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great pics guys.... keep them coming...:thumbup:

here's another user pic... a few ML's and my fiddleback nessmuk...:D
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Not a knife but my GB Scandi forest axe gets used a lot:

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My SAK Farmer gets used almost daily:

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bearthedog said:
SAKs
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Not long ago I was looking for a SAK to buy as a present for my cousin and I faced a tough choice... Rucksak or OHT? I ended up buying the first one because the OHT I had on hand DID NOT HAVE TWEEZERS AND TOOTHPIC! (I don't care about the toothpick but I like having tweezers handy).
The one in your picture seems to have them... did you mod it or I just came across a weird one?

Now I think I should have gotten my cousin a OHT because he is still 7 years old and the slidind lock is hard for him to activate. I bet the linner lock of the OHT would have been much more appropiate.

Mikel
 
jh205 said:
Fized:

Fallkniven S1 - my primary bush knife, its been a great knife but soon to be replaced by an H1 in that role.
Frosts Mora Clippers - two in stainless, used as backups for my primary or when a lighter and/or thinner fixed blade is required.
Nieto - in 440C with a six inch blade, this is my general purpose fishing knife and works very well in that role.
Japanese fillet knife - 8" thin and flexible stainless blade, does its job well.
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Ain't Nieto an Spanish brand? I don't own any of them (I should support Spanish makers a little bit more... I know) and the only "Made in Spain" blade I own is a Muela Cazorla I was gifted with when I was 14.

Mikel
 
how about this for a user blade :) :thumbup: This is an old picture of a knife that I was testing my heat treatment on. It actually have little dammage if you tak into consiteration that the steel chair is thicker than the blade itself!!
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Next time you use a metal folding chair, notice just how thick the seat is and imagine your knife cutting that open like a tin can:thumbup:
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The top Slimline Companion was a hard daily beater I had for a while till someone thought they needed it more than I did:thumbup::D.
It is a great shape for a daily user. This knife was sweated on all summer pulling carpet and laying cheap lenolium:D
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Brian I remember those pics when you first started making knives. I knew then I wanted a knife from a guy that cut up a metal chair! :D

That slim companion looks all the better with lots of character :thumbup:
 
tknife said:
That slim companion looks all the better with lots of character :thumbup:
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Hopefully my Super Companion will start to get used. All I do is work with the blade show coming up :)
 
RescueRiley said:
Tarmix looks like that sak blade has been sharpened a few times...
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Once or twice.......;)

It's the knife I have had the longest, and used the most. All the customs I have bought, sold, traded, used, and a SAK is the one that has ALWAYS been with me.

I went to Baltimore for work a while back and checked one small bag just so I could take it with me.
 
Okay guys here is the knife Nick made me and it is very nice...Sturdy and should give me many years of fun, Thanks Nick, again quite a nice job...Copied
 
Ain't Nieto an Spanish brand? I don't own any of them (I should support Spanish makers a little bit more... I know) and the only "Made in Spain" blade I own is a Muela Cazorla I was gifted with when I was 14.
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Yeh, it is Spanish. Strangely enough they can be quite easily found here in Australia with another Spanish brand, Muela. Its probably because they're pretty cheap. As far as I can tell, there isn't a single brick and mortar shop in this entire country which actually stocks high quality fixed blades such as Bark River, Fallkniven or any Scandis. For the most part they stock Chinese rubbish.

I don't actually like the Nieto much because its got a severe hollow grind and a big choil. It does get very sharp on the sharpmaker though and it works well as an all round fishing knife.
 
Since this is user blades rather than user knives I'll throw this in;

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Looking back over the years since the mid 1970's I have carried and used this blade as much or more than any other. Usually I find that I have a lock blade pocket knife with me and it can do most of the jobs normally assigned to a skinner, slicer, wood carver knife. Most of the other work in the woods is chopping. The Skachet can be used as an ulu, hand axe, scrapper, wedge, hatchet, tomahawk and more than I would care to admit, a knife.
It takes very little room and can be carried on the belt or in your pack. Cut a green stick of appropriate size using the Skachet as an hand axe. Trim the stick to size and taper one end. Insert the tapered end into the threaded hole and wind the head down until tight. Brace the head against a log or tree trunk and twist as tight as you can get it. In 30+ years of use I have never had a head come off in use.
It's not Busse or a custom blade but I find myself reaching for it more than not even with a safe full of bushcrafters, skinners and hatchets.

This is one of the originals and it has decent steel and a good grind. My daypack kit always has this tool in it
 
blgoode said:
......The top Slimline Companion was a hard daily beater I had for a while till someone thought they needed it more than I did:thumbup::D.........
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Brian, if I had one that looked like that, it would become my ONE daily user and all my other stuff would collect dust. It's beautiful. Someone out there has himself one sweet knife!

My daily users: (I know, I need to get a "group photo")
MLK Nessie Shorty
MLK Short Kephart
BRKT Kephart
BRKT Mikro Canadian
Breeden PSKKII
Breeden Pathfinder
Ritter Grip' (Std)
Ritter Grip' (small)
Gossman PSK

Depending on what I'm "up to" and which one "speaks to me," I will use one or two for a week and then another will interest me again. I have others that have sat on the sidelines for a while but none are kept that don't get used so I pretty much have all "users," I just rotate between which one is "daily." I haven't had to field dress any metal folding chairs:eek: so they really stay in reasonably decent shape for as much as they get used.:D
 
here's a few more..

rick lowe EDC knife and a SAK hiker..
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i know i've already posted this pic before, but this one here has becomed a favorite of mine... it is a utility knife made for me, by mark of charlie ridge knives...:D
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gene ingram drop point #30 and bark river PSK knife...
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tarmix101 said:
Not a knife but.......
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Tarmix, your map made me "homesick." In the three years I spent in that area, my one and only daily user was a Schrade Walden Improved Muskrat. I spent a lot of time in the woods there and that knife is now retired.
 
This one is only a week and a half old, but it has been used a lot in that time and it will see much more use.

Busse Skinny ASH.

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I will try and get a pic of all my user blades soon.
 
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