in the commercial fishing industry and I now currently work in the oil fields of Alberta , Canada. In both these industries a good blade is kept close at hand and used regularly. I have allways appreciated a quality knife but never given much more than a cursory thought to the development and research that goes into designing and manufacturing them, until now!
Having just broken another knife (leatherman Skeletool) I started to look more closely at the demands I was putting on the tool and the options available for a more substantial and application suitable replacement. The Skeletool was a Xmas gift from my girlfriend so for the sake of relationship longevity I will be trying to get it repaired before she notices!
I have ordered a Benchmade 275 BKSN Adamas folding knife as a replacement for the Skeletool. Honestly the Skeletool was way outside it's intended use range with what I was doing with it and I wasn't surprised it broke. So I've gone to the other end of the spectrum and ordered the most hard use suited knife I could come up with through my research on this forum and on the internet.
During the course of my working day I use a knife for all kinds of things and it gets used to the full limit of it's intended design capabilities and more every day in all conditions. Dirt, sand, water, oil , and extreme cold temps in winter are the most common elements that the tools I use are exposed to on a daily basis. I allways carry my knife in my side pocket and it gets constantly banged and crashed into things as I move around doing my work. It gets thrown on the ground if I'm using it when I'm lying under a piece of equipment performing maintenance and repairs, it gets dropped to the ground from reasonable heights on occasions by accident. Basically the tools I use get the crap kicked out of them on a daily basis.
From what I can see the Adamas should be well suited to what I need!
I'm hoping to have the knife this coming week sometime. I ordered it from a supplier in the city of Edmonton and that's only a few hundred miles from my town so it should get here fairly quickly after it's shipped from the supplier. I want to do an initially review of the knife when I receive it and then I thought it would be of interest to this section of the forum if I do an ongoing review of how the knife performs in the field with daily use and abuse. Pics and detailed description of what I put it too would show how it copes with, and holds up to, daily use in the field.
Any thoughts or ideas from forum members are much appreciated and I look forward to hopefully providing an interesting and ongoing knife review for the forum to enjoy.
