My favourite knife - Od Hickory
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I have really been enjoying a youtube channel called BBQ Pit Boys they have so many fantastic BBQ recipes that can be altered for our purposes cooked over a fire etc in the wilderness, they only use this type of knife which is quite interesting!! http://www.youtube.com/user/BarbecueWeb
Is this carbon steel? what do you use it for??
Is this carbon steel? what do you use it for??
Yes I bought this knife after seeing it on the pit boys channel! They have been making ths knife for a long long time - maybe 100 years. 1095 carbon steel. I love the pattern on the metal too.
The pit boys use terms for everything. Cutting, stirring, you name it.
The pit boys use terms for everything. Cutting, stirring, you name it.
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There are thousands of these for sale in charity style shops in America, i've got a realy old one sent to me by an American site member.
Rob
Rob
Congratulations on getting a great knife, always fancied one myself but never actually pulled the trigger, what are the specs please, particularly blade thickness?
As an afterthought, further congratulations on getting a delivery from www.bronzemoonoutdoors.co.uk be careful if you use them again, as they have shocking rep on this forum and British Blades, you are one of the lucky ones.
As an afterthought, further congratulations on getting a delivery from www.bronzemoonoutdoors.co.uk be careful if you use them again, as they have shocking rep on this forum and British Blades, you are one of the lucky ones.
My micrometer says the butchers knife is 2.6mm. The 8 inch slicing knife (not pictured) is 2mm. not sure what other specs you want - most of them can be found here:
http://www.ontarioknife.com/catalog/category/134
As for bronzemoon - i've ordered from them several times and not had a problem - perhaps i'm lucky?
http://www.ontarioknife.com/catalog/category/134
As for bronzemoon - i've ordered from them several times and not had a problem - perhaps i'm lucky?
Just had a read through some of the threads on Bronzemoon. I didn't realise so many people had problems. I bought two Old Hickories, and a couple of Opinel knives from them without any issue. Well, the one Old Hickory took a bit longer to get to me than the other knives, but otherwise OK. Still no excuse for poor customer service/communication. I will certainly be a bit more circumspect when/if I order from them again.
Aris, how were your blades when they arrived? I have read quite a few reviews about them arriving with a very dull edge on them [not that this puts me off buying one, I was just curious].
I used bronzemoon recently for a TaTonka mug. It came after about 7 days. Slow but it arrived.
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We bought a small Old Hickory kitchen knife when we were camping across the States back in the 70's. I made a sheath for it and my wife had it in her hand bag for years until she replaced it with a Laguiole legal EDC. We keep it in the van now as a cooking and backup knife. Lovely little thing- easy to sharpen, takes a good edge and a generally good allrounder. My only dislike is a rather square-section handle that would be uncomfortable when using for a long time. If I really cared it would be easy to sand down to a better profile.
I've got an older (about 25 years) 4 knife set hanging over the kitchen sink. Similar to this 5 knife one: www.knife-depot.com/knife-294571.html Mine has a 7 inch chef's knife rather than the butcher's knife and doesn't have the 3.25 inch paring knife. I also have a newer (about 3 years) butcher knife in the kitchen drawer. I've loved these knives and don't think I could actually cook without them. But then when I was growing up, Old Hickory was pretty much what everybody had.
