Ontario rat 1. Any one used one ?

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Looking at a rat 1

I got a rat 7 for Christmas and it's amazing


Any one personally own and used one?

Any thoughts or comments ?
 
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Love mine. The top one in the pic has been thru all manners of hell and nastiness. Never failed. Factory scales are a bit slippery. But you can fix that in 10 min with a soldering iron. They perform way above their price point.
 
I have owned perhaps eight or ten RAT 1's, a maybe five RAT 2's. Both are excellent folders, but I've never carried one. Been gifting them to friends to get them started in this lustful business of knife-collecting/hoarding that goes on around here. High praise for the RATs; they are a product of extensive testing in the rough.
 
I liked my Rat 2 in D2 steel so much, that after 2 days I ordered a Rat 1 in D2 also. Great bang for the buck!
 
RoachBelly44 said:
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Love mine. The top one in the pic has been thru all manners of hell and nastiness. Never failed. Factory scales are a bit slippery. But you can fix that in 10 min with a soldering iron. They perform way above their price point.
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Looks like it was fished out of Satan's terlet - in a good way!
 
sliceofaloha said:
Looks like it was fished out of Satan's terlet - in a good way!
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It has certainly been in a toilet. That rat1 was with me thru a full year at work, (industrial electrician) and a full house rehab, when we bought our latest. It has literally scraped wax rings off old toilets, pull cut thru #12 solid THHN wire, cut asphalt shingles and roofing material, stirred paint, cut open 12 bags of concrete, 30 bags mulch, you name it.....it does it. It's gone on 2 camping trips, dozens of hikes....
And for like $27............just crazy good at that price
 
I’m probably one of the few that lost confidence in the Rat 1. I applied a small amount of pressure to the cutting edge on a piece of wood, the liner lock traveled almost all of the way to the opposite side of the handle. The knife was purchased new, blade was razor sharp, and it had no blade play whatsoever. This really made me question the Rat 1 durability, but it could have just been my particular knife. I probably wouldn’t have thought much about it, but I used a Ruike that was also a liner lock in the same price range as the Rat 1 for whittling and it didn’t have that issue.
 
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