BRKT is making custom Fallknivens

[Shinken]

And what a great job of handling them you are doing, the materials are not everyones choice. But this has nothing to do with you and is actual fact only a matter of opinion.

The main thing from your perspective is your reputation on fit and finish, and this looks to me to be superb!

 

[leon-1]

I like Falkniven knives.
I like mosaic pins.
I actually think that green resin stabilised burr stuff is pretty.
My second favourite knife is a BRKT mini Canadian with faux tortoiseshell scales and mosaic pins

I do think the price is ridiculous though

cheers,
Toddy

I like Fallknivens, I just don't like BRKT.

The price is not outlandish for the knife if BRKT make a good job of it.

Red's hatred of the F1 is well documented so that's 1 opinion that I don't have to look at, if you don't like it there is enough metal there that you can modify it and if you still don't like it after your modifications it's your own fault for not doing a good enough job.

There are only 2 knives that I have ever really liked straight from the box, so to speak and that is my Gene Ingram and the Frosts Clipper. On the other hand there are only 3 fixed bladed knives that I use when I go out and about and that is the F1, the Frosts clipper or the rare occurrence that the Grohmann #3 makes it out of the kitchen.

 

[michiel]

Hi Mike. Good to see you here again. I hope you stop by more often!
I like my BRKT knives and I wish you all the best of luck!

Michiel

 

[British Red]

Red's hatred of the F1 is well documented

But, but, but I so restrained about it

Anyone would think I had suggested that all F1s should be rounded up packed onto a Space Shuttle and then shot into the sun?

Now would I do that? :thinkerg:

Red

 

[markheolddu]

Dont hold back Red say what you really think.

mark

 

[Toddy]

Why? It's good reliable tool; it's not a Drawer Queen and it's easy to keep in good order.
Scandi grinds are straightforward enough, need little maintainance and work well for the tasks we ask of the knives.

cheers,
Toddy ( we need a wooden spoon smilie )

 

[michiel]

I think we can say it's a knife some like, some don't. No need to discuss about it more.
I like both scandi and convex. Why?

They're both sharp!
They're both easy to maintain
They're both sturdy

Michiel

 

[bikething]

With my expert sharpening skills I find that my knives tend to change from Scandi to convex and back again quite regularly

 

[British Red]

Why? It's good reliable tool; it's not a Drawer Queen and it's easy to keep in good order.
Scandi grinds are straightforward enough, need little maintainance and work well for the tasks we ask of the knives.

cheers,
Toddy ( we need a wooden spoon smilie )

If I'm honest Mary its become a bit of a running joke

I agree on the Scandy thing BTW - its my favourite grind - its the exaggerated convex on the F1 I don't like. Jon Pickett has shown me that its a perfectly capable knife in other hands - its just right up there with small dogs in handbags, sweet sherry and trousers that look like the wearer has a full nappy. I don't know why I hate it but I do


Red (founder member of the Grumpy old Bushcrafters)

 

[Shinken]

only 3ish months for the christmas special, Grumpy old bushy men at Christmas

 

[demographic]

And pentagram mosaic pins - very intimidating!

I just hit Google with Pentagram as it occured to me that it couldn't just be something to do with horsehair shirt wearing yogurt weavers trying to conjure up non existant gods (as if there were any gods that do exist, that is) and what I found was fairly interesting.

HERE.

Seems that its been associated with Venus and I never knew that was it's self regarded as lucifer (bringer of light) but when you consider when Venus is often seen it makes sense. Anyway the christians nicked it as a symbol for a bit and have also vilified it as being evil which is no surprise as they have a habit of calling all other false gods evil.

Notice that I make no distinction between supposed true gods and supposed evil false gods cos till I see any concrete evidence of any of them I will continue to regard the lot of them as meaningless mumbo jumbo.

What I am trying to say is, if your the kind of person that gives a flying **** about christianities little insecurites a pentangle may hold some power if not its just an interesting shape

 

[John Fenna]

I just hit Google with Pentagram as it occured to me that it couldn't just be something to do with horsehair shirt wearing yogurt weavers trying to conjure up non existant gods (as if there were any gods that do exist, that is) and what I found was fairly interesting.

HERE.

Seems that its been associated with Venus and I never knew that was it's self regarded as lucifer (bringer of light) but when you consider when Venus is often seen it makes sense. Anyway the christians nicked it as a symbol for a bit and have also vilified it as being evil which is no surprise as they have a habit of calling all other false gods evil.

Notice that I make no distinction between supposed true gods and supposed evil false gods cos till I see any concrete evidence of any of them I will continue to regard the lot of them as meaningless mumbo jumbo.

What I am trying to say is, if your the kind of person that gives a flying **** about christianities little insecurites a pentangle may hold some power if not its just an interesting shape

Actually I am a spiritualist with no belief in any "Gods" - everything that lives contains part of the life force which makes up the totality. In effect we are all god....
I was only refering to the popular use of the pentagram - as in "the excorcist" where projectile vomitting of pea soup, rotating heads and pentagrams went hand in hand.
A bladed weapon is also used in some "witchcraft" "Satanic" rights and this knife - which some concider 'full of awe' - fits that kind of bill.
Some think the eight sided star (native american life symbol) and the six sided "star of David" more potent symbols, but as you say they are just pretty shapes unless you belive in their "power"....
The true power is found in love

 

[Toddy]

Most who use the pentagram / pentacle symbol consider it to represent, Earth, Air, Fire, Water and the spirit of Life that infuses it all
Kind of appropriate for a bushcraft knife

cheers,
Toddy

 

[pothunter]

F1, if you don't like it just walk away, why would anyone want to rework it surely it would be easier to start from scratch. I would not buy one either.

BRKT replaced my Cimeron Trail Knife with a Mini North Star after some discussion. The Mini North Star has had a two week work out and passed every hurdle, until I accidentally tried to punch it thou a piece of 1/8"steel, don't ask. Regrinding the point was a lot easier than I thought it might be, I have now polished the blade as I find this easier to keep clean, the ground finish tended to retain gunk.

Pothunter.

PS. Red can you load synthetic stocked rifles in you shuttle...

 

[Shinken]

The true power is found in love

And God is love

till I see any concrete evidence of any of them I will continue to regard the lot of them as meaningless mumbo jumbo.

And how do you attain concrete evidence?

lots of people regard science as being concrete, but science says a bee can not fly and that the brain cannot work.

they have a habit of calling all other false gods evil

made me laugh, what are FALSE gods? obviously false which is not real. lol

 

[Squidders]

lots of people regard science as being concrete, but science says a bee can not fly and that the brain cannot work.

Actually, proper academics have never said this... only that "we don't know how a bumble bee flies" or "we don't know fully how brains work". Anyone saying otherwise is one of these psudo scientists that think an inability to prove one thing is proof of its opposite.

Also, they found out how bumble bees fly... they manage to generate lift on both strokes of their wings where most other insects (that don't hover) merely try to reduce the effects of the up-stroke if you like.



p.s. I have nothing against the knife that this thread is actually about other than it looks like 2 spotty, teenage frogs have been pinned by witches to a knife blade.

 

[British Red]

PS. Red can you load synthetic stocked rifles in you shuttle...

Sadly not since I find them quite useful for rough work (a bit like stainless barrels)

However I have just packed a shuttle with all my aforementioned gripes and, finding some space left over, I have added all the sunglasses worn by men in suits in repmobile cars when its cloudy, people who hold cycle races on country roads and inconvenience all the locals, all purveyors of junk mail,and the man who invented "tetra paks" :aargh4:

Apparently the shuttle was overloaded and blew up on the launch pad.



Red

 

[Shinken]

Also, they found out how bumble bees fly... they manage to generate lift on both strokes of their wings where most other insects (that don't hover) merely try to reduce the effects of the up-stroke if you like.

exactly, they said it cant fly and now they say it can which suggests that everything they ''know'' is uncertain. and if they say they dont know but just think thats how it is, then they still dont know.

so to reiterate,

when they say they know, they might change there minds and say they now know that they didnt know because they now that it is how it is now and not like it was before = THEY DONT REALLY KNOW.

when they say they dont know, they sont know = THEY DONT KNOW.

LOL

 

[Karl5]

...and the man who invented "tetra paks" :aargh4:

Red

That'd be Erik Wallenberg and Ruben Rausing then.
As far as I know, the Rausing family moved from Sweden to England for tax reasons, so... You've got your chance for revenge there...

/ Karl

 

[pothunter]

Now I thought that synthetic stocked rifles and F1's went together......