
Blades and Benjamins.
What is it with guys and knives?
(Or at least, with me and knives?)
Anyway, I finally bought the Becker "Campanion" that I've been looking at for the past week, after finding it on Amazon for half the normal price + free shipping. I was able to give away my last good camp knife to my cousin Aaron as a "going away to Basic" present. (It was the Ontario Spec Plus Quartermaster, a great knife all round, and I only used it once.) However, that left a knife vacuum in my heart, and as you know, coveting abhors a vacuum.
So after extensive research and comparison, I chose the Campanion. It's 1095 Hi-Carbon Chromium Vanadium steel. Tough stuff, and it's got high tensile strength and it keeps an edge (unlike stainless). A quarter of an inch thick, it can double as a hatchet or a prybar, but the blade is wide enough to allow for an edge geometry of a kitchen knife. This means that along with any bear slaying I may find necessary, it can also slice an apple. Life is sweet.
Some of the earliest human artifacts are knives.


3 comments:
drool.
I have quite a spot in my heart for knives, swords, bows, any sort of archaic weaponry really. Michael says I am the epitome of nerd. I have a very special spot for the standard issue Israeli Boot Knife...its a nice one.
I think the standard issue of the israeli boot knife is from the American "Ek" commando knife. (they're expensive & very hard to find!)
It's nice to have other nerds out there.
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