Stranded on a desert Island, which one Becker?

Mass1632 said:
Well, that begs the question... what becker would you want to have on a desert island? Assuming you can only have one.
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Which in turn begs the question. "which one becker knife if" stranded on a dessert island?
Yeah, didn't see that coming, huh?
 
daizee said:
The BeastK-2 would wedge more because you'd have a more obtuse primary grind if you only reach the same grind height. If you applied the same primary grind angle as on the BK9 to a 1/4" thick blade, you'd be much closer to a FFG.

Hard to describe in words, and I'm having picture transfer issues.
Imagine in cross-section: The BK-9 grind angle becomes flat at height X because you run out of steel thickeness to grind at at 3/16". If you had 1/4" thick stock, there would still be metal to remove further up toward the spine before you ran into air. So the natural grind termination would be higher at the same angle.

ALSO, the BK-9 is a taller (wider) blade than the BeastK-2, so at the same grind height even in 3/16" stock, the BeastK-2 would be wedgier.

Basically: where the grind stops as it goes up the blade is a secondary result of geometry decisions, not the primary input to the geometry design.

If you like the geometry of the BK-9, but want the 1/4" thick spine, you're going to end up with a higher grind, all else equal.

If I were MAKING such a thing, I would target the grind to terminate at the spine - FFG - and just decide to be happy with the resulting geometry, since it would be a decent and attractive compromise. Would have to do a bunch of measurements and trig to compare the angles exactly, and that's just not a thing worth doing, IMO.
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Hey man, I super appreciate you taking the time to type out that explanation. I'm too damn dumb to understand it. The older I get the more self aware I am. I think I'd have to see it or touch it or use the different versions for it to sink in.
From this point forward I'll just call it the magic behind the curtain. Daizee says it's so, and I choose to believe him.
 
FAL'ER said:
Hey Crag,

I've got a real rough lookin 2, if you wanna pound on one before you buy.
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Thanks a Bunch...haha, but I need to lay low for awhile, probably till Xmas.... I just bought two new to me Beckers this week, so I'm done for a bit.... And I'll have a ton of mods to do.
 
On a dessert island, i would prefer to have the bk98 with me. I think it would be the brst at slicing pie.


On a desert island, i was going to say bk9 but im starting to lean towards bk4. The curvatures will help when lopping off chunks of cactus. It will also help chopping heads off slithering snakes.
 
Mass1632 said:
On a dessert island, i would prefer to have the bk98 with me. I think it would be the brst at slicing pie.


On a desert island, i was going to say bk9 but im starting to lean towards bk4. The curvatures will help when lopping off chunks of cactus. It will also help chopping heads off slithering snakes.
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Yep, the BK 4 is just easier to use multi-toolier wise. The BK 9 can work as well and do the same thingy things, but the BK 4 just does it easier when being used in multi-toolier tasks.
 
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