TOPS DART Tactical v. Swamp Rat Camp Tramp

Just to be clear, I dont advertise because Im not taking orders, and havent for quite a while. I guess it was sort of lame to mention the group in Europe, since I CANT name them. BUT if you want to know how my knives really work, just ask guys like Ron Hood as mentioned (or buy his video), or ask Jeff Randall who has used my knives in the Jungles of Peru(we have pics), ask Kim Breed, ask Anthony Lombardo, Dexter Ewing, Steven Dick, Roy Huntington, Jim Gardner, Michael Janich, Pat Covert, any number of soldiers in Irag, I could go on...
I didnt come into this thread to hype my knives, I was talking about a TOPS knife of my design, and only came across this thread by doing a search for my name. I mentioned the Euro group, and shouldnt have.

That all aside Cliff has his bias, and there is no way around that. ANYONE who thinks he is ANY indicator of a knifes true performance is just mistaken in my opinion.

Personally if I have something that needs to be tested I will send it to people I TRUST to tell me the truth, or do the testing myself. I have NO NEED for the services of Cliff Stamp. SO far I have done "OK" without them. ;)


Take Care
Trace Rinaldi
www.THRblades.com
www.Shivworks.com
 
Allen242 said:
For me, if I'm looking at buying a hunting knife, I want to know, will it dress out three elk without needing sharpening?
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That would greatly depend on your skill, you could not gauge that from reading a review of the knife, unless the user also told of their experiences with a knife you had reviewed and you scaled it. I do a lot of various edge testing on various media of various types, flesh doesn't blunt significantly so it would depend mainly on how dirty the skin was or how much bone you contacted.

I don't hunt big game, I do a lot of fishing, and I eat a lot of meat and have cut a lot of meat, but just never shot it. It is actually really hard to get a license to do so here, easier for Caribou in Labrador which I have been meaning to do for some time. Small game is ok, like rabbits, but you pull the skin off them, there isn't much cutting, and you could clean a lot of rabbits with even a really cheap knife.

On that note I was discussing this with one of my uncles who hunts every year for the past thirty or so years (moose, bear, caribou etc.) . He remarked that he butchered and skinned a moose on a bet one year with the blade on a leatherman just to show it could be done. He works inuit style, no bone contact at all, joints are broken. I keep meaning to send him a half a dozen knives to take out.

If you look quickly down on my website you will see that the vast majority of the knives are :

1) small utility
2) large wood craft
3) heavy use tacticals/emergency

The first and third are my edc, usually two different blades, and the second heavily used right now as it is wood cutting time for the next few months until we hit the heat of june and it starts creeping up above 10 on a regular basis, at which point I will stop and wait for it to cool down until fall. I actually spent today hauling out decent sized wood, nothing that Jimbo would call large, but at 8-12" on average it was large for what I usually cut.

I have a massive amount of limbing to do over the summer, and will be starting felling again for next year so lots of hours of axe and large blade work ahead.

And again, if you do notice a bias in the reviews in which work is being done to promote one blade over another by picking specific chores, it can be easily prevented by making a request to do work which shows otherwise either by email or a public post in the thread, either is fine with me.

-Cliff
 
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