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I think a mid sized Native is a fantastic idea.

With (or without, actually) a sabre or scandi grind it would be an excellent bushcraft or all-purpose field knife.

Now that is an interesting chart…

Interesting idea …

I would rather have a Native 5 slip joint, but only because I find the Para 3 a little cramped in hand.

Although I try to punctuate correctly, I’m more interested in other people’s views than their grammar - up until the point where it affects my understanding of what they are trying to say.

PS. I’m not entirely convinced about Joe’s idea of shooting the slightly illiterate.

Yes - I found this obtrusive on the Wolfspyder. I didn’t mind the slow deployment but the ergonomics just didn’t chime. And I tried twice, a couple of years apart.

Ooooh…

Exclusives are rare this side of the pond, except the HH slipjoints. Other than those I only have a couple, also including the 4V Wayne Goddard. However, the m4 Native 5 is my go-to work knife, so must be crowned favourite. It has been dyed from the original jade and featured in a supporting role in...

My experience of the Kitchen Devil type serrations is that they arrive sharp, and as they wear the thin stock and fine (but blunt) teeth allow the knife to keep separating softer foodstuffs almost indefinitely, albeit without finesse or accuracy. I far prefer properly sharp kitchen knives, both plai...

... As Wartstein said, our minister of interior affairs just announced they are working on a bill to restrict knives basically the same way as Germany or the UK does, so if this bill should pass it's going to be a UK PK or Lil Native Slipit anyways :) .... Man, we can´t let that happen! This is not...

That’s *very* nice!

I wonder whether the tools our forbears had to buy were any cheaper relative to their incomes?

Has anyone got an old Sears catalogue, to compare?

The UKPK would be a good choice, I think. It’s enough blade to be useful, and enough handle to be easy to draw, manipulate and hold.

Great steel choices, and a serrated option, too (that one’s a cutting demon).

Wow! Nice find & very well researched, chaps!

I love it when these little artifacts come to light.

I can see a bunch of legal issues with AI. Patents and trademarks, etc. sal This is already a big issue in many industries including mine. The question is whether the output of the AI is the actual end product or just a tool/resource used to produce something. Where do designers get inspiration? Ar...

Perhaps it’s a reflection of the mediocrity of many contemporary artistic & design endeavours that AI can compete with it. “Design by numbers” is always “Design by numbers” whether it’s created by machines or limited talent. They merely copy what has gone before without moving the game forward. ...

I saw the latest iterations at the London Motorcycle Shoe last month. Very nice bikes. They’ve re-engineered quite a bit, with big Indian investment, after the previous owners financial and customer service misdemeanours.

That little Knipex pliers wrench is one tool I wish I had bought years ago. It’s fantastic.

Somebody here was 3d printing a manix style cage…

Thanks, guys.

I’ve a BMW 1200 r9t for the road, but this is just for fun on the “green lanes” -historic roadways that were never metalled.

I suspect there will be a steep learning curve!

You can’t have too many motorcycles, right?

The poem at the end is very moving.

The film is about one of the raids on the area my very elderly father lived in at the time as a schoolboy.