Best New Pocket Fixed Blade??? Viper Handy! Tactical & Slicey!
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Both a pleasure to look at, and hold & use, this offering from Viper in Italy is both a great value as well as EDC and Tactical excellence. Check this out!
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Viper Handy at White Mountain Knives (all Models): whitemountaink...
Viper Manico (same knife, different name with different handle options): whitemountaink...
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We appreciate it. Most of all, we are glad that people like the Handy knife so much! honored by the positive comments and we will always try to improve our knife productions
Thanks for watching and your comments, Viper! 🗡️🙏🗡️
I just ordered the orange handled one, so I can locate it if I set it down for less than $150 delivered. I've never had a super steel knife. I sometimes process deer and most knives get noticeably dull in the last half of skinning, and quartering. I don't think this one will. Also, I love the "knife steel nerds" channel, and am stoked about having a knife in the steel Dr Thomas created. He's an amazing resource.
Thanks for the detailed overview!
Thanks for watching! Glad you're getting this one. 🗡️👊🗡️
i’ll say one thing, viper runs their magnacut at 60-61 hrc. recommended hardness for smaller knives is around 63 hrc, so this knife will not have as much edge retention as the steel is capable of. however even at 61 it will have edge retention similar to something like s35vn while being FAR tougher and borderline rustproof. magnacut at 60-61 hrc is also ridiculously easy to sharpen up, so even though it will dull a bit faster than harder magnacut this knife should be super easy to maintain. if the ergonomics and geometry work well for you, then this knife should serve you well and will likely do better than another knife with worse ergos in harder magnacut. you picked a solid choice for a skinning knife though i think.
@@acid6urns Thank you for the breakdown. I had heard that Viper ran a lower hrc than is optimal. I also heard that they brought it up a bit. I am a bit necrotic about those kinds of details, but for just under $150 delivered, I couldn't pass it up. I have heard only good things about the ergonomics from the few reviews I found. It'll be fun to have a magnacut knife either way. If I can field dress a deer without noticeable dulling I'll be happy.
Cheers
I have the TPF MKM NICE❤❤❤
It's a lot like the Buck Alpha Scout Elite I picked up recently. I love these type of smallish fixed blades.
My thought exactly
i want to pick up one of the magnacut alpha scouts but god damn almost $300 is a lot of money. the alpha guide is cool too and i know they make cheaper upgraded models in s35vn instead of magnacut, but for the larger blade on the guide i’d want the extra toughness from magnacut
@@acid6urns Yea not cheap
i've been waiting to get the bocote handle for a good minute. It's reminiscent of Silvestrelli's _Gianghi._
Viper usually runs their steels on the lower end of HRC and i'd guess they're treating it around 61-62
Thanks, actually not bad, IMO ...
Very cool! Great video 👍
How well does it scrape the firesteel?
Gorgeous looking knife! I'm thinking of ordering one. 👌🏻
No firesteel supplied with this one. You may be thinking of another fixed blade I reviewed recently... 🤔
Great. Now I want one 😅
Oh thats sweet!
Love it!
Great! 👍
Two questions.....
How were you able to get the kydex sheath? I have only found this knife with the leather sheath.
White Mtn is a great company but they have this knife priced $50-60 more than other USA vendors. Why should I buy from them unless they offer a promo code?
The Kydex comes with all models at White Mountain with the exception of the wood handled knives. Feel free to order elsewhere if you get a better price.
Schöne Vorstellung Abo ist raus 👍 Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪
Oh you renamed your channel... That's why you sounded so familiar!
Yeah I did, it's taking some time for the word to get around, apparently... LoL 😂
@@OGBladeReviews better later than never 😏
Anyone knows the sharpening angle please?
Standard edge on Viper (and most other factory edges) is 20° 👍
@@OGBladeReviews - But I believe to get the most out of magnacut with its very high toughness, you're "supposed to" go with 17 degrees. That's what I've read for whatever that's worth.
Wonder what the heat treat is like
Can't locate that info, but as Dr. Larrin Thomas has recently mentioned, more important is edge geometry and angle maintained by user.
62,5-64 hrc as far as i know
@@johannesmarz1449not on viper knives. they run theirs at 60-62 hrc, i own a viper vale and when i went to vipers website they listed it as 61.