Some Knife Goodness
Posted: 29 Oct 2021 19:58
Not a bad outdoor knife by any means. Its 1095 steel treated to 58ish Rockwell, for whatever that's worth. Has a nice coating to keep the rusty stuff away. The sheath... is so so as it comes. It had one of those ring/hanger affairs that I didn't like at all, so I made a drop down sort of thigh length hanger for it, which you can see in the pic.
I've been using to split and shave fatwood and scrap wood for the fire pit, and it rides on the hip during yardwork, to chop low hanging limbs occasionally, or to slice thru the damn vines that seem to be just short of Tarzan quality.
The back edge of the finger guard area had 90 corners, and those were painful during heavy chopping, so I put 45 degrees there instead (with a file). The balance point is really too far rearward to be a great chopper. It looks like it should be front heavy, but the balance is at the very beginning of the blade itself. I suspect I could drill out the 1/4 inch thick handle material to lighten it up a bit, without compromising the strength to any great degree. Even so, this blade is a beast of a chopper, and is just short of "shavin' sharp". It tugs at the hairs on my arm instead of slicing thru them. I suspect it can be made sharper, but why? Its a bush knife, not a scalpel.
I've got a smaller, sharper, more handy LionSteel knife inbound. More pics of that, in the near future.