Field Archery Knife - suggestions for
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Adi007 said:
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 said:
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.
Adi007 said:
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.
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.
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