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A hand select Helle Viking for my better half; insane figure in a darker than average handle and Perfect edge geometry.

The whole steel debate is the greatest marketing campaign since CDs replaced LPs to force an entire consumer base to buy titles in a saturated market. People brush their teeth and, ahem other toiletry functions daily without questioning the effort , or results from not doing it. All of a...

It’s also a rat tail , but doesn’t have the extreme 90 degree machining of the KaBar. I’ve never seen one snap, but repeated pounding with the hammer cap can loosen things up. The guard has simple tack welds much like the big Brit MK 4 and leather can dry and shrink if not greased. Again, this...

Yes, except that is a Ontario , sadly now out of business. The Camillus ( another NY company that met a similar ignoble end) Has a more upswept clip point that is more prone to snapping And a higher Rockwell. Many owners remove the upper guard And there is enough bladestock To reprofile to...

I encountered to much hostility and politics over the firearms Issue. I was a longtime collector shooter and probably handled every category. Then Sandyhook, The personal liability, hassle just to shoot , a good percentile of idiots led to my slow disposal of everything. IF I was back in...

Critics ignore the main purpose of the knife is to get out of a mangled airplane. Then, if any hostile pulls a Ak47 bayonet- a wretched piece of steel, the Bowie with upswept clip and hammer pommel are actually better than a KaBar. Or, if ditched at sea in a life raft, that hex pommel locks into...

1973 I reported to USCG Kodiak Alaska Air Station. I was a ‘ black shoe ‘ and not Aviation rate ‘ brown shoe.’ I was tossed a no longer regulation fishtail parka. I ‘acquired’ bits of kit, including a Camillus Aircrew Survival knife, our unit field tested the then new ( and recently out of...

There was a brief period a few years back when some really bad moras slipped through with horrendous grinds. It’s a mass produced knife, so a change in Machinery , programming, even steel variations within set parameters can tweak the original. You have TWO fine knives there And that’s the...

I’ve never heard, nor understood this ‘being separated from your main kit business. OK, you just flipped your floatplane in Alaska Made it out soaking wet and your mandated survival kit is still in the wreckage. Or you capsize a canoe Get surprised by Bigfoot who steals it or walk off to...

I figure a cooking kettle should have food in it for quick access Mine, is the sadly discontinued Mors pot from Four Dog Stoves. I have tea, true Indian wild rice from our Great Lakes and/or grits aka Polenta in Europe. A small tin of beef, seasonings and chocolate/ Kendall’s Mint cake. This...

Well KK is the current maker and IMO the best on the market. Who Ever came up with it Thankyou- and a bigger Thankyou to KK. Surplus comes and goes, the current Azerbaijani pressure cookers aka Afghan are nice and next week another knife will have us all spellbound. Me? I love the proven...

Varusteleka can’t ship Carinthia to the USA. I inquired and it’s a matter of a US distributor, yet they never answered my inquiry who the hell it is. If you like the 4, check out the two summer bags and you now have a winter option using as an insert.

The Kelly Company had been around for decades. I recall a old film of King Charles ( still not used to that) with Phillip and Andrew using one as a boy. The actual design is Irish and the Website tells it better than I can. My great grandmother had one in copper made by the tinkers.

“ which reminds me- I have something for you. It was your father’s light Sabre from the clone wars. An elegant weapon from A better time.” Paraphrasing

Mora Kansbol. Stainless Steel with the double grind. Food prep with the forward grind.

I’m watching the southern USA from California to Georgia experience a killer heatwave. The northern part is coughing from Canadian Wildfire smoke. CLIMATE CHANGE is accelerating faster than the best predictions a few years ago. refugee crisis, wars, mass starvation , disappearing species and...

Why am I imagining a lost Monty Python episode . The Circus, in circa 1900 polar gear being interviewed by the BBC as they struggle to survive, a country pub or Tesla’s in view?

They had as much notice as the staff in New York. Camillus, Shrade, The knife industry has seen a slow downsizing for decades and production moving to China. There will be panic buying of pieces long ignored, rising prices and speculation.

Better than what? Did it fail you in any way? You’re posting. I assume you didn’t freeze, starve to death Have to amputate a limb after killing susquatch.

Again, my point is a PSK is commonly thought as a Altoids tin Stuffed with miniaturized kit. A razor blade is not a Mora#1 a choice itself looked on with horror for ‘survival’ With that rat tang and red handle. I do imagine it splendid after trying to carry water in a condom , stuffed in your...