Superdank Scandi Heading my way

Yeah, Kaleb (Reynolds) had it down pat with both handles and blades. This one looks almost artsy! I love it. It looks all business and yet something about it just takes you into a bamboo forest.....:confused:.....must be the fumes from that hemp:D
 
Kaleb makes a great knife. He really has hit the mark with his handles and scandi grind on his Bushcrafters and Puukkos.:thumbup: Congrats on the knife. I agree, we need some glow in the dark pics
 
man.. that thing is cool.... :eek: i love the hemp scales...:thumbup::thumbup:

i was over at Ban's shop last night and he had some shadetree scales on his Busse AK.. they were pretty darn cool... i believe they were green canvas micarta, carbon fiber and red linen micarta...
 
OK I got it yesterday.

The knife looks really nice in person. The bevel is really polished. The handle feels great.

My camera is crap but here's (hopefully) a glowing pic

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That's not charged up all the way.

The only thing bad I could find about the blade was that from the plunge line about 3/4" of the edge did not join up. There was a flat place you could see when you held the edge up to the light. The rest of the edge was wicked sharp.

I mentioned this to MM and he apologized explaining he finished out the blade in low light and must have missed that that part did not match up. Sadly this is not the first custom I have bought where the edge was sharp in places:rolleyes:

I went to work on it last night with sandpaper, water stones and diamond plate and got all but about 1/8" with an edge on it now:thumbup:

Anyway I've been hunting this week so I thought I'd take it out and take some pics in the woods

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Here is the handle width and thickness compared to the Skookum

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By hollowdweller, shot with EX-Z75 at 2008-11-25
Here is the MM and the Skookum by each other. The handles are the same length. The blade on the MM is a bit narrower and about 1/2" longer. They are both around 1/8"
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Well I saw this dried oak and thought it would be a good test of the cutting. It cut it fine and the edge is very fine and you can see it could whittle thin shavings.
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By hollowdweller, shot with EX-Z75 at 2008-11-25

Here's the shaving end
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By hollowdweller, shot with EX-Z75 at 2008-11-25

Next I found a branch about 1 and 3/4" or so and figured I'd whittle all the way thru it. I wanted to test the edge because the blade is the same thickness as the Skookum but the MM bevel is so much finer I wanted to test edge durability.

One thing I really like about this knife is where the handle is straight it cuts well in a variety of handholds like this one. I was cutting on the other side of the branch from where I was standing, holding the blade upside down with the edge toward me to cut over and under.
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Took some whittling but cut it thru. This was hard stuff
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It's all spalted!
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I think the edge is a bit thin. Possibly when I was putting an edge on the area right in front of the ricasso where the grinds on either side did not meet I drifted over onto the part that was already sharp and made it too fine, because you can see I got a lot of chipping and rolling of the edge.

If you look you can see the maybe 1/2" left right in front of the ricasso where the grinds didn't meet up, then the part where I joined the 2 grinds that is intact and then the maybe 3/4" beyond that that chipped a lot. There's also a few chips on up the blade but nothing hardcore.
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When I got in a 15 minutes with the strop and sandpaper, and waterstone and it was fixed all but just a few chips.

Hopefully as I sharpen this one it will get stronger as the angle gets a little steeper. I know MM a lot of times puts a secondary on these and maybe for some people who aren't into sharpening that much that might be a good solution. If it was me I'd just go for a slightly shorter bevel like on the Skookum since the blades are the same thickness and similar steel.

Overall great blade though. I'm going to fool with the edge till I get it to where I don't get any chipping because I really like the design of this blade.:thumbup:
 
Thats an awesome knife HD..I bet the edge fixes itself with use...as you sharpen it a few times. Gene
 
Hmm. Shame about the chipping and rolling. Hopefully it will sort itself out after some further sharpening. Maybe you could subtly convex the very edge on a mouse pad to give it more beef.

I love the look. Kinda primitive and sleek. I also like how it works well upside down with the symmetrical handle profile. Without having it in my hand, the thing I might change is to make the handle taper or angle toward the blade so it wouldn't have such a severe drop off. Maybe it doesn't make a difference in use, but if I was choking up on the handle or putting my thumb on the side of the blade, a taper or angle might be more comfortable. Just a thought.
 
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