Knife Reviews

Alright, I got the 4" full serrated Talwar. It arrived and has an extra pocket clip. Holy crap is this thing sharp.
It's super tight too. The lock is very stiff but it's breaking in, it's about 50% better just messing with for 30 minutes. The pocket clip opens the knife with an aggressive snap and force. Those two factors, stiff, strong opening and noob use, I slit a hole in my pants. Just a quick snap and I now have a 1" slit in my 5.11 pants. I need to work on my draw stroke.  

This knife is a bit bigger than my Spyderco that I've been carrying for 12 years. This is going to take some getting used to. The grip is also much bigger and has a pronouced pummel. The grip is very aggressive, like stippling. I like it. The grip works well with the sabre, forward and reverse grips.

Biggest negative so far, the clip is too tight. I have to angle it just right to get it into my pocket. I think I'm going to bend it out, it's just too tight and angled in so it doesn't slip over the pocket.



Promo video.

I'll post pics of my knife later.

I may do that with this one. I believe it's the G10. I really like it though but sadly I've only played with it for about 10 minutes while wait to pick my daughter up from school.

 At 5:40, what an unintentionally hilarious slowmo. Shows many of the problems with wave features at once. Seems like a nice knife though.

Yeah, while I like CS knives their promo videos are very unimaginative. Then they put in that...


Reverse grip.

Smidge longer.



Native after 12 years. Still awesome.


How I roll.

Have some more steel to share with you all.

First up is a turn of the century straight edge razor, the blade is engraved Smith, Lyon and Field made in Germany. I picked this up at a antique store to test out my new sharpener and see how sharp I can get a blade. There is some minor pitting and rust but overall was in pretty good shape for as old as it is. I cleaned it up as best I could, tried looking up the manufacturer online but so far nothing has come up. I set the angle on my Work Sharp Ken Onion edition to the lowest setting and man this thing is sharp. The blade was throwing some pretty nice sparks too, the carbon content for German steel from that era was very good. I shaved with it for shits and giggles, it takes time and deliberate short strokes and multiple passes and kinda left my face irritated but I didn't do too much prep with the hot towel and everything you are supposed to do to prep for a straight edge razor but was still kinda cool to do.




Next is a Damascus Steel folder my dad recently gave me, he got it from an antique store in his small hometown in West Texas. The store owner bought a pair of these at an old rancher's estate sale, he kept one and sold my dad the other. I haven't been able to find any identifiable markings anywhere on this knife which kinda worried me, thinking it may be a mass produced folder with the fake Damascus blade where they acid etch the pattern. This is a beautiful knife and a custom knife maker would be expected to leave some sort of stamp. But the knife is solid and little things like the handle being bone on one side and polished stone or ivory on the other and little intricacies that show it was handcrafted are making me lean towards this being a custom folder. I need to take it to my knife shop and see if they can tell me anything about it, I would love to know when it was made, who made it, and all the materials. The detailing in this is amazing, I have always lusted after Damascus steel and this is a beautiful first. As beautiful as it is it is not practical at all, no carry clip, heavy and bulky and the lockup is kinda wobbly, this looks great in my display case though and is crazy sharp.




Next up is another custom knife by my favorite Texas knife maker Mark Green. I saw him at my local gun show today and had to have this knife. Like my other knife from this maker, its 440C with micarta handles. Unlike my other knife, I love the ergonomics and the way it feels in my hand. He is making a new style of sheath too which I like, I wear this offset my belt buckle, with an untucked shirt you can't tell anything is there. I don't even feel this knife and sheath are there and it has never gotten in my way sitting down, putting on a seat belt or anything. I am seriously considering making this an EDC fixed blade, at first I wasn't digging the sheath covering up the handle, but there is a leather lanyard with a cool skull bead that you use to draw the knife. It isn't fast, but the new sheath design has better retention than his older version. Personally I feel safer drawing the blade out with a lanyard than using two fingers to grip the tiny piece of handle sticking out of the old sheath. I miss the laser etched Republic of Texas in the leather but Mark said if I mailed him my knife he would engrave whatever I wanted on the sheath and blade at no cost since he owns his own laser engraver. I am thinking of putting the RoT seal on the sheath and an American flag one side of the blade and the Texas or Gadsden flag on the other. This guy is a master of his craft, his knives get better every time I see him and he always has something new. I asked him what his ideal knife is, he described a knife he sold earlier that day with the same general profile as mine but with a deeper choil and some other features, he said he would bring more at the next gun show in Oct, hopefully I will be able to bring one of those home.

You digging the Clemson colors Omegaman? =P





I also got lucky and found a Czech bayonet for my CZ 23 Mauser for $20. Its marked CZ 24, but that is close enough for me, I don't have much hope for finding a CZ 23 bayonet since they are so rare.

I think the main difference is the length (9.75"-15.76" for a 23 and 11.75" for the 24) and the VZ 23 bayonet can have an "E" Czech Lion or "23" stamped into them.

I think yours is a VZ 24 with Nazi German capture markings or a waffenampt, I think thats what the "M" denotes. Do you see any tiny reich eagles anywhere on the blade or scabbard? They are can be really tiny and easy to miss.

worldbayonets.com/Bayonet_Identification_Guide/Czechoslovakia/Czechoslovakia_2.html

www.old-smithy.info/bayonets/HTNL%20DOCUMNETS/CZECH_VZ24.htm