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I always refer back to survival essentials, water, food, shelter, I believe in that order.


While I still used Facebook, I used to follow a Norwegian survival group, just for the fun of it.
I can tell you, the biggest reality check for anyone in that group who actually took the leap and went ...

I always refer back to survival essentials, water, food, shelter, I believe in that order. I will probably have to rely on the environment for any shelter, just to avoid taking up a slot with shelter. I would want some sort of blade for sure, and if I don't carry a tarp for shelter, then it would ...

The smart choice: a satellite communicator with map feature(e.g. Garmin GPSMAP with inReach), a waterproof insulated emergency shelter (e.g. the Jervenduken Primaloft 170g), a high capacity headlamp.

Ofc, these answers are specifically designed to meet the criteria of the challenge, and not a ...

Hmmm... I really like considering this question realistically, but will have to put some solid thought into it.

My preliminary thoughts are to first ask whether I am assuming I am lost at this point? If I could expect my phone to work that would be one of the most important things for helping me ...

Diamonds work fine on any steel including 15V, so the grit you use really just depends on what finish you prefer. I don't tend to use super refined edges, so I can't really advise much in those grit ranges. You might have to experiment a little to find what you like, although with 15V's wear ...

Happy birthday, Kristi!

There aren't a lot of places I bother to be on the internet, but you have helped make this a place that I can enjoy. Thank you for what you do!

Agreed, there are pretty much only two ways to reduce unwanted deformation of the edge; avoid what is stressing the edge, or make the edge stronger. Making the edge stronger would pretty much just mean increasing the overall edge angle, or adding a micro-bevel at a more obtuse angle. Obviously this ...

Okay, no pun intended. My point of my post was at some point 🤣 tip breakage was prevalent enough on the Endura and Delica models that a change was made for the positive IMO. I have read several threads about tip breakage on the PM2-PM3 series. Would this not be a good modification to make for ...

A comp lock Golden Polestar sounds like a really cool combo to me. Not sure what the difference between handle forward and not would be though?


The term "handle forward" is often misapplied to any knife where the edge extends to the handle. The term "Handle forward" is really only in ...

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For the first time I tried to sharpen CPM REX 121. I used silicon carbide stones. Diamonds or cubic boron nitride are not required to sharpen this steel. To be honest, I expected it to be more difficult :yawn



Nice pics! I am always looking at my knife edges but I don't ...

Another thought on this, something like a Svord Peasant friction folder that has the long tang that folds around into the grip, that makes it really hard for the blade to close while you're gripping the handle. If a design had this plus a strong index finger guard, I still wouldn't say it's ...

A comp lock Golden Polestar sounds like a really cool combo to me. Not sure what the difference between handle forward and not would be though?

Between when this thread got started and now there's a Golden produced Tenacious . I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the Polestar next to the Tenacious except nicer steel and upscale materials. Does a Golden Polestar actually make sense with the titanium handled Tenacious right next to it ...

Sharp angles and holes are the most common stress risers in blades. With most pocket knives it isn't a super big deal because they aren't designed to chop and batton, but with longer blades that are designed specifically to be tough, paying attention to the locations that you introduce stress risers ...

Seems the orginal topic has disappeared.

Good job reeling the thread back in, ykspydiefan and Red Leader.

I think the most logical argument for Chinese products even if you dislike the government's politics is that each company is individual. I do think this argument is limited a little by the fact that much of general Chinese business ...

I have a great-niece (my niece's daughter) who is very talkative around the people closest to her (her immediate family and her grandparents, including my sister and her husband). She completely closes off around anybody else. To be fair, both she and her brother have been home schooled (my niece ...

This is normal for backlocks as long as it isn't excessive. Different people have different definitions of excessive, but typically it has to be pretty bad to be a safety issue, and it is not typical of Spydercos to have an unsafe amount of lock movement. It's hard to tell for sure without seeing it ...

Anyone ever heard of Ben Carson? He's a famous brain surgeon who was beset by violent bursts of anger as a child/teen. At one point he almost attacked his mother with a hammer because he was mad about the hand-me-down clothes she had bought him for school. His older brother managed to hold him back ...

I've never used a guided system, so I can't give much advice there, but rounding the tip on that setup was my first thought as a possible cause. You say you use it for skinning though, so is the problem the pointyness of the tip itself, or the sharpness of the edge close to the tip? If we are ...