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I made a video for the Sparky and got it up on youtube last night. I wanted to show the knife in better detail and show what it can do, so go listen to me ramble for a few minutes about sharp things.
I finally received the firesteel knife from the knifemaker, Erik Boese, a couple of days ago. I am giddy with excitement over this thing. It is exactly what I wanted it to be, so hats off to Erik for doing a great job bringing our ideas to reality. I think I am going to go with Sparky as the name for it, since that sounds awfully appropriate for what the knife is. I wanted to wait until I had some nice shots of it before posting too much more about it, so I took care of that today:
More pictures are in the store. I have the preorder up in the store for those of you that are interested.
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I have been talking in the forums about a couple of custom knives I have had a knifemaker working on for me for a while, so I figure it’s about time to show you what I got. I have actually prepared and started several fires with the smaller one, and the larger one has been very capable in my limited testing. They are both a little rough in spots since they are the first prototypes of knives I would eventually like to sell.
I was at Wal*Mart recently and made my obligatory stop in the sporting goods section to see if they had any new goodies. Lo and behold, they had a rack in the middle of the section filled with clearanced crap (not in the general term crap sense, but as in dog crap). I saw “tool” on one of the packages, so I went in for a closer look. It was a Coast Fishing Multi-Toolbox. I like Coast. I like Multi-Tools. Fishing is pretty fun. I really like things that are a combination of all that and are $3 (originally a staggering $7, I think). So, I grabbed all eight that they had to see what kind of multi-tool $3 will get me at Wal*Mart.
It is actually not completely terrible.
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I was at work today, typing away, looking at the various scars on my hands. The vast majority of them were from knife accidents, and only because I did not follow some basic knife safety guidelines. Using what I learned in the Boy Scouts, I wrote up a knife safety article for the wiki. Go take a look, read up, and keep your blood inside your body.
Of course, if you have any other good tips, feel free to create an account and edit the article.
The always wonderful Cove Cutlery had the Sypderco Woodlander as their deal of the day a couple of days ago. I have read several good reviews about the knife and have been overall very happy with the few Spyderco knives I have owned in the past. The recurve blade and curved spine kind of threw me off, but I thought I would give the knife a try.
Usually Cove Cutlery’s DOTD prices cannot be beat, but as a habit, I always check ebay just to make sure. Sure enough, a seller had it for much less, at $139.99 plus $8 shipping. I have bought from this seller before, so I bit and have one on the way. I’ll give it a review when it gets here, but I am excited about having another knife on the way, as always.
I just got done selling on ebay around $1200 of knives that I have amassed and been disappointed in, so I figured it was about time to replenish my stocks. I ordered five from amazon thanks to the recent deals and one from EDC Depot that I have had my eye on for a long while.
Here is some knife porn for you:
Leatherman has a couple of new multi-tools out that you may have seen, the Skeletool (ST)and Skeletool CX (STCX). They are billed as the multi-tools for today’s outdoor enthusiasts that want to save weight. It looks to me that they made a tool and then tried to find a market for it, but found the wrong market.
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My father and I are going on a backpacking trip for about a week in a couple of weeks. This is his first backpacking trip in many moons, so he does not have piles of gear threatening to overtake his house like I do. He was in town last weekend, so I picked through his stuff to see what I could give him and what he would need to buy. One thing he was lacking was a good fixed blade. We plan on doing a lot of bumming around in the woods, so a reliable fixed blade is a nice thing to have.
I had him try the 15 or so knives I have amassed over the past couple of months. I am very picky about any tool I use, be it a knife or a power drill, so I keep on buying new ones and then selling the ones I don’t like or want. I only own a couple of fixed blades that I actually use.
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