The Survive! Never Say Die! Chat Thread

Silver Needle said:
Not that you couldn't find it yourself, but this is from the site.
Tech Specs
Blade Material:
CPM-3V or CPM-20CV
Blade Length:
5.75" (tip to front of handle), 5.10" (tip to finger choil)
Blade Cutting Length:
5.37"
Blade Height:
1.50"
Blade Thickness:
.185"
Overall Length:
10.93"
Weight:
11.1 oz (knife only), 15 oz (w/ sheath)

Tell me again about your rc6. I did a quick googling, but kept getting redirected to the ESEE 6. Anyways the weight on that is listed as 11.8 oz.

As far as the GSO 5.1 it sounds like it could be perfect for your needs, but between the solid steel, micarta and kydex I think the weight will be up there.
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Silver Needle, the RC6 is called the ESSE 6 now. It was called RC6 when the company used to be called RAT Cutlery. Is the same knife. A Mike Rowan design. It's a great knife. Tough as nails and great edge retention. Also touches up with just a few swipes to a razors edge. It comes with a no questions asked warranty. I just found it a tad heavy and squarish at the handle. It could just be me being anal due to the fact that I've been using the same type of knife for 30 years. It's like wearing boxer shorts for 30 years and one day put on bikini underwear. You'll be picking at it for a week :eek:
 
h minus said:
Silver Needle, the RC6 is called the ESSE 6 now. It was called RC6 when the company used to be called RAT Cutlery. Is the same knife. A Mike Rowan design. It's a great knife. Tough as nails and great edge retention. Also touches up with just a few swipes to a razors edge. It comes with a no questions asked warranty. I just found it a tad heavy and squarish at the handle. It could just be me being anal due to the fact that I've been using the same type of knife for 30 years. It's like wearing boxer shorts for 30 years and one day put on bikini underwear. You'll be picking at it for a week :eek:
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Ha! Thanks for the laugh, I needed that!

That's an Esee 6 on the left in chiral.grolim's pic of the four blades, with a 5.1 right next to it.
 
h minus said:
Silver Needle, the RC6 is called the ESSE 6 now. It was called RC6 when the company used to be called RAT Cutlery. Is the same knife. A Mike Rowan design. It's a great knife. Tough as nails and great edge retention. Also touches up with just a few swipes to a razors edge. It comes with a no questions asked warranty. I just found it a tad heavy and squarish at the handle. It could just be me being anal due to the fact that I've been using the same type of knife for 30 years. It's like wearing boxer shorts for 30 years and one day put on bikini underwear. You'll be picking at it for a week :eek:
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Thanks for educating me! I feel silly not knowing that (I think you even mentioned it a few posts ago) since I own a ESEE 6 myself. I think I had stuck in my head a current model they sell with other letters in the name. A big difference is the ergonomics of the handle. Between my GSO 5 (my favorite knife ever) and my ESEE 6, the GSO handle is much more ergonomic. It is more rounded where the tang is exposed and if you look at the knife from the spine, the handle slabs have a "Coke bottle" shape with a nice swell in the middle.

Great analogy by the way :D
 
H minus, I am jumping in a bit late in the discussion but i would say the 5.1 sounds like the best bet. I have a 4.1 that is very similar (as far as survive knives go) to a kabar size wise, but i am not sure it would do well for chopping or digging. I have a 5.1 on order and think it will do better in that regard. One thing guy does really well is adapt a design to various size ranges, If you started with a 5.1 and decided you wanted something smaller/larger you could always sell it and move (up or down). Selling is a whole nother can of worms, but I am sure we could help with that too. As the guys said, ask as many questions as you want. I think everyone wants to foster an environment of easy to get quality information because at the end of the day, none of us have money to waste and our goals are all similar: find the right knife for our needs and go out and use the dang thing!
 
Silver Needle said:
Thanks for educating me! I feel silly not knowing that (I think you even mentioned it a few posts ago) since I own a ESEE 6 myself. I think I had stuck in my head a current model they sell with other letters in the name. A big difference is the ergonomics of the handle. Between my GSO 5 (my favorite knife ever) and my ESEE 6, the GSO handle is much more ergonomic. It is more rounded where the tang is exposed and if you look at the knife from the spine, the handle slabs have a "Coke bottle" shape with a nice swell in the middle.

Great analogy by the way :D
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Silver, I did notice the curvy "coke bottle" handle contour in one of the pics. Definitely an improvement over the RC6. I thought you guys would like the analogy. I have a knack for them. I've also been known to speak in parables.
 
redwood22 said:
H minus, I am jumping in a bit late in the discussion but i would say the 5.1 sounds like the best bet. I have a 4.1 that is very similar (as far as survive knives go) to a kabar size wise, but i am not sure it would do well for chopping or digging. I have a 5.1 on order and think it will do better in that regard. One thing guy does really well is adapt a design to various size ranges, If you started with a 5.1 and decided you wanted something smaller/larger you could always sell it and move (up or down). Selling is a whole nother can of worms, but I am sure we could help with that too. As the guys said, ask as many questions as you want. I think everyone wants to foster an environment of easy to get quality information because at the end of the day, none of us have money to waste and our goals are all similar: find the right knife for our needs and go out and use the dang thing!
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Redwood, great input! The 5.1 seems to be the best for me all around. I'm not worried about having to sell later on. That's the reason I'm going to great lengths to make the right choice the first time around. I'm not in the habit of coughing up $240 for a knife (all my knives except for the RC6 are sub $100). If I do it once, I'll keep it for life.
 
h minus said:
Redwood, great input! The 5.1 seems to be the best for me all around. I'm not worried about having to sell later on. That's the reason I'm going to great lengths to make the right choice the first time around. I'm not in the habit of coughing up $240 for a knife (all my knives except for the RC6 are sub $100). If I do it once, I'll keep it for life.
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I completely agree, I have sold some, but prefer not to and usually only if its a duplicate. The first fixed blade i spent even close to $200 on was the 4.1 and it led to what my wife calls a "knife binge". No steel, even super steels is impervious (rocks come to mind) to everything but the 3v on these knives is pretty crazy. as a few more of the 5.1's start to roll out more videos and forum reviews will pop up, and that might help as well. Definitely stick around! these are some of the most helpful guys that you can find on a knife forum, though we have a knack for saying stuff like "buy them all" and "you'll get addicted" and silly nonsense like that...
 
redwood22 said:
I completely agree, I have sold some, but prefer not to and usually only if its a duplicate. The first fixed blade i spent even close to $200 on was the 4.1 and it led to what my wife calls a "knife binge". No steel, even super steels is impervious (rocks come to mind) to everything but the 3v on these knives is pretty crazy. as a few more of the 5.1's start to roll out more videos and forum reviews will pop up, and that might help as well. Definitely stick around! these are some of the most helpful guys that you can find on a knife forum, though we have a knack for saying stuff like "buy them all" and "you'll get addicted" and silly nonsense like that...
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I will definitely stick around buddy. This S!K forum sure has some of the friendliest members that I've encountered in blade forums. Thanks to everyone here!
 
I think their calling out for the president of the fan boy club. Lol. They're entitled to the opinions their experience has given them. The starter program wasn't done to get a huge lump of steel out over night. It was to help get a company off the ground. That's how it was laid out for everyone to read and make a decision to either help out or not. Some people just can't get over.
 
Standard78 said:
I had to be a sweetheart and leave a few comments.
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You're awesome bud. I had to stay out (for now). I don't know if it was the recent stuff or the 12 hours I just logged trying to wrap up year-end, but I was in the wrong frame of mind to respond.
 
I just get tired of these people that don't understand what it takes to run a business. They probably punch a time card everyday and think their lives are so rough.
 
Exactly. If you've had to manage a business then you know that tax season is NOW. Not April 15th like for private citizens. My business only has to produce w-2s for 3 employees this year, but it's always a struggle to get that done, and they have to be distributed by Feb. 1. Not to mention 941s, 940s, 967s, 1099s, W3s........those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Most of those will already have had to be filed this month. I can about guarantee that Ellie is doing those in-house for the company, like we do here. Having a full-time accountant is just too expensive, and no one else is going to look after your business as good as you will do for yourself. It would be nice to punch out at 5 and forget about it for a few hours, but it just doesn't work that way.
 
On a 'light'er (<- see how i did that) note. I got me a Olight coming. 500 LM then tones down to 300 after a few minutes. The guy who told me bout them said they have copper, brass, aluminum, and titanium. I got the aluminum cause I'm a cheap skate. :D
 
Hard Knocks said:
Exactly. If you've had to manage a business then you know that tax season is NOW. Not April 15th like for private citizens. My business only has to produce w-2s for 3 employees this year, but it's always a struggle to get that done, and they have to be distributed by Feb. 1. Not to mention 941s, 940s, 967s, 1099s, W3s........those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Most of those will already have had to be filed this month. I can about guarantee that Ellie is doing those in-house for the company, like we do here. Having a full-time accountant is just too expensive, and no one else is going to look after your business as good as you will do for yourself. It would be nice to punch out at 5 and forget about it for a few hours, but it just doesn't work that way.
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It sure doesn't. I'm a one man band with my business so taxes aren't really a pain and I'm glad about that!
When I was an employee with my last company, my daily wage would be the same if was a 4 hour day or 12 hour day. I also got to see firsthand how things can spiral out of control when equipment fails or when materials don't show up.
 
Texas_toothpick said:
On a 'light'er (<- see how i did that) note. I got me a Olight coming. 500 LM then tones down to 300 after a few minutes. The guy who told me bout them said they have copper, brass, aluminum, and titanium. I got the aluminum cause I'm a cheap skate. :D
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Congrats man! I've heard great things so I hope it works out well. Good ol' aluminum works just fine plus it'll be lighter than the other materials!
 
Texas_toothpick said:
On a 'light'er (<- see how i did that) note. I got me a Olight coming. 500 LM then tones down to 300 after a few minutes. The guy who told me bout them said they have copper, brass, aluminum, and titanium. I got the aluminum cause I'm a cheap skate. :D
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Sweet! Olight has been coming on strong. Which model did you get?
 
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