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If it is the F1 that Steelhead is looking at, I owned one for a couple of years before it was pinched.

In the UK, these knives reached cult status in the bushcraft/survivalist circles and were also pretty popular with deer stalkers. There were a few reports of the edge and'or tip chipping easily, but they could easily be down to he knife being abused as anything else..

I bought mine as I was looking for a decent quality synthetic /ss fixed blade knife for gralloching deer.

Out of the box, it was probably the sharpest knife I’ve ever owned; it was literally razor blade sharp.

The spine of the blade quite thick and the knife felt quite “substantial” in a way I quite like…

Unlike Sam, I liked the handle material as it gave excellent grip, even when wet and covered in blood and snot from the gralloch. That said, I do agree the size and profile of the handle may not suit everyone.

I found the handle quite skinny and slab sided and perhaps better suited to folks with smaller hands?

The blade on mine had a scandi grind which needed "specialist" sharpening approach. Its not difficult, but you can’t really use most sharpening systems such as Lanskey or DMT without re profiling..

Also, the leather sheath was very average quality and in fact I split it the first time a put the knife back into it. The leather itself felt cheap and was a million miles from a quality oiled hide..I replaced it with the factory Kydex sheath and that was much better..

After using the knife a while, I decided I didn’t really like the blade shape and preferred one with less “belly”.

When the F1 eventually went “walk about”, I replaced it with a Linder Super Edge 1 which I have come to much prefer.

Edited to add, if I were buying again, I think would look at the Fallkniven TK2 as in the pic below..



Over here, they run about twice the price as an F1 which I am finding hard to justify seeing as I like that Linder Super Edge1 so much..