Schrade SCHF42 Fist Impressions and Photos

[Ankerson]

I received the Schrade SCHF42 for testing and I will be doing a full test and review that will follow.

This is my 1st impressions and photos or beauty shots if you will.

Nice looking knife, looks to be well balanced and designed.

Recurve blade, flat ground, the grind was off some as we can see in the bottom photo.

Beefy 3/16" thick blade in 1095 should be able to take some harder use, nice jimping for grip.

Tip seems to be thick enough to take some prying.

Scales are nice and contoured for comfort.

Jimping to aid in grip in a stabbing motion if needed.

Bottom of the knife, the blade grinds look even.

Just comparison photos to my GSO-4.1.

Very nice leather sheath, the knife fits well and is very secure.



My 1st impressions are the knife seems to be well made and designed as a general use outdoor harder use tool. It's very comfortable in hand so ergonomics was well thought out in the design. Behind the edge thickness was .040" so that and the 3./16" blade thickness with the reinforced tip the knife should be able to handle anything reasonable that would be expected of it.

It's a $50 knife so it should be well within range for most people that would want or need this sort of outdoor tool.

It not a slicer with the thicker blade grind and behind the edge thickness so if one would want a slicer they would need to look elsewhere.

Full test and review to follow.

 

[Cobalt]

Whats the point of a recurve on a smaller blade, aside from looks?

 

[Ankerson]

Whats the point of a recurve on a smaller blade, aside from looks?

Not sure, but I heard that it may work somewhat better for certain bush crafting/field chores.

Will start testing it this week so I will see I suppose, a test knife I got in.

 

[ocnLogan]

Yeah, the recurve is confusing to me on a blade like this. I think id prefer a straight blade profile on this one, based purely on looks and past experience with recurves.

The handle looks fairly comfortable.

And I'm relatively unaware of normal edge thicknesses. How does that .04 compare to other 1095 blades (like Beckers, ESEE, etc)?

 

[Ankerson]

Yeah, the recurve is confusing to me on a blade like this. I think id prefer a straight blade profile on this one, based purely on looks and past experience with recurves.

The handle looks fairly comfortable.

And I'm relatively unaware of normal edge thicknesses. How does that .04 compare to other 1095 blades (like Beckers, ESEE, etc)?

About the same as far as I know, knives of this type will usually be thicker behind the edge, makes since due to the intended use of the knives.

 

[bt93]

The purpose of a recurve blade is to give a little more edge surface for a given size of blade. The only drawback is recurves are hard to sharpen with a stone, but I don't think sharpening with a steel would be affected.

 

[Ankerson]

The purpose of a recurve blade is to give a little more edge surface for a given size of blade. The only drawback is recurves are hard to sharpen with a stone, but I don't think sharpening with a steel would be affected.

The recurve section doesn't seem to be too short so it shouldn't be that bad to deal with on a stone.

Going to test it with the out of box edge as that will be as most people will use it I suppose.

 

[Ferahgo]

Interesting shape. I look forward to seeing it tested.

 

[ocnLogan]

After doing a bit of digging, it appears this was designed by one of our own. I also hear that a non-recurved version is in the works (I don't have a problem sharpening them, it's more that I prefer a straight edge for up close work like feathersticking).

I'm curious to hear your thoughts about how it performs .

 

[Ankerson]

After doing a bit of digging, it appears this was designed by one of our own. I also hear that a non-recurved version is in the works (I don't have a problem sharpening them, it's more that I prefer a straight edge for up close work like feathersticking).

I'm curious to hear your thoughts about how it performs .

Yeah, he wanted some feedback on the model so I will give it a workout and see what it does.

 

[Cobalt]

The purpose of a recurve blade is to give a little more edge surface for a given size of blade. The only drawback is recurves are hard to sharpen with a stone, but I don't think sharpening with a steel would be affected.

It is not a drastic recurve so I don't think it gives enough of a edge length advantage in this case. I know that a recurve does help in slicing thin items as it positions the blade at an angle naturally when doing a straight push cut(one reason why Khukuris are so lethal at cutting flesh). At least it isn't a huge recurve that it makes such a difference. Blade shape is nice and looks solid enough.

 

[waterstoneblades]

Jim, where is this knife made? Any ideas on hardness?

 

[cchu518]

I love how you have the hot fixed blade of the moment next to your newly bought import. Lol. I do the same thing. I just get what I like.

 

[Ankerson]

Jim, where is this knife made? Any ideas on hardness?

It's made in Taiwan, don't know the hardness.

 

[Ankerson]

I love how you have the hot fixed blade of the moment next to your newly bought import. Lol. I do the same thing. I just get what I like.

It's a test knife.

 

[Mistwalker]

Yup, the Schrade version is made in Taiwan, and is RC-58/59

Personally I prefer it with micarta the way I drew it out, but apparently micarta is not an option in Taiwan, so at least I am helping a small domestic business with the need for them

They also did not have the tooling available to do the grind as drawn, so there will be tweaked custom variants by a friend of mine who makes knives. This way there will be two different price ranges available.