I just picked up a Grohmann #103 Short Skinner on a whim and wondered if anyone here had experience with their knives? It is a stainless steel blade with rosewood handle.
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"To be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. To be satisfied with your possessions but not content with yourself until you have made the best of them." -Henry Van Dyke
I have used the Grohmann #2 Trout and Bird knife with complete satisfaction as a whitetail knife. Of course, the steel is softer than the 154CM, D2, and S30V that I usually employ but it takes a nice edge. This knife pattern made by a really good custom maker using really good steel and Micarta would be impressive indeed. But as it is the Grohmann is a very good knife at an excellent price point.
Thanks all. The only negative I have heard about them is that they don't hold an edge really well. Hopefully I find that to not be the case.
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"To be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. To be satisfied with your possessions but not content with yourself until you have made the best of them." -Henry Van Dyke
I bought a similar model(don't recall the exact model name) in Halifax 28 years ago on the way to Newfoundland for a moose hunt. Used it to help my guide skin a nice bull. Worked great and was the sharpest factory knife I ever bought. Still using it and very pleased.
Thanks all. The only negative I have heard about them is that they don't hold an edge really well. Hopefully I find that to not be the case.
SS
They are very easy to re-sharpen as required. Some hold an edge better than others but none I have seen were terrible really. A very good knife for the money.
I have a variety of them, use the bird & trout as my whitetail knife. Just keep it out of bone. I also have the folder version of the Canadian Belt knife. Much less impressed with it than the same in straight.
The civilian version of the Canadian Forces survival knife is a heck of a lot of knife in a small space for a small price. Usually I don't like "survival knives." They tend toward the Rambo-poser styles. But this one probably would help you survive in a real-life situation.
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Love the Canadian Belt Knife... this one has sentimental value. My father, not knowing I already owned one, happened to go to the factory in Nova Scotia, and bought this for me as a Christmas gift 20 years ago. It's pretty much the only knife I use and has taken apart a lot of elk:
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love the Canadian Belt Knife... this one has sentimental value. My father, not knowing I already owned one, happened to go to the factory in Nova Scotia, and bought this for me as a Christmas gift 20 years ago. It's pretty much the only knife I use and has taken apart a lot of elk:
I have an identical one I picked up when I lived in Canada a few years back