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- Apr 17, 2006
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I bought a RC-3 knife the other day, looking for that smaller, but still big, fixed blade to replace my folders as a EDC/SD blade. I've handled it for a few days now, and I hate to sound like everyone else, but damn I love this knife.
I thought about testing it to see if it worked as good as it felt in my hand. I see in other posts how guys will cut vegetables, or cardboard, or rope. But that's why I have kitchen knives, box cutters, and I've never yet had to make 1000 cuts on a piece of 1" hemp line before. So lacking anything better, I took it to work.
The first problem I had was everybody who saw it wanted to play with it. I must have pulled it out and put it away over a hundred times the first day. The scabbard is still holding up and retention is as good as when new.
Since I've had it at work, I've cut tape, cardboard, and yes even a piece of rope, but only once. Stripped some wires, carved foam, cut clay, batoned it thru a piece of PVC ever so gently, and probably half a hundred other things. It's been a hammer, screwdriver, and a fingernail clipper.
The blade coating has some rub marks on it, but otherwise is completely intact, a first for me. While the foam and cardboard did dull it down some, my sharpmaker put it right almost immediately. The extra finger groove in the choil area allowed good point detail work, and the handles were never slippery when my hands were sweaty, although they weren't truly "wet". All in all, arguably the best knife I've ever owned.
I thought about testing it to see if it worked as good as it felt in my hand. I see in other posts how guys will cut vegetables, or cardboard, or rope. But that's why I have kitchen knives, box cutters, and I've never yet had to make 1000 cuts on a piece of 1" hemp line before. So lacking anything better, I took it to work.
The first problem I had was everybody who saw it wanted to play with it. I must have pulled it out and put it away over a hundred times the first day. The scabbard is still holding up and retention is as good as when new.
Since I've had it at work, I've cut tape, cardboard, and yes even a piece of rope, but only once. Stripped some wires, carved foam, cut clay, batoned it thru a piece of PVC ever so gently, and probably half a hundred other things. It's been a hammer, screwdriver, and a fingernail clipper.
The blade coating has some rub marks on it, but otherwise is completely intact, a first for me. While the foam and cardboard did dull it down some, my sharpmaker put it right almost immediately. The extra finger groove in the choil area allowed good point detail work, and the handles were never slippery when my hands were sweaty, although they weren't truly "wet". All in all, arguably the best knife I've ever owned.
