Thread: Show me your knives

It's Elmax , definitely a step up from the trusty sword farmers knife that I normally use.

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

Oops!

Should arrive by Friday next week.

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So the knife arrived early last week, and I managed to squeeze a short goat hunt in on the weekend, bagging a couple of nannies. I have to say that the little scandi is an excellent little boning knife, much more compact and way lighter than my Duel. Definitely a keeper. The blade length is 3.775" (96mm) which is the same as the Gunny Hunter, Classic Drop Point Hunter, or Loveless Drop Point hunter in BRK's range if you have one of those, or 1/2" shorter than the Fox River. I think for boning out an animal, the length was excellent. For post processing the meat ready for the curry, the blade could do with being 6" like the Duel, but hey, that just an excuse to keep the knife numbers up! It processed one goat into the bowl without issue.

Oh, and the scandi/convex grind makes for a very fast slicer.

For anyone interested in, or considering buying a Bark River, here is a table of some to the dimensional spec's on the hunting type designs that I have put together as part of my own deliberations regarding which ones to buy. Might be helpful (probably not).

I'm ashamed to say that I have 13 of those on your list @hotbarrels, and another 17 BR that aren't on the list.

Originally Posted by Tahr

I'm ashamed to say that I have 13 of those on your list @hotbarrels, and another 17 BR that aren't on the list.

Your a sick man Tahr. You need an intervention! Send all you BRK's over to me until the symptoms subside.
Unfortunately for my bank account, I have 10 from the above list

And I thought I was bad!

This was sitting on my home office desk when I got home from work. Ordered Monday, arrived Friday. Got to love DLT.

Two new knives.
Mora Kansbol multi mount and Mora Eldris neck knife kit which includes the fire starter.
Both intended as camp utility knives primarily instead of using hunting knife for basic camp chores.
Im spending a lot of time in the bush and not really having to shoot many animals, so decided utility rather than pure hunting was a better option.

The pair together. Both clip into sheath and also have a safety domed keeper.


Kansbol has full moulded grip.
Multi mount base.
Nice size and looks perfect for around the camp and will test on a deer soon.
Nice stainless steel and awesome looking grind.
Sharp from factory but will be scary sharp soon.


Eldris neck knife kit is very small and handy.
Includes fir starter and the back of the knife blade is square for using on the fire steel.
Throws an awesome spark that smoulders for ages.
Only 50mm blade but Im expecting to find a lot of uses for it, especially whittling odds and ends.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Two new knives.
Mora Kansbol multi mount and Mora Eldris neck knife kit which includes the fire starter.
Both intended as camp utility knives primarily instead of using hunting knife for basic camp chores.
Im spending a lot of time in the bush and not really having to shoot many animals, so decided utility rather than pure hunting was a better option.

The pair together. Both clip into sheath and also have a safety domed keeper.
Attachment 76431

Kansbol has full moulded grip.
Multi mount base.
Nice size and looks perfect for around the camp and will test on a deer soon.
Nice stainless steel and awesome looking grind.
Sharp from factory but will be scary sharp soon.
Attachment 76432

Eldris neck knife kit is very small and handy.
Includes fir starter and the back of the knife blade is square for using on the fire steel.
Throws an awesome spark that smoulders for ages.
Only 50mm blade but Im expecting to find a lot of uses for it, especially whittling odds and ends.
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So one month on I have had a chance to butcher a deer with each of the mora knives.

I cut up a small red stag on the Westcoast a few weeks ago with the Mora Kansbol. That's the bigger utility knife.
It was ideal for that job and has also been used around camp on a couple of trips.
Couldn't be any happier with it especially for a longer multi day trip.
Good sharp edge and held up well over a number of days doing lots of different tasks.


The tiny little More Eldris got a good work out yesterday evening.
I wanted to see how it would deal with a big task being a small knife.
This one was certainly a good test being a fairly decent sized stag, which it dealt to with ease.
Maybe a little short if you aren't so experienced.
But I found it very easy to use for a big job once I got used to both my hands being so close together with that ultra short blade.
It even dealt with the back straps nicely and my dog carried them home in her saddle bag pack. 10kg load.
This knife would be ideal for a light and fast minimalists alpine hunt.

I would be cautious using the scary sharp on those two, I am not convinced it’s desined to work on a scandi grind, those two knives are dual grind with the scandi transtionioninb I to a saber grind, at least that’s what I understand, could be wrong as I have not used them, just seen pictures, but the scary sharp system is likely to change the grinds on them, they will still work of course, and be sharp as, but you may lose some of the benefit of the dual grind.
I could be totally wrong so let us know how they go!

I got them scary sharp with a wet stone.
Not a "Scary Sharp" sharpener.
I'm looking forward to giving them a decent test in the coming weeks

Ah, my mistake then, be interested to hear how they perform, those dual grinds intrigue me.

My new toy thanks heaps to Thar(Bruce) for the help and advice!! Bark River phoenix 3 black&green linen micarta 1095 steel Ordered Monday from dlt and it turned up this morning not bad I recon!!

Originally Posted by Nighniz

My new toy thanks heaps to Thar(Bruce) for the help and advice!! Bark River phoenix 3 black&green linen micarta 1095 steel Attachment 76489Ordered Monday from dlt and it turned up this morning not bad I recon!!

Nice. Are you pleased?

Now you might want one of these to slip into the fire steel loop...

https://www.knifeworks.com/opinel-mi...ing-steel.html

Very pleased, my son is already eyeing it up for himself ha I said I'll hand it down to him then he can pass it on to his kids one day he is only 10! and yer I'll be getting one of those little steels as well! Thanks again for your help