Rich, I may have missed it somewhere but, as a bushcraft knife newbie, was just wondering exactly what is the knife designed for - may sound a dumb question.
Just wondering how youre gonna use it as, to me, 4mm seems really thick.
Great project BTW.
Thanks for that Keith, it's a sound question.
Primarily this will be used with wood. Most of what I do is light fires, carve stuff and use it for stuff it was never intended. Mostly hard knock stuff. (Tonight I decided I WILL make a cheese wire).
4mm is thick, I was contemplating 3mm for a while - anything thinner would negate splitting in all honesty, but batoning happens with me a lot and it came back to 4.
I am hoping that it will see blood soon, but that will be something it would have to contend with ocasionally rather than be designed for, as one of your knives would.
The idea for the extra grip cam from another knife I had from Stu with a hollow grind that was much easier to use for finer wood stuff, I am able to change grip to many different positions easily and comfortably, I worked out where I would remove material and came up with this, the curve allows more torque.
Stu has since upped the spec and it's made from RWL34 - one of the new breed of supersteels and I was lucky enough to bag some Spyderco ceramic stones which seem ideal so all bodes well.
I am firmly of the opinion there is no ideal knife, I will probably always find a reason to justify my 6 (4 of them, with this, will be from Stu) and each will be used in different ways. I intend that this will be my main, with a leather stacked scout knife for finer jobs living in my rucksack, and an axe when I can carry it.
Stu told me today that I'll have it next week so I shall tell you how I get on.
I'd just like to add that I recently had a little child strop and metaphorically stamped my foot and stuck out my bottom lip - because of delays beyond his control. Needless to say, by the end of that day Stu had managed to put me in my place (which was needed to be fair), reassured me and cheered me up. Customer service second to none.
This is one of those toys I'm going to have in my hand for days just looking at it.
