Schrade Reckon: Their Best Budget Knife? (SCHF9 Formerly, Saber Ground, AUS-8) - Preparedmind101 

I was just thinking the same thing! Of the few Schrades I still have from 5-10 years ago this is one of them, witt the old style sheath mentioned. It's inspired me to dig them out and touch up the edges for old time's sake.

Ive never heard of joe x or lily

@@alphakennybody2583 Joe-X is a RU-vidr that basically does destruction tests on knives, and Survival Lilly is another RU-vidr that designed a couple survival knives.

I wanted to say the same about AUS-8. Cold Steel used to use it as their main steel and it never disappointed in the toughness department.

@@aznelite325 I remember watching all of Cold Steel's "proof" videos where they would test them, and at that time most of their knives were made of AUS-8.

G'day mate, yep with ya. Incidentally, I've found the AUS-8A (A = annealed), on the CS Finn Wolf, to be a bit better again edge retention wise. Cheers Duke.

I have both, and both are awesome 😎✌️✌️

What it says on the package matters more.

It does

That's for the other stuff and it makes your video non-monetizable.

One is Carbon, one is Stainless. Depends where you live. The old skool survival/bushcraft people preached carbon because of the old "you can start a fire by beating your knife with a rock" thing.

@@preparedmind101 Thanks for that... I live in the UK, so quite damp! Not much difference in performance though? I have been hovering over buying one of these for some time as they are not hollow grind, following your video I took a peak at what they sell for and they really are budget! Cheers... Puccini.

​@@Puccini1966what 1 did you go with?

depends. 1095 is harder but aus8 is better for me since I live near ocean..I always go for stainless steel. (I am lazy too...dont wanna put oil often..)

I could.... If they listened to me like they did back in the day. I discovered the flaw in the Scaxe2 and 4 and they fixed it. I helped them a LOT and they got popular enough for the current owners to buy it. Something happened at that first turnover that usually happens when companies get sold where they look for ways to make more money. I blame the previous boss because he straight lied to my face when Jess-X got hollow ground suddenly and the heat treat was rushed. I worked in a machine shop fabricating metal parts. I know how step by step QC works. You don't "accidentally" make 2,000 knives with a completely different grind. He flat out said "hollow grinds are cheaper because it's one step on one machine." Sometimes a hollow grind works. But not usually with big choppers and especially not splitters. That "Bolo" seems to be an exception. Different steels can be good if you got the individual heat treat down. Schrade needs to fix these plastic sheaths. The belt clips are too tight. A passable nylon sheath would be better on this knife. But I'm happy to see this knife retained it's hard use toughness even though it's not 1095.

It's made in china

@@Th3DragonLord🤦‍♂️

Why?

@@preparedmind101 The curves look cool. But harder to sharpen consistently. And less useful for food prep.

It isn't the same people there anymore. They be making solid folders in the USA and stuff now.

🤷‍♂️?

​@preparedmind101 they got a model called the I beam while their site calls it a Survival knife (naturally) to me it looks like it's designed for penetration and would be a tad hard to baton with

Yes

Those people aren't there anymore