Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The Don

Hi Kyley here are a few pics of your Pen Knife next to my Don knife! I hope imitation is the best form of flattery because I wanted to make something like yours...
I made this in the Sugarcreekforge build along and was very happy with it. For those of you who do not know of the sugarcreekforge build along it was a youtube event where we all learned how to make our first knife out of files and hand tools. My knife was made out of 1095 and Kyley's is made out of O1 tool steel with a more sophisticated heat treat to 60-61RC and cry treated.

About me...I am Don...a legend in my own time...I used to have a you tube channel but had to take it down because I started a new job and did not want people to know I am a knife crazy awesome guy. So I had to keep that part of my life quite since I live in a sheepish society in the State of New Jersey! I really like my CKC knives...I really like knives and I even like se my CKC knives a lot in the kitchen. My CKC pen knife is my primary garlic cutter. My CKC streamline is my traveling kitchen knife when I go anywhere. 

I will do more knife related pics with the streamline cooking or doing stuff to trees. Stay tuned YouTube
~Don from NJ
Pennfootball71

Monday, May 7, 2012

Hi Kyley

Just wanted to tell you that I brought the 1.0b off-shore fishing today and it was a good trip. It was used for cutting up bait and off course eventually cleaning, gutting, and cutting up the catch.

This knife was used to cut through the sting ray, gut the snapper and barramundi, de-scale the fishes as well as fillet the catfish.

After that, I tested it on paper and it was still very sharp with 2 small micro-chips.

It was fairly hostile environment, as it was exposed to salt water and hot sun for 8-9 hours.

It was very fun using this knife and would just like to tell you that.

Cheers,
Mikesoonster (youtube)

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

cKc 2.2 D2 Knife Hunting and Fishing

Mike in NZ Acquired a 2.2 model outdoor knife in D2 from the first run of the knives. I'd sold them all but agreed to let him have my personal one i made for myself.

The 2.2 is really a good knife. The design's beautiful ( everyone who sees it wants to pick it up and is drawn to it) and the D2 holds a good edge and the stain resistance is good for me because I'm nearly always in the wet or getting the knives bloody and it's hard to clean and keep them oiled in the bush. I've attached a picture of the 2.2 butchering a deer last week. 

 The 2nd photo is of a fish caught, then butchered and cooked using the 2.2

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

cKc Fusion Chef Knife Chops!


Kyley- really like the 5" fusion
-does it all
- wanted to see what I could do in 30 minutes
-29 Minutes from starting with veggies in bag from grocery store,including washing and getting out plastic bowls and taking photo...
4 bell peppers,3 cucumbers,3 zucchini,2 red onions, 10 radishes, 5 jalapeƱos, 1 portobello mushroom, 3 thai eggplants
- oh yeah, and one fusion!

Scott Frantz - Washington

Forrester 3XL Owner Feedback

View Original Video by DBear723
Final Score: Forrester XXXL - 1, Oak Tree - 0

Once I held this knife in my hand I was filled with ambition as this was the largest knife I had ever seen, let alone owned. The balance and the heft made me feel like I was holding the knife world's answer to the ax, so I decided to see if I could cut down a tree. But not some small tree that I could probably push over with my hand, I went after a nice sized Oak tree that needed to come down. With about 30 minutes of actual chopping, probably 45 minutes of total time including rest breaks, and I had taken the tree down. The diameter of the trunk where I cut was 10.5 inches.

My overall impression of the knife is that it has superb balance and incredible cutting performance. The handle was a pleasant surprise, the appearance of the thin micarta slabs sandwiching the thick stock looked like it might be uncomfortable, however, the handle was so well shaped that the grip was comfortable throughout the chopping process. The blade design is incredibly forgiving, even when my strokes were not delivered at the proper angle, there was minimal shock transmission and the knife still cut. The edge retention is out of this world, after cutting down an Oak tree I wiped off the sap and was able to cleanly slice paper without and hone-work or stropping.

I grade this knife 10/10.

Friday, August 5, 2011

cKc Travels to Mt Everest

Hi Kyley,
Just got back from an epic trip to Mt Everest Base Camp. In all my years of hunting, fishing and camping I’ve never experienced such harsh conditions. Extreme cold, no vegetation, just ice, rock and snow, with 50% less oxygen than at sea level it was a battle just to breathe at times.

While we might have struggled at 1800ft, the CKC I carried with me (everyday for 22days), didn’t even flinch. The awesome blade was beautiful just to hold and admire.  The Sherpa guides were certainly impressed with this ‘little’ blade even in comparison to their massive Kukris especially after we cut through enumerable zip ties and after a few strops on my compound loaded leather belt, the blade popped hairs again, they had never seen anything like it. Although several of them pointed out that they had cut off the head of a buffalo with one swipe of their kukri according to ceremonial tradition, something my blade couldn’t do…

I didn’t get to use the knife as much as would have liked to up in the thin air as all the cooking was done for us, there is no wood for fire making, just dried yak crap and the national park rules meant I couldn’t build a survival shelter with it and sleep out in -10, something I was really looking forward to. But being such a solid blade, it gave me comfort more than anything just knowing it was always within reach should any situation arise.

I used it extensively in my kitchen before leaving and despite the thick stock it worked very well on all sorts of foods, yes even tomatoes. Even though designed as a combat blade, I would use it and recommend it to anyone as a general camp knife as it cut so well, but certainly has the metal to get more ‘serious’ tasks done, should they need doing. It also excelled at penetration tests on 5cm thick felt pads which I use as targets for my compound bow. It got well into the target, almost as deep as my carbon arrows which penetrate a fraction more, despite coming out of a 75lb weight compound bow.  However I did feel that as combat blade , the tip could have been a little thicker for prying tasks, yet with that comes reduced penetration efficiency so it’s a hard call.

The handle and sheath system was easy to deploy and use even with three pairs of gloves on, the handle slabs insulated my hands well enough when not wearing gloves. The only other major recommendation I though of was a longer finger guard and perhaps a double guard for further hand protection in extreme thrust and slash cuts, this was seconded by father and uncle who both served extensively in Angola and Rhodesia with the South African Army.

I’ve included some pics of the knife, including a few of it buried in the Khumbu Icefall at Everest Base Camp, surrounded by the iconic summit tents and standing on the ice flow at the foot of Mt Ama Dablam.

I’m fairly certain it is now officially the highest a CKC has ever been carried? It was a pleasure to take with me and I’m very sad to part with it having had it with me for so long in such an extreme place.

Great knife Kyley
Matt - Australia