Yep.. It Works

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I believe I said I would start a thread after I had a chance to use this knife, and give some thoughts on it.



Well this weekend was the first firearm deer season in Illinois and I finally had a chance to get the knife dirty. Shot a deer on friday and butchered it yesterday.

It came with a fantastic edge, it would clean shave arm hair. So sharp I didn't even touch it up before I used. Possibly the only knife I have bought where that has been the case. John, I would love to know your sharpening process.

I had brought a couple other knives to use in the butchering process, but every time I started using them, I quickly returned to the Redmeadow. It just works incredibly well. Handle is well contoured and extremely comfortable. The blade is ground nice and thin, super light and almost instinctive to use. It is what a knife should be.

This is the first knife I have had in 52100 and it held a fantastic edge. I was concerned that with all the contact with bones (especially when cutting out the backstraps) that the edge would be a little messed up. Not the case at all. After deboning and cubing up the meat it would still shave the hair off my arm and shows no signs of dings or flat spots in the edge.

I couldn't be happier with it.

 

Thanks Mack. I hope it will one day have the same reverence as my Great Grandpa's pocket knife.

I do too. Can't wait to see it in a few years.

The sheath is great. I didn't actually have it on my belt while I was using it because I had a jacket on, but it works well and looks great at the same time.

 

I am not in the market for new knives at the moment, but I would enjoy seeing something like that come together.

 

Oh ok. Yeah I would love to do something like that.

 

It does a fine job of cutting up deer salami, from the deer it helped butcher.

 

Updates? It is still a great salami knife.

I used it to slice up some mushrooms and onions for a dutch oven pizza last night. Obviously not the intended purpose, but it worked great and will likely see more kitchen usage.

I am well Todd, pretty swamped with classes and such this semester. Thanks for asking. How are you?

 

Yep, forestry. Probably done in december as long as I don't decide to do grad school.

Happy Birthday, buddy. I hope it is a great one!