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I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/11/19 03:48 AM
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Tactical Cowboy
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I paid like $13 for this piece of junk on Amazon. This thing is made in Switzerland (like chocolates and stuff). Wish I would have gone custom.
The secret to a long life is to try not to shorten it.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: Tactical Cowboy]
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04/11/19 12:23 PM
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hetman
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I would throw it away couldn't even cut of your leg
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: Tactical Cowboy]
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04/11/19 01:36 PM
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Good grief, that's hideous!! The knife looks OK, though.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: hetman]
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04/11/19 02:09 PM
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: Tactical Cowboy]
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04/11/19 07:00 PM
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SnakeWrangler
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Legs don't see much sunshine huh.....
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: Tactical Cowboy]
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04/11/19 07:58 PM
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The question is, how long will it hold that edge?
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: Tactical Cowboy]
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04/11/19 08:31 PM
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Txmedic033
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I can sharped a piece of angle iron that will shave just as good. It doesn't last though.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: MikeC]
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04/11/19 08:32 PM
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The question is, how long will it hold that edge? Looks like at least 3-4 inches.....
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: MikeC]
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04/11/19 10:22 PM
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Tactical Cowboy
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The question is, how long will it hold that edge? Are we cutting meat or trying to chop down a telephone pole? For meat, it may need a couple licks on a steel during processing, which is partly to clean all the fat off the blade. For the latter, I don’t know and don’t really care. Are there any good, sensible testing procedures around, besides using it? If so I’ll try it, you know, for science and stuff. I’m not going to try to cut down a mesquite tree or anything though... I have a chainsaw for that.
Last edited by Tactical Cowboy; 04/11/19 10:22 PM.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/11/19 10:44 PM
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I wish I bought all knives for cutting; but that’s not reality, you buy because it’s a disease.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/11/19 10:53 PM
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The question is, how long will it hold that edge? I am thinking that since victoronix is one of the go to knives in the meat cutting industry, probably quite a while.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/11/19 10:54 PM
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I wish I bought all knives for cutting; but that’s not reality, you buy because it’s a disease. Truth
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: Tactical Cowboy]
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04/12/19 12:40 AM
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At least you didn't spend too much, seems to cut good and if you ever decide to shave your legs it'll do the job.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/12/19 01:27 AM
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Idk.... that’s about ten times more than I spend on razors... for me face.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: Tactical Cowboy]
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04/12/19 02:59 PM
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Idk.... that’s about ten times more than I spend on razors... for me face. Just messing with you bro, if it cuts and works for you and you're happy with it, it's a winner. I can't buy the material to make a knife for $13.00, so you got a good deal.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/12/19 07:10 PM
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onlysmith&wesson
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I seen better legs in a bucket of chicken. Oh wait, this is about knives. I got nothing.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/13/19 02:34 AM
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/13/19 08:31 AM
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It all depends how often you shave your legs.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: Tactical Cowboy]
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04/14/19 12:32 AM
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I have a set of 4 Victorinox knives that I carry on the vet truck. One similar to the one in the OP, a straight boning knife, and a skinning knife. There's also a filet knife that came with the set but I don't use it much. Are they cheap? yep. But if you go into any meat processing plant in the US, you'll probably find Victorinox knives.
I use them to cut post mortems on cows, deer, goats, what ever. They sharpen super fast with the little hand held carbide sharpener and hold the edge reasonably well.
The sharpener does remove a good amount of steel and will shorten the life of the blade, but for the price, I'll just buy more knives.
Do they stack up to the awesome customs made on here and a lot of places? No, but they are still good knives that work very well for the intended purpose.
Plan to get another set for my home deer processing.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/16/19 08:49 PM
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I host the Maine Meat Cutting School for the University of Maine. We bring in one of the top Meat Science teachers in the USA to lecture and teach cutting. He has a set of Victrinox he has used for 18 years that show wear from sharpening, but keep going. We give all students a 6" Victrinox boning knife who attend the course, and Dr. Rentfrow likes to say they come sharp enough to cut through your soul with the factory edge. They are good hard steel that require some effort to sharpen, but stay sharp a long time. I have a complete set, and I am continually impressed how well they hold an edge. Our local supplier sells victrinox 6" boning knives for $18. As said above, they are standard issue in every packing plant I have ever been in.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/16/19 10:33 PM
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All go and no show. They are good knives.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
[Re: Colt W. Knight]
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04/17/19 12:49 AM
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I host the Maine Meat Cutting School for the University of Maine. We bring in one of the top Meat Science teachers in the USA to lecture and teach cutting. He has a set of Victrinox he has used for 18 years that show wear from sharpening, but keep going. We give all students a 6" Victrinox boning knife who attend the course, and Dr. Rentfrow likes to say they come sharp enough to cut through your soul with the factory edge. They are good hard steel that require some effort to sharpen, but stay sharp a long time. I have a complete set, and I am continually impressed how well they hold an edge. Our local supplier sells victrinox 6" boning knives for $18. As said above, they are standard issue in every packing plant I have ever been in.
That was kind of my point in posting this. I was on the meats team in college, worked at the meat lab, several deer processors, etc. I’ve been in quite a few beef and pork plants. What they all have in common: inexpensive, quality knives.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/17/19 11:32 PM
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My dad was into selling the used knives from the packing plants. I have some of them, still good and sharp as all get out. He was at the biggest flea market in Houston one weekend and some cops stopped by. Told him they were wondering where all the knives they had been getting off of perps was coming from, LOL. Certain areas down there, that the first thing they checked was for "boners" stuck in between the layers of the leather uppers of boots. They told him they bet 95% had a boner stuck in there. He told him they ought to thank him for helping them thin the herd. He told em, look around, they get tanked up here, wearing their best duds, showing off their women and by nightfall they will be slashing each other up. All the while the older mothers were buying boners and skinners from him for 5 for $15 elbowing the cops out of the way. They did the same thing at Waco, Weatherford and Ft.Worth when I went with him. He got those knives in by the plastic 55 gallon drums, 4-5 barrels at a time.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/18/19 12:29 PM
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Dexter Russell is another fine packer knife maker. ****But.**** All those knives are made by robots. This forum is about craftsmanship, creativity and quality. Your coming off like someone who will go into a room full of master chefs and extoll the virtues of fried bologna. Kinda sad if you ask me.
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Re: I Think My Knife is Junk
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04/18/19 01:28 PM
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If you’re really “sad” about some post on a knife; you need to get a life.
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