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Offline shelb

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Knife fans?
« on: August 19, 2004, 10:02:01 PM »
Any knife fans here?  Way I figure, fine knives kinda go hand in hand with a fine weapon like a Rohrbaugh.

I wanted to share my excitement, cause I ordered my first Randall Made Knife today  :)

Somewhere, there is a model 5 with my name on it.  I'll post back in 4 years when I get it   :o :D

I have been lusting for one of these legendary blades most my young adult life.


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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2004, 10:19:40 PM »
I like knives and have owned a few expensive ones from time to time, but often trade them.

My nicest knife right now is a Kershaw Ken Onion "Random Leek" -- it is a special lmited run Leek in SV30 with the boron black finish and reverse tanto blade.  It also has the speed safe open.  Its a very cool knife.

I would really like a CRK Sebenza... but I would probably have to sell a gun to afford one.

K-Man actually makes custom knives.  He is working on one for me that will have blue carbon fiber scales (courtesy of the Rohrbaughs) to match my R-9.  I will post pics when he finishes it...  (Hint, Hint!)


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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2004, 10:32:01 PM »
Shelb:

Yo!  More later.

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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2004, 10:34:38 PM »
Re: KMan knife...
Ooohhhhh, can't wait to see it!!


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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2004, 10:41:02 PM »
What blade do you guys carry with your Rohrbaughs?

Recently, I have been carrying a Benchmade Benchmite 3100.  It's a great little knife.....small and sharp!

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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2004, 11:10:22 PM »
I am also in the camp whereby ... the knife is ''all the time'' carry --- and is a complement to one's carry piece.  It is required more for a multitude of utilitarian uses .. as well as being a back-up defensive tool.

I probably have more Chinese folders than I can shake a stick at - and surprisingly one or two of those are well better than expected.  I also had had for some time a Camillus bladed knife as a gift from Buckmasters .. a basic, not very pretty handled knife - but a serviceable blade.

However ... some while back a guy was selling his Buck Mayo TNT .. titanium handle ... and excellent quality blade.  He described it as ''scary sharp'' - it is ... and remains so!!  It's a $300 knife .. for which I paid $200 . It was perfect and all but unused.  A lot to pay I agree but - I have enormous faith in this blade ... and it is a comfortable and constant companion... clipped into left pocket when R9 is in right.  A small Chinese does harsh duty on packages when needed and that lives actually within left pocket.

There is something about a good blade .......... and I do not regret my rather profligate expenditure.




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I quite forgot to add .. I took this fresh pic of this knife and .... hauled it out of my pocket and took pic ..... but was aware later that it is full of lint!!  Some I removed but - some is still there! :P
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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2004, 11:49:41 PM »
Here are my "close quarters" tools.  The Random Leek described above and an NAA .22 Mag Mini-Revolver in a natty new K&D Holsters Pocket Defender.

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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2004, 12:29:12 AM »
Duane - that lil revo just has to deserve the word ''cute'' ...... no disrespect to the lil fella!! :)  

I had forgotten just how diminutive it was.
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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2004, 12:51:49 AM »
Hehe, the knife is bigger than the gun  :)

I guess if the R9S is your primary carry, you can't very well have a backup piece that is bigger than the primary  :D

I like it though!

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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2004, 10:02:07 AM »
Yep the gun is small and cute.  Well... cute unless you are looking down the barrel end and seing 4 more shiny jacketed TNT hollow points peeking out of each cylinder.  Then... not as cute.



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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2004, 01:59:59 PM »
I'm also a knife fan.

I've had some training in both disarming knife-wielding opponents, and in use of a knife (based on systems from the Philippines).  The combination of both makes me more afraid to try disarming a knife-wielding opponent than I would be disarming a gun-wielding opponent.

Lately I am gravitating towards mid-priced offerings.  I want more durability than the cheap knockoffs, but many of the $150+ priced blades aren't so much better that they are worth the extra cost, unless they have some very unique advantage (extra-good carry system, etc.).  My favorite is a Cold Steel Recon 1 (half-serrated spear point), or when I need something smaller, a Benchmade Griptillian or Mini-Griptillian.  Cold Steel's "Proof' and "More Proof" videos are a must-see, although "More Proof is unnecessarily long.  I'm looking at the Spyderco Dodo for when an even smaller blade is called for.

I avoid most liner locks like the plague.  I've had some expensive ones wear out quickly.  I have some acquaintances who have had waved Emerson knives converted by other knifemakers to frame locks.

For fixed blades, Mickey Yurco makes some of the best and most reasonably priced I have seen.  He also has a good feel for truly practical sheaths.  Bud Nealy's MCS sheath system is also really nice, and his Pesh Kabz was my first "custom" knife.
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Re: Knife fans?
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2004, 05:35:13 PM »

Have this and an old Crawford,I can't find right this minute  :-[





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