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I have three.
One user,
one loner ( very badly abused, when I picked it up on fleabay non original sheath for $AUD30 for those I wouldn't trust with my "good" knife)
And a mint Camillus that was sitting in the cabinet at work when I heard Camillus had gone under ( might be worth something in three or four hundred years)
I dulled the top of the point "clip" but left it angled so I could use it to scrape flint.
I replaced the issue stone with a diamond stone ( Smiths I think, can't break that by dropping it) and tied a paracord lanyard in the back groove in the handle.
That primary bevel leaves a lot to be desired I would hate to be sharpening that with the issued stone, for the first time in a ditch with bad guys chasing me .
So I put the user ( the loner wasn't too bad) on the magic Buck 136 honemaster ( why oh why did Buck stop making those??? They do turn up on Fleabay I would pay $Aud35-40 for one)
It now has a quiet respectable edge ( certainly cuts better than the one in the vid)
Carl
One user,
one loner ( very badly abused, when I picked it up on fleabay non original sheath for $AUD30 for those I wouldn't trust with my "good" knife)
And a mint Camillus that was sitting in the cabinet at work when I heard Camillus had gone under ( might be worth something in three or four hundred years)
I dulled the top of the point "clip" but left it angled so I could use it to scrape flint.
I replaced the issue stone with a diamond stone ( Smiths I think, can't break that by dropping it) and tied a paracord lanyard in the back groove in the handle.
That primary bevel leaves a lot to be desired I would hate to be sharpening that with the issued stone, for the first time in a ditch with bad guys chasing me .
So I put the user ( the loner wasn't too bad) on the magic Buck 136 honemaster ( why oh why did Buck stop making those??? They do turn up on Fleabay I would pay $Aud35-40 for one)
It now has a quiet respectable edge ( certainly cuts better than the one in the vid)
Carl
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It now has a quiet respectable edge ( certainly cuts better than the one in the vid)
Carl
Yeah, the edge needs work in my opinion. Keep in mind, it was designed for bashing your way out of a cockpit, not for skinning or bushcraft. But still, you can re-bevel it, keep 90%+ of its strength and have a nice cutter. My biggest beef is the heat-treat, because everything else I can easily modify. The ones I've had are too darn soft... I suppose this is to make them easier to sharpen with the supplied stone... but I get pissy when I have to touch up a knife a couple times a day. The Ontario I beat on most... I can stick the tip in a 2x4 and bend it back and forth easily.
I once had one that simply snapped a 1/4" off the tip when I tried that... I don't recall which factory made it. RE: Camillus... yeah I picked one up too when I found the factory was shutting down... as you said, it may be worth something in a couple centuries.
