Survivors: other knives you like

Brian77 said:
Yes I have both. The G10 is heavier. Nathan told me the knife was balanced for the Micarta. I much prefer the micarta for a number of reasons...

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How much do you feel it changes the balance point? I figure 1/64th.

18.4 grams difference.
 
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grogimus said:
Honestly it's my least favorite of the three. I've got stupid big mitts though, so take it with a grain of salt. I like them all enough I'd send the three of them to ya to check out if you're looking to buy one.
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Thanks for the offer mate, but I'm living I Europe so it's not very convenient. But very generous of you to offer! :)
 
J_mcrane said:
No Survive! Knives yet. I think a 3.5? and 6 will be in my future.

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How's that old Gerber treating you? Is that the A400? IIRC that's one of the M2-steel models, Gerber was among the first production companies to off a knife in HSS with a rockwell 60-62.
 
chiral.grolim said:
+1 to this. I don't own any but often find myself admiring his work. One of these days...
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I can say with confidence that Andy's designs are very usable and well thought out designs. His hand made offerings are a thing of beauty. They are not made of super steel, so additional maintenance and sharpening is involved with purely users, but his recent production models do use more modern steels that do not lend themselves well to hand shaping knives. Andy's stainless steel offerings were always CPM 154, which I think is a very good steel. He always hand grinds convex secondary bevels on his knives, which many in the bushcraft arena prefer. Ease of working the steel always comes into play with a hand made knife, and Andy pretty much settled on O1 and CPM 154. He has a spattering of A2 from time to time as well.
 
McVeyMac said:
I can say with confidence that Andy's designs are very usable and well thought out designs. His hand made offerings are a thing of beauty. They are not made of super steel, so additional maintenance and sharpening is involved with purely users, but his recent production models do use more modern steels that do not lend themselves well to hand shaping knives. Andy's stainless steel offerings were always CPM 154, which I think is a very good steel. He always hand grinds convex secondary bevels on his knives, which many in the bushcraft arena prefer. Ease of working the steel always comes into play with a hand made knife, and Andy pretty much settled on O1 and CPM 154. He has a spattering of A2 from time to time as well.
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Honestly, the production-models don't appeal to me, they just don't have the character that is handmade knives do... which is a LOT of character :thumbup: And for the price of the production models, I think I'd rather pay for the customs *shrug* The tapered tangs, the pins, the liners&scales, the blade finish.... all just great work. It's no wonder they are popular.
 
McVeyMac said:
I can say with confidence that Andy's designs are very usable and well thought out designs. His hand made offerings are a thing of beauty. They are not made of super steel, so additional maintenance and sharpening is involved with purely users, but his recent production models do use more modern steels that do not lend themselves well to hand shaping knives. Andy's stainless steel offerings were always CPM 154, which I think is a very good steel. He always hand grinds convex secondary bevels on his knives, which many in the bushcraft arena prefer. Ease of working the steel always comes into play with a hand made knife, and Andy pretty much settled on O1 and CPM 154. He has a spattering of A2 from time to time as well.
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By hand working do you mean forging or grinding? I agree that modern PM steels shouldn't be forged (too much potential for messing up the grain) but there are a lot of folks out there hand grinding even the most difficult of modern high carbide steels with extremely good results. :)
 
Picked this up the other day. Since I had discovered Guy's knives like so many I sold/traded most of my others off to fund gso's. But this was a great deal so there is always room for 1 more blade.
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That ceramic with the engraved horn is way cool bud. I can't read the makers mark on the blade, is that from LT?
 
It is a Blind Horse plsk2 that wasn't made for the Pathfinder School so no logo but a pretty cool 2 tone polished micararta handle.
 
Nice. Blind/Battlehorse and LTWK, all good stuff. I picked up a frontier first the other day, didn't realize it was so small!
 
Thanks Standard

It is fairly easy to setup if your sheath has the slots for leg strap.

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The total weight of the rig and knives are at 2.4 lbs so it is not too heavy.



Don
 
Anybody want to talk about Fiddleback Forge's duke???

Out of all the great knives from FF this one is currently interesting me the most........... specifically the production version.
 
I have a production Duke with custom scales. It is super comfortable, very nimble and at 5/32 s35vn it is a very useful blade in the kitchen. I don't carry it as much as some of the other blades, mainly because i don't love the sheath. For some reason I have it up for sale. Just too many cool blades out there!
 
I've always like the Bark River Bravo series and one of my favorite bushcraft blades is their Bushcrafter. I also like my Infidu, SOB, Rodent 9, Ratmandu, and other knives from Busse as well. I've been eyeing the Fiddlebacks and Carothers knives, so they'll be on my short list to try.
 
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