Field Archery Knife - suggestions for

[JakeR]

Ahh, i'm learning. UTD (up to date?) with this TL (text language?).

What a laugh.....
Cheers adi!

Jake

 

[Martyn]

Off the page:

Sheffield O1 Surgical-Grade High Carbon Steel

What defines "surgical" steel? :?:

Nothing. It's a nonesense term. There are some EEC regulations surrounding the validation of surgical items and approval of CE certification, but there are a large variety of steels & materials used in surgery.

 

[Adi007]

Off the page:

Sheffield O1 Surgical-Grade High Carbon Steel

What defines "surgical" steel? :?:

Nothing. It's a nonesense term.

Cheers! So why do so many knife makers use it? Is it just used to try to fox us?

 

[Keith_Beef]

Off the page:

Sheffield O1 Surgical-Grade High Carbon Steel

What defines "surgical" steel? :?:

Nothing. It's a nonesense term.

Cheers! So why do so many knife makers use it? Is it just used to try to fox us?

Marketingspeek. I've always seen this term used to describe "stainless", since you'd expect surgical instruments to be of very high quality and be made of stainless steel. This is the first place I've seen O1 (oil-hardening tool steel) described as "surgical steel".

To be honest, I generally steer well clear of anything bearing the following:
"professional" or "professional quality"
"pro" or "pro quality"
"surgical"
since in my experience, such bla-bla generally seems to be synonymous with "grockle-fleecing crap".


Keith.

 

[Martyn]

Off the page:

Sheffield O1 Surgical-Grade High Carbon Steel

What defines "surgical" steel? :?:

Nothing. It's a nonesense term.

Cheers! So why do so many knife makers use it? Is it just used to try to fox us?

If something is surgical grade, then it should conform to EEC standards, regarding fit & finish, bio-conormability etc. But in the knifemaking community, you can take it to mean, BS designed to fleece the unsuspecting consumer. It's meaningless. Of far more importance is to know exactly what steel the blade is made from.

 

[Kath]

If something is surgical grade, then it should conform to EEC standards, regarding fit & finish, bio-conormability etc. But in the knifemaking community, you can take it to mean, BS designed to fleece the unsuspecting consumer. It's meaningless. Of far more importance is to know exactly what steel the blade is made from.

Cheers, Martyn. That's very enlightening!

 

[sargey]

found this pic over at knife forums, in the bottom of this pic you'll see the baby prybar made from an allen key, perhaps that'd help. oddly enough, digging arrowheads out of trees was one of the tasks in mind during the inception of the allen key prybar thingy. anything to save snapping the tip of your knife off.

use a rock or lump of wood as a hammer head.

cheers, and.

 

[Adi007]

Why does the idea of a little pry bar appeal to me sooooooo much? :-D ):

What size allen key was that?

 

[sargey]

5 or 6 mm i reckon...

the long end is a spike, the short end is flat/clipped.

cheers, and.