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bigghoss said:
Not 100% sure on what it is or does but I know it has to do with the forge welding process.
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I can't see video out here, but my guess is it's flux to keep oxygen and other contaminants out of the folds.
 
daizee said:
I can't see video out here, but my guess is it's flux to keep oxygen and other contaminants out of the folds.
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It's powdered sugar. It helps the steel stick to itself.
 
daizee said:
I can't see video out here, but my guess is it's flux to keep oxygen and other contaminants out of the folds.
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Bladite said:
some kind of flux, probably borax
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Thanks, i never would of guessed flux, only flux i ever used was soldering and it looked like liquid metal. Thanks for the info, and the great video. Im trying to figure out a way to save it to my computer.
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
My cousin also swears by a 9. His paws are larger than mine though. They're very versatile indeed. I could come by perfectly with only an Opinel, for a loooong time..
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I don't have super hands but the 9 is very confortable where my pinky fits right in the base of where that tail flairs out on the handle.

Your girlfriend likes a 6, I've gotten mine to love her very own 9! :) lol, and she is the queen of petite. Stands at like 5', 90lbs.

For me the 9 has the advantage of food prep, just long enough to get in that peanut butter/mayonnaise jar without getting any on the handle.

And yes, I feel quite confortable with an Opinel as a survival knife lol. I also carry a SAK, of needs that saw..and the blade gets the dirty worlk. The Opinel is more of my personal pocket knife.
 
5thAngel said:
Articles a little old, but its interesting. Read it.
http://scoutingmagazine.org/2013/02/choose-a-good-knife-with-these-tips-from-an-experienced-hand/

P.S. I Chose interesting for a reason.
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Interesting is definitely a word for it. Here is a link to the website of the guy that wrote the article: http://www.cliff-jacobson.com/

I think that he makes several valid points. Thickness, he is probably right, Scouts, at least most of the ones I've interacted with, have no need of something bigger than 4" or thicker than 1/8". It's hard for me to say that as I personally prefer thicker knives (I'm getting better about it, honest!) but if I look at the tasks we ask of our scouts, we do give them the tools to do the job, namely a saw, an axe, and they should all have a pocket knife of some sort on them. With those tools already with them, a knife like he describes would work for anything those other tools wouldn't. Primarily I am thinking food prep type stuff where a bigger (thicker) knife would be a hindrance rather than a benefit. Whittling or cutting cordage, again, that thickness would do better more often than naught. Now he has a few thoughts there that I disagree with, but overall, even though it isn't what I would tell parents at one of our meetings, or what I would hope they were told if I wasn't there, it is a far sight better than the alternative.

Of course, that is merely my opinion, and I've been known to be wrong a time or two. Or three. Or... ;)
 
Cliff is an axe guy. Like many people of his generation he grew up using an axe and if chopping is in order, you use an axe or a hatchet. A knife is for cutting and thin cuts better than thick....etc. You see a lot of that opinion from northern woodsmen.
 
As someone with a vast amount of experience in different areas, would that opinion be prone to change based on location, say someplace more Southern? Would they be more inclined towards larger knives and machetes?
 
DerekH said:
As someone with a vast amount of experience in different areas, would that opinion be prone to change based on location, say someplace more Southern? Would they be more inclined towards larger knives and machetes?
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As someone with not so much experience :p, I would hazard a guess that the tropical bias towards machetes has to do not only with what they cut most often (grassy/viny stuff), but with budget concerns. Weight's likely an issue, too... a Northwoods type with a canoe, horse, snowmobile etc at his disposal has a lot more leeway to carry bigger, heavier tools.

On the other hand, I wouldn't really want to take down a 6" hardwood with a machete... I've never tried that but it sounds like a lot of work. On the other other hand, when I think I might be called upon to cut big stuff to length, or even a lot of little stuff, I bring a saw like you mentioned.

I will shush now and let people who actually know what they're talking about answer :o
 
When I was a lad, I neither used, saw anyone else use, or even heard anybody talk of using a knife to chop wood. A light ax or hatchet was always used for splitting wood and a small belt knife (about a 3-4 inch blade) was used to make kindling. This knife was also used for most camp chores. For camps where a large amount of wood was needed, a heavy ax was used to chop down a tree and a buck saw would be used to cut it into logs. Sometimes wedges would be used to split the logs if they were big. This was probably not the universal method of doing things but was prevalent at that time and place.
 
Ray Settanta said:
When I was a lad, I neither used, saw anyone else use, or even heard anybody talk of using a knife to chop wood.
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Pretty much the same here, except I was stubborn and did it anyway. Having grown up in north central WI, my Dad and previous generations still raise their eyebrows at any knife with more than a 5" blade, and honestly for most of them 4" is pushing it. (except for a dedicated filet knife, chef's knife, etc of course.)
 
I raised a few eyebrows when I went surf fishing and carried a WWI German bayonet on my Garand cartridge belt. :D
 
Ray Settanta said:
I raised a few eyebrows when I went surf fishing and carried a WWI German bayonet on my Garand cartridge belt. :D
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Heck if you were fishing up there in that fetid water in New England I don't blame you. If it had been me, I'd have carried bayonet too, or better still, a big machete. What with all them venomous brown blind mullet, Jersey whistles, bio hazard waste, toxic chemical spills, body parts, and what not in that putrid swill you call "surf"... Hell, I might even have wanted a haz-mat suit and a machine gun....

ewwww... yech.. bet you got an extra arm growing outta your ass, too.


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So, I bought another 11. I got a Serrated 11. I think I'm addicted to these li'l bastard blades! I still need to get another Ka-Bar 11 since I gave all of mine away over the years.
 
the thought just struck me... Do I like to cook, make fires, hunt and fish because I get to use a knife..? or do i like knives because I use them to cook, make fires, hunt and fish..?

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LeeBower said:
the thought just struck me... Do I like to cook, make fires, hunt and fish because I get to use a knife..? or do i like knives because I use them to cook, make fires, hunt and fish..?

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I like knives because I like to cook, fish, make fires, and hunt. I can say that BECAUSE even when I don't get to use a knife I still like to do those things.
 
Got some new tire put on my Tundra today. I ended up going with a p rated Cooper Discoverer AT3.......hoping I don't end up regretting not going with lt tires. I don't ever pull anything too heavy, so I'm hoping the will be OK.

Winter seems to be setting in here.......its not looking like we will get above freezing today.
 
DerekH said:
As someone with a vast amount of experience in different areas, would that opinion be prone to change based on location, say someplace more Southern? Would they be more inclined towards larger knives and machetes?
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Yeah, I think so and I think Terrio nailed it. If you look at tropical people around the globe, they all have some kind of indigenous big ass parang or machete or whatever. Nowka and Doc were talking about this on a recent podcast. Jim's opinion was chopping knives and batoning are relatively recent developments. When I was a kid you just didn't hit your knife with stuff and nobody had a knife longer than four or five inches. I frankly think flailing the shit out of a small tree with a big chopper is a blast. I love big thick tough knives. May not be practical in a lot of cases but damn, neither is a flamethrower. You know?
 
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