Call me old fashion, but I like flap sheaths. Protects the knife from weather, and from getting hammered by stuff you rub up against when going about your daily life. It provides security and relativly easy access. Plus you don't have to worry about slicing the retention strap like you do on so many modern sheaths. I have come to veiw a good sheath as in integral part of my knife using experience
One of my first knives when I was a kid had this type of sheath. Even if or when the snap breaks, the knife is still securely tucked down inside.
I really want to be a kydex guy. But I really don't care for sheaths that scratch the crap out of my knives when I insert and extract them.
I have heard stories of knives freezing in leather sheaths. At 56 Years of age I have never experienced it. Last week I was out in the woods, it was fairly cold. High single digits. I had my S-1 out with me. Safely tucked in a Custom Kydex jobbie.
Well I have been impressed with the tight, slim, quiet fit of the sheath. So I forgave the scratching to my knife. Until I went to unsheath the knife. I got it out. But it took two hands. I guess the kydex can give you problems in cold weather too.
Not knocking the kydex world. I know it serves many extremely well. But I am a Luddite when it comes to much of my outdoor gear. I like wood snowshoes, wool clothing, and leather sheaths.
This knife may or may not be over priced. But folks have been screaming for a full tang Mora for a long time. New tooling, what looks like it could be a much upgraded sheath, R&D, and all the rest conspire to elevate the price.
I was never a Mora person. But I was gifted one as part of a sale. I Bought a Knife and a hawk. The gent that sold them to me sent along. Frost River Lunch Bag with a Mora in it as a gift. I think it is a #2, but I can't swear to it.
Then I recieved another one, a Mora 2000 as a buy one get one free deal with a Blind Horse blade.
I have to admit, they do a surprisingly good job at a lot of tasks.
If you take a look at Helle's new full tang knife, the Utvaer. There is a similar price jump. It is also quite a bit more expensive than its stick tang siblings.
Personally, I hate it when companies release info about products that are still six months out. But that seems to be the new paradigm, develop interest long in advance of release.
Folks seem to be a little twitchy about the cost of the Bushcraft Black and Bushcraft Survival. But the reviews have been stellar. At least the ones I have read.
The downside I see to this early info release. Is that it is very one sided. All we get is some pictures and the List Price.
Plus DC telling us it is a knife he can trust his life to. If there is no monetary transaction there, that might mean something. If there is. Well, think Ed Mcmahon and Publisher's Clearing House. Plus it flies in the face of his long time statement that you need a 5" minimum blade as your only knife.
I am pretty neutral about DC, so that was not meant to be a bash. But the list of Celebrity Survivalists hawking products is getting longer as each day passes. Pay me and slap my name on a knife, and chances are good I will find something good to say about it too.
I hope none of this comes off as me not liking or at least wanting to like this knife. Because that is not the case. I do really want to like it. And I will most likely be a beta tester for it when it comes along. If it does everything I need it to do.,then it will seem properly priced, perhaps even cheap.
Again at my age, I need to keep things in perspective. I may actually cave and try a pair of technical Snowshoes. Because the wood/rawhide ones are getting up around the $300.00 mark. In my mind wood shoes should still cost around $89.00, not $300.00+
Is a $100.00 knife really that unreasonable. When a gallon of milk is $4.50, and a new Ford F-150 is $60,000.00.
In my mind, not if it does what I need it to do.
