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Fallkniven 10" Modern Bowie Knife Premium Package
lobster
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Aug 29, 2019
Time to come back to earth FALLKNIVEN, you’ve gone to high. No one in the camping/survival/bush crafting community is going to buy this to use it. Anyone who works hard enough to afford this, likely has no time to use it. And those who have enough to afford this without having to work, are also not likely serious users. The need for this knife is within a small niche: a high quality, non-custom, display knife and status symbol for the middle tier knife collector. It’s not going to impress people in the custom realm, and it’s price is high enough to horrify anyone not interested in knife collecting.
Maybe it has functional benefits over the trailmaster Bowie in its various incarnations, but it just looks like a trailmaster to me with the addition of a finger groove. In terms of function, the properties that make a specialized steel good for the smallest knives don’t usually carry over to knives made to do hard work. FALLKNIVEN uses the same steel for thin 3in pocket knife blades as they do for the thickest longest fixed blades like this one. This is another indication to me that this knife was not made to really be used hard in the field. I am familiar with the laminated vg10 they use in the lower end models and those knives have reported chipping issues. Even the trailmaster has chipping problems if you elect for the stainless laminate version over the carbon steel version. Beautiful display though.
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