The discontinued Ka-Bar Potbelly Review

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Hello All,

I honestly should have completed this review a while ago but my awesome life kept me busy with more important tasks. Now that I've found some time, I hope some of you will read this and enjoy my review of a knife that, very soon, will no longer be readily available.

Potbelly Review

Survivormind
 
I think this needs to be standard in Ka-Bar Literature:
sharp enough to cleave a limb from most medium to large sized creatures
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That was a great read! Thanks for putting the time into it. It also feeds that nagging little monster in the back of my head saying that I need a Potbelly.
 
Jerry D. said:
I think this needs to be standard in Ka-Bar Literature:


That was a great read! Thanks for putting the time into it. It also feeds that nagging little monster in the back of my head saying that I need a Potbelly.
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Glad you enjoyed it, Jerry!

Survivormind
 
A good honest review.

I think the few like your's that have real life negatives about an item's performance beat the pants off those "it's great at everything reviews". And especially those like yours that are based off long term usage, not just "a Saturday's playung around". Those are fine for "Hey, you can do this with it." examples of usage but are not very good for how it will pan out in the long run.

Nothing is ever going to be absolutely the best at everything.
 
I have a Becker BK9 and BK4. Either of them - and certainly both together, could do (out do) anything a Potbelly could do IMHO. I say that however as a loyal abd very satisfied owner and user of the BK9 and BK4 and not as someone who has ever even so much as touched a potbelly, let alone used one.

That said, there has always been something that has drawn me to the potbelly and while I would have gotten one a long while ago had it been in 3/16th" ... that will all change when the big brown truck shows up at my door in a few days. :D
 
Good stuff.
I'd like to see ya beat the hell out of the new one and see if it snaps too.
Also, I heard they are no longer hollow ground so I wonder if you find much of a difference in performance for your daily tasks.

Thanks for sharing!
 
I'll beat the hell out of my Becker BK9 and BK4 (and especialy thats tout little BK2) thank you very much - especially after what happened to Survivormind.
 
SALTY said:
I have a Becker BK9 and BK4. Either of them - and certainly both together, could do (out do) anything a Potbelly could do IMHO. I say that however as a loyal abd very satisfied owner and user of the BK9 and BK4 and not as someone who has ever even so much as touched a potbelly, let alone used one.

That said, there has always been something that has drawn me to the potbelly and while I would have gotten one a long while ago had it been in 3/16th" ... that will all change when the big brown truck shows up at my door in a few days. :D
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I don't know, Salty. I haven't used the 9 or the 4 so other than opinion and what I've heard from other people, it would be hard to weigh in on that. I will say that I do have experience with other large knives and the Potbelly chops like no other knife I've ever seen for its weight and length. Amazing chopper! Obviously though, there is a shortcoming in the design.

Survivormind
 
NCSlice said:
Good stuff.
I'd like to see ya beat the hell out of the new one and see if it snaps too.
Also, I heard they are no longer hollow ground so I wonder if you find much of a difference in performance for your daily tasks.

Thanks for sharing!
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I'm tempted to. I am probably more inclined to sell it at this point though and buy a knife for my next test...

Survivormind
 
SALTY said:
I'll beat the hell out of my Becker BK9 and BK4 (and especialy thats tout little BK2) thank you very much - especially after what happened to Survivormind.
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Just looking at the designs of the two, I would think that it would be very hard to break a BK9 without abusing that knife beyond its intended use. The BK4, on the other hand, appears to be thinner from edge to spine right above the handle. That could possibly be a breaking point.

Survivormind
 
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