Received 2nd BK2 plus three sheaths

[Lawrence Helm]

I'm not an utter novice at uploading photos. I have a website where I upload photos of my hikes at www.lawrencehelm.smugmug.com. But this uploading utility seems more primitive. I mention that in case my photos don't appear.

But if they do appear, you will see my second BK2 plus the sheaths I received with it. The BK2 I received today is on the right and indeed appears new with the exception of a tiny mark or blemish on the edge near the tip which will probably disappear in a short time. The tip of the BK2 I received today is more pointed than the one on my previous BK2. That will probably remain the way I tell them apart.

I tried the two black sheaths. The one on the right will be the one I'll probably use regularly. The other one causes the knife to ride too high and I can hit it with my elbow.

The third sheath interesting. It permits the knife to be carried horizontally. This is the first one like this I've ever owned and in terms of quality appears the best of the lot. I'm not use to carrying a knife that way; so I'm not sure how much I'll use it, but I'll be experimenting with it for sure.

In conclusion, I'm happy with the purchase, $100 for one BK2 plus three custom sheaths.

I do wonder about the guy I purchased this BK2 and three sheaths from. It appears from the "evidence" that he was trying to get a knife/sheath arrangement he was happy with and never quite managed.

Lawrence

 

[tfields]

those are nice looking sheaths !! let us know how they perform!

 

[Dexwithers]

Awesome Lawrence.

Are you gonna strip one of the BK-2's or mod one?

Also, I checked out your photo website. Very cool man. I love photography too. You had some beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing the link.

 

[Lawrence Helm]

Awesome Lawrence.

Are you gonna strip one of the BK-2's or mod one?

Also, I checked out your photo website. Very cool man. I love photography too. You had some beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing the link.

Dexwithers,

Thanks. As to stripping a BK-2 I don't think that really suits the way I use them. I think more in terms of how to avoid corrosion and if I stripped one I'd have to keep taking the scales off to spray under there with something. I've already done that to protect the nuts and bolts attaching the scales -- after watching a video of a guy who had been beating up an BK-2 for a long time, showed the rust on the handle attachments and said it wasn't hurting anything.

Lawrence

 

[rkmoore]

LH- I really enjoyed your photography. I love dogs and especially Rhodesian Ridgebacks. We have one that was born without the ridge and was dumped by the breeder because of his "deformity". He's a great dog and has brought a lot of love and happiness to our home.

Glad to hear that you found a sheath that you like. If you decide to sell or trade the second black one let me know. I think we could work something out.

Thanks for sharing!
Rich.

 

[Lawrence Helm]

LH- I really enjoyed your photography. I love dogs and especially Rhodesian Ridgebacks. We have one that was born without the ridge and was dumped by the breeder because of his "deformity". He's a great dog and has brought a lot of love and happiness to our home.

Glad to hear that you found a sheath that you like. If you decide to sell or trade the second black one let me know. I think we could work something out.

Thanks for sharing!
Rich.

RKMoore,

Thanks. As to the other sheath, I'm not sure yet, I've made some other purchases in that same size range.

Lawrence

 

[Dexwithers]

Dexwithers,

Thanks. As to stripping a BK-2 I don't think that really suits the way I use them. I think more in terms of how to avoid corrosion and if I stripped one I'd have to keep taking the scales off to spray under there with something. I've already done that to protect the nuts and bolts attaching the scales -- after watching a video of a guy who had been beating up an BK-2 for a long time, showed the rust on the handle attachments and said it wasn't hurting anything.

Lawrence

I totally agree about the corrosion under the scales. I usually never strip under the handle scales. I do strip the blades of almost all my knives. I find they perform better for my needs that way. I also put stainless hardware on all my Beckers.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

I totally agree about the corrosion under the scales. I usually never strip under the handle scales. I do strip the blades of almost all my knives. I find they perform better for my needs that way. I also put stainless hardware on all my Beckers.

Lawrence,

+1 on what Dex says here. Like Dex, on my strippers, I just strip the blades and leave the coating under the handles and on the ricassos. I also replace the factory hardware with stainless.

 

[Lawrence Helm]

Lawrence,

+1 on what Dex says here. Like Dex, on my strippers, I just strip the blades and leave the coating under the handles and on the ricassos. I also replace the factory hardware with stainless.

Ah, that would be better. My knowledge of stripping was based upon watching a video of Chris of Prepared Minds stripping a BK7. He did the whole thing. The last review of his that I watched was a "first impression" of the Schrade SCHF10 which is stainless steel but has a coating anyway. He looks forward to stripping that off. I still don't see a need to do it on my knives however

Lawrence

 

[zzyzzogeton]

Really, in general, you don't NEED to, unless you do a lot of food prep with them and then I like to have bare metal touching my food, rather than some unknown mystery compound that is dang-near laser impregnable, but with wear off over time.

Any of mine are capable of being called to food cutting duty, even the 9 - it makes an absolutely FANTASTIC watermelon chopper-upper. I'll just pull out an alcohol wipe or 2, clean the blade and CHUNK, another melon bites the dust.

I'm also old-school. Until the Beckers came into my knife world, all I ever had was nekkid-from-the-git-go blades. I don't know why, but I just prefer to slide my fingers along a bare metal blade than a coated one.

 

[Lawrence Helm]

Really, in general, you don't NEED to, unless you do a lot of food prep with them and then I like to have bare metal touching my food, rather than some unknown mystery compound that is dang-near laser impregnable, but with wear off over time.

Any of mine are capable of being called to food cutting duty, even the 9 - it makes an absolutely FANTASTIC watermelon chopper-upper. I'll just pull out an alcohol wipe or 2, clean the blade and CHUNK, another melon bites the dust.

I'm also old-school. Until the Beckers came into my knife world, all I ever had was nekkid-from-the-git-go blades. I don't know why, but I just prefer to slide my fingers along a bare metal blade than a coated one.

Central Rural Texas (easier to write than all those letters):

I hear what you're saying and maybe if I still camped (which I did when my kids were young) I'd agree, but my kids are grown and nowadays I only hike; so I don't mind the mysterious blade coating. To the contrary I like the look of it.

Also, while Ethan Becker may have intended the BK2 as the one knife you could face Armageddon with, he didn't mean that deep down. Notice that when he came out the the BK7, another knife you could face the end of the world with plus fight zombies if you had to, he added a Remora. The Remora is left out of recent kits, but when I got my BK7 I added one -- just in case.

As to using a knife for cooking, Becker has a line of Kitchen knives. See http://www.amazon.com/ESEE-Knives-B...9148224&sr=1-1&keywords=becker+kitchen+knives Since I have to do the cooking (my wife is no longer able to), I have grown to appreciate the need for good kitchen knives and the ones my wife accumulated are not so very good. I may order Becker's cooking knives at some point. They'll probably keep an edge longer than the knives I've been dealing with.

Which is to say that Becker probably never really deep down assumed there would be many who would really use the BK2 for everything. On the hike yesterday for example, I took a BK2, but I also took a Rat-1. I never gave it any thought, I just never go on a hike with just one knife. Don't ask me what a Rat-1 can do that a BK2 can't. Maybe that's the "old-school" I was educated in.

Lawrence

 

[zzyzzogeton]

All my general use Beckers are still coated (all but 1 9, my 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, a 6). Just my "in the woods camping" knives are stripped so I don't have to carry "kitchen cutlery" while camping.

If you're gonna get a set of the Becker kitchen knives, I'd do it sooner than later. They were discontinued and will become more difficult to locate as time goes by. I have a set and they are excellent kitchen knives, especially at the price I got them at. You can pay a whole lot more for the fancy name knives and not have as good a quality, working product as these knives are. You can get good quality from a lot of the rest, but IMO their prices don't match what you get.

 

[Lawrence Helm]

All my general use Beckers are still coated (all but 1 9, my 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, a 6). Just my "in the woods camping" knives are stripped so I don't have to carry "kitchen cutlery" while camping.

If you're gonna get a set of the Becker kitchen knives, I'd do it sooner than later. They were discontinued and will become more difficult to locate as time goes by. I have a set and they are excellent kitchen knives, especially at the price I got them at. You can pay a whole lot more for the fancy name knives and not have as good a quality, working product as these knives are. You can get good quality from a lot of the rest, but IMO their prices don't match what you get.

Thenks, Rural Central Texas

I went ahead and ordered the Becker Kitchen Knives. I've spent way too much money on knives this month and am trying to cut (bad pun I know ) back, but I seem to be too weak of will.

Lawrence

 

[zzyzzogeton]

Thenks, Rural Central Texas

I went ahead and ordered the Becker Kitchen Knives. I've spent way too much money on knives this month and am trying to cut (bad pun I know ) back, but I seem to be too weak of will.

Lawrence

Never - just means you have good taste.