Thread: Show me your knives

Have you ever had that "sinking feeling" at the end of a big walk in that you might have "forgotten something"? Had that on my roar trip. After setting up the tipi, realised I'd left my Kill Bag behind, the contents of which included cord, meat bag, rubbish bag, and critically my sole knife. The thinking behind having a quality knife doesn't help when you leave it behind. Hence, my new rule. Always carry two knives. My back up just arrived, a Honey Badger Flipper - the one in orange (I blame @ryansonghurst) in medium, clip off weighs 81grams. Nice knife. Really good quality for the price $89 at Blademaster. Stored separate in the utility bag. The Nitze 4cm knife had been calling to me each time I went to Mitre 10. This sits in the tea/coffee/food bag for opening home made vacuum sealed meals and camp stuff. And because it "called to me"....

Made this out of O1 hardened to Rc59 to test the shape - if it's good I'll make a better version out of 14C28. If not, I'll keep regrinding away at it till I'm happy.

Originally Posted by Snoppernator

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Have you ever had that "sinking feeling" at the end of a big walk in that you might have "forgotten something"? Had that on my roar trip. After setting up the tipi, realised I'd left my Kill Bag behind, the contents of which included cord, meat bag, rubbish bag, and critically my sole knife. The thinking behind having a quality knife doesn't help when you leave it behind. Hence, my new rule. Always carry two knives. My back up just arrived, a Honey Badger Flipper - the one in orange (I blame @ryansonghurst) in medium, clip off weighs 81grams. Nice knife. Really good quality for the price $89 at Blademaster. Stored separate in the utility bag. The Nitze 4cm knife had been calling to me each time I went to Mitre 10. This sits in the tea/coffee/food bag for opening home made vacuum sealed meals and camp stuff. And because it "called to me"....

What's the bottom knife, Benchmade? Nice shape.

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Originally Posted by Snoppernator

Have you ever had that "sinking feeling" at the end of a big walk in that you might have "forgotten something"? Had that on my roar trip. After setting up the tipi, realised I'd left my Kill Bag behind, the contents of which included cord, meat bag, rubbish bag, and critically my sole knife.

Did you shoot anything? I often wonder what people would do if they lost or forgot their knife and had to process an animal. Think I asked the question once on the forum.

The only way I could leave a knife behind! Would be is to leave my pants and I think I may notice that after walking a little bit further from the Hennessy.
But saying that I was gutting rabbits and stuck it in the ground beside me and walked away.
Never to be seen again. Now in the sheath every time. That new one hardly leaves my side, it's NOT A can I use your knife.
https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....0/index43.html
KH

Not exactly a knife but new to my collection. Not sure year of manufacture but early though, with stag antler handle. Had my eye out for one of these for years.

Originally Posted by MB

Did you shoot anything? I often wonder what people would do if they lost or forgot their knife and had to process an animal. Think I asked the question once on the forum.

Fortunately I was with my hunting buddies on a roar trip, so my mate kindly lent me his Buck knife which came in handy over a couple of animals. On the walk out I would have had to resort to using my Bahco pruning saw...

couple of new ones from my workshop . been slow going hand arthritis very bad for the last few months

Beautiful!!

Spring isn't far away bud,it will get warmer.

Scored this on a turners auction after losing 2 times last week (hats off to the gent who spent a fortune outbidding me twice). BUT an S1pro came up so all's good. The LamCos steel seems to be a fav with the youtube knife nerds.
You can get cheap upgraded sheaths online too if you catch a one with the old style and want to get the cam locked one. That was about $40 landed. Knife was $395 so I was pretty happy

Originally Posted by T.FOYE

Scored this on a turners auction after losing 2 times last week (hats off to the gent who spent a fortune outbidding me twice). BUT an S1pro came up so all's good. The LamCos steel seems to be a fav with the youtube knife nerds.
You can get cheap upgraded sheaths online too if you catch a one with the old style and want to get the cam locked one. That was about $40 landed. Knife was $395 so I was pretty happy
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Nice!

Originally Posted by T.FOYE

Scored this on a turners auction after losing 2 times last week (hats off to the gent who spent a fortune outbidding me twice). BUT an S1pro came up so all's good. The LamCos steel seems to be a fav with the youtube knife nerds.
You can get cheap upgraded sheaths online too if you catch a one with the old style and want to get the cam locked one. That was about $40 landed. Knife was $395 so I was pretty happy
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Very nice. I've never found a reason to complain about the 'old' laminated VG10 on my F1 and the Lam Cos is supposed to be even better.

I always think of these when someone makes blanket statements about stainless knives being rubbish and basic alloys of carbon steel being vastly superior. If only they knew...

Yep bad technique will blunt the best of knives. Or using one as an axe when you could have just brought a hatchet. I bought a 450gram one from bunnings for 9 freakin dollars. Beats ruining any knife imo

My first attempt at making a knife. Made this at a class last year that my wife booked me in for a birthday present. Overall very happy with it, but I didn’t manage to get it nearly as sharp as I’d have liked so it hasn’t seen much use yet. So a couple weeks ago I sent it up to @Shelley who confirmed my suspicions that the bevel wasn’t acute enough for the blade thickness. He re-beveled and polished up the edge for me and it’s now got a very nice edge on it. Shoutout to Shelley, and highly recommend his sharpening services.