First I'll start with my new knives. One is EDC but they are both nice I think.
This is my Benchmade Bushcrafter. I've been wanting a nice 3-4" fixed blade and fell in love with it. I checked Amazon and couldn't find the color I wanted or beat the price that they had on it by enough to lose color selection and not get the leather sheath. The alternate color comes with a kydex sheath and I wasn't impressed with it.
It's got a nice feel to the handle and I like the drop point a lot. It's a little heavy but not near what the Becker BK2 by KABAR weighs. The blade is S30V, just over 1/8" thick and full tang.
The first thing I noticed was that when you unsnap the loop, it would hang close to the blade as you withdrew the knife. I bought some shock-cord from an outdoors store yesterday to use with deploying my new tarp as a rain fly for my hammock and got to wondering if I could modify my sheath to use the shock-cord to pull the loop out of the way like the Hedgehog Leatherworks sheaths do.
Using a 1/16" punch, I pounded four holes in the strap. Two close to the snap and two back where the loop connects to the body of the sheath but leaves a small gap for the knots to go. I used a piece of .030" welding wire I had rolled up from a wire change to fish the cord through the holes. This is NOT as easy as it sounds till about the 3rd hole. After getting it tied in there, it works awesome! Pulls the loop back against you when you open it so it is no where near the blade when you draw the knife. It also had no noticeable affect on snapping the loop back to secure the knife again either.
I've very pleased with this knife so far. I've only had it a few days but I carried it around yesterday evening messing around outside some and used it a little. Looking forward to getting out in the woods with it.
This is my Benchmade Bushcrafter. I've been wanting a nice 3-4" fixed blade and fell in love with it. I checked Amazon and couldn't find the color I wanted or beat the price that they had on it by enough to lose color selection and not get the leather sheath. The alternate color comes with a kydex sheath and I wasn't impressed with it.
It's got a nice feel to the handle and I like the drop point a lot. It's a little heavy but not near what the Becker BK2 by KABAR weighs. The blade is S30V, just over 1/8" thick and full tang.
The first thing I noticed was that when you unsnap the loop, it would hang close to the blade as you withdrew the knife. I bought some shock-cord from an outdoors store yesterday to use with deploying my new tarp as a rain fly for my hammock and got to wondering if I could modify my sheath to use the shock-cord to pull the loop out of the way like the Hedgehog Leatherworks sheaths do.
Using a 1/16" punch, I pounded four holes in the strap. Two close to the snap and two back where the loop connects to the body of the sheath but leaves a small gap for the knots to go. I used a piece of .030" welding wire I had rolled up from a wire change to fish the cord through the holes. This is NOT as easy as it sounds till about the 3rd hole. After getting it tied in there, it works awesome! Pulls the loop back against you when you open it so it is no where near the blade when you draw the knife. It also had no noticeable affect on snapping the loop back to secure the knife again either.
I've very pleased with this knife so far. I've only had it a few days but I carried it around yesterday evening messing around outside some and used it a little. Looking forward to getting out in the woods with it.
We went on a trip to Gatlingburg the last week of February with some friends of ours and I always stop in at Smokey Mounting Knife Works while we are down there. I went to look at another Kershaw knife but I was not impressed with it. 
even so, cars should be good enough set up spots!
