Randall knives

Over the years I've carried several Old Timer and Winchester $19 medium stockman pocket knives, my last one I had to give to the TSA at the airport. I then went out and bought a $40 Case and man there sure is a difference, however now I walk back to the shop and get the battery terminal cleaner instead of scraping it with my knife. That being said, I don't expect I'll see the day I spend $500 on a hunting knife even though they claim to be the best hand made knife on the market.

Hubert...open up a deer or a beer? and i'm sure knives can be like the yeti brand stuff on prices

Shameless, open up a deer. I wasted too much time and money on the beer back in my younger days. 

chaskaduo wrote: Chrome may shine but chrome don't get ya home. $30 toe sticker's fine with me and leaves $470 more towards another Heart Breaker-Pain Maker.

Everyone has a favorite knife. Buck,Case,Gerber,Knives of Alaska and Western to name a few. Recently I bought an Outdoor Edge Razor Blaze for gutting deer. The knife has a replaceable cutting edge of surgical steel and the folding handle is blaze orange so you can find it if you drop it in the snow or woods. My oldest son was poking me about the knife saying with the replaceable blade it is a knife for someone who doesn't know how to sharpen a knife! I responded that in my case he was wrong the knife is for me who is too lazy to sharpen a knife! For everyday carry I have a Case folding knife and I stone it frequently to keep it sharp. The knife is really all I need to cut a deer but I have lost knives while gutting in the snow and I have found knives in the woods where others have lost them.

I made a knife for a friend of mine. He said he skinned four deer and six coons before he sharpened it. Them coons are the hardest on knives because they have so much sand in their fur from playing along the creeks and washing their supper in that dirty water.

I was at a leather show out in Sheridan WY.  There were several knife makers there.  They all make their knives without heat.  They get the correct steel,, then they cut the knife out of it.  Then they work that piece of steel until it's a knife.  Then they put a handle on it.  They all said that if you heat the steel it loses it's ability to hold and edge.  I described the size of knife I wanted to one of them.  He said it would be right around $400.  I watch that show Forged in Fire, so I thought that was how all good knives were made.  Guess not.

I made a knife out of a heavy duty insert saw blade. I gave it the full heat treatment and polish. When I just about had it done I dropped it point down on the shop concrete floor. It put a pretty good dinger in the floor and all I had to do to the blade was wipe it off. It was sorta on the Bowey style blade design. A neighbor came by and offered 200.00 for it and I figgered, shoot I made one so I can make another. On the point of not heating your blade blank you have to be very careful doing it that way, but you can get a pretty good knife that way. The way I test the blade is with 1/2" jute and see how many easy cuts you get. I think general consensus is around forty cuts, but I've seen them go over a 100. So I guess it's how much effort you want to put into it. Some of these days I'll get around to putting up pics. Or maybe not.            Leon