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gryphon
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Re: The Safari Knife work in progress
16/06/17 06:16 AM

I have a lot of knives,many are "just knives" and I see 'just knives' in a lot of blokes kit or on belts.

I thought I knew enough about knives until I stepped into my role as a knife hand on a mutton chain doing the 'opening up' role that was unzipping 3200 sheep guts going past at 15 a minute on an 80 man chain. Yep 3200 a day.

Didn't i have to learn it all in no time and a $15 Green River or two were the blades for me.

One learns very quickly and graduated from knife hand to slaughterman where knife skills and sharpening methods were even more important. I utilise those learned skills today in my hunting. Number 2 outlined above is what I use my hunting knives for and I would never whittle a stick or cut a rope or even a hard cheese.Cigar? Bite the fucking end off! I have a few of the 'just a knife' variety for that.

I am a real carbon steel fan btw. Adding to the carbon steel mix was that I worked on a shark boat between San Remo Phillip Island Vic and Tassy and with 2.25 miles of net on a huge drum the school sharks never seemed to stop coming on board as the net was robbed. Only up to a 6' length they stillhad a fair gut line to open.

My knife ah lah the skippers home made job was one half of a sheep hand clipper that had a wooden dowel taped into the 1/2 round ' spring handle. All the shark boats had the same knives due to the wonderful high carbon steels in them "and they are the only one`s that stand up to the job on a shark boat" was the mantra.
Now when it comes to unzipping sharks and taking their heads off a quality steel was in order as shark skin is abrasive as.I went with the flow of course and used what was supplied and looking back I would love a knife blade made/shaped from one of those blades as something a little different.

Of those three above number three would do for my kit and it wouldn't cut anything other than game.

2.) Fit for use as a Standard Hunting Knife. Can the knife dress a large game animal at least to the point of quartering, removing loins and backstraps, basic bird/fish cleaning and other standard and customary hunting duties.

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The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	04/06/17 05:13 PM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	Rule303	04/06/17 07:58 PM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	NitroX	15/06/17 04:26 PM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	Mike_Bailey	15/06/17 06:59 PM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	Mike_Bailey	15/06/17 07:08 PM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	xausa	16/06/17 01:01 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	16/06/17 05:32 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	16/06/17 05:37 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	16/06/17 05:38 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	16/06/17 05:42 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	gryphon	16/06/17 06:16 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	16/06/17 05:44 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	16/06/17 05:47 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	16/06/17 06:18 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	Igorrock	16/06/17 05:27 PM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	16/06/17 07:26 PM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	Mike_Bailey	16/06/17 08:56 PM
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Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	Mike_Bailey	17/06/17 04:33 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	gryphon	17/06/17 05:38 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	17/06/17 06:04 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	NitroX	19/06/17 05:18 PM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	Mike_Bailey	19/06/17 06:44 PM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	dracb	20/06/17 06:22 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	93x64mm	17/07/17 07:57 AM
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Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	VonGruff	24/07/17 04:55 AM
Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	93x64mm	24/07/17 05:54 AM
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Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	NitroX	25/07/17 02:23 PM
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Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	DarylS	07/08/17 02:53 PM
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Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	gryphon	17/06/17 09:27 AM
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Re: The Safari Knife work in progress	gryphon	17/06/17 06:54 PM
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