Knife/Survival Knife Info.

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Originally Posted by Blood Groove

CRKT seems to make good knives.

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CRKT are widely regarded to have very high quality products. However, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, I have never really cared for any of their designs. Esthetically and ergonomically, they just don't do it for me.

On the off-chance someone on here isn't aware of it, you should totally check out this site:

http://www.knifetests.com/

This guy perferms a "Destruction Test" on a bunch of different knives (some expensive, some not) reputed to be "tough." The tests start low key, then get progressively more and more extreme until the knife is finally destroyed. To the point where he is hammering them into concrete blocks or metal pipes, or putting the blade in a clamp and bouncing up and down on the handle with his entire body. You can watch videos of the whole thing. Results can sometimes be pretty surprising.

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Originally Posted by sgtdraino

CRKT are widely regarded to have very high quality products. However, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, I have never really cared for any of their designs. Esthetically and ergonomically, they just don't do it for me.

On the off-chance someone on here isn't aware of it, you should totally check out this site:

http://www.knifetests.com/

This guy perferms a "Destruction Test" on a bunch of different knives (some expensive, some not) reputed to be "tough." The tests start low key, then get progressively more and more extreme until the knife is finally destroyed. To the point where he is hammering them into concrete blocks or metal pipes, or putting the blade in a clamp and bouncing up and down on the handle with his entire body. You can watch videos of the whole thing. Results can sometimes be pretty surprising.

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CRKT is not crap, but they do not make a great knife. They make good knives.

I carry a RAT-3D2 in my daily carry backpack. Once they are available I plan to buy an Izula neck knife and have a leather pouch type sheath made for belt carry.

Dare I say "the cats meow"?
http://www.ratcutlery.com/neck_knife.htm

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Originally Posted by h8mtv

CRKT is not crap, but they do not make a great knife. They make good knives.

I carry a RAT-3D2 in my daily carry backpack. Once they are available I plan to buy an Izula neck knife and have a leather pouch type sheath made for belt carry.

Dare I say "the cats meow"?
http://www.ratcutlery.com/neck_knife.htm

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i actually emailed jeff randall a couple of days ago about when the izula was gonna be available, he said in about another six weeks. ive been waiting for this knife for so long!

http://F:\DCIM\100_FUJI\DSCF0111.JPG
If the image thingy works you can see my first attempt to make a knife. It is .225 thick and i used 440c steel. i based it on Tom Brows design. It works great at building shelters and fire bow kits, so it does what i need it to do. A friend of mine has the Tom Brown knife and the back is not a saw, the holes on the back are supposed to be for snapping wire. he says it does not do that so well but at least it makes the knife look cool. If the image thingy does not work then this was just a test, pay no attention this was just a test, just a test.

Well i did manage to put the picture of the knife in my avatar somehow. It would mot upload to either my album or as an attachment.

The same as a previous poster:
I use my knife to cut with and use a hatchet to do the chopping work
I carry at the least 3 knives a folder, a 4" fixed blade and a 7" fixed blade with a hatchet in the pack or across my lower back.

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Originally Posted by sgtdraino

CRKT are widely regarded to have very high quality products. However, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, I have never really cared for any of their designs. Esthetically and ergonomically, they just don't do it for me.

On the off-chance someone on here isn't aware of it, you should totally check out this site:

http://www.knifetests.com/

This guy perferms a "Destruction Test" on a bunch of different knives (some expensive, some not) reputed to be "tough." The tests start low key, then get progressively more and more extreme until the knife is finally destroyed. To the point where he is hammering them into concrete blocks or metal pipes, or putting the blade in a clamp and bouncing up and down on the handle with his entire body. You can watch videos of the whole thing. Results can sometimes be pretty surprising.

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I've heared of the destruction test sire, but seeing as I have dial-up internet, I can never really watch the videos. I saw that the Ka-bar got a low rating (and I worship the Ka-bar) so that depressed me, adn I really didn't want to go back. But I'd like to watch some of the videos and stuff. HOw do they get expensive knives and ruin them adn still be able to sleep at night!!!!!??????

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Originally Posted by huntermj

http://F:\DCIM\100_FUJI\DSCF0111.JPG
If the image thingy works you can see my first attempt to make a knife. It is .225 thick and i used 440c steel. i based it on Tom Brows design. It works great at building shelters and fire bow kits, so it does what i need it to do. A friend of mine has the Tom Brown knife and the back is not a saw, the holes on the back are supposed to be for snapping wire. he says it does not do that so well but at least it makes the knife look cool. If the image thingy does not work then this was just a test, pay no attention this was just a test, just a test.

Well i did manage to put the picture of the knife in my avatar somehow. It would mot upload to either my album or as an attachment.

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Wait a second you made that knife that's the picture for your avatar???

Since you already have a folder, I would reccomend 2 fixed blade knives. The first is the Swedish Mora and the second is the Cold Steel Pendelton hunter. I've used both of these knives and they work quite well.As for sharpening, I carry a Lansky dual sided folding sharpener. It has 2 different grits and they are diamond embedded so they will last a long time.

It took a while to grind out the shape on the bench grinder, used a belt sander for the bevel. had it hardened and tempered by a company near me and back to the belt sander for polishing. it really does chop like a son of a gun. i still carry a frost for more delicate jobs.
Jim

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Originally Posted by huntermj

It took a while to grind out the shape on the bench grinder, used a belt sander for the bevel. had it hardened and tempered by a company near me and back to the belt sander for polishing. it really does chop like a son of a gun. i still carry a frost for more delicate jobs.
Jim

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Wow it's a nice looking knife. Did you forge it, or is it more of a ground knife?

these are two "survival Knives" that nature provides....

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...&pictureid=111

And also...

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...&pictureid=105

What the heck is that second ''survival knife''?

It has likely already been covered in this topic, and I will look when I am done with this post. However, I will ask anyway.

Has anyone had any experience with the Cheaper Than Dirt Rough Use Knives? I saw the destruction tests right after they were put on the page, and was wondering what any of you thought about them.

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Originally Posted by Blood Groove

I've heared of the destruction test sire, but seeing as I have dial-up internet, I can never really watch the videos.

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Aww, you should go to a library or something. Those videos are great!

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Originally Posted by Blood Groove

I saw that the Ka-bar got a low rating (and I worship the Ka-bar) so that depressed me, adn I really didn't want to go back.

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The Ka-Bar Heavy Bowie got a pretty decent rating (4 Swords). It is surprising how quickly some of the expensive blades fail, and how well some of the cheap blades last (like the Cold Steel Kukri and the CTD Rough Use).

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Originally Posted by Blood Groove

But I'd like to watch some of the videos and stuff. HOw do they get expensive knives and ruin them adn still be able to sleep at night!!!!!??????

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lol. I dunno, man! The guy doesn't seem like he's rich. Maybe people donate them. I think with some of them he attempts to get a replacement through the warranty. Then I guess he can always sell the replacement and recoup.

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Originally Posted by Ameriborn

Has anyone had any experience with the Cheaper Than Dirt Rough Use Knives? I saw the destruction tests right after they were put on the page, and was wondering what any of you thought about them.

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I do not have any experience, but looking at the 22 customer reviews on the Cheaper Than Dirt website, it sounds like you really can't go wrong for the price.

In this thread http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...ght=knifetests there is a discussion about the knife test site that you may find interesting.

sgt draino
Well I was mostly talking about the Usmc Ka-bar, it like only got three swords or something. I saw the video at school, adn it likiemd like the tang broke in half or something. Maybe they had a deffective Ka-bar that's what I keep telling myself. I do think that they get donations becuase the one video I did watch at school, the guy said that they just got a knife in the mail and he didn't know what knife it was going to be. So I bet they do get donations.

I was checking out my local news on the web and I came across this link about knives.
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/131146

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Originally Posted by sgtdraino

I do not have any experience, but looking at the 22 customer reviews on the Cheaper Than Dirt website, it sounds like you really can't go wrong for the price.

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Yea, I thought about that as well. I was just hoping some people here may have some more info, and I didn't wanna start ANOTHER knife thread.

Anyway, after reading through that site Crash posted, I've decided that I will be getting each person of my family a CTD RUK for Christmas, and Myself all 3 of them :)

Thanks for posting that, Crash, I really appreciate it.

I have been looking around the net recently about the Scrapyard scrapper 6 knife, and I can't seem to find a place to buy it. Are they not being made anymore? I had a $300 dollar spending limit for Christmas, but because of the CTD RUK I am going to try and find a Scrapyard Scrapper 6, however they are .. nowhere (for me, at least) to be found. Any help here would be welcome. Thanks.

If you haven't seen it before, here is the official site. (Although I can't find anywhere on here to buy the knife.) http://www.scrapyardknives.com/knives.htm

On the contact page of the site you listed there are some email contacts, but after reading the two paragraphs above the email adresses (to use their language) I don't think I'd buy anything from them - ever.