I have had several. I keep a #6 in my fire kit for sparking my LMF and I also have used it as the steel striker with my flint chip and char cloth. Just keep it closed and strike the carbon #6 or #8 on the spine. The carbon varity throws a fine spark very easily.
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Opinel - use or opinions?
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I just bought my first one a few months back, a #6. Very nice knife. The cost vs. the product, outstanding. They are great little slicing knives and it has the gadget factor. I love mine and I don't think you would go wrong in purchasing one.
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Personally, I usually carry a small blade when I wander in the outdoors, mainly for light food processing and "clean" tasks.
Sometimes it's a small fixed blade, but more often it's a small folder, and here come the french little friend
Opinels are great slicers, weight is almost zero, and if there are so many of them around (as for SAK), there are plenty of reasons. Also, considering the price, it surprises me that u didn't just get one and give it a try...that's how I started.
Sometimes it's a small fixed blade, but more often it's a small folder, and here come the french little friend
Opinels are great slicers, weight is almost zero, and if there are so many of them around (as for SAK), there are plenty of reasons. Also, considering the price, it surprises me that u didn't just get one and give it a try...that's how I started.
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I've had no trouble with edge retention, but I do tend to sharpen my knives frequently to keep them very sharp. My Opinel knives are great for food prep - they will slice a tomato like you wouldn't believe and I've used my #6 as a steak knife, it slices the steak so very easily. If you want to take a camping food prep knife that you can fold up and put in a pocket with not much weight but great slicing capability - the Opinel is a good choice.
Opinel knives are made very cheaply and they are cheap to buy, but they aren't junk. They are just a cheap and simple knives that actually work very well. Not everything that is cheap is poorly made crap that will fall apart within a day, some cheap things are just very basic but work very well.
Opinel knives are made very cheaply and they are cheap to buy, but they aren't junk. They are just a cheap and simple knives that actually work very well. Not everything that is cheap is poorly made crap that will fall apart within a day, some cheap things are just very basic but work very well.
So would I, but it would cost much more. Opinels are what they are, very good knives for the money.
They are good knockaround knives but I think what makes me like them the most is being able to mod them easily. Ya gotta love the "fiddle factor".
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I keep switching between a #8 and a #9 in carbon steel.
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Just for reference, the shipment of Opinels I received the other day all had aggressive paper-slicing edges on them from base to tip, and had some neat new folded cardboard packaging instead of being bulk packed. I think they've improved their processes.
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I love my opinel , caried it for over 18 years , just recently lost it , some basket stole it and a kit out of my car .
It was a number 10 , a good size blade but easy to hide in your hand ( folded of course )
Took a scary sharp edge , cut like nobodys business , easy to resharpen plenty of handle , a lot of folders for me are a pita because of the lack of handle area , but the opinel is good there .
Mine was so well used a flick of the wrist and it was snapped open , the ring lock would spin with a flick of the thumb and it was open and locked out easy as with one hand , that used to unnerve people I worked with .. I could unlock and flick it shut just s easy
On the hunt to replace my lost one now , maybe its a necroed thread but its the boost I needed
It was a number 10 , a good size blade but easy to hide in your hand ( folded of course )
Took a scary sharp edge , cut like nobodys business , easy to resharpen plenty of handle , a lot of folders for me are a pita because of the lack of handle area , but the opinel is good there .
Mine was so well used a flick of the wrist and it was snapped open , the ring lock would spin with a flick of the thumb and it was open and locked out easy as with one hand , that used to unnerve people I worked with .. I could unlock and flick it shut just s easy
On the hunt to replace my lost one now , maybe its a necroed thread but its the boost I needed
I have an opinel #8 that's several years old and has seen plenty of use, including all sorts of nasty tasks like cutting shingles. I really appreciated it inAmeriCorps, when I had a limited sharpening kit with me due to space restrictions. The soft steel took mo time to grind a fresh edge on after hard cutting tasks. I have sharpened it down so much I had to cut a notch in the handle to be able to grab the blade (because it became so narrow it stopped stickingover the handle). The one biggest drawback is that sometimes the handle will clamp the blade closed after sitting in a sweaty pocket all dat
I remember buying myself an Opinel No.8 when I was about 10 or 11 years old. I purchased it at a small Marine Supply store back in Newfoundland. I think it cost me something like $5 which was a good chunk of change back then.I carried the hell out of that thing!....cut,carved and whittled everything with that knife. It eventually got replaced by a cheap lever lock switchblade,which in turn got traded for a Czech made pellet gun. I've got a dozen Opinels nowadays....they're in every room of my house.I own much more expensive knifes,but few are better than the Opinel. No.6 & No.8 are my favourite.