Good review - just bought one and got a one day delivery date promise! Patch Knife. Patch Knife. A rifleman used this knife to cut cloth or leather patches that were wrapped around the rifle's lead shot. T
I bought the szco carbon steel "Bushcraft looking" knife from SMKW like 16. bucks, redone the belt loop and sharpened the heck out of it and its actually a decent blade.
The emails were getting to be very time consuming (even though you couldn’t tell that from reading them ). Maybe I’ll figure out how to re-start them one day.
Smokey Mountain Knife works sell the American Hunter Utility and the Patch knife for around 10 to 12 bucks. Better quality to. The Utility blade is a Kephart style, while the patch knife is more a hunting style blade.
Less than the Old Hickory Butcher knife was years ago with a thicker blade and a thick leather sheath and better handle than the Old Hickory. Cheap enough to outfit your group! I do love the Mora robust as my favorite sub $20 fixed blade though...
You’ll see that odd keyhole notch behind the cutting edge on almost every knife made in Pakistan or India. Even see something similar on a lot of traditional kukri.
I thought I offer you a content suggestion. You seem like a guy pretty handy with tools. There is a company called Ragweed forge that sells Scandinavian style knife blades from Scandinavian companies like Helle, Mora, Martini, Laurin and others. Laurin's carbon steel blades are made in Finland out of 80crV2 carbon steel. It a good steel and is comparable to 1075/1080 steel Their stainless blades are an OK stainless with 0.50% carbon. But the price of their carbon blades is great. They start around $7 for their small blades most of their 5"-7" blades are between $10-$17. You don't need a lot of tools to make a nice knife and you could get a couple videos out of it.
Bought this for my 9 year old son. He wanted a “Bushcraft” knife to go with his Schofield BB revolver. Figured it was soo cheap that if he broke it or lost it, it didn’t really matter. Took it to the work sharp and got a decent edge on it. Does not hold an edge for any length of use. Still good little knife for the price and teaching him how to use it, sharpen it, and safely handling it is worth the $13. Fantastic beginner/trainer knife.
I get that everybody’s budget is different, but for a couple bucks more you can get a Mora which is a much better knife. Or for even a few dollars more you can get an American made knife and support an American company. I use to buy cheep knives made in foreign countries, but I stopped. Saved my money and try to buy USA made products. Just my thoughts and preferences, but everyone is free to make their own choices
Had one. It was pretty dull out of the box. As you said, It is full tang, reasonably thick blade of some grade of stainless steel. It is usable once you get it sharpened. I still have it somewhere, probably stowed away in a box full of my old knives.
I am ashamed to say after all these years...BOARD did not come to me naturally. Looks like a nice project knife to learn how to sharpen and make a sheath.
I bought an Old Hickory knife and cut it down to a Kephart style. I made a sheath for it. It's darn sharp and holds an edge well. It's not a chopper though.
God's glorious fatwood.... I couldn't agree more with that statement. I'm also forever loving the Balance Orientation And Rotation Device lol and the Chuck Norris jokes
The tang and pins may be, (probably), is slightly proud of the wood handle scales because the wood has shrunk back because of humidity. The wood had too much moisture when the knife was assembled. If the knife was assembled during the humid seasons, (spring, summer). If the knife was assembled during the dry seasons, (fall winter), the opposite problem would exist. When humidity rises the wood would be proud of the tang and pins. It's the inherent problem with using natural unstablized wood. I fear the sharpness issues will not be resolved with sharpening. That's the other problem with Pakistani stainless knives. Poor quality steel. They tend to have very low carbon content, (like 0.35%) and then tend not to be hardened enough. 52-53 Rockwell C. I doubt they are sub zero treated which is required of high chromium stainless steels. For me personally, I'm not going to buy a knife if the manufacturer doesn't identify the steel. But from the price perspective, you aren't even risking $13. You might luck out and get a really good one. I wouldn't try wet molding the sheath. It's probably chrome tanned leather. It won't absorb much water and it won't mold to the knife like Vegetable tanned leather and soaking it with water is going to release the chromium salts used to tan the leather. Those salts can rust even the most rust resistant stainless steel.
I doubt the steel is very good but it should be sharpenable.probably won hold an edge very long but the price is good. I've been thinking about one of those for awhile. Good video.
I bought one of these a few weeks ago from Amazon. It is a fairly good, solid knife. It takes a sharp edge with a little work on a stone and I also sharpened the spine with a file. I have no idea what steel it is but it seems pretty good. The sheath is very basic and quite thin leather. For the money you can't go wrong.
Some folks don't understand that money is tight for a lot of us. Some folks only think the adage of "Buy once cry once" is the only way to live. I think for the price it would be a decent knife. No, not perfect, not a Bark River knife but I have a few of those, BR and they too have some flaws. So, if a person wants a decent knife this one seems to fit the bill. Great review.
the "little hole" was used to make cat gut leather lacing. you would make a small cut on a piece of leather and then force it through the hole and pull to cut the lacing.
Someone else may have posted this but I looked through several comments and didn't see it so... I believe that company sells a lot of what are intended to be replicas of traditional knives from around what would have been Colonial times in America. A lot of those were trade knives and a lot of trade knives had a little cutout or cutouts in the blade, near the handle, like that one has. It is my understanding (and I could be wrong) that there were sometimes more than one cutout, sometimes arranged in different patterns, and that the number/shape/size of the cutouts and the way they were arranged sometimes acted like a 'maker's mark'.
I buy knives like this to keep in my go bags, stuff like that where if I need a knife that will work and not worried about losing an expensive knife. I get why people buy expensive knives, but I could never see it myself. I've gotten good use out of a Cold Steel Finn Bear, my Mora 511 and probably my most expensive and well used knife, my Buck 110. I think I will have to add one of these to the collection.
I actually have that knife. Bought some for give away packs. It has minor cosmetic flaws, but they sharpened up well. I couldn't believe the quality of it for $13. Honestly, I was surprised and impressed by it, especially for the price.
Thanks for the review. Always enjoy watching your videos. Nice hat. I tried that one but then went with their Bravo Midnight Rider. American Hat Makers has excellent customer service, and I'm always getting compliments whenever I wear mine.
