Will Power
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Spey Blade:
With the curved end of the blade being closer to perpendicular to the blade's axis than other knives and lacking a point, making penetration unlikely, spey blades are common on Trapper style pocketknives for skinning fur-bearing animals. Also good for spreading peanut butter on bread.
SVTFreak , come on now, don’t be shy. Post up a pic of the Kawamura sitting on top of a burnout mark from the Cobra.
~ Respectfully signed by the man who wishes he could do it for you LOL.
Oh boy, I'm not sure about this. I don't buy a ton of knives throughout the year, other than forum knives, or the occasional good deal. Although, I guess I do pick up quite a few at the knife shows, so I was forgetting them. Anyways, the knife of 2018...I have modded a few for myself that are quite nice to carry, but are otherwise not that special.
Okay, I think it will be this one...I picked this Lloyd up second hand, it is used, but lovely regardless. I guess it's my knife of 2018 due to it being a finely-made custom, that's a pleasure to look at, carry, and use.
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SVT, that's really a sweet knife! Big one!
I'm afraid so. It was from the first batch. Too thick behind the edge to be a slicer and thinning out M390 is far from my abilities. I just couldn't get it to cut like a traditional or maintain that hair popping edge. I sent it to 3 pros for the edge to be set and tuned but it didn't help. Having a regrind would have cost the same as the knife itself and diamond stones for my sharpmaker were also expensive. I gave up and sold it on ebay. I loved everything about it other than the grind but when it comes down to it, cutting is what a knife is for and that steel required more skills and equipment than I have or have the patience for. I was glad the BF 2019 knife ended up as CPM154, I can make that steel sing!Pomsbz Woes with the Roundhead???
Well this is a difficult choice to make.
Firstly, although I regrettably wasn’t able to catch up with Mr J. Black personally on a family trip to the UK earlier this year, he very kindly gave me some detailed instruction on the Sheffield area and I was lucky enough to fit in an hour or so at the olde Sheffield knife store. Even though the Lambsfoot is the knife pattern most associated with the area, the Wright and Rodgers knives were the ones I chose after testing every knife in the store at least twice! So nice to have opportunity to make a choice based on weight and action not just looks. I am sure there is a lambsfoot or two on the horizon.
This Rogers knife feels nicer in hand than even my TC barlows and Northfield barlows. The black delrin sets it all off so well. Its just about the perfect barlow.
The next knife is a special find - a user jobillo #92 to replace one I foolishly sold on when thinning out the collection. This is a real treasure and I like a user blade or two for my collection, even though I am rarely brave enough to convert a safe queen to a user myself.
The knife beside it is a new one today, a stainless 15 which has the distinction of being the only GEC to be personally delivered to my house in Canberra Australia, and I am super pleased with it in every way. These were so slow to sell but it is a surprisely good knife, both in hand and to look at.
I can’t ignore making special mention of this 78 which turned out the pick of the bunch of 78s I bought. A very fine knife both to look at and to use with fantastic action and ergonomics.
But the overall best of the bunch and my award for my knife of the year is this Queen gunstock in CPM 154. It is amazing both in its looks and its ergonomics. A true EXCEPTIONAL gem that is hard to put down. Just look at those lines when open. The sabre blade is head and shoulders better than the FFG on the GEC gunstock.
The Churchill for me checked all the boxes and I was very disappointed that there was not a jigged bone Northfield variant on offer. So I had that remedied.
Mine has been a surprise for sure. I bought this LT Wright Patriot as a pocketable fixed blade. Super sharp, handy size, make tinder, make shavings, skinned a doe, started a fire using a fero rod.... Great size.
This was a fairly easy choice for me, I have wanted a Remington saw scout for a long time, and picked one up this year. I thought it might be the perfect “bbq knife”; I absolutely love grilling and at most family or impromptu gatherings I end up on grill duty . So something that I could throw in my pocket that would cover as many bases as possible, that will cut stuff of course, but also open bottles etc. Other scouts and SAKs have worked very well in the past, but I had high hopes for the saw scout. It functions perfectly in this capacity.
It was a generous extra gift, it was modified by a pal, and it has the looks of a well-worn, tough critter. AND it slices like a lightsaber.
Thank you fine Sir ! Here is a link to the Continental thread. Be sure and see Kevin's congressional records research ! Insight into the whole industry is in those records...Thanks Kevin and for the Ebony goddess !!This should be the knife of the century!!!!!!.......... for whatever century it was produced. Utterly breathtaking.
Wow!!!! If GEC had produced Churchhills like that, I think they would be the knife of the year for many people.
I really need to look into this knife. Thanks for mentioning it. It looks so incredibly useful.
This should be the knife of the century!!!!!!.......... for whatever century it was produced. Utterly breathtaking.
Awesome choice. My saw scouts are also my favorite grilling knives.
That's amazing. Who would have thought your knife of the year would have been a last minute "toss in the box" as it was being taped up.