American Gamefowl

[SOHC-FTW]

Save your hard earned, he ain’t gonna do better trapping this year, until he gets right with the fur gods for being cocky enough to set in a lot of 13

Haha I'd really go in half may not have much but I appreciate him. Idk about fur gods but if it's like most things hard work a little know how and some luck go along ways.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Save your hard earned, he ain’t gonna do better trapping this year, until he gets right with the fur gods for being cocky enough to set in a lot of 13

I did set 8 mink traps so far. I’m moving at a snails pace.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

It’s like a hammered type finish. Doesn’t matter to me. They’re made to be used.
I see a lot of fancy knives out there for hundreds of $$$ and you just know they aren’t being used. Guys play with em, look at em and then put them up. Never getting them bloody, cutting wood or god forbid it gets a little mud on them.
That same knife if it was actually forged with the same quality sheath would cost at least $200-300. I’ll take the look on a strong knife for $64 and use it like it was meant to be used any day over the safe queen collector crowd. Fake as the day is long.

I’m with ya, this one had a nice polish 30 years ago, I guess it’s ‘partial black” now, lol... I actually like the way it looks now... because it tells a story

It’s spent most of its life in a backpack... one year I’d put the pack away damp and 6 months later when I pulled the knife out it was covered in mildew... oops!

I just cleaned it up and put it back to work

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Haha I'd really go in half may not have much but I appreciate him. Idk about fur gods but if it's like most things hard work a little know how and some luck go along ways.

Hard work, know how, some luck, and dry weather

When I upset the fur gods it pours rain and makes all my sets look like hammered sh!t, lol

 

[roosterhavoc]

I’m not usually a big fan boy for any particular brands of anything but I make an exception with Condor Tool and Knife. I’ve got a few of them. They aren’t real pretty, but they work just fine and are comfortable to use. Easy to sharpen too. I don’t fully understand the craze nowadays for all the super steel stuff. 154CM, S30V, CPM3 or whatever else. 1075, 1095, high carbon and 440 and 420 for stainless. 1560 and 1080 for axes. I don’t see what the fuss is over. Yeah the super steel knives hold an edge longer big deal they’re 10 times the price and most are kinda brittle. 1075 doesn’t hold an edge anywhere close to as long CPM3 but it’s much tougher steel and will roll the edge instead of chipping out.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Generally speaking, among layers I find most hens rather boring, and the roosters are where the magic is...

But in looking at Wyorp’s hen and these pics it occurred to me that the hens are more interesting to me

Yes. I only have the one, but she's interesting.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I’m not usually a big fan boy for any particular brands of anything but I make an exception with Condor Tool and Knife. I’ve got a few of them. They aren’t real pretty, but they work just fine and are comfortable to use. Easy to sharpen too. I don’t fully understand the craze nowadays for all the super steel stuff. 154CM, S30V, CPM3 or whatever else. 1075, 1095, high carbon and 440 and 420 for stainless. 1560 and 1080 for axes. I don’t see what the fuss is over. Yeah the super steel knives hold an edge longer big deal they’re 10 times the price and most are kinda brittle. 1075 doesn’t hold an edge anywhere close to as long CPM3 but it’s much tougher steel and will roll the edge instead of chipping out.

I don’t keep up with any of that, so I don’t really know...

But to me where it matters is in tooling steel, drill bits, CNC router bits, cutter blades, etc... where cutting edges need to be able to stand up to repetition and some heat...

I think most of the super steels were developed for industry, but the custom knife makers got interested as a way to stand out...

But I’m largely guessing.

I pushed a blade for 8 hours a day for a few years as a meat cutter, softer steel that was in the ball park of 440 is all we used.

You can put a scary edge on a blade like that with almost no effort, and with a good hone ( butcher steel) you can maintain that edge almost indefinitely... that simply can’t be said for harder steels.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I don’t keep up with any of that, so I don’t really know...

But to me where it matters is in tooling steel, drill bits, CNC router bits, cutter blades, etc... where cutting edges need to be able to stand up to repetition and some heat...

I think most of the super steels were developed for industry, but the custom knife makers got interested as a way to stand out...

But I’m largely guessing.

I pushed a blade for 8 hours a day for a few years as a meat cutter, softer steel that was in the ball park of 440 is all we used.

You can put a scary edge on a blade like that with almost no effort, and with a good hone ( butcher steel) you can maintain that edge almost indefinitely... that simply can’t be said for harder steels.

Yeah that’s where the costs are. The tooling is more expensive for those steels and it gets passed on to the buyer. I get it but my point is it’s unnecessary. It’s not that they’re screwing anyone it’s just they’re convincing people that’s what they need. Lol

 

[roosterhavoc]

Dont get me wrong there’s other steel out there like O1 tool steel that most custom knife makers use. That’s a little better I guess. But not enough to justify the price difference.
Most knives are used to cut hide, green wood, and some dried wood. Even 1075 does fine on dried out red oak so I don’t see the need other than just having something really nice. Most who own them rarely actually use them aside from opening packages and cutting cheese in their kitchen.
I have used a Tops knife to open a bunch of cans of soup on a camping trip once when my can opener broke. The knife held up just fine and it was 1095.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Yeah that’s where the costs are. The tooling is more expensive for those steels and it gets passed on to the buyer. I get it but my point is it’s unnecessary. It’s not that they’re screwing anyone it’s just they’re convincing people that’s what they need. Lol

I was really meaning, tooling for other manufacturing is what those steels were really meant for... not so much knife making

I once worked with a flat bed cnc router to cut closed cell foam, it was pretty amazing how fast a cutter edge of those bits would dull just cutting soft foam... take those same bits and mill aluminum non stop, and that’s were those super alloys come in...

But I agree it’s all marketing to sell overkill... I remember 10 years ago or so everything was “professional grade” this and that... same deal, overkill marketing to up sell the guy that doesn’t have a clue...