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LukeTheSpook said:
Just a quick comparison pic with the BK14. Deps anyone have a pic with an edc and a survive 2.7??View attachment 813995
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grogimus said:
Family photo time of the year right?

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Where's the booze and the grub you stingy Grinch? Fix a nice & hearty spread to invite friends (me) over. I'd like to shoot my guns in your backyard if I may! If i do that here, I may hit 3 neighbors and like 4 cats/dogs!
 
Casinostocks said:
Where's the booze and the grub you stingy Grinch? Fix a nice & hearty spread to invite friends (me) over. I'd like to shoot my guns in your backyard if I may! If i do that here, I may hit 3 neighbors and like 4 cats/dogs!
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Funny you should mention that. I started making some potato soup tonight and after cutting up the bacon with a Victorinox chef's knife I decided to mess with the Light Chopper in the kitchen.

It did a pretty good job with the onion, ended up with the same size dice I'd be going after with a regular kitchen knife.
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Finished up 5lbs of potatoes and some celery in no time. Fortunately I don't like peeled potatoes in my potato soup, I don't think I would have enjoyed doing that so much with the LC. Some CPK compatriots were nearby in case it was too much for it but the LC was up to the task.
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Still butter slicing sharp after all of this!

I'm pretty happy with how I've improved my diet lately. The bacon, heavy cream, bacon grease, cheese, and butter in the soup don't count because it has celery in it too.
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In all seriousness it did do a surprisingly good job in the kitchen. Plenty of other knives in this size could have gotten the job done but I don't think I have any other similarly sized choppers that would have gotten it done so easily. It's such a good bushwacking knife I think it's easy to lose sight of how well balanced it is for extended use in other ways also.
 
grogimus said:
In all seriousness it did do a surprisingly good job in the kitchen. Plenty of other knives in this size could have gotten the job done but I don't think I have any other similarly sized choppers that would have gotten it done so easily. It's such a good bushwacking knife I think it's easy to lose sight of how well balanced it is for extended use in other ways also.
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Do you happen to have a CPK Veggie Knife?

Wonder if Nathan can be coaxed into another kitchen design. He love making tools we use, and the kitchen knives get the most use around here.
 
JustinFournier said:
Do you happen to have a CPK Veggie Knife?

Wonder if Nathan can be coaxed into another kitchen design. He love making tools we use, and the kitchen knives get the most use around here.
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Totally concur. Having read Nathan's posts on his tools, i.e, true & honest cutting tools offered at value when mixing in the best of steel / materials / HT / design concepts, etc; without the redundant frills / gimmicks (not trying to ruffle feathers, but...) I think that a new Kitchen Knife pattern(s) or the resurrection of the old PK, is quintessentially the very definition of the CPK knives.
 
I bet everyone out there would like to find a vegetable knife aka potato knife. But I seem to recall more than one post from Nathan about getting totally tired of making them, and his feeling they were worth only what he was charging (which wasn't enough to make them fiscally viable as a product). I may have this wrong, so someone correct me if so, but one big reason they are hard to find today is that he only made 100 of them. The last one that I heard about that sold brought three times original price (IMHO much closer to true value than original cost).

I think he could sell another 100 at twice their original price, but it sure wouldn't eliminate the drudgery of having to make that many again.
 
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Bob, that number of the PK in the wild also resonates with what I had read in the past. Seems he did not do his "usual" few hundred of that CPK-PK pattern as he seemed to have gotten tired of making them. Nathan's price increases or bumps are ever so incremental irrespective of the supply / demand cycle of his knives in the secondary markets. He just seems to march to the sound of his own beat based on his own cost analysis and principles whereas he tunes out the noise created by the speculative behavior.
 
betzner said:
I bet everyone out there would like to find a vegetable knife aka potato knife. But I seem to recall more than one post from Nathan about getting totally tired of making them, and his feeling they were worth only what he was charging (which wasn't enough to make them fiscally viable as a product). I may have this wrong, so someone correct me if so, but one big reason they are hard to find today is that he only made 100 of them. The last one that I heard about that sold brought three times original price (IMHO much closer to true value than original cost).

I think he could sell another 100 at twice their original price, but it sure wouldn't eliminate the drudgery of having to make that many again.
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That’s why I suggested a new design. I think that would give us all a win.
 
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