Knife Reviews

[Antarcher]

Place your Knife reviews here.

[Noakesy]

i have a lakota and am not very happy with it. it just doesnt hold an edge very well and yet it takes forever to get any kind of an edge on it.

[Waldganger]

What kind of knife is that?
Knives are my first love so I can help with some recommendations if you tell me what you are after.
I'm also a butcher so I've got a fair idea of what a game knife should do

[Friar Tuck]

I have found Svord knives to be great at holding an edge. You need to understand a little about the differing edges and how they are sharpened to get the best results.

Ask Jindydiver on here re knives - He has some very helpful knowledge as well as others.

No slight intended to others - Jindy has helped me with some Q's before

[lurch]

i have many muela's and nieto's theyre good but i find by far a sog knife is good! all these knives have a exxy price tag but u get what u pay for in today's world.

[Jobin]

i agree muela knives are great

[Waldganger]

Muela is great, I have a skinner by them, cost me 50 bucks.
I've taken to buying 300-500 dollar knives now so I'm looking at starting a Chris Reeve hunting kit.
A Sable IV for the belt, a large Sebenza for working (maybe skinning) and a Benchmade NRA Steigerwalt 3 blade folder for skinning and other field game use.

[forrie]

Muela is great, I have a skinner by them, cost me 50 bucks.
I've taken to buying 300-500 dollar knives now so I'm looking at starting a Chris Reeve hunting kit.
A Sable IV for the belt, a large Sebenza for working (maybe skinning) and a Benchmade NRA Steigerwalt 3 blade folder for skinning and other field game use.

dont agree with the first comment mate i've found that mulea's seem to have a softeredge so hence the edge rolls easly hence requires more sharping

as for the sable IV, the sebbie and the benchmade, i envy you :P

btw my fire warden might be up for sale soon :(

[Waldganger]

I usually touch up my knives once a week or so anyway with work so I don't have a hassle with the softer edge.

I have changed my mind again I think I'll get a Neil Roberts Warrior Knife instead of the Sable.... maybe.

Let me know as soon as you put your fire warden up and I'll see if I can get the cash.

[watchmaker]

KNIVES FOR HUNTING

Many of us hunters of long have a love affair with the tool of a successful hunt; the knife.
In our minds, we have this idea of the perfect knife that will fit our hand like a glove; that will perform surgery like a scalpel; that will not need to be sharpened ever, and will remove a cape as well as field dress and skin anything from a deer to a moose.

In our search for the perfect blade, we accumulate many of them that are probably as good as the best knife ever made, but in our search for Nirvana we keep adding new blades and hoping to do enough hunting to test all of them on game.

On the other hand, some hunters are not interested at all in the tool. My friend Frank that has probably field dressed at least fifty deer with the same Buck hunter knife in the last 20 years removes it from the pack once every year in hunting season to field dress a deer or two, and the blade goes back into the same pack to wait for next year’s job.
Perhaps his father being a butcher has something to do with it. He was taught how to field dress a deer early in life, and to him it is just a necessary job that has to be performed. To others like me it is a culmination of all our efforts and should be done as elegantly and as clean and bloodless as possible and with the most effective of tools.

I have found in my long search for the perfect blade that many of today’s knives in the market qualify as superb blades for the job. A good knife blade of 3 ½ to 4 inches will be plenty for most chores. Preferences in my case are for the drop-point blades, but I have had good service from clip points or other shapes.

Some of us like a fancy wood or antler handle or perhaps some engraving on the blade. Those I label dress knives and are a great way to stir a conversation between fellow hunters. I am one with that type of taste and will always appear at camp with a fancy blade. The truth is that I perform all of my field dressings with a plain one that I keep hidden in my pack.

Here is one of my fancy blades, the Browning model 122 one of one thousand, and the one that does the actual field dressing, a Buck 192 Vanguard.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/blackbear11784/browningandbuck.jpg

Best wishes

Watchmaker

[Al Kidner]

A good post watchmaker, some food for thought. I too have been on the look out for a good knife or two over the years and have bought and passed on a few. Here is a pic of 3 that I had a custom job done on....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Longbow_lad/IMG_0809.jpg

The top two are Bokers. I had the handles redone to the bottom one that is a custom job. The top knife is now my son's hunting knife, given to him on his birthday.

And here are some show knives....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Longbow_lad/Dougs.jpg

These where made for me by a friend in Montana, USA. I had to tell him to pass them on, although it pains me to say and do it, I just had no need for a wall hanger as a blade. Sometimes I still wonder why but.....

A.K.

[watchmaker]

Al,
I am green with envy, those knives are beautiful, what a striking piece of wood in the handle and what a great work!

Here is another blade that I have.
A Browning model 65 (one of one thousand) I love the stag handles and I have several knives with them

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/blackbear11784/brown65oneof.jpg

Here is the detail of the file work on the handle,

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/blackbear11784/br65work.jpg

Cheers
Watchmaker

[mr_kris]

So has anybody got a link to a site for a good firld knife?

[Waldganger]

check out this site (http://laventrix.net/index.php)

its a forum but it has lots of good knowledge, even a few knives for sale in the trade section

also I have this for sale, http://www.aussiebowhunter.com/showthread.php?t=8968

its great for all sorts of stuff, you can skin, chop veggies, quarter bodies or make firewood.