For me: Chris Reeves aviator and Jeroboam with serrated top.
Marc.
Belgium.
For me: Chris Reeves aviator and Jeroboam with serrated top.
Marc.
Belgium.
The only fixed blade I own is a Strider DB-L.
Great knife and damn strong!
9/11/01
Never forget, Never forgive
out in the woods, camping etc, the MT-MOD10 (one on the right):
anywhere else - DB-GG
It's not the most tacti-cool (and neither am I) but my search for an all-around fixed blade resulted in the SOG Gov-Tac.
http://sogknives.com/store/S21T.html
I shopped for features and cost and this fit the bill. I got it for $84.00 at a gun show and Christened it on my first 9-point buck last December. Yum!!!
-B
Mad Dog ATAK for a fixed Blade.
Chris Reeves Sebenza for a folder.
Trident/ crusader forge knives.
I have used a Strider BT for four years now. Works great.
Of course, my $14 USGI KABAR does, too. For most things.
So does a Strider AR. If I had to do it all over, I would skip the fixed blade and go with a Strider folder.
Last edited by Submariner; 08-19-07 at 04:37. Reason: Add comment on folder.
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I have a little something on the way to check out and evaluate... pics when its here.
Protego quod vallo.
Si vis pacem para bellum.
I went through this same dilemma a couple of years back. I wanted a very hard use survial/utilty knife that could be used for fighting if needed. I needed it to be able to chop, pry, dig, hammer, etc.. Basically do things other tools would normally do.
After looking at several different knives I settled on a Busse/Swamprat Rat Mastiff. It has a 9", 1/4" thick blade made of SR101 steel which is basically 52100 with the super secret 40 hour Busse heat treat done to it. The handle is made of black/green canvas micarta.
If you know anything about Busse knives you know they make nuclear proof knives tha can take brutal beatings and continue to function.
I remember seeing a vid or pics of a Swamp Rat knife with it's handle shoved into the trailer hitch of a F150 and the truck was jacked up using the knife as the support!
Check them out at http://www.swampratknives.com.
Here's my Rat Mastiff.
A close up of the "Penetrator Tip".
Here's some pics of torture testing.
Here's a cool pic of a Swamp Rat blade with the paint stripped off. You can actually see a Hamon or temper line caused by the heat treat.
Yojimbo, I had completely forgotten about Busse. Man, I do like the looks of that one. VERY nice.
Protego quod vallo.
Si vis pacem para bellum.
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