I'm always a little bemused by folks that judge tools by their looks.... If "ugly" works better, it's beautiful. That goes for guns, too, but really, really goes for knives.
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I'm always a little bemused by folks that judge tools by their looks.... If "ugly" works better, it's beautiful. That goes for guns, too, but really, really goes for knives.
Thick stock and thick ground 1095 blade steel @ 56-58 HRc doesn't "work better" than much of anything in the knife world in a very long while.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
We've been living in the most meteoric era of knifemaking the last couple of decades with the plethora of great builders, new materials every time we turn around, waterjets, lasers, CNC, digital process controlled neutral atmosphere ovens, etc and so forth that we sometimes forget what a knife was and was used for decades ago.
I wrote earlier that growing up there were Ruana guys and Randall guys in my little circle of the world. We were Randall guys and I'm really glad that I had a tool like that. One of my today's preferred .090" or thinner 60+ RC powder metallurgy blades wouldn't have lasted a day the way we used them on the ranch and in daily life back then. I prefer today, where we have the appropriate tools to do so many of the things we used a knife for back then, but it was what it was, and I was damned blissful in my ignorance.
I do think it's cool though to know there are still guys like the Hangas brothers making traditional knives one at a time on 70+ year old equipment their granddad designed and made. And, like Randall, they are years behind on orders so others must think it pretty cool too...
Video from a Montana PBS documentary series from 2014:
You can no more tell someone how to do something you've never done, than you can come back from somewhere you've never been...
As I said, I appreciate the craftsmanship, but there’s really not 1 thing “I” like about em.especially at the price point. Carry on..
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
As I said, I appreciate the craftsmanship, but there’s really not 1 thing “I” like about em.especially at the price point. Carry on..
Lots of better options. Life’s too short to own inaccurate rifles and chunky retard knives.
Haha 😂
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
I look at their website, and think of a Rambo knife I begged for in 1985 when I was 10 years old. 😂😂
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
