Pocketknives/Kitchen Knives/Fixed Blades
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Those Wrights are beautiful…
They are indeed. Did you see the pic where the knife is disassembled? The guy is a mad genius.
I'm impressed by your Don Foggs. Is he still around?
Don Fogg is my favorite maker and I am lucky to have a number of his pieces. He is retired. He posts on Facebook from time to time. He appears to be well. I haven't spoken with him recently.
We've been using our Ken Onion Shun for 7 ish years, been holding up great. We're pretty abusive with it too.
I use mostly a Kramer-designed (but not custom) knife in 52100 carbon steel. I'd like a custom though. There is a guy close to me who makes beautiful pieces but they're beyond my price range for a user knife. Check him out: https://www.maumasifirearts.com
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About ten years ago I was at Blade show, and it came up in the conversation a lot of the heat and beat guys were having a lot of health issues. Don was someone that came up. Glad to hear he's still kicking.
As much as I like nice things (I have two giraffe bone handled long knives/short swords from Jerry Hossom), I have a hard time justifying a high end kitchen knife. My kitchen knives get put away wet, tossed in the steel sink, banged against stuff, dropped on the floor (it's amazing I still have all my toes), and used to pry.
I don't even mind damaging the knife, it's just such a pain in the ass to get a custom piece repaired when you break a tip off.
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WIP
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Nice
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Looking forward to it’s completion. Knifemaker - Matt Harris. Or MHK
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Lives in my coin pocket, nothing fancy but it’s small, light and sharp.
Case XX Small Texas Toothpick, veined turquoise handle
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Hinderer Knives UK legal xm-18 'slippy' slicer. OD green.
Really wanted a Hinderer for ages but couldn't justify it previously as they did not do one that was legal to carry in the UK. Now they do!
Superb build quality. It is a bit stiff to open one handed using the thumb disc but Im too lazy to fuck around with it to adjust….
Love the fact that they do alternative scales, clips, tab fillers that you can buy in order to customise.
Heard some negative reviews about Hinderer but I'm pleased with it.
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finished:
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Looks great [emoji106]
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Very nice Mike! Why don't you give us some details? I don't know much about knives but would enjoy learning a bit.
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What do you guys suggest for a UK legal knife? I think it needs to be folding, non-locking and 3” max blade length. I see Spyderco come up a lot but I don’t know if they’re any good
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Reese Bose Rogers Split-back Wharncliffe Whittler
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Tom Ploppert Lanny’s Clip & Jerry Halfrich Sowbelly Lockback
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What do you guys suggest for a UK legal knife? I think it needs to be folding, non-locking and 3” max blade length. I see Spyderco come up a lot but I don’t know if they’re any good
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Check out Heinnie Haynes, they have a massive selection plus also advise which ones are UK legal by displaying an image on each picture. Their customer service is excellent. Have purchased at least six UK legal knives from them, amongst other things.
Essentially though you are correct, need to be non-locking with blade length of less than 3 inches.
My favourites are my Viper Dan2 (silver twill carbon finre scales), Hinderer slippy (pics a few posts back) and Heinnie x QTRMSTR. The Heinnie x Boker tech tool is a great little knife that is well priced.
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