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LeeBower said:
I am in San Antonio, south central Texas, right at the edge of the Texas hill country.. West Texas is a lot different geographically from where I am at.. I bitch about the heat quite often, but it is a really great place over all... hour and a half to the gulf coast, 3 hours from the east Texas Pines, an hour from Austin, hour and half from Mexico, 5-6 hours from the mountains at The Big Bend park... There is a lot of variety within half a days driving. We are about 8 or 9 hours east from El Paso.. Texas is a huge state, there is just about all kinds of geography in the borders.
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Lee, we are thinking about going to Big Bend and doing some paddling, hiking and camping. Is it worthy?
 
CCMI said:
Tires, shoes, and mattresses... Don't go cheap
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I'm 33 yrs. old and over the past few years I've finally come to realize the wisdom and truth in this statement.
Most times you get what you pay for. Most times...
 
I keep telling myself "I don't want to try a scrapivore, you don't need another neck knife, you have 1 of the 11s and 3 of the 14/24s, and an izula and an izula 2, you don't need a scrapivore" however I really want to try one. It seems with a nice set of scales or an even halfway decent wrap it would be pretty nice. I'm really addicted to the neck knife size knives.

Same thing about the candiru. I don't need a candiru however I want one...
 
Chameleonbear said:
I keep telling myself "I don't want to try a scrapivore, you don't need another neck knife, you have 1 of the 11s and 3 of the 14/24s, and an izula and an izula 2, you don't need a scrapivore" however I really want to try one. It seems with a nice set of scales or an even halfway decent wrap it would be pretty nice. I'm really addicted to the neck knife size knives.

Same thing about the candiru. I don't need a candiru however I want one...
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I love me some necker/skeleton handled knives too :D

I really like the scrapivore, the pry bar end actually comes in handy for me. Great steel, The old ones were hardened at 60-62.. Thats what i have.. But the new ones are labeled as having a hardness of 62-64 :eek:

I also just read Butcher_block uses 52100 at a hardness of 62-63 for his straight razors too... i wish i could afford a razor thats 500+ bucks lol his are amazing looking

Another sweet one is the swamp warden. But that one is no longer available direct. There was just one in the exchange i think might still be up.... I have been waiting months for it to pop up on the exchange.. And nothing, then i worked out a deal for a swamp warden and rodent solution from a buddy of mine in Australia.... Now one pops up on the exchange LMAO

I wanna try out a bark river necker. i like the looks of that one.
 
worldwood said:
I also just read Butcher_block uses 52100 at a hardness of 62-63 for his straight razors too...
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Yeah... one of the reasons 52100 is so sweet is that it has really fine grain when HT'ed properly (which makes it easy to get a super crisp edge on), and is tough enough to support crazy-thin edges at high hardnesses.

Neck knives are cool! The only problem I have with them is that I have not yet designed one that's noticeably different or unique. :grumpy:
 
Jonny1280 said:
I'm 33 yrs. old and over the past few years I've finally come to realize the wisdom and truth in this statement.
Most times you get what you pay for. Most times...
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Same here except I'm not quite 33 yet. Over the years I have learned that generally you buy once, cry once when you spend the extra on quality. I used to buy the cheapest of everything I could get, but now days I get the quality stuff once instead of replacing the junk all the time.
 
Chameleonbear said:
I keep telling myself "I don't want to try a scrapivore, you don't need another neck knife, you have 1 of the 11s and 3 of the 14/24s, and an izula and an izula 2, you don't need a scrapivore" however I really want to try one. It seems with a nice set of scales or an even halfway decent wrap it would be pretty nice. I'm really addicted to the neck knife size knives.

Same thing about the candiru. I don't need a candiru however I want one...
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I'm not aching for a scrapivore but I do like me some small fixed blades. I have 2 14's, a boker trigonaught, schrade schf16, condor mini bushlore, crkt Ringed Razel, and an Ontario Rat3. I want to get a Chestnut ridge kangaroo mouse and a crkt ritter mk6.
 
james terrio said:
Yeah... one of the reasons 52100 is so sweet is that it has really fine grain when HT'ed properly (which makes it easy to get a super crisp edge on), and is tough enough to support crazy-thin edges at high hardnesses.

Neck knives are cool! The only problem I have with them is that I have not yet designed one that's noticeably different or unique. :grumpy:
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I never really noticed the strength of 52100 on a thin edge until i started really beating on the comp cutter from Dan, most the knives from the swamp come with a pretty thick edge on them... But that comp cutter has a crazy thin edge for a chopper and is quite durable.

I want to find someone selling Vanadis 4 extra in thin stock... I cant seem to locate any. But Id LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE a neck knife made of vanadis 4 extra at around 62HRC with an edge thin as a razor on it. No fancy designs or bells and whistles, Just a basic FFG drop point. That would be the ultimate neck knife for me.
 
james terrio said:
Neck knives are cool! The only problem I have with them is that I have not yet designed one that's noticeably different or unique. :grumpy:
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I have a design in my head that works great for me, however I have rather shady drawing skills and even worse metal working skills... I may try to get it on paper some time.

Mind you, things that I draw out and "design" work for me and most people wouldn't really like my designs I'm willing to wager. If people did, I'm sure they would have been done already.
 
ac700wildcat said:
Same here except I'm not quite 33 yet. Over the years I have learned that generally you buy once, cry once when you spend the extra on quality. I used to buy the cheapest of everything I could get, but now days I get the quality stuff once instead of replacing the junk all the time.
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It depends on the application I think. My angle grinder for instance. 10 year old black and decker from wal-mart. I don't really use it much so the B&D is perfect for me. If I used it every weekend I would have gone through a dozen of them by now and would have been better off buying something $100 more expensive. Same with my drill.
 
JT, I warned you I am NOT a good artist. This, though, is kind of what I have thought up. Guys if you have any ideas/suggestions feel free to contribute.

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Well, I'll give drawing a small fixed blade a shot, since were doing that. A sort of fantasy knife (for me) anyways.
 
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