I was doing some browsing and ran across this company. They make the knife you order but there's about an 8 month wait. Some of their knives look heavy duty and hardcore. Built strong like a strider, but not the same look. Does anybody have any experience with these guys, seen any of their work hands on? I'm considering giving them some of my business. The Oberland 03 caught my eye.
-
The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is available! Price is $250 ea (shipped within CONUS).
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/
Oberland Knives..AKA Crusader Forge?
- Thread starter Orion811
- Start date
It's a very good company. I have an Oberland and it is extremely well made and heavy duty. I chopped down a massive grape vine that was strangling a 100-foot spruce. It was effortless work, even though some of the vines were almost the size of my wrists. The S30V seems much harder than I normally find in that steel. I'd love to see it tested. I'm in a phase where I like more sleek, fine cutters than end-of-days knives.
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2006
- Messages
- 1,838
This is a link to a "First Impressions" when I had a FIFP folder pass thru my hands:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...iew-Crusader-Forge-FIFP-Folder?highlight=fifp
Very well made knife, but I found the blade stock was way too thick to make it a decent cutter. The blade would have definitely needed to be re-ground to a different profile, which I felt would have defeated the design intent of the knife.
I think the company is small, and I read somewhere that Maciej Szczerbiak was in a bad accident a while back which impacted their ability to deliver knives to market.
I see very few make it to market, and the few that do go fast.
If you are going for the fixed blade and fine cutting isn't your primary goal then I think you are making a good choice.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...iew-Crusader-Forge-FIFP-Folder?highlight=fifp
Very well made knife, but I found the blade stock was way too thick to make it a decent cutter. The blade would have definitely needed to be re-ground to a different profile, which I felt would have defeated the design intent of the knife.
I think the company is small, and I read somewhere that Maciej Szczerbiak was in a bad accident a while back which impacted their ability to deliver knives to market.
I see very few make it to market, and the few that do go fast.
If you are going for the fixed blade and fine cutting isn't your primary goal then I think you are making a good choice.