Tom Brown Tracker, My Developing Thoughts

I've see a TOPS TB Tracker with a reground edge that looked like it would make it a more useful knife. Can't remember where? A good bladesmith should be able to do a good job with one. Just a thought with that weight and a bette edge it should chop better.
 
Great video again, I enjoyed! Your editing is great, and the video quality is pleasure for eye. What camera do you use?

The rabbit scene was funny!
 
A.L. said:
Great video again, I enjoyed! Your editing is great, and the video quality is pleasure for eye. What camera do you use?

The rabbit scene was funny!
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Thanks man! ...... and yeah, that rabbit never even paused in his chewing with all that going on. I'm a youtube noob so I'm still learning my way around this editing stuff but I'm trying my hardest. Old camera was a Canon Powershot S2IS, new one is a Canon SX20IS. Both have been outstanding for my mix of applications.
 
That was an excellent knife review, and no-one can say that you didn't do everything you could to make that knife work. But, that Tops Tracker has to be the sorriest excuse for a knife that I have ever seen. As far as I can tell, the exotic blade profile adds no advantage, but creates plenty of handicaps; and, if that were not bad enough, tops has created a knife that is little more then a glorified slab of 1/4" steel stock with just a 1/2" bevel for edge. So you have a both blade and edge geometries that are so poorly designed, they work against you. In sum a bad design, poorly executed.

n2s
 
a properly sharpened 12-14" machete will do everything that knife can do, and much much more, with less effort.
 
not2sharp said:
That was an excellent knife review, and no-one can say that you didn't do everything you could to make that knife work. But, that Tops Tracker has to be the sorriest excuse for a knife that I have ever seen. As far as I can tell, the exotic blade profile adds no advantage, but creates plenty of handicaps; and, if that were not bad enough, tops has created a knife that is little more then a glorified slab of 1/4" steel stock with just a 1/2" bevel for edge. So you have a both blade and edge geometries that are so poorly designed, they work against you. In sum a bad design, poorly executed.

n2s
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Beautifully articulated! That pretty much wraps up the whole story concerning this knife.
 
spyken said:
a properly sharpened 12-14" machete will do everything that knife can do, and much much more, with less effort.
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Of course it will, but now we've entered a different class of cutting tool with different carrying options and ergonomics. Weight could be, or might be similar depending on the type of machete but that's probably about it. :) That stated, I'm with you in that I'd rather have a quality 12" machete, given the choice.

I'd instead compare other very capable "survival knives" like the RS, TM, RTAK II, and others.
 
Nice review, both parts 1 & 2.
I have a friend that is interested in this knife, so I will show him those tests, then try to steer him toward a better design. ;)
-Bruce
 
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