your thought on the douk douk ?

puukkoman said:
You guys... reminding me that I still have to try out a Douk... ;)

The history is fascinating to me, and the whole French Foreign Legion bit makes me want to get a big one and keep it tucked inside my boot. :D
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Aren't there French ones and "other", ones? I guess the Japanese ones aren't really Douk Douks, even if they look the same are they...
 
Thanks for all these great answers! I've just ordered one and I'll get it soon enough! (pics to come in a new thread) I've actually asked a friend of mine who is in the French Foreign legion why it was deemed as a ''French killer'' knife. Apparently the Arabs used to hammer the knife handle so it became a fixed blade, and since the steel is easy to sharpen it was always razor sharp and ready to kill!
 
I just purchased my first DD recently. It's the standard clip point large version. People aren't kidding when they mention the stiff spring.:eek::D I find it confidence inspiring, though, and no trouble to operate once you know what to expect. The knife is pretty crude when you look down into it at the spring or blade tang, but everything is tight and smooth. It looks like all DDs come with a rounded tip. I filed mine down from the spine side to make it pointier (very easy with DDs 1075 @ 50 or so HRC). I also dipped the blade in PCB etchant for about a half hour, which turned it a nice dark gray/black color. I then soaked the knife in mineral oil, wiped off the excess, then slipped it in my pocket, where it's ridden ever since, right next to its fellow countryman, my Opinel #10. ;) I'm sold. There's a lot to be said for these low-cost classic French pocket knives. :thumbup:
 
Strigamort said:
I don't know about the op but the low price is almost always what keeps me from buying it. Completely indirectly mind you. It's just that at any given time I have about 40 different things in my (insert website store name) shopping cart that I really want and they keep me nickel and dimed to death! :)
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Yup....I have a few opinels and higonokamis but have yet to get what i consider their competitors: douk douk, svord peasant, and mercator. Problem is that it seems like these regional knives never go on sale...so I end up just buying a knife that is a good deal on exchange rather than fronting full price for these guys. I'll pick them up eventually...at least I keep telling myself that.
 
powernoodle said:
[This one was given to me by Commander Thomason some time ago. Thank you again for that.]
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While I am looking to get a truly high end slipjoint, probably a custom made for me and me alone that I can truly call my own, within the next year, that is more of an exception for me. Where my knife habits truly lie for the most part lately is in the "lower end" knives. Honest, simple, rugged, yet still subtly beautiful knives used by hard working farms, tradesmen, etc like the sodbuster and Opinel are the ones I'm drawn to the most lately. Or rather, not the one I'm drawn to most, but that I find myself reaching for the most. That photo in particular perfectly shows what I'm getting at. Inexpensive production knives that are far tougher than the price would imply, and simply get the job done.

I'm coming around on the Douk Douk, and this photo perfectly shows what I mean by simple, tough working knives.
 
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