I've owned many Bucks over 45 plus years and if you have to rely on the 102 mate you better hope you carry a more sturdy reliable knife as Bucks can break at any time, usually the tip or tang to blade junction. Mind you they are gorgeous little knives!
A lot of talk and no action. I wat he’d this expecting to see you put the knife through its paces, not just talking about it. I saw a 3 Bowie comparison video, and this knife came in the worst of the three, simply because the guard started loosening up early on and was actually pretty rattling by the end of his testing. I will not buy it due to his results.
You did a good review. I finally bought it because of your review. Now I'm going to ask you if you do leather stropping or if you're happy with stones or diamond.
Hey Sam, great video on a great little knife, I retired from teaching and my students bought me one as a gift. Do you know what the best sharpening angle is for this particular knife? I have sharpened it a couple of times but dont think my angle is correct. I dont feel its as sharp as it could be. Cheers from Australia.
I’m in New England and there’s an abundance of wintergreen tea leaves on my land. I’ve never made wintergreen tea before so this video was very informative. Thank you!
Had my eye on this knife at my local HW store. Ive always had some sort of folder on me since moving to the mountians a fixed blade on your belt is your best friend. Im confused sometimes becase my 9mm pistol is also on my right hip as my state is open carry. Ive always had a knife on that side even folders in a holster. So because i love my blades so much we needed a fix. Got myself a beautiful leather shoulder holster for my pistol and now my knife is wear it should be and no confusion or to much on my right hip as i also wear a chain wallet and have since i was a boy. Thanx for the review gonna pick up my 102 this morning.
they are the only place that sells traditional ember tongs which is nice, I am a blacksmith so I made my own (smaller design) but it is good that they are keeping these traditions alive.
This knife is addictive, is so comfortable, so practical. You end doing everything with it. The sheet is perfect... As the old man said: if I loose it I will get a new one the very next day... Regards.
As I understand it, Grohmann was the one who came up with this design, and though they may be more expensive, and maybe other steels are more suitable to other people, this knife kinda missed the mark. I got mine in flat grind as a seconds, which was half price.
I'll try to get a bit more cooking in before the summer burn bans or in and around them. I'm trying to be a bit more active on here as well as on my music channel.
And remember to remove that sap stuff after a while, as it does get dirt sticking to it over time when you keep working. I've had sap/balsam on me plenty of time, both to cover the cut and by accident and have seen it turn black after a long enough time of getting dirt built up on it.
My bigger problem with burning birch bark was not as much that it was too wet, but more often because of using pieces that were so old from a long time dead tree that it lost the stuff in it that helps it burn so well. But, yes it can be too wet to burn too. I'm on the eastern side of HRM in the countryside where it is all forest.
I wish I could have gone to the Nova Scotia Bushcraft Gathering. The first couple of years I knew about it I had no way of getting there, then there was Covid to cancel it, then the last one it turned out was only for the bushcraft committee, so I didn't get to go that time for that reason. Not happy about not getting to go all these times. BTW, I'm in the Lake Charlotte area, so quite a distance to where the gatherings happened.
I have used metal can shaped items and cans to make a twig stove before and used other metal items that are bigger for small wood fire pits. I also made a rocket stove using an old T shaped pipe from old house furnace... I pushed one end down into the ground, put rock inside at the bottom and it works great!
I've had Coleman butane camp stoves I wasn't using much until about a year ago, which I was mostly using for indoors instead of the electric home appliance stove/oven type of deal. I did get a Coleman mini-burner for the isobutane canisters that I used a bit last Summer and indoor this Winter. But for outdoor I mostly used campfires. I am planning to get a hot tent type wood stove between now and Spring I can use when the fire banning season starts and open fires are on a ban.
The only time I use an axe/hatchet these days is if I'm gonna split logs I cut and left lying around for 1 or more years that hardened up so much I couldn't split them with my Schrade SCHF45 Bowie knife.
I can't pick one favorite bushcraft tool. I love to have a good knife and a folding saw of which mine is the Silky brand. I started out with cheap ones and they were not good, then eventually I chose to buy a Silky that most people I watched on RU-vid were saying was so great. They weren't wrong. I am very happy with my F180 Pro (fits in my pocket) and my BigBoy Pro (for big jobs)!
When it comes to the question of favorite knife, I can not say one knife. I have 3 knives for different uses that I favor equally. Morakniv Companion, Morakniv Bushcraft Pathfinder and Schrade SCHF45 Bowie Knife.
I love that the handle has that rubber gripping that looks like a tire! I don't use a lanyard on mine, but if I did, it would be a short one for hanging the knife up, not to keep it locked on my hand. I have done batoning on it some times. I have been using this knife ALOT for a few years and it's still in great shape. It is tough. It does have a bit of weight, but that's good for chopping and splitting logs... Yes I have split many logs with the knife instead of an axe. I am very happy with the SCHF45 and if I ever had it break or lost, I'd get another one of that same knife.
I use it everyday for years. Honing steel only. Liked it so much I bought #'s 1-4 of the original versions. But I use the CS version because I don't have to worry about damaging it or soaking in water Etc.
Just got my 102 today and I have already made one change. I took the plastic insert out, and replaced it with a leather insert, I cut using the plastic one as a guide. I dyed the new insert black, inserted it into the sheath. Blade fits better and does not rattle. Just something to think about.
Knife is definitely not full tang . . . Or 3 quarter tang . . . . . Try 1 quarter tang lmmfao. Cut the handle off of the so called full tang and you will see the bullshit underneath
@j.p.9522 that's what it looks like. I have the same knife. Not saying it's not a bad knife because it has endured alot and the tip broke off of it last month and I still use it
I'll regret it if I don't get one of these before they discontinue them. They seem popular but so did the SCHF27 and it got retired. For around $50 they also have a knife like a half-sized Leroy (normal sized survival knife) in 1095 steel which I always like. Holds the best edge without being too hard to sharpen or cost crazy money. If I spend 200 + dollars on a knife I will lose it for sure.
