ULTIMATE Ultimate Hunter

[Spinny]

Honestly hunting had nothing to do with my motivation.

I had just purchased this:

And was trying to cut open the plastic packaging with the Ultimate Hunter. In that moment, I was wishing I had a different knife on hand.

 

[Spinny]

Subtle change to the spine makes a huge improvement. Amazingly clean work for a Dremel tool. Nice!

Thanks! I should clarify that the dremel was only used to remove the bulk of the steel. The "cleanliness" was accomplished by hand and took the majority of my time.

 

[ichor]

Great mod! If the original looked like that I would already have one. Good job.

QUOTE]

Couldn't be more in agreement! Yours makes the stock one look downright clunky.

 

[Feuerfreiguy]

Nice job dude, that looks great. Only other thing you could do to improve it imho would be adding in a 50/50 choil. That with your spine mod would make for one sweeeeeet knife.

 

[Spinny]

Only other thing you could do to improve it imho would be adding in a 50/50 choil.

Yeah, I definitely considered a choil. But in my opinion doing it right (making it deep enough) would also require removing some of the G10 handle material on front side of the finger guard. As-is, I can still choke up on the handle with my index finger on the flat of the tang. So, when I considered the fact that it would be another 2 hours of work, I wasn't convinced it would be worth it. Plus the handle is already so long that grip has never been an issue. And I generally don't like creating a point adjacent to where I'm placing my finger.

I prefer these choils

Over these

 

[Buffalohump]

That's why I like the SOG Pentagon Elite with the Shark Tip point.... it just destroys blister packs!

Honestly hunting had nothing to do with my motivation.

I had just purchased this:

And was trying to cut open the plastic packaging with the Ultimate Hunter. In that moment, I was wishing I had a different knife on hand.