I ordered a Squad Leader II 3V over a year ago and still haven’t heard anything.
My pre-order for the Kephart was placed in April, received it now, in January.
The BR FB group might know how deep the Squad Leader is in the factory queue.
NKD: These arrived today, I picked them up on sale from DLT (total of $155 in savings) and am really happy with both of them. I've been eyeballing the Ultralite Field Knife since it dropped and the Bravo 1.25 LT just seems like an almost perfect 5" do it all camp/survival knife. Honestly, I probably would not have picked them up if they hadn't been on sale, but now that they're here I'm excited to have them in the collection.
If this was a Chef's knife I think I'd be in. I'll be stoked to hear how you like your's Dazen.
Well, the Santoku finally arrived and all I can say is grab one now if you can swing the $200+ price tag!
Ergos are absolutely fantastic, especially in a pinch grip. My only fault is I wish the handle had a little more weight so I can set it down like my Murray Carter and not have the blade hit the counter.
The jury is still out on a convex grind on a kitchen knife but I can change that at any time.
Dane
“Stop buying your kids what you never had and start teaching them what you never knew!”
Chopping down and delimbing these ten bamboos did this to the A2 Tundra III Camp factory edge.
DMT Extra Coarse, followed by Coarse, Fine, Extra Fine, Extra Extra Fine and stropping on leather quickly restored it to shaving sharp.
Military/PM2/P3Native Chief/NativeGB2DF2PITSChaparralTasman Salt 2 SECaribbean SF SESpydieChefSwaybackManix2Sage 1SSSS2XL G10
Chopping down and delimbing these ten bamboos did this to the A2 Tundra III Camp factory edge.
DMT Extra Coarse, followed by Coarse, Fine, Extra Fine, Extra Extra Fine and stropping on leather quickly restored it to shaving sharp.
I love this knife. Personally my favorite survival knife, the blade is just so versatile
Chopping down and delimbing these ten bamboos did this to the A2 Tundra III Camp factory edge.
DMT Extra Coarse, followed by Coarse, Fine, Extra Fine, Extra Extra Fine and stropping on leather quickly restored it to shaving sharp.
I love this knife. Personally my favorite survival knife, the blade is just so versatile
It is. Last night I used it to make a big pot of beef stew. It did a great job cubing the meat and dicing onions. Then today I went and cut down and delimbed 40 more bamboos and the edge held up well this time.
I think the edge geometry, as it comes from Bark River was just too acute. Not a bad thing if you use it for food prep, but some bamboos contain so much silica in the form of quartz, that one can throw sparks with it.
I am also amazed at the scary sharp edge A2 can take and how easy and fast it was to achieve it with diamond plates and briefly stropping with their white compound on leather.
Glad there is someone also admiring this knife.
Military/PM2/P3Native Chief/NativeGB2DF2PITSChaparralTasman Salt 2 SECaribbean SF SESpydieChefSwaybackManix2Sage 1SSSS2XL G10
Chopping down and delimbing these ten bamboos did this to the A2 Tundra III Camp factory edge.
DMT Extra Coarse, followed by Coarse, Fine, Extra Fine, Extra Extra Fine and stropping on leather quickly restored it to shaving sharp.
I love this knife. Personally my favorite survival knife, the blade is just so versatile
It is. Last night I used it to make a big pot of beef stew. It did a great job cubing the meat and dicing onions. Then today I went and cut down and delimbed 40 more bamboos and the edge held up well this time.
I think the edge geometry, as it comes from Bark River was just too acute. Not a bad thing if you use it for food prep, but some bamboos contain so much silica in the form of quartz, that one can throw sparks with it.
I am also amazed at the scary sharp edge A2 can take and how easy and fast it was to achieve it with diamond plates and briefly stropping with their white compound on leather.
Glad there is someone also admiring this knife.
Very interesting, thanks for the info! I’ve never chopped bamboo before but It sounds fun, my only experiences with this knife have been chopping trees around 1-3” thick, batoning for kindling and a little bit of food prep and found it worked great for every task, I’ve only kept up on mine with a strop so far, (a little scared of sharpening it. Might just use the spyderco triangle when it comes time). I love the thickness of the spine, classic bark river handle which is super functional and comfortable in hand. And Like most blades with subtle leaf shape belly they perform well in most cutting tasks, what’s interesting about the tundra blade shape too is the bowed back spine like a Canadian blade, which I’m sure you know was designed to also work for scraping hides and such. bark river always executes a quality and functional design with usually whatever style of knife they’re going for.
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