I will second the Karesuando thing as many years ago now I got into making Scandi style knives using blank blades from Karesuando and people who I made them for still have them now including my Wife who uses a couple for peeling potatoes and carrots the old fashioned way .
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Really special steel from people next to the Laplands who are intimately in harmony with their metallurgy
You should start a Karesuando thread !
I was thinking about it, not a lot of user experience on youtube outside of galten reviews, which by the way is my next fixed blade I'm getting and BHQ marks them as collection for best use, which doesn't help grow the brand at all. I'm not set up for picture taking or else I'd put the huggaren to work and give it notoriety here on BF
The huggaren comes in a nice black box with a patch of real (yes real) animal fur, has a smell to it and everything
Not being a hunter it gave me a moment of bewilderment
Anyway not to hijack the thread, definitely pick one up
You mentioned the sheath of the SOG 2.0 Bowie being a little flimsey but easy to remedy . any actual ideas of how that could be achieved ? Ive only thought of cutting another piece of 2mm-2.5mm piece of leather the same shape as the back of the sheath and using a good contact adhesive fixing it to the back of the sheath . Any other ideas ?
For the SOG 2.0 Bowie it is cheaper getting it from Lamnia in Finland £150 and having it shipped to UK free ! crazy but true , unfortunately they are waiting for new stock .
Dav1: , are you sure about thatas I went on the Lamnia website and when I went through the whole process of buying it all came up in British pounds converted to Euros as final price then free P+P when spending over £135 ? I could be wrong but will have to check it out again
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What knife would your students carry on the combat survival courses you ran?
Im going back to the 70s and 80s early 90s so firstly there certainly wasnt the hype you have these days regarding what is the best steel , handle materials , sheaths etc . I instructed both Military and civilian style courses so each was a little different regarding the needs of the environment you were in . On civilian courses the students tended to turn up with what we used to call Big F..k Off knives which more times than enough were just cheap foreign made knock offs and pretty much useless for anything and certainly no good for skinning game or much else as they would often break . On the Military courses you have to know that in the UK knives were not and still are not as popular as in the US even with the Military , so once again Military students would show up with either no knife at all or usually some type of smaller folder or fixed blade , but heres a good point . I was taught from a fairly early age how to skin rabbits as they were a popular food source for poorer families back in the 50s and 60s where I came from in the North of England and around ten years of age I was taken out with a farmer who had been a Ghillie in his younger days looking after some wealthy persons land in Scotland and he taught me about stalking , shooting , hunting etc . The one thing he taught me regarding skinning deer was that you dont need a large knife and he only ever carried an old well sharpened 4" or 5" folding blade and he would gut and skin a deer with that not being afraid to get in deep with his bloodied hands. Learning from him I used to carry a good home made sharp skinning blade for most light to medium tasks on a survival / bushcraft course . Of course when instructing on courses I would have a Laplander wood saw , sometimes a khukuri or machete , and even a small axe for cutting heavier branches for shelter building . In the UK the Laws are extremely strict regarding carrying any knife with a blade more than 3 inches with some kind of blade lock or indeed a fixed blade . Crazy really when you think anyone can pick up a carving knife from any home and commit serious injury or murder someone .
I will add that since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan I do believe it has become more popular (and rightly so ) for British combat soldiers to carry tactical combat knives on their chest rigs . If I was commited to these kinds of hostile environments I would indeed feel a lot safer with a well made strong , sharp 7" or 8" combat blade as a backup .
I have an old SOG (Seki) that has killed a number of feral hogs. It is a great knife. The CS Outdoorsman is a practical design. I have an old (30+ Yrs) mini- outdoorsman and it is nice. If you are planning on them being more of collector type than hard use, the AUS8 isn’t an issue imho. People got by for a long time with lesser steel! I think you should get both if it puts a smile on your face.
Your not looking for a specialized tool. Neither of these is a specialized tool. For general knife stuff, which is what you have planned, either will do the job. There's nothing that says your tools can't look good while doing the job. It seems that you'd prefer the SOG. So, get the SOG. Then, go do knife stuff, and let us know how it goes!
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Either EBay a Sog Trident sheath (kydex or similar) or have a leather worker make a quality sheath. I wouldn’t bother trying to build up the original sheath, I’d just get something better
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I just cannot bring myself to hold any appreciation for Cold Steel. Everything they do screams mall ninja tacticool trash, from their goofy over-the-top designs to the trashy 80s looking advertisement videos they produce showing how their products can "miraculously" cut through tatami mats with overweight goons wielding oversized cutlery. Ridiculous is the first word that comes to my mind whenever I read their name in a post.
I think I understand what youre saying and would tend to agree on a lot of those points even though I have a CS Kobun for some light to medium use , I am sure most of their knives will cut , slice and chop but I must admit those videos just dont do it for me and like many other products over priced for what most people actually use them for .
Thanks for that