The first Swiss tech fixed blade (idk it's name, it's the one with green micarta. I got two of them, sold one to a friend and beat the living hell out the other. I literally tried my best to break it batoning wood that shouldn't be batoned. It took it like a champ. I have hammered it in to a tree about an inch and a half deep and used it as a step on. I'm pretty small at around 110-115lbs and 5'4 so it held me up with no issues even with me bouncing on it trying to break or bend it and nope it was perfect. Got my son to come over and step on it since he is a lot bigger than his momma and him standing on it and bouncing was no problem and he's 170lbs. That AUS8 took it no problem, while the steel is very soft on it at about 56.5hrc but it's tough as all get out. The steel takes a nice edge and sharpens up well so the heat treat is good but they temper them soft. I guess they was going for toughness over edge retention, the edge retention is poor and that's due to the softness they temper it to. It's fine out in the woods and makes a solid camp knife for very little investment. Just take you a ceramic rod with you so you can touch it up when it dulls and the ceramic rod will touch it up super easily. My only diss like of that model is how soft they tempered it, if they would have ran it at 60 the edge retention would have jumped up significantly and the toughness wouldn't have fallen off much and the stock thickness and grind is plenty thick. It would have made people a far more serviceable knife as at its RC it's just to soft, while it's a good deal on a well made and well priced knife if you need a simple camp knife or you like to carry fixed blades. It's to soft but it serves you will out in the woods, just don't expect it to stay sharp for very long. Throw a small strop with diamond emulsion on it in your pack and a ceramic rod, takes up very little room and weighs only a couple ounces in your pack. With the strop and ceramic rod you can take it back to hair popping in less than a minute.
Ok, first of all some people need more practice than others, don't put yourself down, just keep practicing and you will find your own way of doing it. good vid keep it up.
The belt clip is a joke, the sheath in general is terrible. I've been using the knife almost daily and I like it, I usually go with a scandi grind ,but this flat grind really works for me.
I will have to look at one of these next time i am at the Mart. An alternative method of striking is to anker the knife by the pommel on the stump at an angle just over the tinder pile. keep your wrist locked and then pull the ferro rod towards you while keeping the knife still.
I carry the shorter, leather handled version of that est wing every time I hit the woods. I changed the bevel to a flat grind and made it a razor, I do a lot of carving with it.
Ned Foss knives - D2 steel. They have several designs of folders and fixed blades. Yep -made in China too also but they only run around $35 - $65. The Swiss Tech knives are well made and designed but run a little soft I've heard. Ned Foss uses decent D2 steel and I've heard good things about edge retention but a little hard to sharpen. Best to just not let them get dull!
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Scrape some off the rod and then strike in while the rod is setting in the shavings you are risking cutting yourself moveing bothe all over way to high from the Kindling
They are good knives for the money. The only real problem with them is that they just run them too soft. On the fixed blades I guess I can give them a little break as maybe they were trying to maximize toughness even though if they would just bring the hardness up the toughness wouldn't go down much and the edge retention would go up a lot. But on folders and small folders especially that's where it just doesn't make any sense whatsoever to run them soft. We expect edge retention on our folders that's our main need. The toughness is sufficient because we're not using the knives hard on small folders so there is literally no reason for them to be running the steel that soft other than to save money on abrasives and tell people that they're actually doing it for toughness.
The perfect city slicker of today....edc, survivalist, exsperts.....reality is we have a lot of "campers" these days. There are a few who actually live in the Backcountry year around with just a small pack and actually live the lifestyle. Keep it simple....
@@Sam-c7y9d I definitely don't live in the city but there is one close. 40 miles or so. Never lived in the city. Never lived in the back country either however. Also I don't claim to be an expert in anything.
Seems like a good knife for a beginning outdoors person, heck I think I want one for my daypack to give a try.... I like it
Hey buddy awesome video I like the knife to just got it thanks for the info I didn’t know to keep it up
Swiss Tech hit a homerun with the Haltbar. Thanks for the great video!
The first Swiss tech fixed blade (idk it's name, it's the one with green micarta.
I got two of them, sold one to a friend and beat the living hell out the other. I literally tried my best to break it batoning wood that shouldn't be batoned. It took it like a champ. I have hammered it in to a tree about an inch and a half deep and used it as a step on. I'm pretty small at around 110-115lbs and 5'4 so it held me up with no issues even with me bouncing on it trying to break or bend it and nope it was perfect. Got my son to come over and step on it since he is a lot bigger than his momma and him standing on it and bouncing was no problem and he's 170lbs. That AUS8 took it no problem, while the steel is very soft on it at about 56.5hrc but it's tough as all get out. The steel takes a nice edge and sharpens up well so the heat treat is good but they temper them soft. I guess they was going for toughness over edge retention, the edge retention is poor and that's due to the softness they temper it to. It's fine out in the woods and makes a solid camp knife for very little investment. Just take you a ceramic rod with you so you can touch it up when it dulls and the ceramic rod will touch it up super easily. My only diss like of that model is how soft they tempered it, if they would have ran it at 60 the edge retention would have jumped up significantly and the toughness wouldn't have fallen off much and the stock thickness and grind is plenty thick. It would have made people a far more serviceable knife as at its RC it's just to soft, while it's a good deal on a well made and well priced knife if you need a simple camp knife or you like to carry fixed blades. It's to soft but it serves you will out in the woods, just don't expect it to stay sharp for very long. Throw a small strop with diamond emulsion on it in your pack and a ceramic rod, takes up very little room and weighs only a couple ounces in your pack. With the strop and ceramic rod you can take it back to hair popping in less than a minute.
Tip: hold the knife still and pull the ferro rod back towards you. That way you won’t mess up your shaving pile.
Ok, first of all some people need more practice than others, don't put yourself down, just keep practicing and you will find your own way of doing it. good vid keep it up.
The belt clip is a joke, the sheath in general is terrible. I've been using the knife almost daily and I like it, I usually go with a scandi grind ,but this flat grind really works for me.
Swiss texh makes a couple decent flash lights too. Thanks for sharing bro.
I will have to look at one of these next time i am at the Mart. An alternative method of striking is to anker the knife by the pommel on the stump at an angle just over the tinder pile. keep your wrist locked and then pull the ferro rod towards you while keeping the knife still.
For the price it seems like as good of performance as I would expect. 🤘🤘
It looks like it did really well. especially for the price. And especially for something you can get from Walmart.
Hiya ken what's up sweetie????
I carry the shorter, leather handled version of that est wing every time I hit the woods. I changed the bevel to a flat grind and made it a razor, I do a lot of carving with it.
Very nice! 👍👍👍👍
Ned Foss knives - D2 steel. They have several designs of folders and fixed blades. Yep -made in China too also but they only run around $35 - $65. The Swiss Tech knives are well made and designed but run a little soft I've heard. Ned Foss uses decent D2 steel and I've heard good things about edge retention but a little hard to sharpen. Best to just not let them get dull!
Nice work. Good to see you
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Good stuff 👍🏻
You may be able to shave a bit off the sheath if it has any retention down lower in the mold. 😎🤘
It's so thin and cheap I don't think I want to use it I don't think. May make another but not sure, never made one before.
Good evening, thanks for sharing, YAH bless !
Scrape some off the rod and then strike in while the rod is setting in the shavings you are risking cutting yourself moveing bothe all over way to high from the Kindling
swiss tech is good for the price
I'm happy with it! Good starter level camp knife.
They are good knives for the money. The only real problem with them is that they just run them too soft. On the fixed blades I guess I can give them a little break as maybe they were trying to maximize toughness even though if they would just bring the hardness up the toughness wouldn't go down much and the edge retention would go up a lot. But on folders and small folders especially that's where it just doesn't make any sense whatsoever to run them soft. We expect edge retention on our folders that's our main need. The toughness is sufficient because we're not using the knives hard on small folders so there is literally no reason for them to be running the steel that soft other than to save money on abrasives and tell people that they're actually doing it for toughness.
The perfect city slicker of today....edc, survivalist, exsperts.....reality is we have a lot of "campers" these days. There are a few who actually live in the Backcountry year around with just a small pack and actually live the lifestyle. Keep it simple....
@@Sam-c7y9d I definitely don't live in the city but there is one close. 40 miles or so. Never lived in the city. Never lived in the back country either however. Also I don't claim to be an expert in anything.
knife is still, just use the rod. Is way better...