Passaround - Ultralite Hunter

Great review.
I'm not surprised at all that it will take a beating. 1/16 inch thick O-1 is an impressive bit of steel. Take a look at your kitchen knives. I bet that very few of them are thicker and we ask a lot of our kitchen knives. At least I do.
I know that when I have my Galley Wag on my hip I have no worries about being under-knifed.
 
The knife is on the way to TVPT. I will try to get photos and write up posted in the next couple of days. Thanks for including me in this pass around.
 
Don W said:
The knife is on the way to TVPT. I will try to get photos and write up posted in the next couple of days. Thanks for including me in this pass around.
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Woohoo! can't wait to try it. thanks for the update.
 
First off, I'd like to say thanks to John for including me in this pass-around.

Now on to the knife. I am skipping all the specific details as they have already been mentioned. The knife has a nice utilitarian look. The handle is a great shape for a wide variety of hand sizes. Both my wife and my daughter used the knife and thought it felt great. I really like the use of the all-thread for the pins in the handle. Great idea and seems like it would make it near impossible to end up with a loosened scale. The blade shape with its deep belly makes slicing and chopping an easy task.

My first day using the knife I chopped, sliced and diced over 10 pounds of fresh veggies making a large batch of salsa. I usually use a much larger blade for this task, so it did take me a bit longer than usual. It took me 90 minutes of quickly working. I developed no hot spots from the handle or back of blade. The blade had the edges of the spine softened making it very user friendly. Sadly my photographer (14 year old daughter) was not present to take photos.

Luckily she was ready to take some photos the night I smoked/roasted a small deer roast. I cut the roast into slices and then chucks for a red chili stew. Man was it good. The knife easily and quickly plowed through the cooked meat:

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She was also available to get some pics of the knife parting out a chicken. Again the knife had no difficulties with this task. I actually feel this size knife excels at this sort of thing:

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If it were fall, I could have used it on a deer or pig. I do not think it would have any problem with either. The heat treat on the steel seems good. I only touched up the blade a few times with an old hard stone. I wasn't sure of the protocol on dealing with a patina on a borrowed knife, so I used a little polish to clean it up before sending it out.
 
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yeah, good stuff Don. thanks for pics and review.

And oh, btw...i received this knife today! scandivex....never seen such a thing. there are essentially 3 bevels/grinds on the knife. very interesting. the edge is quite thin. there was some spots where the edge looked like maybe it has rolled. i will need to straighten it out a bit.

this is my "no-kid" week. i was just at home to get skiing tonight. i grabbed the knife and you bet i brought it over to my gf's. can't wait to try it out. feels great in the hand, and it just begs to cut stuff.

this knife is going to hang with me for a bit, and then i am going to give it to Sean at the gathering.

i will get pics and a review up before that.

thanks John.
 
Nice review and pictures, Don!

best

mqqn
 
OK, i am bringing the JK Ultra Lite Hunter to the gathering with me. So, i am going to post up my comments/review now.

The UL Hunter is a great little slicer. it held a spot in my kitchen knife block during its time here.
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it did great with veggie prep and fruits, as well. I could have sworn i had other pictures.

i decided to take this out and do some woods-y things with it too.

limbed a tree...
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crosscut through a couple branches.
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made a quick feather stick.
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after inspection, thought there might be a little roll along the belly of the blade (which didn't surprise me...it's ground to a thin cutting edge). but, she came back and still cut paper, so the edge sharpness did maintain.

this was right after the woodwork.
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overall impression:
The JK Ultra Light Hunter is a slicer and would definitely be welcome in my kitchen. But, as a one-knife solution, it also performed well in the outdoors.

batoning took a bit of effort, in that the stock is only 1/16" (i.e. not much surface area to strike to push through the wood). and, i will note that the thin handle did tend to move around in my hand when batoning. with that said, the ULH performed well when actually cutting into wood. this one was really easy to control when doing the feather stick....probably one of the more enjoyable blades i've used for this task. it was easy.

thanks to John for giving me the chance to check out this knife. now, it's time to pack her up for a trip to the midwest.
 
Thanks for all the reviews, great reading and seeing! Nice to see it used and get the feedback, I enjoy it. Have fun at the MI gathering.
 
So I got hold of the UL Hunter at the gathering, I've not done much with it yet but eat the steak Andy made and carrying it on a small walk with the kids but I'm liking the ergonomics and 1/16" steel. There were a few knives at the gathering in the 1/16" and I'm even more convinced it is a great option for an edc, camp or kitchen knife. Anywhere I plan to make it a sheath before I cut myself on it, and hopefully come up with other jobs for it to do before passing it along. Here's the first picture:
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Still drying out but you get the idea, hopefully going to find something useful to do with ti soon, it's a pleasure to have in your back pocket, I know that, and I dug some sling shot balls out of a tree with the tip.
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Thanks! The F and F isn't where I'd like it but I'm pretty happy about taking an idea and getting it made, which is a start, I think maybe it's time to start working on the rest of it :)
 
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