Your New Knife!

[Individualist]

New-ish to me is this Rick Hinderer imagining of the iconic KaBar fighting knife.

Everyone loves a KaBar style knife, they’re a huge part of American military history, but the design was always flawed by using a thin rat tail tang in the handle making it kind of useless for anything else other than sticking in flesh.

I’ve broken a couple of the standard issue KaBars over the years just from overuse/beating on them a little around camps, practicing throwing with them when drinking etc. They just snap right off at the guard/tang.

Spartan Blades recently came out with a magnacut version of a Kabar, it looks awesome, but, whoever the guy was in design/production that said “oh ya that’s sweet go for it!” never even took the rat tail tang into consideration and so they made theirs that way. Total fail IMO and a complete lack of attention to detail.

Searching further I came across the Hinderer version, made in 3V with black battle worn DLC coating, canvas micarta grips and handmade leather sheath. It’s gorgeous and the leather smells fantastic.

The blade, full tang grip and guard are all one solid piece of 3V. Finally somebody hit it out of the park and fixed a simple defect in an iconic blade.

I would’ve preferred (for looks only) the old school leather discs for the grip but the micarta feels really nice in the hand. They also incorporated a finger choil at the guard, to assist with retrieval of your blade if it ever gets stuck in bone, and it feels like it would very effective pulling it back in that way.

If I had one complaint it is that I wish they had ground a portion of the spine at a nice angle to use on fire rods. Unfortunately the spine is kind of smoothly rounded in that area.

A lot of companies have copied this knife over many decades, all using the same defective design, but this Hinderer version is the first and only copy that KaBar signed on for and allowed Hinderer to put their name on the blade.

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That’s a really nice looking take on a classic!

 

[KBCraig]

New Misen fillet knife. I still need to strop it.

 

[Ron Jablonski]

Where did you get the deep clip? I wouldn’t mind trying one different ones out myself.

Just finished installing the micarta scales and new pocket clip. Huge improvement over the stock clip.

 

[BMX]

Picked this up a couple of weeks ago and really liking it. Addresses what I didn’t like about my old Benchmade Mini Griptillian (Civivi has more blade surface and a much thinner profile, G10, improved action over axis lock, deep pocket clip) and it was only $70 shipped. I’d pay a little more for better steel but so far so good.

CIVIVI Yonder Thumb Stud & Crossbar Lock Knife G10 Handle (2.88" 14C28N Blade) C23073-1​

 

[Mountain]

Dauntless Work Knife V1, AEB-L, natural Micarta scales. Edge refined with ultra fine diamond stone, ceramic stone, and stropping. Was in a rush when opening bags of water softener salt and paid a pretty steep stupid tax involving several stitches.

 

[CMEBoston]

Buck 120 and an old butterfly knife that were buried in a box of reloading supplies gifted to me

 

[WestMass45]

Local gun store carrying a new line of knives.
My first OTF by Krate Tactical w/ carbon fiber handle.

 

[slugworth]

Local gun store carrying a new line of knives.
My first OTF by Krate Tactical w/ carbon fiber handle.View attachment 973529View attachment 973530

Nice!!!

Price?

 

[WestMass45]

Nice!!!

Price?

About $150 w/tax

 

[ChevyGuy91]

Buck 120 and an old butterfly knife that were buried in a box of reloading supplies gifted to me
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That 120 is sweet!