Recent content by Fschwep

Looks like they are coming down on zombie knives. I don't have any but it's good to know.

Not dying (yet).

I've looked at the site of the hori hori manufacturer in question, and I saw a pretty pointy blade with a partial double edge (halfway up from the tip). Where I live, in France, that constitutes an illegal blade, as any kind of sharpening along the spine (including sawteeth) counts as it being a...

France has always been a bit more independent and even outside NATO for a while; they kicked out all US forces from bases inside France and have a couple of former NATO air bases to play with as a result. As for the deterrence, the French president does not have to ask permission from his own...

Just a little detail, France has four nuclear ballistic missile submarines forming their nuclear deterrent with at least one always at sea. They don't need US permission to fire the nukes in anger as they built their own. They also have 5 nuclear attack subs. Most of them very modern. Plus of...

Mine came with the sheath at the time. It's actually pretty simple, with the belt loop just two slits in the back. Just gave it some tlc with saddle leather grease. Still functional.

Bump.... Two or three cats is a good number to have if you live rural. One in every human lap, and they keep the number of rodents down. But sometimes an animal in need drops from the sky, as it were. Abandoned kitten, thrown out of a car by some bad person (there should be a special place in...

This a bump of really old thread... Here's mine. EKA_SuperSwede_1983 by Frank Schweppe, on Flickr This one was sold in 1983 in a limited series to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mentora Zwerfsport outdoor store in Rotterdam (Netherlands), but since that store fused that same year with...

First, I think that a good handle is as important as a good blade. Having said that, one of my favorite blades is a Terava puukko 80 (or mini puukko as it was called when I bought it), in the bare tang version, and I kept it that way... I prefer a handle to be relative simple without too many...

I guess I'm bumping this with my first ever post in this forum... I use an Android phone so this is not neccessarily for iPhone users. For weather I suggest Windy. It's by far the most elaborate and effective weather app out there. Windy.cz is a Czech company that now has fused with MeteoBlue...

Just a little note to introduce myself. Dutch, getting too old (67 at the time of writing), former member of the Backpackers Club (Dutch chapter, a very long time ago before GPS and mobile phones when a backpack had an external frame if was any good). Always had an interest in knives and their...