I've been stuck in for various reasons recently. Tonight I was considering camping out for 5 items or less, but the garden needs sorted out before I move house. I've also bought a new necker knife from Lance (driftwoodwlaker) which Ive been meaning to put through its paces.
Fortunately for me, sorting the garden meant cutting down some of the branches spouting from a tree stump (by the by, not great with tree identification so if anyone knows what kind it is that would be great). So I did so with my bushy kit and had a play with the fresh green branches.
I thought I would compare the handmade neckers abilities to that of a Spartan SAK, which if you put in a leather pouch, is of similar size.
The knives:
The necker is a 2mm full tang, stabalised amboyona burl scales, black liners and mosaic pins. The SAK is a pretty old Spartan SAK I inherited from my grandfather, with no tweezers/toothpick and a nifty little glasses screw for the corkscrew!
So i cut down the branches with my laplander and hacked off the little side sprouts with each knife, both performed equally well fot this, but the necker was more comfortable in the hand and felt safer:
The Necker cut through the thickest branch in 3 easy cuts:
The SAK managed to in 3 cuts, but much more difficult, and not a clean cut:
The nacker made easy work of a thinner branch:
The SAK still struggled with a single clean cut on the thinner branch:
But on a second attempt with the shorter knife it did pretty well:
And the tried stripping the bark, whick i think the SAK excelled at using the screw driver, but it was just as easy to carve a little tool for the same task with the necker.
Conclusion:
well to start with, Im well impressed with the iphone camera - this is the first time ive put it to good use.
Second, for small branch whittling you cant beat a small SAK for its size and functional ability. Was slightly worried for my fingers at times.
The necker is more robust, can handle a little more and is just beautiful to look at and handle!!! It really is just so comfortable for so many different grips.
Both great knives, very different price tags. Was a handmade necker a waste of money - HELL NO!!!!
Thanks for looking
Fortunately for me, sorting the garden meant cutting down some of the branches spouting from a tree stump (by the by, not great with tree identification so if anyone knows what kind it is that would be great). So I did so with my bushy kit and had a play with the fresh green branches.
I thought I would compare the handmade neckers abilities to that of a Spartan SAK, which if you put in a leather pouch, is of similar size.
The knives:
The necker is a 2mm full tang, stabalised amboyona burl scales, black liners and mosaic pins. The SAK is a pretty old Spartan SAK I inherited from my grandfather, with no tweezers/toothpick and a nifty little glasses screw for the corkscrew!
So i cut down the branches with my laplander and hacked off the little side sprouts with each knife, both performed equally well fot this, but the necker was more comfortable in the hand and felt safer:
The Necker cut through the thickest branch in 3 easy cuts:
The SAK managed to in 3 cuts, but much more difficult, and not a clean cut:
The nacker made easy work of a thinner branch:
The SAK still struggled with a single clean cut on the thinner branch:
But on a second attempt with the shorter knife it did pretty well:
And the tried stripping the bark, whick i think the SAK excelled at using the screw driver, but it was just as easy to carve a little tool for the same task with the necker.
Conclusion:
well to start with, Im well impressed with the iphone camera - this is the first time ive put it to good use.
Second, for small branch whittling you cant beat a small SAK for its size and functional ability. Was slightly worried for my fingers at times.
The necker is more robust, can handle a little more and is just beautiful to look at and handle!!! It really is just so comfortable for so many different grips.
Both great knives, very different price tags. Was a handmade necker a waste of money - HELL NO!!!!
Thanks for looking
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