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Tanto for utility?
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Here is my recipe, use it exclusively for a month, and then you'll be well educated on its
bad/good sides, and how to workaround any problems.
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Ha! Yeah, pretty much. And your recipe even crosses over to other blade shapes!
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Ha! Yeah, pretty much. And your recipe even crosses over to other blade shapes!
And edge types too!
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Sometime ago I carried an early CS Master Tanto for two years. I've had one Timberline Tanto folder. I think the Master Tanto a superb tough tool. The folder not great.
However, I changed the Master Tanto to a CRK Project II, or anyway a more classic design, as I did find that there were some tasks that the tanto just wasn't suited to. Basically some other classic designs do have more utility.
I found that only a very small part of the blade did most of the work. My tantos just don't see much use now. I wouldn't sell my CS Master Tanto, but then I wouldn't buy another tanto.
However, I changed the Master Tanto to a CRK Project II, or anyway a more classic design, as I did find that there were some tasks that the tanto just wasn't suited to. Basically some other classic designs do have more utility.
I found that only a very small part of the blade did most of the work. My tantos just don't see much use now. I wouldn't sell my CS Master Tanto, but then I wouldn't buy another tanto.
Haters gonna hate, I want to try one of these some day!
For the use they see (read; thumping and stabbing and prying things open) I think the modern "american tanto" design is not bad at all.
We knife nuts are usually very picky, but you guys need to see the types of knives natives from all around the world use daily, which make Mtech and Budk cheapos look like Randalls in comparison.
For the use they see (read; thumping and stabbing and prying things open) I think the modern "american tanto" design is not bad at all.
We knife nuts are usually very picky, but you guys need to see the types of knives natives from all around the world use daily, which make Mtech and Budk cheapos look like Randalls in comparison.
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Years ago I hated the Tanto tip. Then I realized that I got two slicing apexes and a robust tip with it. What I considered silly for the outdoors turned out to be a great birch bark removing and tree sap prying tool. I actually find more utility for this tip in the outdoors than its original design intent.
They generally make for decent utility knives. The only thing I've noticed that they suck in is hunting/skinning. The tanto is a bit difficult to control and the tip nicks a lot of stuff you don't intend it for.
Problem is knife makers put them in some very impractical mall-ninja designs
Problem is knife makers put them in some very impractical mall-ninja designs