Thanks Amir! I actually just received this knife. The small blade is a nail breaker and snaps like a gator. Main blade has a pretty strong pull and snap too. One thing I noticed is that the pile side has 4 pins but the mark side has 3, not including the shield pin. It doesn’t look like it’s missing or the hole filled in/repaired. Is that normal? Would love to hear from you guys. Here it is opened. I don’t have a pic of the pile side. Will take some tomorrow.
This is my first post - I have referred to this site for years and just became a member a few days ago.
I may be a bit late to the game, but I wanted to contribute:
I currently alternate my edc between my Opinel No 6 carbon and my case sodbuster jr (I just added a cv yellow sodbuster to the collection and it is what I am carrying).
Let my put an image in (If I can figure it out).
First try:Hope this works!
Anyways, about my journey: learning to prefer traditional pocketknives.
I was gifted a knock-off buck (55like) lock-back folder when I turned 8 and became a little "cub scout". That knife could sharpen sticks and cut rope like a demon - pretty much all I needed it for.. I collected a few different other scout knives in my early teens (I also added a Case Sodbuster jr ss and an Otter Mercator).
In my teens I also got caught up into all the flashy 'tacticool" knives that can take out bad guys and zombies alike... they encumbered my pockets and felt so cool to have, but I used them very seldomly (if ever).
As a young adult I lived in Russia and Kazakhstan and was not able to carry anything resembling a weapon - I had some tactical Boker spearpoint knife confiscated by a military policeman on a train during a routine cabin search at some old soviet stop-n-search station in the middle-of-nowhere Kazakhstan.
So, naturally I bought a new knife as soon as I could (and came to again love and appreciate the simplicity and underplayed strength of your classic pocket folder).
I bought a carbon Opinel no. 6 knife for about 400 rubles (this was in Russia with an exchange of like 32 rubles to the American Dollar). I got it registered and had a sort of concealed weapon permit allowing me to carry this little knife through train checkpoints... this fixed my problem, but got me HOOKED on slipjoints, Opinels and the likes.
I carried this Knife every day for about 8 years. My wife and I just moved and I (unfortunately) lost the knife somewhere - my wife just replaced it for father's day 2018.
I used a giant sodbuster last Elk season to help filed dress and quarter our animal.
I've pushed an opinel much harder than I think those guys in France ever intended for.
My sodbuster jr has been on countless exhibitions - repelling, climbing, wilderness first-responding (yeah I made that into a verb)... and the like.
I feel that I can use a simple pocket knife in any scenario without ever feeling ill-prepared... well, except for fighting zombies I guess...
This is a long post - kudos to anyone reading this!
Thanks for your posts throughout the years! I have admired your comments and taken LOTS of advise from the sidelines for such a long time!
I am glad to start participating.
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Welcome aboard! (Great first post
This is my first post - I have referred to this site for years and just became a member a few days ago.
I may be a bit late to the game, but I wanted to contribute:
I currently alternate my edc between my Opinel No 6 carbon and my case sodbuster jr (I just added a cv yellow sodbuster to the collection and it is what I am carrying).
Let my put an image in (If I can figure it out).
First try:Hope this works!
Knife collection[/url] by Dal Starr, on Flickr[/IMG]
https://flic.kr/p/28bnTE5
Anyways, about my journey: learning to prefer traditional pocketknives.
I was gifted a knock-off buck (55like) lock-back folder when I turned 8 and became a little "cub scout". That knife could sharpen sticks and cut rope like a demon - pretty much all I needed it for.. I collected a few different other scout knives in my early teens (I also added a Case Sodbuster jr ss and an Otter Mercator).
In my teens I also got caught up into all the flashy 'tacticool" knives that can take out bad guys and zombies alike... they encumbered my pockets and felt so cool to have, but I used them very seldomly (if ever).
As a young adult I lived in Russia and Kazakhstan and was not able to carry anything resembling a weapon - I had some tactical Boker spearpoint knife confiscated by a military policeman on a train during a routine cabin search at some old soviet stop-n-search station in the middle-of-nowhere Kazakhstan.
So, naturally I bought a new knife as soon as I could (and came to again love and appreciate the simplicity and underplayed strength of your classic pocket folder).
I bought a carbon Opinel no. 6 knife for about 400 rubles (this was in Russia with an exchange of like 32 rubles to the American Dollar). I got it registered and had a sort of concealed weapon permit allowing me to carry this little knife through train checkpoints... this fixed my problem, but got me HOOKED on slipjoints, Opinels and the likes.
I carried this Knife every day for about 8 years. My wife and I just moved and I (unfortunately) lost the knife somewhere - my wife just replaced it for father's day 2018.
I used a giant sodbuster last Elk season to help filed dress and quarter our animal.
I've pushed an opinel much harder than I think those guys in France ever intended for.
My sodbuster jr has been on countless exhibitions - repelling, climbing, wilderness first-responding (yeah I made that into a verb)... and the like.
I feel that I can use a simple pocket knife in any scenario without ever feeling ill-prepared... well, except for fighting zombies I guess...
This is a long post - kudos to anyone reading this!
Thanks for your posts throughout the years! I have admired your comments and taken LOTS of advise from the sidelines for such a long time!
I am glad to start participating.
You’re welcome! Sodbusters and Opinels are meat and potatoes! Nice set you have there.
Nice collection! But one of them does not belong.....This is my first post - I have referred to this site for years and just became a member a few days ago.
I may be a bit late to the game, but I wanted to contribute:
I currently alternate my edc between my Opinel No 6 carbon and my case sodbuster jr (I just added a cv yellow sodbuster to the collection and it is what I am carrying).
Let my put an image in (If I can figure it out).
First try:Hope this works!
Anyways, about my journey: learning to prefer traditional pocketknives.
I was gifted a knock-off buck (55like) lock-back folder when I turned 8 and became a little "cub scout". That knife could sharpen sticks and cut rope like a demon - pretty much all I needed it for.. I collected a few different other scout knives in my early teens (I also added a Case Sodbuster jr ss and an Otter Mercator).
In my teens I also got caught up into all the flashy 'tacticool" knives that can take out bad guys and zombies alike... they encumbered my pockets and felt so cool to have, but I used them very seldomly (if ever).
As a young adult I lived in Russia and Kazakhstan and was not able to carry anything resembling a weapon - I had some tactical Boker spearpoint knife confiscated by a military policeman on a train during a routine cabin search at some old soviet stop-n-search station in the middle-of-nowhere Kazakhstan.
So, naturally I bought a new knife as soon as I could (and came to again love and appreciate the simplicity and underplayed strength of your classic pocket folder).
I bought a carbon Opinel no. 6 knife for about 400 rubles (this was in Russia with an exchange of like 32 rubles to the American Dollar). I got it registered and had a sort of concealed weapon permit allowing me to carry this little knife through train checkpoints... this fixed my problem, but got me HOOKED on slipjoints, Opinels and the likes.
I carried this Knife every day for about 8 years. My wife and I just moved and I (unfortunately) lost the knife somewhere - my wife just replaced it for father's day 2018.
I used a giant sodbuster last Elk season to help filed dress and quarter our animal.
I've pushed an opinel much harder than I think those guys in France ever intended for.
My sodbuster jr has been on countless exhibitions - repelling, climbing, wilderness first-responding (yeah I made that into a verb)... and what have you.
I feel that I can use a simple pocket knife in any scenario without ever feeling ill-prepared... well, except for fighting zombies I guess...
This is a long post - kudos to anyone reading this!
Thanks for your posts throughout the years! I have admired your comments and taken LOTS of advise from the sidelines for such a long time!
I am glad to start participating.
What a gorgeous knife.O1 / preban unobtanium lock back … shudder to think what this might be worth nowadays. Pendant by yours truly.
The knife and pendant are beautiful ChiefO1 / preban unobtanium lock back … shudder to think what this might be worth nowadays. Pendant by yours truly.
The ebony Churchill along with a new Bushboot arrival
That is gallant, golden, graceful, grand old folder, Stuart!!
Revered and resplendent!!
Fantastic pair Stuart
