XXXL NICK the perfect camp knife?

Matteo Escobar

Matteo Escobar

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Can someone make the case why the XXXL NICK is not the perfect large camp knife?

Here are my reasons why it is:

-basically a gigantic wharncliff style blade, which is widely recognized as a great utility style.

-.25" thick, with the stoutness extending all the way to the tip, can expertly handle any "splitting" of wood jobs.

-with the blade heavy design, it is designed to be a chopper(for serious chopping, I would suggest a lanyard), great for collecting kindling.

-designed for food prep,(but capable of so much more) it is ideal for preparing the campfire feasts.

-food prep safe with the satin finish.

-with it's outstanding chopping and splitting abilities, it perfectly complements a smaller, thinner and pointier blade.

The only drawback to the knife would be that it doesn't have a pointy tip, but honestly, how often do you stab things with a knife? This is made up for by the full thickness of the spine extending all the way to the tip, making it an awesome log splitter. As stated above, if you combine it with a thinner, pointier blade you have the perfect camp duo.

Well, I made my case. Tell me why I'm wrong.
 
"-basically a gigantic wharncliff style blade, which is widely recognized as a great utility style."

not quite, a large santaku yes, but warncliffs generally have the edge at or above the knuckle level. this changes the handleing of the knife drastically, as when you cut you have to control the torqueing of the blade in your hand. one of the issues i have with the 3rd gen handles is that they dont resist torqueing very well, if you try to twist the knife around in your hand, its reletively easy to do compared to soemthing like the ergo handles.

"-.25" thick, with the stoutness extending all the way to the tip, can expertly handle any "splitting" of wood jobs."

that would be true, but as stated above, having the edge so far below the knuckles makes it difficult to control in any kind of chopping situation. it can handle it - but its can get difficult on harder/larger jobs.


"-designed for food prep,(but capable of so much more) it is ideal for preparing the campfire feasts."

this kind of depends on what type of camping your doing. if you have a lot of chopping to do, it might come in handy, but with how large it is, you'd need a cutting board to fully utilize it, and it is basically too heavy to use in an extended sense free hand. being as long and as heavy as it is, and of warncliffe shape, its difficult to control with any amount of accuracy when your weak and shaky. if you are camping at a camp site with a table, it might be the desired choice, but if your 5 day+ camping in the alaskan wilderness, im not sure i'd choose it.


"The only drawback to the knife would be that it doesn't have a pointy tip, but honestly, how often do you stab things with a knife?"

nearly every time i use a knife. most of the cutting that i do is on cardboard and clothe and paper, and when i cut them i insert the blade, cut down, and then come back up to cut off the top section. i do this because it keeps the material together during the cut, rather then having one side flop down making the cut more difficult. in a camping situation this is less of a concern, but in food cutting, i still use the tip a lot, dragging it across the food to sheer it in half, rather then slicing it or chopping it.



one other thing to note is that even with a "zero edge" configuration (wich on this knife isnt a true puuko style zero edge), where the bevel for the cutting edge is blended into the main grind - there is a lot of metal behind the cutting edge. this makes it especially good at taking massively hard impacts without damaging the knife up into the main grind, as a result of infi's general feature set, but also because it is a very "robust" edge configuration for durability. this however also means that it could be a better slicer.



if you combine this with a thinner smaller knife, it does fill the "thin small knife, thick large knife" catagory - but in my opinion it doesnt really fill out the requirements i would put no such a combo. as a kitchen chopper it is quite capable - as a log splitter and a general use wood working knife, it can do the tasks i'd ask of it, but it will fall far far short of something like the natural outlaw or the steel heart. its hard to find a hard use outdoors kitchen knife with that high of a grind, that can take that much abuse - but i feel that it is lacking in several major area's, and would not make the "perfect" outdoor kitchen knife.


(lol, you asked :D)
 
It sounds like you've found your perfect knife! Who would I be to tell you that you're wrong? ;) :thumbup:

:D -360
 
Although I haven't used mine, I have thought it would have many uses. The handle is the same as on the Satin Jack, easy for most to hang onto. Hard to believe these three share the same handle:

 
What is that on the bottom?
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I think that as a blade design it is not usefull at all compared to more traditional designs, but it is a novelty and thus cool to own.
 
360joules said:
What is that on the bottom?
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It was a custom at Blade this year, it was called a "Mean Street Proto", it has a Satin Jack handle and a blade like a Active Duty but larger, I think there were three of them.
 
randucci said:
It was a custom at Blade this year, it was called a "Mean Street Proto", it has a Satin Jack handle and a blade like a Active Duty but larger, I think there were three of them.
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Liar. Everyone knows that the REAL name was the "Jack *ff".

Rick - stirring the pot
 
Well I like it! :D

Leave it to me to get all amped up over a rarity like that. :rolleyes:

So...Randucci. How much for a ...ah, I'll stop here before I get banned. ;)

Cobalt...which knife are you talking about? :confused:
 
The XXX nick is ugly and only good easy downward chops. No point or nothing else. It was cheap if you bought it with the other nicks, which is a plus, IMO
 
Best darn looking kitchen knife I've ever seen!:D

Really looks like one... would like to have one. I'd give it to my wife for sure! Then I could say... "see you own Busse too".
 
360joules said:
Well I like it! :D

Leave it to me to get all amped up over a rarity like that. :rolleyes:

So...Randucci. How much for a ...ah, I'll stop here before I get banned. ;)

Cobalt...which knife are you talking about? :confused:
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xxx Nick. I am glad Jerrywill make std non tactical or survival knife designs out of INFI. They make good discussion pieces. I would want a xxx nick for the novelty of it, no so much the usefullness.
 
Horrors,,,,,

Do NOT get a Shiny Busse knife for your Wife.

Once you open that door it can never be closed.

My wife now inspects my Busse Kinves and take what ever she decides that she likes.

The last one was a N.I.C.K.

The first one was a Game Warden.

Save yourself Flee now.
 
randucci said:
It was a custom at Blade this year, it was called a "Mean Street Proto", it has a Satin Jack handle and a blade like a Active Duty but larger, I think there were three of them.
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I like it! Only three made. That definitely doesn't help the cause. :(
 
randucci said:
It was a custom at Blade this year, it was called a "Mean Street Proto", it has a Satin Jack handle and a blade like a Active Duty but larger, I think there were three of them.
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I wish there were four, and I had it. :D it looks to be nice little hunter to me. :cool:

My heavy Nick was confiscated as soon as it arrived, along with my standard nick. Straight to the kitchen it went :grumpy:
Ian. :D
 
SethMurdoc said:
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"-.25" thick, with the stoutness extending all the way to the tip, can expertly handle any "splitting" of wood jobs."

that would be true, but as stated above, having the edge so far below the knuckles makes it difficult to control in any kind of chopping situation. it can handle it - but its can get difficult on harder/larger jobs.
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I would have to disagree, when gripping the blade my knuckles come about a 1/4 inch down past the edge. I don't think that there are any control or torquing issues at all. If anything it puts the edge slightly "out there" making your strikes more accurate.

The handle is a proven design. I've never heard a single complaint out of SJ users.
 
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