Quote from: zepla on June 04, 2009, 10:17:02 AMQuote from: nuphoria on June 03, 2009, 07:07:09 PMQuote from: zepla on June 03, 2009, 07:03:14 PMQuote from: Swiss Man on June 03, 2009, 01:32:25 AMI had a Camillus that I loved but someone liberated from my car. The pommel makes a good hammer and the saw back sucks as far as cutting branches but it was designed to cut plexiglass.There are holes in the guard so you can attach it to a branch and use it as a spear.I really really like this knife even more then my Marine Recon Ka Bar.A lot of plexiglass to cut when chrashed in the jungle? Why was that made like that?Hey, have you seen Lost?! Nope, never seen it. Still don't get it Nice knife though Easy. Airplane cockpit windows are plexiglass. I a plane crashed, and the cockpit won´t open as intended, then use the knife to cut yourself out of the plane. Unlikely to happen, but that´s why it is designed to cut plexiglass.
Quote from: nuphoria on June 03, 2009, 07:07:09 PMQuote from: zepla on June 03, 2009, 07:03:14 PMQuote from: Swiss Man on June 03, 2009, 01:32:25 AMI had a Camillus that I loved but someone liberated from my car. The pommel makes a good hammer and the saw back sucks as far as cutting branches but it was designed to cut plexiglass.There are holes in the guard so you can attach it to a branch and use it as a spear.I really really like this knife even more then my Marine Recon Ka Bar.A lot of plexiglass to cut when chrashed in the jungle? Why was that made like that?Hey, have you seen Lost?! Nope, never seen it. Still don't get it Nice knife though
Quote from: zepla on June 03, 2009, 07:03:14 PMQuote from: Swiss Man on June 03, 2009, 01:32:25 AMI had a Camillus that I loved but someone liberated from my car. The pommel makes a good hammer and the saw back sucks as far as cutting branches but it was designed to cut plexiglass.There are holes in the guard so you can attach it to a branch and use it as a spear.I really really like this knife even more then my Marine Recon Ka Bar.A lot of plexiglass to cut when chrashed in the jungle? Why was that made like that?Hey, have you seen Lost?!
Quote from: Swiss Man on June 03, 2009, 01:32:25 AMI had a Camillus that I loved but someone liberated from my car. The pommel makes a good hammer and the saw back sucks as far as cutting branches but it was designed to cut plexiglass.There are holes in the guard so you can attach it to a branch and use it as a spear.I really really like this knife even more then my Marine Recon Ka Bar.A lot of plexiglass to cut when chrashed in the jungle? Why was that made like that?
I had a Camillus that I loved but someone liberated from my car. The pommel makes a good hammer and the saw back sucks as far as cutting branches but it was designed to cut plexiglass.There are holes in the guard so you can attach it to a branch and use it as a spear.I really really like this knife even more then my Marine Recon Ka Bar.
I was very surprised by SporkBob's photos. I visited an Army Surplus store in a town nearby and the Ontarios the fellow showed to me had handles unlike the Camillus or the Ontarios in SB's photos. The leather wasn't in rings, but was solid, rough and "hairy". The blades were marked Ontario. On one of the knife sites, a fellow was complaining about the rough handle on an Ontario he had ordered. I do like the look of the Ontario Navy knife!
Just wondering...Have you ever tried mink oil on your handles? . I was scared witless for fear of damaging the leather, but so far it seems to have worked okay. I understand mink oil can go rancid so I don't really know. This is the only knife I own with leather handles.
He probably didn't know how to sharpen it...
I've been tinkering with the idea of putting a Doan MFS in the stone pocket. I can fit it in this sheath and close the flap, but it's pretty tight.I have a fresh, untreated sheath that I can wet mold and stretch the pocket a little. The other option is to trim some of the magnesium off the block. A small diamond plate like the Eze-lap fishhook sharpener would replace the issue stone.I would coat the MFS in varnish or fingernail polish...I've experienced corrosion on them when stored in the pocket of other leather sheaths.
That's an interesting knife as well Dunc. Are the extensions on each side of the handle quick-release activators?