Pocket Knife

[Trenchfriend]

It came in the mail. Looks okay. Feels good. Light weight. Good enough grip. The action is smooth. I'm no expert on the steel, how well it can hold the edge, and how well it will resharpen. Time will tell. Ownership and use are the only way to learn if the knife is good enough for you and what you do with it. What I won't do with it is carry it around. It's a novelty at best. This is not going to be the knife that I need when there's a shipping crate to pry open, lengths of cable need to be cut, or I need to score pig skin to make a pork roast. Not what I will use to break down crabs and processing fish. I won't be doing yard work with it. Despite the lore of it being a fighting knife for back alley thugs, this is not tactical. In a fluid and dynamic situation, where you're rolling around on the ground and punches are flying, you cannot deploy this. It's best function is showing it off at the bar.

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Buddy, you're in the wrong thread. That's just a monstrum, haha!!

(KNIVES) Let's see some sharp pointy objects

Do you have an edge? Sharptoys, That is a Kelly Kettle, a double jacketed water boiler....in this case for tea. No Opals or gold nuggets....at least in the kettle. :cool2: Biltmore, This Akubra is one from the Heritage line in Fawn. Brim is 3" and Crown 4.5". Opal in band and...

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[Trenchfriend]

But it's funny, how Böker currently reacts to the Opinel fan scene with their growing Böker Plus Rusticus series. I mean, they must be totally desperate, that so much people love the very affordable Opinel Inox with their thin 420 (or 12c27?)blades!

But the thing is, the Opinel are really made in France, the Böker Rusticus in "Asia".

 

[Fifty150]

Here's something that caught my attention. This actually looks functional. The 1/4" bit holder could be used with a variety of magnetic extensions, wobble extensions, nut drivers, etc.

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[Trenchfriend]

@Fifty150
Doesn't look bad. You will see the build quality.

 

[Fifty150]

Buddy, you're in the wrong thread. That's just a monstrum, haha!!

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The sticker on the box says that it's Made In USA. USA is not marked anywhere on the knife. The papers inside say that there's a warranty. It comes with a travel case, in case you need to take it with you. This is the least practical knife that I own. I'm holding it in one hand, but I need the other hand to unlock and lock it. Any knife with a thumb stud would be opened faster. It's only cool for flipping around, to impress children. Day 2 of ownership. I gave it away to my brother in law. Now he can impress children. I got to look at it, and play with it. No real loss for me. It was priced at about what a meal would cost. I really can't walk around with it and use it in my day to day life. It would be ridiculous to whip it out, put on a show of twirling and flipping it, every time Amazon drops off a package.


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[Edward]

Here's something that caught my attention. This actually looks functional. The 1/4" bit holder could be used with a variety of magnetic extensions, wobble extensions, nut drivers, etc.

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Interesting. I have a knife with a much more traditional aesthetic but which takes the Stanley knife blades like that, nice thing to use around the house. The magnetic bit holder is a clever idea, though. I do have a screwdriver handle that does that job... I use it with the bits from my electric screwdriver. TBH, I could never get on with the electric driver. Maybe just me, but all I see to do with it is strip screwheads.

 

[TLW '90]

I’m carrying a Buck 112 ranger at work. By modern standards it’s brick heavy and a belt sheath is the very definition of anachronistic. Still, it’s what the blue collar midwestern guys carried when i was growing up in the 70s and 80s. It scratches my nostalgia itch.

Buck is king.

Modern standards are wrong, and most peoples knife priorities aren't as practical in concern as they could ube.
So many people are too hung up on what's new and chasing what is supposedly better, that's perfectly fine but the problem comes when said people act like embracing the latest this or that should be mandatory or something.

 

[TLW '90]

I actually do carry this knife in my pocket. The little blade guard works well. Slices through bread clean. My X liked to say, "why do you have a knife just for making peanut butter & jelly sandwiches?" This is not a tactical knife. Works great for those trips to the farmer's market. Cuts all sorts of food for sampling and sharing.​

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They offer a sheath for their pairing knives and it might fit this one too.
I don't like serrated blades, but I do love victorinox products.
All the knives in my kitchen have carbon steel blades and are 60-100 years old though.

 

[Fifty150]

I am one of the cheapest people. My X caught me this morning as I was sharpening my razor blade box cutter.

"Who does that?"

Apparently I do. I have never bought a new blade for it. I just keep running it through the sharpener. In 20 years, I might have saved $20 in disposable razor blades. Not to mention that I didn't pollute the environment.​

 

[Fifty150]

Modern standards are wrong, and most peoples knife priorities aren't as practical in concern as they could ube.

I don't know what modern standards are. Maybe the consumer has gotten lost along the way.

I want a knife that is sharp out of the box. Most modern knives are sharp when they leave the factory.

I want that blade to hold an edge. And if I need to, it has to be able to take and hold a new edge. That's where there is so much information and misinformation about metallurgy. Someone could study the different grades of metals used by different manufacturers. But that's just reading whatever that manufacturer is posting for you to read. And so many of those metals are probably the same, if not almost the same; except that they are named whatever the manufacturer wants to call it. In real life, you will find out how good a knife is, by your using it. Maybe if you take a few knives, use them every day for 10 years, keep logs, take photos..........


We know that the old fashioned knives like Buck & Case are made well, have strong blades, and they are sharp. They are also very expensive, when compared to other pocket knives. When a pocket knife sells for over $50 .......... and other knives are well under $50....... I can see why Wal*Mart sells so many knives. I am personally guilty of owning cheap knives. My favorite knives include very inexpensive MoraKniv, Gerber, and Cold Steel.


I believe that the modern consumer wants a one handed knife. That's probably why Buck Knives now has a version of the 110 with a thumb stud, nylon handles, and a pocket clip.​

 

[Fifty150]

@Fifty150
Doesn't look bad. You will see the build quality.

I'm also looking at the Klein model. They appear pretty much the same.

 

[TLW '90]

That's probably why Buck Knives now has a version of the 110 with a thumb stud, nylon handles, and a pocket clip.

I understand why they're popular and don't dispute it, but that to me is not a Buck 110.
I only say this because it's not a 110 blade and only shares the frame shape
I have been saying this since the slim series was released though, neither the 110 or 112 have the right blades and think they should have a different model number.
I know it's arbitrary semantics, but as a major Buck knives fan and a traditionalist it bugs me.

 

[TLW '90]

I understand why they're popular and don't dispute it, but that to me is not a Buck 110.
I only say this because it's not a 110 blade and only shares the frame shape
I have been saying this since the slim series was released though, neither the 110 or 112 have the right blades and think they should have a different model number.
I know it's arbitrary semantics, but as a major Buck knives fan and a traditionalist it bugs me.

To better understand where I'm coming from we can take the Bucklite 426 and 422 knives for example.
They have 110 & 112 blades, finger groove 110 & 112 frame shapes, and if you just saw the silhouette you would think they were just a finger groove 110 or 112.

The only difference is the synthetic frame, yet they chose to give them their own unique model numbers to distinguish them.
Then you have the slim series for example, the blades are different and the construction is different.
The only thing they have in common is the frame shape.
Entirely different knives really yet they still chose to give them the 110 & 112 model numbers.

 

[Fifty150]

In the van, in the little map pocket, I keep a little backup folding knife. Just in case I drop my knife, break my knife, or forget to bring my knife. It's a $10 knife.

It works. It cuts. The serrated part of the blade is good enough to cut through cardboard, shoelaces, food packaging, etc. For $10, I wouldn't expect it last if I carried it daily. That's okay, since a $10 backup is only meant to be a backup.

A $10 knife is not supposed to be your primary tool. Or I could have that all wrong. I've heard other people say that your backup should just as good, if not better. Because you're reaching for it when you really need it.

It has a little lever behind the blade. You could use it to open the knife. In the open position, it serves as a finger guard. It also bumps right into my hand when I try to grip the knife and open it with the thumb stud. While it's open, as I press the lever lock with my thumb to close the blade, it bumps right into my thumb to stop the blade from closing.

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[Trenchfriend]

@Fifty150
It's really carbon steel, as their homepage says?

 

[anshulb]

I carry this super tiny guy.

 

[rogueclimber]

My newest pocket knife

 

[TLW '90]

@Fifty150
It's really carbon steel, as their homepage says?

No.
It's most likely a 440a equivalent in the 3cr family.
It's very common for cheap imports from off brands ( off brand as far as knives goes these days ) to list knives as " high carbon stainless steel ".

 

[TLW '90]

In the van, in the little map pocket, I keep a little backup folding knife. Just in case I drop my knife, break my knife, or forget to bring my knife. It's a $10 knife.

I really just can't bring myself to even own a knife like that.

I would have to at least go with a $25 Buck 110LT, or a $20 Victorinox recruit.
I am different than most people though, even when I need a cheap beater screwdriver to pick and poke...etc I have multiple $6 sets of junky Stanley screwdrivers that I bought because they were American made.

 

[Fifty150]

@Fifty150
It's really carbon steel, as their homepage says?

No.
It's most likely a 440a equivalent in the 3cr family.

I believe that there's no regulation regarding their marketing language. If there's some carbon, any amount of carbon, they can call it "carbon steel". Most people would not know enough to ask, "how much carbon?" I don't know enough to ask that. Or ask about the manufacturing process. I don't know the difference about steel, or how the blade was made. It's $10. I don't think an ancient master in Japan crafted it like a samurai sword.​

I really just can't bring myself to even own a knife like that.

I've got more than one. I like the serrated part of the blade. Those serrations can rip through a lot of harsh materials. Even if the hardest thing it has to tear apart is the cardboard box it was shipped in.

I like cheap knives, the same way that I like cheap wrenches. Sometimes you don't need the most expensive, high end tool to perform the job. When a knife is $10, I don't complain about much. It just has to cut whatever I need it to cut. It's not my bushcraft survival knife. This is not going to be the knife I take to a deserted island. I am not going into the jungles of some exotic tropical forest with it.

Today, I got a couple of deliveries in net bags. The serrated teeth tore those apart without a problem. But I didn't use it to slice my short rib meat. It's not like a cheap knife is going to be my one and only knife, which I will use for everything.



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