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So my little knife collection I have here started much later then other. I wasn't around knives much growing up, but got a good deal of exposure to them in the military. I was always into fine cooking knives, because of having step-grandmother who was from Germany and taught me the value of a good piece of kitchen steel. I never really had anything more then a swiss army knife growing up and never really understood the need for one. In the military my go to was my full size Gerber Multi Tool. Once I got out I didn't have a need to carry that much with me on a regular basis (though one still stays in the door of my truck) so I started carrying a pocket knife. Nothing fancy, but I bought myself and my 75 year old neighbor a matching set of Kershaw 3160s
Big investment I know. My friend is 40 years my elder and had plenty of knives, heck he lived in Alaska for 30+ years so he's got outdoor stories for days. However if you walked up and knocked on his door tomorrow, he'd answer and that Kershaw 3160 would be hanging right in his pocket where it has been for the last 3 years since I gave it to him. It wasn't until about a year after I had given it to him where he lost it outside putting up some fence posts and left in on a post and couldn't find it for 2.5 days that I realized how much that knife meant to him, and why it meant so much to him. It was at this moment I began to get "IT". I currently have a small but expanding collection of knives and think I just went over the edge.
Alongside my 3160 I have a few other knives, all of which are skinning/outdoors related:
Schrade Old Timer (Probably my favorite knife I currently own.)
Kershaw 1080 (My other go to skinner depending on my angle)
Buck 691C (Thought I'd use it, just not a fan, pulled it out of the sheath for the first time for skinning and it wasn't sharp enough to go through the hide, hasn't left the sheath since.)
Buck 583 (Amazing filet knife and great for working out every last bit of backstrap
)
Ka-Bar BK-17 (Another knife I have been sorely disappointed by because of the poor factory edge)
Well over the weekend I set out on a quest of finding a new EDC as my Kershaw 3160 is just a little heavy for my taste even though it has a special sentimental value.
So I'm looking around Amazon, Kershaw Leek, The Blur, man these all look good but they're all just a little off, then I see it
$180+ for a knife, you've got to be kidding me, I've never even heard of this company. So I do a little research, turns out these Benchmade guys are pretty good. I also worked as an automation engineer at a steel mill and remembered what a difficult time when we had when we first started rolling these higher HRC steels. The M390 seems legit, the company is definitely legit, okay I'll give it a goooooooooooohold on a minute what is that?
Wait that's like my Kershaw 1080 but made of a much better steel for the job and has a longer handle which I have always wanted on it.
So yeah, I'll have both a brand new Mini Barrage 586 and a Hidden Canyon 15016-1 here tomorrow....
I'm sure this is going to shock some folks, did you guys know the Benchmade 940 is one sexy looking beast as is the Chris Reeves Small Inkosi.....fear not I haven't ordered these also, especially not the second one. But yeah, so here I am....
Big investment I know. My friend is 40 years my elder and had plenty of knives, heck he lived in Alaska for 30+ years so he's got outdoor stories for days. However if you walked up and knocked on his door tomorrow, he'd answer and that Kershaw 3160 would be hanging right in his pocket where it has been for the last 3 years since I gave it to him. It wasn't until about a year after I had given it to him where he lost it outside putting up some fence posts and left in on a post and couldn't find it for 2.5 days that I realized how much that knife meant to him, and why it meant so much to him. It was at this moment I began to get "IT". I currently have a small but expanding collection of knives and think I just went over the edge.
Alongside my 3160 I have a few other knives, all of which are skinning/outdoors related:
Schrade Old Timer (Probably my favorite knife I currently own.)
Kershaw 1080 (My other go to skinner depending on my angle)
Buck 691C (Thought I'd use it, just not a fan, pulled it out of the sheath for the first time for skinning and it wasn't sharp enough to go through the hide, hasn't left the sheath since.)
Buck 583 (Amazing filet knife and great for working out every last bit of backstrap
)
Ka-Bar BK-17 (Another knife I have been sorely disappointed by because of the poor factory edge)
Well over the weekend I set out on a quest of finding a new EDC as my Kershaw 3160 is just a little heavy for my taste even though it has a special sentimental value.
So I'm looking around Amazon, Kershaw Leek, The Blur, man these all look good but they're all just a little off, then I see it
$180+ for a knife, you've got to be kidding me, I've never even heard of this company. So I do a little research, turns out these Benchmade guys are pretty good. I also worked as an automation engineer at a steel mill and remembered what a difficult time when we had when we first started rolling these higher HRC steels. The M390 seems legit, the company is definitely legit, okay I'll give it a goooooooooooohold on a minute what is that?
Wait that's like my Kershaw 1080 but made of a much better steel for the job and has a longer handle which I have always wanted on it.
So yeah, I'll have both a brand new Mini Barrage 586 and a Hidden Canyon 15016-1 here tomorrow....
I'm sure this is going to shock some folks, did you guys know the Benchmade 940 is one sexy looking beast as is the Chris Reeves Small Inkosi.....fear not I haven't ordered these also, especially not the second one. But yeah, so here I am....
Good Luck
Sharpen that Buck up or send it in to them, they have great customer service . The Vanguard is really an excellent knife and normally comes from the factory shaving sharp.
