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Who Has Beaten on a 1 of 300?
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silverdragon33
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I am not going to name names.. but I was a first hand witness to some disorderly conduct!!
Holy Smokes! Thats a load of Steel to take Camping.
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Only one SFNO LE has seen the baton log up close and personal??!!
#27SFNOLE is due for a beating, but hasn't had any outside time yet. Mebbe this weekend... :thumbup:
I've beaten on one of mine! I dont have pics yet 
I'll have to fix that. It's a great knife! I like it because it can do most small knife chores while still being able to do many large knife chores while still not being all that heavy. My 1/300 pulls my pants down when on my belt but the SFNOLE is soon forgotten!
I'll have to fix that. It's a great knife! I like it because it can do most small knife chores while still being able to do many large knife chores while still not being all that heavy. My 1/300 pulls my pants down when on my belt but the SFNOLE is soon forgotten!
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Please do not post pics of this.
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I am not going to name names.. but I was a first hand witness to some disorderly conduct!!
C'mon now...we all know which crew of guys that was. There are knives on these here forums which are INSTANTLY recognizable.
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Well I picked up a SFNO LE from Steelnut who kindly moved one on at cost so us none HOGS could share in the fun. He also did a great sheath for it which came with a fire steel holder.
I like this knife a lot for my belt kit because like Pbubsy it is nicely pitched weight wise for chopping ability without being too heavy on the belt. However the spine is radiused with a slight curve and this precludes getting any "bite" on the spine for the ferro rod....so taking a leap of faith I decided to flatten the spine a bit in the section near the upper thumb groove.
Using the disc and some wet and dry grit paper to restore the satin finish and dovetail the area flattened into the original spine and wetting the blade to keep the spine cool so as to keep the heat treat etc fine....the job came out well. Now using the word "Custom" on the right hand side of the blade I can line up a ferro rod with the area which has a nice sharp right angle to the spine and it really does throw off some good sparks.
I took the knife out with a selection of my Busse's for a bit of a field test at fire preperation/chopping and fire lighting just using the ferro rods and some cotton pad tinder covered with petroleum jelly....which I also use to cover my none painted blades to protect the blade from rust.
Action pics of the preperation of the wood are a bit impossible when doing this sort of thing on your own as you might imagine but doing some batoning to prepare the base of the fire had the SFNO LE easily doing this but batoning can be done quite easily by any sort of knife really.
I put the fire on some old rotten grass cuttings to enable them to dry off for a bit of fertilizer for the vegetables and the next task to check out was just general wood chopping to get the right mix of stick thicjness and length to enable the fire to "take" using just sparks. The SFNO LE works a treat here being not too heavy nor too light and on chopping through some of the heavier branches from tree falls in my large garden it tackles this no problem.
( Have to do another post as the pic level has been reached )
I like this knife a lot for my belt kit because like Pbubsy it is nicely pitched weight wise for chopping ability without being too heavy on the belt. However the spine is radiused with a slight curve and this precludes getting any "bite" on the spine for the ferro rod....so taking a leap of faith I decided to flatten the spine a bit in the section near the upper thumb groove.
Using the disc and some wet and dry grit paper to restore the satin finish and dovetail the area flattened into the original spine and wetting the blade to keep the spine cool so as to keep the heat treat etc fine....the job came out well. Now using the word "Custom" on the right hand side of the blade I can line up a ferro rod with the area which has a nice sharp right angle to the spine and it really does throw off some good sparks.
I took the knife out with a selection of my Busse's for a bit of a field test at fire preperation/chopping and fire lighting just using the ferro rods and some cotton pad tinder covered with petroleum jelly....which I also use to cover my none painted blades to protect the blade from rust.
Action pics of the preperation of the wood are a bit impossible when doing this sort of thing on your own as you might imagine but doing some batoning to prepare the base of the fire had the SFNO LE easily doing this but batoning can be done quite easily by any sort of knife really.
I put the fire on some old rotten grass cuttings to enable them to dry off for a bit of fertilizer for the vegetables and the next task to check out was just general wood chopping to get the right mix of stick thicjness and length to enable the fire to "take" using just sparks. The SFNO LE works a treat here being not too heavy nor too light and on chopping through some of the heavier branches from tree falls in my large garden it tackles this no problem.
( Have to do another post as the pic level has been reached )
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Using a variety of fire steels the SFNO LE worked well with them all....
Then having a few small groups of tinder scattered at the foot of the main fire I set about trying each of the knives taken out to see how they faired at getting a fire going.....allowing for making some modifications on some of the other knives they all suceeded no problem.
Once you have a good fire going like this it takes some feeding and allowing for the need to test some of the knives with me I could let the fire die out and start again using the ferro rod and kindling....good practise for getting an overnight fire going again in the morning.
By this stage I must have had about four fires re-lit....
and as I say....whilst there were a lot of knives being given a bit of a work out the SFNO LE was just great and makes for a very hard to beat choice if you want a knife that can chop but which can be carried comfortably. If you get a good strong attachment on the kydex sheath to attach it to your belt you can tab along for miles with this knife on your belt and not notice it.
Then having a few small groups of tinder scattered at the foot of the main fire I set about trying each of the knives taken out to see how they faired at getting a fire going.....allowing for making some modifications on some of the other knives they all suceeded no problem.
Once you have a good fire going like this it takes some feeding and allowing for the need to test some of the knives with me I could let the fire die out and start again using the ferro rod and kindling....good practise for getting an overnight fire going again in the morning.
By this stage I must have had about four fires re-lit....
and as I say....whilst there were a lot of knives being given a bit of a work out the SFNO LE was just great and makes for a very hard to beat choice if you want a knife that can chop but which can be carried comfortably. If you get a good strong attachment on the kydex sheath to attach it to your belt you can tab along for miles with this knife on your belt and not notice it.
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PeterPHWS, that's what I am talking about! :thumbup:
When the menfolk see you breaking out big knives and petroleum jelly, do they run screaming from your vicinity?
LOL...Thankfully my place is a bit remote from the sheeple....but the way the economy is going I only hope I can hold on to it....
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Dare I ask what the Vaseline is for? Only joking mate, you making huge PJ balls I presume.
Nice collection of blades and even better to see them used.