Resiprene C handles , let's hear your reasons !

KalEl said:
1- they make the knife extremely light weight. A basic 11 and an esee 5 weigh the same amount.
2- shock absorption.
3- grippyness when wet. Smooth g10 and micarta are a bit slippery sometimes.
4- makes the knife affordable!
5- not a conductor of cold. Makes it great for barehanded use in the cold
6- great grip when your hand is tired. Res c just really grips well with bare hands and that grippyness helps when you are fatigued from chopping or making hard cuts.
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KalEl has knocked it out of the park with this list. My personal favourite being #2.
 
Comfort for long periods of chopping is the main reason. Then you have the fact that they are light weight which is a big factor for long hikes.
 
Light weight and easy to hold on to when your hands are coated in blood.......preferrably not yours.
 
great for chopping. you dont get that broken hand feelin after you've been hacking away for and hour or so
 
I'll line up with the others in concurring with Kal-El's assessment.

Personally, I think Resiprene-C is God's gift to small-handed people, dontcha know. Like TreeHerder, I have small hands and, as he noted, the smaller circumference cross-section of the Res-C handles is easier to hold in a smaller mitt. At least those I've held or used on the Basics, Camp Tramp/Battle Rat, Howling Rat gen 1 & 2, others I may have forgotten, and now BB4. I also find the Mudder handles to fit well. In one way the Mudders have an advantage over the rounder handles -- the more square boxy Mudder cross-section corners give good grip for rotational torque (or resisting torque), moreso than the rounder cross-section of the older handles.

Mike-The-Knife said:
So one of biggest reasons for likeing the resiprene C handle is that I KNOW that the handle is the exact same on any of the mid to large sized knives.
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Not totally IMHO. My hand feels that there are a couple shapes to the non-Mudder Res-C handles. I find my Camp Tramp & other Rat Res-C handle a little more square in cross-section and a little bit larger around than my large size Basic handles. Also, the transition from the handle to the guard at the ricasso on the CT feels like it's more squared up than the BB handles. Or maybe the guard on the CT is wider, flatter across its face, or more perpendicular to the major handle axis than the BB series. To me the CT type Res-C handle feels a fair amount more secure in its ability to stop forward motion of a thrusting hand than the more-rounded-off profile of the BB handles.

Also, it seems like the Res-C of the Swamp knives has a more grippy texture than the BB handles. The surface of the BB Res-C seemed to be smoother more "polished" feeling. It's as if the surface cells of the material had been sealed moreso in the casting-finishing of the handle than the Swamp Res-C handle.

But these are tiny, very subjective and granular distinctions I'm drawing, which most folks may well never notice. In practice, I find the use and feel of the Res-C handles, with the exception of the Mudders, are very VERY similar to each other.
 
RokJok said:
... Personally, I think Resiprene-C is God's gift to small-handed people, dontcha know....
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RokJok said:
I'll line up with the others in concurring with Kal-El's assessment.

Personally, I think Resiprene-C is God's gift to small-handed people, dontcha know. Like TreeHerder, I have small hands and, as he noted, the smaller circumference cross-section of the Res-C handles is easier to hold in a smaller mitt. At least those I've held or used on the Basics, Camp Tramp/Battle Rat, Howling Rat gen 1 & 2, others I may have forgotten, and now BB4. I also find the Mudder handles to fit well. In one way the Mudders have an advantage over the rounder handles -- the more square boxy Mudder cross-section corners give good grip for rotational torque (or resisting torque), moreso than the rounder cross-section of the older handles.

Not totally IMHO. My hand feels that there are a couple shapes to the non-Mudder Res-C handles. I find my Camp Tramp & other Rat Res-C handle a little more square in cross-section and a little bit larger around than my large size Basic handles. Also, the transition from the handle to the guard at the ricasso on the CT feels like it's more squared up than the BB handles. Or maybe the guard on the CT is wider, flatter across its face, or more perpendicular to the major handle axis than the BB series. To me the CT type Res-C handle feels a fair amount more secure in its ability to stop forward motion of a thrusting hand than the more-rounded-off profile of the BB handles.

Also, it seems like the Res-C of the Swamp knives has a more grippy texture than the BB handles. The surface of the BB Res-C seemed to be smoother more "polished" feeling. It's as if the surface cells of the material had been sealed moreso in the casting-finishing of the handle than the Swamp Res-C handle.

But these are tiny, very subjective and granular distinctions I'm drawing, which most folks may well never notice. In practice, I find the use and feel of the Res-C handles, with the exception of the Mudders, are very VERY similar to each other.
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IIRC, the basic molds were milled out to make the swamprat handles. And then I think when scrapyard got them they modified the molds even more. Maybe one of the older hogs can chime in.
 
I have large hand's and the Basic 4 and Basic 10, fit my hand just fine however, the 511 was way too small for my hand's and read other's experienced the same as I did. Go Figure ???????
 
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