Few Schrade Frontier knives with full tang to choose from.
Bit black for my taste and I dunno what they are like to use but take a look anyway.
Bit black for my taste and I dunno what they are like to use but take a look anyway.
You have to think in terms of industrial production. A mora companion, once you have done the initial tooling, is very cheap to produce. The whole process is done with very little manpower, with very little wastage with reliable and consistent results in the minimum of stages. Blade blank stamped out, heat treated, ground, handle injection moulded. Now consider a full tang knife. The production process is longer and more Labour intensive. Blade blank stamped out, pin holes drilled, blade ground, blade heat treated, scales machined, scales glued and pinned on, handle ground, finish applied to handle if wood.I've had similar thoughts to the OP: why does extending a 3/4 tang to full suddenly quadruple the price? It's the easy end with no precise grind or heat treat to worry about.
I'd agree with that. The weld should be @45°.In the foreseeable future, a blade with an added/welded tang ought to provide good service.
Making such a knife from available stock should not be much of a challenge and economical at that.
The Rough Rider 1985 is Ok. I've had one for a while, and it does all I need.A bit late to the party, but I have handled all of the following, and quite impressed, recommended in order for under £30 price mark:
https://www.heinnie.com/elk-ridge-evolution - this is my top recommendation
https://www.heinnie.com/rough-rider-1985
https://www.heinnie.com/rough-rider-drop-point-hunter
https://www.heinnie.com/schrade-old-timer-copperhead-oak
https://www.heinnie.com/Linder-guide - the Steel is a little soft in this one and handle is not the most comfortable, but trough
Ideally it would be a condor, but price has shot up in the last few years.
Happy hunting
Absolutely NO.But in my opinion a full tang knife is the stronger option.
Why, in katanas and swords, used hidden tang and not full tang?
This all about steel. Any 1095, L6, CPM3V in hidden tang will beat full tang from 440 series.
I will see a comparison woodlore in A2 vs hidden tang MISSION MPK-S A2. MPK-S knife which passed all tests by NSW.Possibly, maybe, but given the same steel, a full tang knife will be stronger - has to be.
I can trim, sned, split, reduce material from less than a 10mm to over 40mm and batton, with Victorinox SAK. All this task easy to make with Mora. Hitting on the pommel no problem for many hidden tang knives, Glock FM78 for example, but it the wrong task.I can batton with it and even drive it into the wood by hitting on the pommel