Home Forums Gear Knives and Blades Thinking this is a good all around blade

Don't know many professional butchers who work in the field. You don't use one, that's fine, but I know more than a few that find it useful.

field/shop same basic use of the knife. Lanyard only gets in the way and as FieldGrade said smells to high heaven.

Guess you have the world figured for the rest of us, don't take much to clean a knife btw

got it.
Swedge or no swedge, doesn't matter.
It is a Rick knife and who is gonna make it.
Gonna ship out some oryx horn this week, and wait patiently.
Hope my curly oryx horn has enough straight for scales.

Ill leave the type of pins and a lanyard tube up to him.
Id just like that blade with that handle and my oryx.

I know what works and what isn't needed on a knife. You can keep the fluff. I process about 100 or so deer a year, 5 to 10 black bear a year, I can't even guess how many fish. Yeah I have it pretty figured out. If someone else wants it on their knife that is their choice.

This is a knife with a lanyard.


This is a knife without a lanyard.

I like the looks of a knife with a lanyard.

I never put very many lanyards on knifes until recent years. I thought the only thing they were good for is to hide gunk. Bobby Marteniz always demanded them in my knifes when I made stuff for him. I asked him while he was visting one time and he showed me. He put a small cord on you cant get your hand thru it. He like deep sheaths and he uses it to pull the knife out but more important he hangs the knife from anything instead of laying it on the ground when dirty. I cut myself one time reaching for a knife on the ground. Never made one without since. Just my 2 cents.

Yea,,,, cause we all know how "unsafe" a fixed blade in a sheath is to carry.

"21.47 @ WalMart" ???

Get back to me in about twenty years and let me know how that's working for you.

BTW,,,, no need to split the brisket as long as you're not afraid to get your hands dirty.
Not splitting it keeps the meat cleaner if you have to drag it any distance anyways.

If you're going to quote me please don't edit my words.
I specifically said "I like the looks of a lanyard "tube".

I do like the looks of that "knife with a lanyard" though.

"Nothing like buyin' a knife built by a man chained to a chair..."

I like that pattern. I don't know if it's the same size or not
but the one I have is similar to that that I carry daily and have
used it a lot.

Yea,,, no doubt they're useful for extracting a knife from a real deep sheath or one that's extremely snug but I think you'll agree that "more times than not" they have more to do with looks than function.
As far as cutting yourself reaching for a knife,,, I don't think the odds of that are any worse when laying on the ground than dangling from a limb with twigs and such to hang up on. I could be wrong there but I've field dressed at least a hunderd big game animals and skinned a pile of predators over the last half century and have yet to see the need for a lanyard.
I have smelled a few though, and that's pretty much all I need to know about em.

To each his own though and I still like the way the tubes look so it's all good.

See what I mean.
The lanyard tube sure don't hurt the looks of that beauty even if he isn't using it and it's always there if he decides to.

That's what Im wanting right there.

I use to be just like u. Know I like-em someday maybe I wont. I got knives made both ways. If I am working on the ground I hang everything out of habit. .quote=FieldGrade]

Yea,,, no doubt they're useful for extracting a knife from a real deep sheath or one that's extremely snug but I think you'll agree that "more times than not" they have more to do with looks than function.
As far as cutting yourself reaching for a knife,,, I don't think the odds of that are any worse when laying on the ground than dangling from a limb with twigs and such to hang up on. I could be wrong there but I've field dressed at least a hunderd big game animals and skinned a pile of predators over the last half century and have yet to see the need for a lanyard.
I have smelled a few though, and that's pretty much all I need to know about em.

To each his own though and I still like the way the tubes look so it's all good. [/quote]

I grew up hunting Mulies in No. NV.
Where I hunted you'd have to load the deer up and drive it to another state to find a tree to hang your knife in.

I'm a fan/user of lanyards...although I often replace the ones that come on knives. A simple short paracord with just enough reach to wrap around my little finger. It doesn't take much effort to wash it but if it does get stinky, you can buy 100' of paracord for next to nothing and replace them.

I like 'em, but if others don't it's their knife and doesn't bother me in the least.

I like lanyard holes on my sheath knives but I don't put a lanyard on them. The sheath gets a short piece of latigo leather with a tapered tip. The tip is dipped in epoxy to stiffen about 3/4" of it. Pull the latigo through the lanyard hole while carrying it and you get a bit of a jam fit in the hole. Loss proof whether wearing it or carrying in a pack.

Lanyards are also handy working in deep snow or over deep water. If not needed they can be slipped off before use or if they do get rank they are easily replaced. In my mind it is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

I have learned the hard way not to lay a knife down when I have finished using it.