To be fair, if you trademark your POS scam just to say someone violated your trademark then there will be no end to the level of pettiness that I will come up with. Huusk and Kamikoto are CCP scams, never forget to anyone watching.
0:29 "Hollow handle on a fixed blade knife..." 1:50 "Saw back on a knife..." 3:35 "Knives with excessively ergonomic seeming grip..." 4:57 "If the knife isn't saying what steel it is..." 6:37 "Be careful of scam knife companies..."
Think the sawback trend for knives, not bayonets, goes back to the Viet Nam era when some knifemakers added a sawback due to concerns of crewmen being trapped in a crashed helicopter. It was for ripping through the aluminum cabin walls. At least that is my recollection.
I remember reading somewhere that the sawteeth on the Glock 81 were useful not as a saw, but for making notches in wood that fit paracord perfectly. No idea if that's actually intended though.
I would say it goes back a bit more to mid 19th century and the "Pioneer sword". Sawbacks were added to the bayonets end of the 19th century. E.g the M1889 (Swiss Bayonet) was introduced in 1889 with sawback.
I did buy a 7Cr17 knife from some random Chinese letter company with hardness below 57 HRC A waste of 17$ But It was educational, and it did make a great trowel for my friend
If the blade has holes in it. Not like spydercos where the hole has a purpose. Just decorative holes or holes for your fingers. Also with the hollow handled knife, another reason they are weak is most of them have die cast zinc alloy handles. They crack and break very easily.
One exception to this is actually made by Spyderco, it's their fixed blade knife called Bow River, which has a small non functional hole just in front of the scales and just below the spine. It's a trademark feature I believe. Besides that I totally agree with you.
I had just finished watching your last video on Husk knives, maybe 30-45 minutes before going over to my parents' house for a family dinner. Knowing that I like knives, my mom proudly showed me the not just 1, but 3 brand new Husk knives that had just come in the mail earlier that day. Now I'm stuck in the awkward situation of do I burst her bubble and tell her the truth? Nope! I let her have her moment, tell my father the truth as I'm leaving and let him take the hit!
Great points Pete. Funny, there’s always a stray exception and I have to share it with you. Over 35 years ago I was gifted a $25 dollar hollow handle hunting/survival knife that is stamped “made in Japan, 440c stainless. It has a hollow grind, sawback spine and plain leather sheath with a small built in pouch with a stone. I used it to process deer for years, using a rock to drive it thru the pelvic bone and sometimes into the ground. I beat on it. But, it sharpens up to a razor, is still sound and works like new! I don’t know why, but that cheap knife still has a place in my collection. Weird….
@@wazzeradk9398 I mean yeah if it's one piece it can be good. But he mentioned it also in the video that for this type to be good it needs to be one piece.
Sometimes, even in their cheaper era, the Japanese refuse to make crap. I have an old ~70's kitchen knife blade, handle long lost, that sharpens well and holds an edge.
@@Pablo668my dad had one of the cheap jap fishing knives from the 60's or 70's. The one that the grip and the sheath is a ruler one side said honest fisherman the other side dishonest the honest side went to 10 in the dishonest was 18 or something. Had a bottle opener at the base of the back side of the blade had fish scales on it to Then just the knife edge. A cheap novelty knife. But it worked and you could get it shaving sharp dad used it about 40 something years its still in my tackle box on the boat now for another 20 years or so. Perty good for a cheap knife
When you were talking stainless I have to admit I reached for my Victorinox Swiss Army, good to hear that it's at least decent steel. I've had mine for years, it goes ok. Good vid btw. Subbed.
Totally agree with you, especially on the handles. Can never understand why manufacturers continue to design knives with finger grooves on the handles, and that surprisingly many reputable companies are still doing so. Maybe there are users who loves the grooves but definitely not me. The most important aspect for me when selecting a knife is the comfort of the handle. If it is not comfortable I won’t even bother.
Depends on the knife as to if I want finger grooves. And I basically only have 2 that do. Both of which I made . One is my interpretation of a 1918 trench knife with knuckle spikes. The other is just a general purpose field knife.
I've been given one here 🇬🇧, it's got the compass and tubular container with Morse code printed on the side. The owner was throwing it into the rubbish bin👍😁. It's in my shed, just as an interesting thing from the Eighties.
Love the vids fir whatever reason don't comment very often but I knew the huusk was Def being mentioned and following clip made me laugh out loud never get tired of your humor especially when it comes to that brand 😂
Hollow handled knives originally started out as small fishing knives in the early 1900’s . The rasp on the spine was for scaling fish and the hollow handle stored extra line and tackle . The blade was used for gutting and filleting .
So my Mutilator 2 knife with a ridged spine, shark teeth blade serrations, extra holes in the blade, German Surgical Steel, spring action, full camo paint job and designed by retired Colonel George Covey is not a first rate self defense commando knife? I am crushed. I was hoping to get the worst knife in the world, but unfortunately it turns out to be a little better than the Zombie Hunter pocket knife.
Tkell seems to be making some pretty decent defensive blades according to reviewers. He stresses his military background. But he may be the exception to your comment. Or maybe not. Time will tell.
The term “Rostefri” was use for a few decades by some of the Mora knives makers back in the day. It was just a their way to say that the steel was stainless not carbon.
And surprisingly, the cold steel survival edge with it's handle compartment holds up way better than any 30 bucks product have the right be, certainly not confidence inducing, but at least the handle itself didn't give up after few campsite recreational jackassery, (the o-rings and the end cap being less beefy than a coke bottle cap as they are, have water sealing problem to start with.)
Spot on! As for hollow handles, Cold Steel used to make a decent, budget hollow handle survival knife called the "Survival Edge" that came in black or Halloween (er... "hunting") orange. It was basically a hollow handled Mora with a little survival kit. Whatever epoxy/molding method they used really did hold the blade through some abuse. It was like the TV Rambo knife for 40-something, 12 year-olds (myself included) that actually held its own. Sadly they discontinued it after Lynn sold.
ah yes I have a couple of those. Pretty solid. The blades are the mirror-y 4116 stainless. Not bad. They do float and the handle compartment is waterproof. I've stuffed a tiny roll of string, a button compass, some tinder and I think a Bic mini in one. Or maybe it was just a small firesteel. Either way they are really good.
I'd add any kind of gimmick knife - those ones with weird shapes or grinds, single purpose knives, and ones that are clearly low priced knock-offs of main stream offerings. I would suggest people look at smaller knife makers. You might pay more for a single knife, but you're helping support a craftsman, and often end-up with a much better build knife than you could buy from a major manufacturer.
a couple buddies have asked me for recommendations but they have no frame of reference for whats junk/scam. This will be where i send them, thanks Pete
5:41 The new Victorinox Venture fixed blade bushcraft knife is Sandvic 14C 28N steel, and I understand more of their knives now come out in this steel. It is a very good and versatile knife steel. You didn't mention laminated blades, like Cold Steel San Mai III blades or the Falkniven blades - any reason why not? Good tips though, for beginners.
I've used a knife with saw for a long time and I can tell you - the main frustrating problem is the food that gets stuck in the saw teeth that just never can't be completely cleaned in the field
Opinel Inox should be another exception. 12C27Mod isn't a top tier steel, but it's roughly in the same tier as 8Cr and AUS 8 (and higher edge retention than 1.4116 Victorinox uses), fine for < US$ 20, and the geometry and handle ergos largely compensate.
100%. Traditional knives (like laguiole too) gets a boost in performance because of the geometry. Same goes for victorinox. It’s not a good edge retention steel, but the serrated one is good because the steel is tough(er) and they do shallow serrations compared to competition, with this edges. It just works.
@@twatmunro I live adjacent to a swamp; relative humidity is regularly 70+%, and higher in my pants pockets. Opinels are the sort of cheap utility knives one leaves with the gardening tools, in the picnic basket, or in the glovebox, so I'm willing to sacrifice the fineness of grain their 1095-ish Carbone offers, in return for not opening these to find a rust pitted knife. I better care for my EDC knives, but there, I'm willing to pay up for high alloy tool steels.
@@twatmunro For food preparation the inox is better IMHO. It does not react with acidic food and does not alter the taste of food. Also it is easier to maintain. I own both inox and carbon. The carbon steel gets slightly sharper and retains the edge slightly better. For me that does not make enough of a difference to bother with the lower corrosion resistance when used as a outdoors knife.
On the hollow handled knife; if you want an inexpensive way to get your Rambo off, and have a hollow handled knife, try the Cold Steel Bushman. You'll have to MacGyver it a little bit to put your fishing kit and First aid kit in the handle, but i got one and it is great for the price and it is not going to just fall apart.
An excellent set of tips. The list could go on forever. One for me is beware the dupes. Yesterday an ad for Gerber Strongarms at 75% off came across my feed. I went and had a look and, yep, they certainly looked like Strongarm, including the multi-mount system. The big problem was they were selling a colour Gerber don't do in the Strongarm so the fake alarm rang loudly. What is that saying about too good to be true?
I think your completely right here! An exception might be the original Aitor JK II. It came in various types and mine had a saw back with diamond ground teeth. It actually looked a lot like the black one in your vid, with the same type of hollow handle, it just didn't have a silly screw but a rivet and epoxy to secure the blade. Never any issues. Yours, in the vid is a low qual spin of from this great knife. (I'm using past tense 'cause one day it was stolen from me...)
My most used, and abused, knife is an Aitor Jungle king I.( Hollow handle & backsaw) It served me well in Patagonia as well as in Amazona´s forest & the pyrenees. Aitor´s hollow handle knives do fantastic , The Boker apparo is also very good( the backsaw is less usefull than aitors). But I agree with your recommendations... Avoid cheap hollow handles like a plague.
Most steels today is a kind of recycled, even the best powder steel uses scrap to make the base alloy, then the add more elements to get what they want.
*40 year knife maker here. I have blades placed Worldwide. The only thing I would add to this is beware of rubberized or over-molded grips. I know Mora's gets a lot of press on UA-cam, and Mora makes a decent light use knife, but if you're headed out into the boondocks to hunt or fish or fight, the last thing you want is for the handle on your knife to fall off. Knives from Gerber, Cold Steel, Buck and a few others have the same problem. They are almost all made of cheap polymers or low grade rubber and they are simply molded onto the tang. Over time they fall apart, especially if they laterally stressed, impacted or get exposed to certain oils or caustic elements. Knives are like anything else, you get what you pay for* *BTW...Thanks for going after Huusk...They sell some of the cheapest garbage on the planet*
My Fällkniven F1 with its rubberized Thermorun handle survived 4 years of S.E. Asia wirh no sign of wear. My rubber armoured binoculars (from Minox) started "rotting/melting" after 2 years...
@@rnkmode1876 *From a builder's viewpoint, there's nothing CPM3V can do that 1.4116 German can't do, at about half the price. L6 is tougher, O1 is sharper. CPM has gotten really good at "reinventing" the same Steel we've been using for decades and slapping their name on it...Does anybody else remember Vasco Wear, Cru-Wear? They're PMT is not much more than a marketing campaign*
Nearly every softball huusk review uve seen now has at least one comment about it being made from pot metal. Im guessing thats all coming from your reviews. You're doing good work.
If you want a real deal hollow handle knife, you’re gonna want to look for an old and discontinued Chris Reeve one-piece but know that you’re going to pay through the nose because they’re highly collectible. I had one about 14 years ago and sold it on bladeforums. It’s easily worth double what I sold it for now.
There are also some old Schrades that measure up, as well. Although I've used one very similar to the one in this video, and while I'd never make it my *only* knife, it holds up better than you might think. At the very least, I'd feel confident it could get me through one outing if things went awry. Put another way, it seems to be built with short-term performance in mind. Don't buy the $15 Rambo clones, though, those things won't even last a casual outing, lol
The finger grooved handles are usually designed with adult hands in mind and in my experience not as big of a problem. I agree though that it can be an issue like ill fitting shoes or gloves. Ideally you should try before you buy.
"Choice of renowned chefs" or anything similar. Believe it or not, celebrity chefs shill for sponsorships. That 'hex clad' stuff is just rebranded Teflon and Whustoff make pretty good kitchen knives, but for the materials and price of certain models, you have a choice of less expensive or better quality.
One thing for whatever reason made me laugh out loud was when i watched a with an A.G. Russell interview, and he got on the topic of the Rambo knife with the saw on the spine, and the combination of the clear frustration/annoyance A.G had, along with him saying "its just asinine!". Idk it just made me laugh.
@@firestorm8471 i mean. Sure that one was. I think it was more i. Response to the giant avalanche of people that wanted a knife like that after the movie came out.
Not all hollowed handle knives are bad or need to be expensive.. the standard issue knife in Austria is from Glock and is hollow handled. It sucks at cutting from the factory🙂and only costs like 40€ in the EU.
I kinda have to disagree with the first one, I get that you're talking specifically about rambo knives but south east asia has a lot of hollow handled machete designs so they can attach it to a long stick and chop down fruits, they're pretty cheap too. Cold steel has the bushman and schrade has the SCHF1 for more affordable hollow handle knives.
ah yes the bushman indeed does fall in the exceptions category for sure. generally hoping the knofe shown is indicative of what to avoid. I really should try that schrade
hollow handle knives made from a single piece of steel milled down to shape obviously do not have issues w the connection to the handle, bc there isn’t one. besides the molecular structure of the single steel billet
For all that have ended up with an ornamental knife having a decent blade but a mostly hollow handle with a short blade tang "floating" inside: Sticky Jack Glue! I have only seen it in mail order catalogs, but look out for it with a Jackass on the red label. It is a FAST-FOAMING acrylic quick-set glue that dries rock hard after completely filling a space, producing a SOLID handle that use to be hollow. Inject only a small amount inside of your hole-drilled handle top with a used syringe body, maybe two cc, set the knife top-UP, and every quarter hour use a stick to wipe away the ooze of glue that escapes around the blade and out of the top hole. It is very hard to carve off when hardened! Do not buy a large bottle---it will harden in weeks after opening. Keep it off of your skin too or glue yourself to anything!........................elsullo
#6 If the VERY FIRST Google result of the brand (after affiliates and sponsored links) is an Australian man throwing a trashcan at the knife - it's probably not good. Great SEO there, Haask!
You should add serrated edges to your list. The more you use knives the more you realize that a plain edge is better than a serrated or partial serrated edge except in a few very specific applications.
I would expand on the point about steel and say that any knife with a steel less capable than 8Cr13MoV should not be considered. Looking at you Gerber 👀
This is a very broad topic. I guess all are points but usually people buy things that they like then later worry about quality. Every young person has bought a junk knife. In fact a few knives rated as junk were some of my favorites. Many knives nowadays thought of as collectibles. I remember saying I’m not gonna buy Japanese junk. Japan only ranked a little over China. Only in the last 15 years has quality caught up. I remember coldsteel Japan was nothing anyone wanted years ago. Now they are sought after.
I actually purchased an Aitor jungle king 1, a few years back, its a real one, and i was so bummed once i tried it out, outdoors. Worst steel ever for a knife, regarding the blade, and i would never trust it, if i had to use that knife only, to get me out of some weird outdoor jam, if that makes any sense
The Pro S and Basic S are in Mora's standard stainless steel : Sandvik 12C27. It is a basic 0.6% carbon, 13.5% chromium stainless steel that is just a hair away from their razor blade steel, 13C26. It is close to 440A, but doesn't have excessive chromium to weaken it. The Sandvik alloys are rather clean (low sulfur, phosphorus and other impurities), so they perform a little above what you might expect. Like razor blade steel, they sharpen and polish very nicely without a big fight. I think the only Mora stainless knife that isn't 12C27 would be the Garberg with 14C28N, which is a nice upgrade from 12C27. The really neat thing about Mora's stainless knives is that their heat treat is extremely consistent and is in fact automated. They do so much 12C27 that you can expect a well tuned trade off between hardness and strength.
“Designed for military and first responders” is also a big red flag in my experience.
"Designed by veteran soldiers"
Absolutely
Yep
Military grade = built by the cheapest bidder for the contract, for squaddies who will probably find new and ingenious ways of breaking it anyway.
@@Oldtanktapper hello M16!
LOL!! Pete, you’re really giving the middle finger to Huusk over the past few videos. I love it because they deserve it.
I try
To be fair, if you trademark your POS scam just to say someone violated your trademark then there will be no end to the level of pettiness that I will come up with.
Huusk and Kamikoto are CCP scams, never forget to anyone watching.
They deserve it because they worked hard. They earned it.
Love to see it
They really did poke the bear when they made that claim against you.
"Designed by former operators"
What they really mean is:
"Designed by former telephone operators"
Wait for the GBRS: KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER KNIFE: (Copryright) SeAL TeAM 6/Oper8toar/MadE in ChYnAh/Designed ANd PateNteD bY dJ n’ cOlE.
@@JimTemplemanwe think alike.
If they claim in their marketing "It nearly got banned for being too sharp". I think Husk said that.
0:29 "Hollow handle on a fixed blade knife..."
1:50 "Saw back on a knife..."
3:35 "Knives with excessively ergonomic seeming grip..."
4:57 "If the knife isn't saying what steel it is..."
6:37 "Be careful of scam knife companies..."
Think the sawback trend for knives, not bayonets, goes back to the Viet Nam era when some knifemakers added a sawback due to concerns of crewmen being trapped in a crashed helicopter. It was for ripping through the aluminum cabin walls. At least that is my recollection.
yes indeed and somehow it got skewed into a ‘wood saw’ role for the general public who would never need a fusilage escape tool
@@CedricAda Guess the manufacturers thought it looked cool 🤷.
True story. And root saws. I still don't like them and they are in the way, but I don't even like jimping.
I remember reading somewhere that the sawteeth on the Glock 81 were useful not as a saw, but for making notches in wood that fit paracord perfectly. No idea if that's actually intended though.
I would say it goes back a bit more to mid 19th century and the "Pioneer sword". Sawbacks were added to the bayonets end of the 19th century. E.g the M1889 (Swiss Bayonet) was introduced in 1889 with sawback.
You can’t stop a knife enthusiast from buying at least one crap knife, it’s a canon event
I mean, it's really most of our's start down the path of damnnation...
I did buy a 7Cr17 knife from some random Chinese letter company with hardness below 57 HRC
A waste of 17$
But
It was educational, and it did make a great trowel for my friend
Husk is now a swear word in our house. As in 'That Husking Motherhusker is never going to work. Husk it!!'.
My life is so much better with all the recent content from Pete.
If the blade has holes in it. Not like spydercos where the hole has a purpose. Just decorative holes or holes for your fingers.
Also with the hollow handled knife, another reason they are weak is most of them have die cast zinc alloy handles. They crack and break very easily.
One exception to this is actually made by Spyderco, it's their fixed blade knife called Bow River, which has a small non functional hole just in front of the scales and just below the spine. It's a trademark feature I believe. Besides that I totally agree with you.
"As seen on TV"
I had just finished watching your last video on Husk knives, maybe 30-45 minutes before going over to my parents' house for a family dinner. Knowing that I like knives, my mom proudly showed me the not just 1, but 3 brand new Husk knives that had just come in the mail earlier that day. Now I'm stuck in the awkward situation of do I burst her bubble and tell her the truth? Nope! I let her have her moment, tell my father the truth as I'm leaving and let him take the hit!
You did this whole video to set up your Huusk knife joke.
10/10 punch line, I can see you holding back the laughter pete 🤣
What is the reason to make jokes about the Huisk knife? It's existence is a joke. On a scale of 10 it's an 18/10.
Great points Pete. Funny, there’s always a stray exception and I have to share it with you. Over 35 years ago I was gifted a $25 dollar hollow handle hunting/survival knife that is stamped “made in Japan, 440c stainless. It has a hollow grind, sawback spine and plain leather sheath with a small built in pouch with a stone. I used it to process deer for years, using a rock to drive it thru the pelvic bone and sometimes into the ground. I beat on it. But, it sharpens up to a razor, is still sound and works like new! I don’t know why, but that cheap knife still has a place in my collection. Weird….
is it made from a solid piece of steel? like the handle and blade are all one piece instead of screwed together?
@@acid6urns yes, one piece
@@wazzeradk9398 I mean yeah if it's one piece it can be good. But he mentioned it also in the video that for this type to be good it needs to be one piece.
Sometimes, even in their cheaper era, the Japanese refuse to make crap. I have an old ~70's kitchen knife blade, handle long lost, that sharpens well and holds an edge.
@@Pablo668my dad had one of the cheap jap fishing knives from the 60's or 70's. The one that the grip and the sheath is a ruler one side said honest fisherman the other side dishonest the honest side went to 10 in the dishonest was 18 or something.
Had a bottle opener at the base of the back side of the blade had fish scales on it to
Then just the knife edge. A cheap novelty knife. But it worked and you could get it shaving sharp dad used it about 40 something years its still in my tackle box on the boat now for another 20 years or so. Perty good for a cheap knife
really liked the mention of mora stainless im obsessed with it
Here's another exception: Glock FM 78. The steel is a mystery and the handle is hollow, yet it's (almost) bombproof.
When you were talking stainless I have to admit I reached for my Victorinox Swiss Army, good to hear that it's at least decent steel. I've had mine for years, it goes ok.
Good vid btw. Subbed.
that steel does exactly what it needs to.
welcome!
"Military Grade" = Avoid at ALL costs.
Gerber Strongarm didn't need to say anything, it lets it's performance proof the pudding
A well thought out and presented list. I completely agree and well done.
This video came shockingly close to just another digression on Huusk knives, and I wish it had. I love your series on Huusk.
Totally agree with you, especially on the handles. Can never understand why manufacturers continue to design knives with finger grooves on the handles, and that surprisingly many reputable companies are still doing so. Maybe there are users who loves the grooves but definitely not me. The most important aspect for me when selecting a knife is the comfort of the handle. If it is not comfortable I won’t even bother.
Depends on the knife as to if I want finger grooves. And I basically only have 2 that do. Both of which I made . One is my interpretation of a 1918 trench knife with knuckle spikes. The other is just a general purpose field knife.
i usualy use a knife with extra cusions on the sofa
So the Rambo knife that 18 year old me bought at the mall in 1982 isn't high quality?
Lol
I had the same one.
I've been given one here 🇬🇧, it's got the compass and tubular container with Morse code printed on the side.
The owner was throwing it into the rubbish bin👍😁.
It's in my shed, just as an interesting thing from the Eighties.
Love the vids fir whatever reason don't comment very often but I knew the huusk was Def being mentioned and following clip made me laugh out loud never get tired of your humor especially when it comes to that brand 😂
“Ginsu 3000 !
With Japanese Super steel!
Never needs sharpening !
Lifetime warranty !
Cuts through battleship steel !”
Sounds like a katana, everyone knows a katana can slice right through a pure block of titanium
Here.... Take my money!
Hollow handled knives originally started out as small fishing knives in the early 1900’s . The rasp on the spine was for scaling fish and the hollow handle stored extra line and tackle . The blade was used for gutting and filleting .
dont you need a baton for that?
@@JuaneDosesII-wj6dd you think gutting and filleting requres an baton?
So my Mutilator 2 knife with a ridged spine, shark teeth blade serrations, extra holes in the blade, German Surgical Steel, spring action, full camo paint job and designed by retired Colonel George Covey is not a first rate self defense commando knife? I am crushed.
I was hoping to get the worst knife in the world, but unfortunately it turns out to be a little better than the Zombie Hunter pocket knife.
It says Huusk
The glock knife in spring steel if my favorite outdoor knife. Indestructible!
congrats on 65k followers!
Thanks for the video Pete. I just got into collecting knives a year ago and I wish I had a video like this when starting out.
"Veteran owned"
Tkell seems to be making some pretty decent defensive blades according to reviewers. He stresses his military background. But he may be the exception to your comment. Or maybe not. Time will tell.
@@krazmokramer "defensive blades"
I have that Muela olive handled knife. It felt nice at first but you can't change your grip. Now it just sits on my table.
The term “Rostefri” was use for a few decades by some of the Mora knives makers back in the day. It was just a their way to say that the steel was stainless not carbon.
And surprisingly, the cold steel survival edge with it's handle compartment holds up way better than any 30 bucks product have the right be, certainly not confidence inducing, but at least the handle itself didn't give up after few campsite recreational jackassery, (the o-rings and the end cap being less beefy than a coke bottle cap as they are, have water sealing problem to start with.)
Spot on! As for hollow handles, Cold Steel used to make a decent, budget hollow handle survival knife called the "Survival Edge" that came in black or Halloween (er... "hunting") orange. It was basically a hollow handled Mora with a little survival kit. Whatever epoxy/molding method they used really did hold the blade through some abuse. It was like the TV Rambo knife for 40-something, 12 year-olds (myself included) that actually held its own. Sadly they discontinued it after Lynn sold.
ah yes I have a couple of those. Pretty solid. The blades are the mirror-y 4116 stainless. Not bad. They do float and the handle compartment is waterproof. I've stuffed a tiny roll of string, a button compass, some tinder and I think a Bic mini in one. Or maybe it was just a small firesteel. Either way they are really good.
Cold steel is the exception to so many rules...
schrade makes a hollow handle knife like that that’s just one solid piece of steel milled down
@@acid6urns Yeah, I really wanted to get my hands on a Schrade schf1sm, but it too seems to be discontinued. Seemed like a pretty legit design too.
reg the first knife with the screwed-on handle : i have one from 1994 by Al Mar. and it's a Tank. was 450 USD at the time though...
got my first larger fixed blade in today. spartan blades harsey fighter. things a chunk. excited to use it camping
I'd add any kind of gimmick knife - those ones with weird shapes or grinds, single purpose knives, and ones that are clearly low priced knock-offs of main stream offerings. I would suggest people look at smaller knife makers. You might pay more for a single knife, but you're helping support a craftsman, and often end-up with a much better build knife than you could buy from a major manufacturer.
a couple buddies have asked me for recommendations but they have no frame of reference for whats junk/scam. This will be where i send them, thanks Pete
Always glad to see you post ! Great PSA !
Great points. Thank you!
Hollow handles only on one piece forged. Saw teeth on saws. Full tang instead of stick tang. 420C the very minimum steel for knives.
#6- faux blacksmith/hammered texture...
5:41 The new Victorinox Venture fixed blade bushcraft knife is Sandvic 14C 28N steel, and I understand more of their knives now come out in this steel. It is a very good and versatile knife steel.
You didn't mention laminated blades, like Cold Steel San Mai III blades or the Falkniven blades - any reason why not?
Good tips though, for beginners.
I've used a knife with saw for a long time and I can tell you - the main frustrating problem is the food that gets stuck in the saw teeth that just never can't be completely cleaned in the field
Good and useful video...especially remarks on knife handles
Opinel Inox should be another exception. 12C27Mod isn't a top tier steel, but it's roughly in the same tier as 8Cr and AUS 8 (and higher edge retention than 1.4116 Victorinox uses), fine for < US$ 20, and the geometry and handle ergos largely compensate.
100%.
Traditional knives (like laguiole too) gets a boost in performance because of the geometry. Same goes for victorinox. It’s not a good edge retention steel, but the serrated one is good because the steel is tough(er) and they do shallow serrations compared to competition, with this edges.
It just works.
I'm not sure why anyone would buy the Inox over the carbon steel though. Takes such a great edge and stropping gets it back to fantastic.
Came here for this
@@twatmunro I live adjacent to a swamp; relative humidity is regularly 70+%, and higher in my pants pockets.
Opinels are the sort of cheap utility knives one leaves with the gardening tools, in the picnic basket, or in the glovebox, so I'm willing to sacrifice the fineness of grain their 1095-ish Carbone offers, in return for not opening these to find a rust pitted knife.
I better care for my EDC knives, but there, I'm willing to pay up for high alloy tool steels.
@@twatmunro For food preparation the inox is better IMHO. It does not react with acidic food and does not alter the taste of food. Also it is easier to maintain. I own both inox and carbon. The carbon steel gets slightly sharper and retains the edge slightly better. For me that does not make enough of a difference to bother with the lower corrosion resistance when used as a outdoors knife.
'Rostfrei' is simply German for 'stainless'.. obviously not a steel type, but also not meaningless.
other then that: interesting video!
On the hollow handled knife; if you want an inexpensive way to get your Rambo off, and have a hollow handled knife, try the Cold Steel Bushman. You'll have to MacGyver it a little bit to put your fishing kit and First aid kit in the handle, but i got one and it is great for the price and it is not going to just fall apart.
An excellent set of tips. The list could go on forever. One for me is beware the dupes. Yesterday an ad for Gerber Strongarms at 75% off came across my feed. I went and had a look and, yep, they certainly looked like Strongarm, including the multi-mount system. The big problem was they were selling a colour Gerber don't do in the Strongarm so the fake alarm rang loudly. What is that saying about too good to be true?
I think your completely right here! An exception might be the original Aitor JK II. It came in various types and mine had a saw back with diamond ground teeth. It actually looked a lot like the black one in your vid, with the same type of hollow handle, it just didn't have a silly screw but a rivet and epoxy to secure the blade. Never any issues. Yours, in the vid is a low qual spin of from this great knife. (I'm using past tense 'cause one day it was stolen from me...)
That’s why I got a Swamp Rat SawManDu! Full flat grind so no binding. S7 Mod steel so no worries about breakage. 👌
Have owned my Milwaukee Tradesman for about 2 years now. Best knife I ever had. Love everything except the color.
first time ive ever seen one of my knives in pete's video and it's this one 😄. love my mulay madrid market special.
My most used, and abused, knife is an Aitor Jungle king I.( Hollow handle & backsaw) It served me well in Patagonia as well as in Amazona´s forest & the pyrenees. Aitor´s hollow handle knives do fantastic , The Boker apparo is also very good( the backsaw is less usefull than aitors). But I agree with your recommendations... Avoid cheap hollow handles like a plague.
Most steels today is a kind of recycled, even the best powder steel uses scrap to make the base alloy, then the add more elements to get what they want.
*40 year knife maker here. I have blades placed Worldwide. The only thing I would add to this is beware of rubberized or over-molded grips. I know Mora's gets a lot of press on UA-cam, and Mora makes a decent light use knife, but if you're headed out into the boondocks to hunt or fish or fight, the last thing you want is for the handle on your knife to fall off. Knives from Gerber, Cold Steel, Buck and a few others have the same problem. They are almost all made of cheap polymers or low grade rubber and they are simply molded onto the tang. Over time they fall apart, especially if they laterally stressed, impacted or get exposed to certain oils or caustic elements. Knives are like anything else, you get what you pay for*
*BTW...Thanks for going after Huusk...They sell some of the cheapest garbage on the planet*
My Fällkniven F1 with its rubberized Thermorun handle survived 4 years of S.E. Asia wirh no sign of wear. My rubber armoured binoculars (from Minox) started "rotting/melting" after 2 years...
What do you think of knives like the CS SRK in CPM3V or lesser known Steel Will Argonaut 800?.
@@rnkmode1876 *From a builder's viewpoint, there's nothing CPM3V can do that 1.4116 German can't do, at about half the price. L6 is tougher, O1 is sharper. CPM has gotten really good at "reinventing" the same Steel we've been using for decades and slapping their name on it...Does anybody else remember Vasco Wear, Cru-Wear? They're PMT is not much more than a marketing campaign*
Nearly every softball huusk review uve seen now has at least one comment about it being made from pot metal. Im guessing thats all coming from your reviews. You're doing good work.
Your videos lately have been fkn GOLD! Thanks for keeping my spirits up when the world is falling apart. Huusk knives are to blame....somehow
Thanks Peter. Another great video. 🔪🎸
My hollow Handel cold steel bushman is fixed to a pole and ready for the wombat uprising.
Still a huge fan seen every one of your vids sense the bark river bravo 1 lt keep it up brother
Pumping out content, ppreciate it m8
I send Knife newbies to your Channel. Thank you for the content!
Do a review on high end knives w ceramic handles
As far as i know one of the only decent hollow handle knives made if from Chris Reeve. And Chris Reeve always means $$$$
Dpx does hollow handles right
indeed, and I believe Reeve did something in a hollow handle too. Maybe medford at some point?
Yep
Always a bit cautious about Damascus claims on commercially produced knives
What steel is a glock knife?
The DBK guys tested a very expensive knife with a saw on the back, it destroyed the wood mallet they used to batoning.
Yeah, those guys don't really baton, they smash things 😂 They break everything. I enjoy watching them destroy stuff
@@ericdpeerik3928 No Mercy!
I knew it! I knew it! It was only a matter of time before Huusk showed up😂
Really good points 😁
Nothing that with never dulls on the package
How do you feel about truck stop knives? Is that even a thing in Australia??
If you want a real deal hollow handle knife, you’re gonna want to look for an old and discontinued Chris Reeve one-piece but know that you’re going to pay through the nose because they’re highly collectible. I had one about 14 years ago and sold it on bladeforums. It’s easily worth double what I sold it for now.
There are also some old Schrades that measure up, as well. Although I've used one very similar to the one in this video, and while I'd never make it my *only* knife, it holds up better than you might think. At the very least, I'd feel confident it could get me through one outing if things went awry.
Put another way, it seems to be built with short-term performance in mind. Don't buy the $15 Rambo clones, though, those things won't even last a casual outing, lol
A very good video sir.
The finger grooved handles are usually designed with adult hands in mind and in my experience not as big of a problem. I agree though that it can be an issue like ill fitting shoes or gloves. Ideally you should try before you buy.
I thought all 5 were going to be “make sure the box doesn’t say Husk”
Mora uses 12c27 sandvik and a simple carbon steel that just about identical to 1095
C100 is a bit better than 1095, but it’s basically the same. C100 should be the upgrade from 1095 basically.
@@clintwestwood3539 not upgrade same 1095
"Choice of renowned chefs" or anything similar. Believe it or not, celebrity chefs shill for sponsorships. That 'hex clad' stuff is just rebranded Teflon and Whustoff make pretty good kitchen knives, but for the materials and price of certain models, you have a choice of less expensive or better quality.
One thing for whatever reason made me laugh out loud was when i watched a with an A.G. Russell interview, and he got on the topic of the Rambo knife with the saw on the spine, and the combination of the clear frustration/annoyance A.G had, along with him saying "its just asinine!".
Idk it just made me laugh.
Yeah, but the
Knife Jimmy Lyle made for Sylvester Stalone was a work of art
@@firestorm8471 i mean. Sure that one was.
I think it was more i. Response to the giant avalanche of people that wanted a knife like that after the movie came out.
Pete, ever gonna do a test on the new Spyderco mule CPM Rex T15? I have one I can send you😊
So, is Pot Steel ok?
The company name starts with an H and ends with a uusk.....
Not all hollowed handle knives are bad or need to be expensive.. the standard issue knife in Austria is from Glock and is hollow handled. It sucks at cutting from the factory🙂and only costs like 40€ in the EU.
I kinda have to disagree with the first one, I get that you're talking specifically about rambo knives but south east asia has a lot of hollow handled machete designs so they can attach it to a long stick and chop down fruits, they're pretty cheap too. Cold steel has the bushman and schrade has the SCHF1 for more affordable hollow handle knives.
ah yes the bushman indeed does fall in the exceptions category for sure. generally hoping the knofe shown is indicative of what to avoid. I really should try that schrade
hollow handle knives made from a single piece of steel milled down to shape obviously do not have issues w the connection to the handle, bc there isn’t one. besides the molecular structure of the single steel billet
I kinda want to see you sharpen the "saw" on the back of that first knife.
For all that have ended up with an ornamental knife having a decent blade but a mostly hollow handle with a short blade tang "floating" inside: Sticky Jack Glue! I have only seen it in mail order catalogs, but look out for it with a Jackass on the red label. It is a FAST-FOAMING acrylic quick-set glue that dries rock hard after completely filling a space, producing a SOLID handle that use to be hollow. Inject only a small amount inside of your hole-drilled handle top with a used syringe body, maybe two cc, set the knife top-UP, and every quarter hour use a stick to wipe away the ooze of glue that escapes around the blade and out of the top hole. It is very hard to carve off when hardened! Do not buy a large bottle---it will harden in weeks after opening. Keep it off of your skin too or glue yourself to anything!........................elsullo
Saw backs. They should be called notching teeth. Personally, I carry a small Pocket Boy for sawing small stuff.
Stress risers.
#6 If the VERY FIRST Google result of the brand (after affiliates and sponsored links) is an Australian man throwing a trashcan at the knife - it's probably not good. Great SEO there, Haask!
You should add serrated edges to your list. The more you use knives the more you realize that a plain edge is better than a serrated or partial serrated edge except in a few very specific applications.
I like serrated edges for cutting cord. Be it fishing line, seatbelts, or anchor ropes wrapped around my newly-wet legs after flipping a canoe.
I wondered when Huusk would rate a mention 😜
Saw teeth are generally for use on rope and webbing not wood.
I would expand on the point about steel and say that any knife with a steel less capable than 8Cr13MoV should not be considered.
Looking at you Gerber 👀
A Huusk knife with finger grooves ?
Now that would be what I'm looking for !
This is a very broad topic. I guess all are points but usually people buy things that they like then later worry about quality. Every young person has bought a junk knife. In fact a few knives rated as junk were some of my favorites.
Many knives nowadays thought of as collectibles. I remember saying I’m not gonna buy Japanese junk. Japan only ranked a little over China. Only in the last 15 years has quality caught up.
I remember coldsteel Japan was nothing anyone wanted years ago. Now they are sought after.
I actually purchased an Aitor jungle king 1, a few years back, its a real one, and i was so bummed once i tried it out, outdoors. Worst steel ever for a knife, regarding the blade, and i would never trust it, if i had to use that knife only, to get me out of some weird outdoor jam, if that makes any sense
"But Wait There's More!" - Next instalment episode 😁
Anyone know what steel is used on the Mora Pro S? The blue handled one...
The Pro S and Basic S are in Mora's standard stainless steel : Sandvik 12C27. It is a basic 0.6% carbon, 13.5% chromium stainless steel that is just a hair away from their razor blade steel, 13C26. It is close to 440A, but doesn't have excessive chromium to weaken it. The Sandvik alloys are rather clean (low sulfur, phosphorus and other impurities), so they perform a little above what you might expect.
Like razor blade steel, they sharpen and polish very nicely without a big fight.
I think the only Mora stainless knife that isn't 12C27 would be the Garberg with 14C28N, which is a nice upgrade from 12C27.
The really neat thing about Mora's stainless knives is that their heat treat is extremely consistent and is in fact automated. They do so much 12C27 that you can expect a well tuned trade off between hardness and strength.
@@martinhafner2201 Dang! I didn’t expect all that, thank you! I have the Pro S, it’s great. But I’ll be ordering a Garberg now.