Huck_Norris
Active member
Holy fuck! DO WANT!
Bear Grylls knife
- Thread starter tag_team
- Start date
Fish_Sandwich.
Active member
This thread:
Ski the east: 1
Everyone else: 0
I gotta pretty much agree with you here. It's an ok show to watch but calling it a survival show isn't exactly being truthful.
That knife is gimicky compared with other stuff out there, although I don't think it's shit qualiy, it's definitely not premium quality. But then again I'm more into super high end kitchen knives than survival stuff.
Ski the east: 1
Everyone else: 0
I gotta pretty much agree with you here. It's an ok show to watch but calling it a survival show isn't exactly being truthful.
That knife is gimicky compared with other stuff out there, although I don't think it's shit qualiy, it's definitely not premium quality. But then again I'm more into super high end kitchen knives than survival stuff.
Fish_Sandwich.
Active member
Ya, gerber isn't exactly top end but they aren't bottom either. It all really comes down to
A: the steel used in the knife
B: how well you personally can sharpen it.
Basically when talking knives, it's better to have a dull $50 knife (as many really poor quality knives can't even take and hold a decent edge imo) and $50 of whetstones (think king 1k and king 6k) to sharpen it, than if you had a $900 and no stones. The built in sharpener is the coolest thing, although it's nowhere near whetsone quality, but I doubt the steel is even hard enough to benefit from whetstone sharpening.
A: the steel used in the knife
B: how well you personally can sharpen it.
Basically when talking knives, it's better to have a dull $50 knife (as many really poor quality knives can't even take and hold a decent edge imo) and $50 of whetstones (think king 1k and king 6k) to sharpen it, than if you had a $900 and no stones. The built in sharpener is the coolest thing, although it's nowhere near whetsone quality, but I doubt the steel is even hard enough to benefit from whetstone sharpening.
division.bell
Active member
Fuck whetstones, I sharpen all of my knives and tools with 8000 and 12000 grit Japanese stones, respectively.
Fish_Sandwich.
Active member
Uhh, whetstones are japanese stones, I've always thought of them as interchangeable, are they not? Unless you are just making the distinction between NATURAL waterstones, and synthetic ones like king. The natural ones are better, but can be WAAAAAY more expensive. King are ok.
What kind of knives do you have? cutlery? survival? 8k and 12k seems really fine but it depends on what you're doing. I'm sure they leave an amazing near mirror or mirror finish.
I'm not good at sharpening so I'm about to send my knives to epicurean edge in Kirkland, I've heard they are good with japanese style knives. Mine are just some JCK gekkos that are about HRC 60-61.
What kind of knives do you have? cutlery? survival? 8k and 12k seems really fine but it depends on what you're doing. I'm sure they leave an amazing near mirror or mirror finish.
I'm not good at sharpening so I'm about to send my knives to epicurean edge in Kirkland, I've heard they are good with japanese style knives. Mine are just some JCK gekkos that are about HRC 60-61.
division.bell
Active member
Whetstones are generally intended to be used with oil. Japanese stones are commonly referred to as waterstones as they are to be used with water instead of oil.
A common misconception with buying waterstones is to believe that they are ready to be used straight out of the box. This is far from accurate, they need to be sanded completely flat before use. This does require many hours of sanding and checking with a straight edge before the stones are actually ready for use. An inexpensive investment would be a 12" x 12" x 1/2" piece of glass, available at nearly any glass retailer. Using adhesive sandpaper and obviously water, it's just a matter of time until the stone is ready for use.
I purchased my stones while in school a few years back to use for maintaining my woodworking tools. I use the stones mainly for my chisels, gouges, plane blades, and scrapers, but also for my small knife collection. The company I work for is a distributor for SOG Knives, so I am able to get their products very cheap. Most of my knives so far are fixed blade outdoor knives, but I do have a few folding knives as well.
A common misconception with buying waterstones is to believe that they are ready to be used straight out of the box. This is far from accurate, they need to be sanded completely flat before use. This does require many hours of sanding and checking with a straight edge before the stones are actually ready for use. An inexpensive investment would be a 12" x 12" x 1/2" piece of glass, available at nearly any glass retailer. Using adhesive sandpaper and obviously water, it's just a matter of time until the stone is ready for use.
I purchased my stones while in school a few years back to use for maintaining my woodworking tools. I use the stones mainly for my chisels, gouges, plane blades, and scrapers, but also for my small knife collection. The company I work for is a distributor for SOG Knives, so I am able to get their products very cheap. Most of my knives so far are fixed blade outdoor knives, but I do have a few folding knives as well.
popNfresh44
Active member
looks like a good value survival knife. but I don't like his show, its fake as fuck and he does stupid shit.
geteducated
Active member
ray mears
Ski_the_east01
Active member
exactly.
RubberSoul
Active member
he thinks the knife is sick. he also posted to check if his icon works
skiblandford
Active member
Bear Grylls is bad ass. dispite his confusion with staying in hotels when he was supposed to be in the wild. be he has taught many a thing to save people lives and i plan on implementing his tactics if i am ever caught in a bad situation