Big Knife Passaround and Giveaway

[lovenhim]

Please count me in.  I am in the USA.
I am curious and have never seen a knife like this.  How long can we keep them and what can you do/not do with them? 

[AimlessWanderer]

Please count me in.  I am in the USA.

 

Canada - Beerplumber

CY - DKS

UK - Neil
UK - Zed
UK - cerbera147
UK - Thesuper

USA - J-sews
USA - Pacu
USA - lovenhim

I am curious and have never seen a knife like this.  How long can we keep them and what can you do/not do with them? 

I think a week or two is fair, and just try not to destroy them  So long as the next person gets them in a reasonable space of time and you've not taken an oxy-acetalene torch or angle grinder to it all should be well. Feel free to cut, chop, baton, dig and generally use the tools to the standard you'd expect somthing of that ilk to perform to (Heavy use on big knife, lighter use on smaller knife).


UPDATE:
Packaged weight is currently 875g (or approx 2lb). This will vary if people start adding in items as the package goes round 

[Neil]

They're here

[AimlessWanderer]

Splendid  we're officially underway 
Looking forward to see what happens from here 

[Sparky415]

I think I can partly answer that
1  Paul will get in trouble 
2 Someone somewhere will loose some blood 





Great Passaround Al 

[Zed]

I think I can partly answer that
1  Paul will get in trouble 
2 Someone somewhere will loose some blood 

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Great Passaround Al 

or 3 tony, paul will get in trouble and lose blood    angie welding a big knife      she isnt that bad   

[Sparky415]

I think I can partly answer that
1  Paul will get in trouble 
2 Someone somewhere will loose some blood 

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Great Passaround Al 

or 3 tony, paul will get in trouble and lose blood    angie welding a big knife      she isnt that bad   

You are lucky she hasn't got an Axe to play with yet 


Ooops another thread knackered 

[Neil]

Figured I best start with pictures before they get beat up used



First the big one (all pictures are clickable).

The pouch is no frills but doesn't feel flimsy, should do the job fine.


Here it is in all its bigness


That's a hefty looking spine, it should take some hammer.  The edge is about what you'd get on a hardware store bought axe.  You could batten with it but cutting might be a challenge


The handle is .... basic.  Look at this bottom and those edges.  Anything other than quick ocasional use is going to leave your hand sore


Little one.

Not sure about the size of the handle, might be a fraction too small and I have pretty average sized hands, time will tell.


I don't like the pouch but that's just me I suspect.


Its a thin blade, no whacking the back of this one.  It also has a very slight curve at the tip.

[Zed]

Figured I best start with pictures before they get beat up used

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First the big one (all pictures are clickable).

The pouch is no frills but doesn't feel flimsy, should do the job fine.


Here it is in all its bigness


That's a hefty looking spine, it should take some hammer.  The edge is about what you'd get on a hardware store bought axe.  You could batten with it but cutting might be a challenge


The handle is .... basic.  Look at this bottom and those edges.  Anything other than quick ocasional use is going to leave your hand sore


Little one.

Not sure about the size of the handle, might be a fraction too small and I have pretty average sized hands, time will tell.


I don't like the pouch but that's just me I suspect.


Its a thin blade, no whacking the back of this one.  It also has a very slight curve at the tip.

Great pics neil, now get chopping 

[Sparky415]

  Great pics neil, now get chopping     

+1 

[dks]

  Great pics neil, now get chopping     

+1 

and forwarding   

[Neil]

The edge on the little one isn't blunt but its not really quite as sharp as I'd like.  I tried slicing up the cover of the Yello Pages that dropped through the letter box this morning.  It struggled.  I then gave it a wash and proceeded to slice up an apple.  This it managed but I would have been happier and had a little more control if it were that fraction sharper.

Here's a picture post apple.  The juice has stained the metal.  To be expected but I was a little surprised as time between slicing and washing was only the time it took me to eat the apple.



I've now put a new micro bevel on it and am much happier.  The curve at the tip meant I had to use stones to get a decent edge right to the tip rather than a few strokes on the Sharpmaker that I use with my SAKs.

[AimlessWanderer]

Nice work so far Neil. I suspect there's going to be a very healthy patina on that little one by the time it finds it's way to a winner. I'm with you on the small sheath too.

Great pics as always mate 

[Gareth]

Ouch, the scales on the MOD really are rough looking.  Nice shots though mate.

[Beerplumber]

Ouch, the scales on the MOD really are rough looking.  Nice shots though mate.

Only for now... Buahahahaa I'm stoked to see what we end up with.

[AimlessWanderer]

Ouch, the scales on the MOD really are rough looking.  Nice shots though mate.

Only for now... Buahahahaa I'm stoked to see what we end up with.

 

[AimlessWanderer]

Neil, You managed to have a play with the MOD knife yet?   

[Neil]

Nope  

It was meant to assist in tree felling duties but the tree in question has had a reprieve 

I'll be forwarding the knives on Monday.  Hopefully I'll get to try it on something over the weekend.

The little knife has been hanging around with me doing a lot of the duties I'd normally pass to my SAK, so sorry to the folk further down the line for its already less than pristine condition.

[AimlessWanderer]

Well it's good to hear the little 'un has been active mate  What was it like to use?
Let's hope you can give something a "tickle" with the biggun before you pass it on mate

[Sparky415]

Nope  

It was meant to assist in tree felling duties but the tree in question has had a reprieve 

   You need a hand Mate? I can bring Swampy 

[Neil]

Guess which knife I used for carving this year

[dks]

Yes stabbing it in the eye; the only way to kill a pumpkin!!!!

[Reinier]

Yes stabbing it in the eye; the only way to kill a pumpkin!!!!

I would like to join this passaround but since shipping heavy items outside NL is a bit too expensive I think I'll pass

[badwolf]

Just to give you an idea how thin the blade is on the little knife, mines well abused but still going strong

[Zed]

A big thanks to neil, they landed on saturday but been a manic weekend, i love the extra thant neil threw in and ill add a little something from my TA days when i pass it on, due to my dispraxia i draw better than i write so ill add illustrations with some writting, great idea Al with the diary, love the mod knife, is it ok to sand the handles down a little as a bit rough around the edges ? better pics very soon 

 

[Zed]

I just want to say big thanks to Al for the chance to try these knives out, ive wanted to try the MOD survival knife out for ages, monday ill take some pics and start my test on these knives, the MOD is a beast of a knife, talk about solid build  looking forward to the kids going to school monday so i can get these out, oh angie was not here when they came   

[AimlessWanderer]

A big thanks to neil, they landed on saturday but been a manic weekend, i love the extra thant neil threw in and ill add a little something from my TA days when i pass it on, due to my dispraxia i draw better than i write so ill add illustrations with some writting, great idea Al with the diary, love the mod knife, is it ok to sand the handles down a little as a bit rough around the edges ? better pics very soon 

Paul, get stuck in feller - fill yer boots 

These knives pretty much leave the factory "semi-finished". The scales are oversize and the final grind is more of a gesture. Neil comparison with "store bought axe" was quite apt - it's down to the user to get the full potential out of these items. You can use them as they are, but you really need to do a little refining yourselves to get the best out of them. Feel free to do what you feel is needed guys. If there's a rough spot - get rid, if it needs a edge/profile tweak - then tweak away.

Obviously we don't want to get to the end of the passaround with the big knife having been reduced to the size of the little one  the hardness will only be so deep on steel of that thickness - otherwise it'd snap on you in chopping duties - but other than that feel free to do what's needed. Even if someone feels a better sheath is needed for example, feel free to knock one up (just include the original when you pass it on so the next guy can see what comes from the factory)

Other than that, nice to hear your first impressions and look forward to your thoughts and pics as you put them into action

[Zed]

A big thanks to neil, they landed on saturday but been a manic weekend, i love the extra thant neil threw in and ill add a little something from my TA days when i pass it on, due to my dispraxia i draw better than i write so ill add illustrations with some writting, great idea Al with the diary, love the mod knife, is it ok to sand the handles down a little as a bit rough around the edges ? better pics very soon 

Paul, get stuck in feller - fill yer boots 

These knives pretty much leave the factory "semi-finished". The scales are oversize and the final grind is more of a gesture. Neil comparison with "store bought axe" was quite apt - it's down to the user to get the full potential out of these items. You can use them as they are, but you really need to do a little refining yourselves to get the best out of them. Feel free to do what you feel is needed guys. If there's a rough spot - get rid, if it needs a edge/profile tweak - then tweak away.

Obviously we don't want to get to the end of the passaround with the big knife having been reduced to the size of the little one  the hardness will only be so deep on steel of that thickness - otherwise it'd snap on you in chopping duties - but other than that feel free to do what's needed. Even if someone feels a better sheath is needed for example, feel free to knock one up (just include the original when you pass it on so the next guy can see what comes from the factory)

Other than that, nice to hear your first impressions and look forward to your thoughts and pics as you put them into action

Cheers again Al, im a bit odc and the handles dont fit the tang so ill smooth it down a little,  love the little welds under the guard 

[AimlessWanderer]

More than welcome feller 

As a side note that sheepsfoot knife that's in the pic is almost the same as my first "proper" slippie. Mine has brass bolsters and pins and a carbon steel blade, and it still gets carried and used to this day even after surviving an overnight spell in a submerged shed in the 2007 floods. My Andujar stainless bowie actually fared a lot worse and I ended up replacing it, but a mate of mine managed to ressurect it after I let him take it ...  I digress 

The slippie was a gift from a mate of mine over 20 years ago who worked in the trade back then - and it was actually a gift to him from the "Little Mester" who worked in Kelham Island Industrial Museum at the time ... though I'm not sure who the resident Little Mester was back then, and the tang stamp doesn't offer any clues 

[Zed]

Well sadly not much time to fiddle today but i did rub the handles down so now fit  and added some green paracord as a lanyard, hopefully more time tuesday