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School me on choppers
- Thread starter calebpo
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For a cheap sub-$80 one, try the 10" SP-53 from Ontario knives. It pretty much out-performs everything, especially for the length:
It will eat for dinner most knives costing ten times as much, without the weight, vibrations, and tiresome handle hardness of full profile tangs in hard materials: This is real soft Kraton on a proper 1/4" thick stick tang, in indestructible 5160, for a reasonable 22 ounces... Just carve off the soft Kraton hook at the end of the handle, which you can't do on all the other knives: It can hurt your pinky. The handle then becomes perfect...
The only weakness of this knife is the handle may move backwards from the brass lanyard hole eyelet deforming itself from heavy use: They may have fixed this, as I know Ontario has been made aware of this issue... An easy way to eliminate this problem is to twist the Kraton guard downward to make a space with the tang, and flood this space with "regular" super fluid crazy glue: It will never move after that...
Gaston
It will eat for dinner most knives costing ten times as much, without the weight, vibrations, and tiresome handle hardness of full profile tangs in hard materials: This is real soft Kraton on a proper 1/4" thick stick tang, in indestructible 5160, for a reasonable 22 ounces... Just carve off the soft Kraton hook at the end of the handle, which you can't do on all the other knives: It can hurt your pinky. The handle then becomes perfect...
The only weakness of this knife is the handle may move backwards from the brass lanyard hole eyelet deforming itself from heavy use: They may have fixed this, as I know Ontario has been made aware of this issue... An easy way to eliminate this problem is to twist the Kraton guard downward to make a space with the tang, and flood this space with "regular" super fluid crazy glue: It will never move after that...
Gaston
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