so, what do yall think of these?

koyote

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I've made enough of these and sold them offline, to local hunting and hiking folks, that it's my "model 2" wilderness knife. But I haven't really shopped them around here for opinions.

This is a camp knife, kitchen knife, and field butchering knife. Pretty old school design, but there's thought that goes into the design. The drop edge nessmuks like a couple of yall have fall into this category, but these versions tend towards long clips instead of humpbacks.

I'll steal some pics from the for sale thread, there's more on my site (usually 4 per knife, look at the urls. or just go to koyoteknives.com/knives/ and look at the index!)

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blades tend to 6 inches, with pretty good sized handles. I like the deep pouch sheaths on these better than the snap loop retainer sheaths, but that's personal- half the household likes snappies better.

Still mostly .095, the 1/8 inch ones just don't seem to slice as well on this design and I can be pretty rough on these guys and they hold up.
 
the design is not really my style, HOWEVER, having said that they look like a perfectly fine blade for woods use, bushcraft, skinning, food prep etc.
 
Bushman5 said:
the design is not really my style, HOWEVER, having said that they look like a perfectly fine blade for woods use, bushcraft, skinning, food prep etc.
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well, everyone knows about my weird fixation of scandihoovian type knives, mixed with a fair shot of buckskinner. So these aren't my normal pattern of thought or creative flow. But they sure do WORK.
 
i was checking those out earlier.. great work christof..:thumbup: i really like the one with the ironwood scales... koyote-girl is rocking on those sheaths too man...:eek:
 
Good looking blades. I could see myself using it a lot in the kitchen, but honestly don't have a use or one in the field.

I do like them a lot, though.
 
koyote said:
well, everyone knows about my weird fixation of scandihoovian type knives, mixed with a fair shot of buckskinner. So these aren't my normal pattern of thought or creative flow. But they sure do WORK.
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I'll agree with that, Those look uber sharp :thumbup:
 
I like them a lot. It's like a Cumberland knife...I prefer thicker though for chopping power and banging the heck outta the spine.
 
Great looking desing. I would like to see it paired with a small bird&trout sized knife for a great combo. To me that would do about anything you needed to do in the woods.

I love the more traditional designs. Those folks were pretty smart and didn't mess around with something that didn't work, they couldn't afford to. They only thing they were missing were the modern materials we enjoy.

Beautiful and very functional design. Would make a great kitchen/camp knife.

Charlie
 
I really like the camp kitchen knife. I have dedicated my David Farmer camp knife to that purpose, and it works great. Its a similar design to what you have there. So yeah, I really like that, and would have picked up the one your selling on the forsale threads if I had the cash to spend.
 
CShepherd said:
Great looking desing. I would like to see it paired with a small bird&trout sized knife for a great combo. To me that would do about anything you needed to do in the woods.
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I've thought about doing that. One of the local meatcutters has a knife in this pattern and a palm skinner type of filet blade, 2.75 inches long. That's the "bird and trout" half for this person's taste. And the report is that it's fine for a complete processing of a lamb with just the two knives.
 
C'est bon. I rally like em.
 
They look great, I really like that top one. I could easily see relying on that as my general, do it all belt knife.
 
the top one is closest to what a few WSS people have in this style, too.
 
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