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KEEPING Your Knife Sharp

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KEEPING Your Knife Sharp

KEEPING your knife sharp entails more than knowing how to sharpen it. If you maintain the knife’s edge on a regular basis, it will eliminate having to re-establish the edge each time the knife goes dull.

Maintaining the edge is easy. The hard part is getting in the habit of doing it. However, once you get tired of re-establishing the edge every time your knife goes dull, you will appreciate how important the habit is.

Fine tune your edge with a GATCO TRI-SEPS.
Edge touch-ups are a breeze on the GATCO TRI-SEPS.

First, get one of the easy to use pull-through or similarly easy to use sharpeners and store it by wherever you put your knife at the end of the day. When you go to put your knife up, simply grab the sharpener and pull the blade edge through it five or six times. This should be enough to fine tune the edge and get it back to a working sharpness for the following day.

Such sharpeners as the GATCO TRI-SEPS are ideal for the job because they are easy to use and store or even carry. The TRI-SEPS, for instance, includes a chain for keyring carry. It sharpens both plain and serrated edges.

For more information on the GATCO TRI-SEPS—ideal for end-of-day edge touch-ups—click here.

Use A Hunting Knife Designed by Russ Kommer

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Use A Hunting Knife Designed by Russ Kommer

A hunting knife is great—and when you use a hunting knife designed by an Alaskan hunting guide who also happens to be a knifemaker, that’s even better.

The Alaskan Skinner designed by Russ Kommer for Timberline.
A hot hunting knife is just what the doctor ordered—the Alaskan Skinner designed by Russ Kommer for Timberline.

The Alaskan Skinner from Timberline is a hunting knife designed by knifemaker Russ Kommer, who also is a long-time Alaskan hunting guide. Kommer spent most of his youth in the Minnesota north woods hunting, trapping and fishing. Idaho is where he got his start as a big-game guide in the Selway-Bitterroot Mountains. He took his passion for hunting to Alaska in 1984—which is where he also discovered his love of knives, particularly the hunting knife design, after dressing big game. He learned to design the most functional and comfortable hunting knife he could and started making versions of them in 1997.

Kommer’s custom knives include the hunting knife/skinner, camp knives, folders, “unique” fillet knives, fighters, boot knives, bowies, hatchets and tactical knives. In addition to Timberline, Kommer also has designed knives for CRKT, including the Signature line of hunting knife, and the Escalade and Extreme Mountain hunting knife models for Browning

The Alaskan Skinner features what is called an upswept blade with a hollow grind—great for high-performance field dressing, skinning and other chores associated with big game. Besides that, it will also help you prepare your meals in camp and do the other cutting chores that need doing outdoors.

The blade steel is a 440 stainless that fights corrosion and is relatively easy to sharpen compared to steels such as CPM S30V and others. The handle is a soft Zytel rubber with a palm swell to fill your hand, and finger grooves and a bird’s beak pommel to lock your hand in for any number of cutting tasks, from light slicing to heavy-duty cutting. Overall length: 9.625 inches. A black ballistic nylon sheath with belt loop is both handsome, durable and secure. Weight (including the sheath): 13.5 ounces.

Click here for more about this Russ Kommer hunting knife.

KA-BAR Knives Featured on New History Channel Show

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KA-BAR Knives Featured on New History Channel Show

KA-BAR Knives will be featured on a new History Channel Show, What People Earn, Sunday, March 10.

Highlighted on the show’s premier episode entitled “Beer, Knives & Football,” the 115-year-old manufacturer will star along with American brewer Samuel Adams.

The March 10 issue of Parade Magazine will run a companion piece on the new show and KA-BAR.

The show will air at 10 p.m. EST in most areas, though be sure to check your local listings.

Of the 45 products that were in the KA-BAR line in 1996, only five still remain in line and one that is/was made in the USA: the 1217 Marine Combat Knife. There are now 85 products made in the USA by American cutlers stemmed in the KA-BAR tradition born in 1898. Among them is KA-BAR’s Zombie® Knives line, the Becker Knife & Tool line, a number of Bob Dozier designs, the TDI Law Enforcement line, Union and traditional KA-BAR knives including the Dog’s Head pocketknives, the Mule line of folders, and more.

For more visit KA-BAR.com or call 800-282-0130.

KA-BAR's USMC fighting/utility knife, an industry icon.
KA-BAR’s USMC fighting/utility knife, an industry icon.

Some Carry-On Pocketknives Will Be Allowed

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Some Carry-On Pocketknives Will Be Allowed

TSA Knives Allowed

Update: Click here to download the official PDF from the TSA outlining approved knives.

For the first time since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, passengers on U.S. airline flights will be allowed to have some small carry-on pocketknives by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

The change reportedly will go into effect April 25.

Knives with “retractable blades” under 2.36 inches and narrower than 1/2 inch at the widest point will be allowed, TSA Administrator John Pistole said. However, some knives will remain prohibited, including those with “locking blades” and/or molded handles. Exactly what “molded handles” pertained to in terms of knives is unclear at this time, though handles with finger grooves and otherwise contoured for an enhanced grip appear to be targeted. Box cutters and razor blades will continue to be banned.

As a result of the knives that remain prohibited, it appears that “small pocketknives” would be those within the aforementioned blade and lock constraints with uncontoured handles such as traditional Swiss Army knives, keychain knives, utility/scout pocketknives with can openers, screwdriver blades, etc., and “champagne patterns”—wine/bottle-opening knives with corkscrews. However, it is difficult to find a utility/scout pocketknife with a blade that is less than 2.36 inches long and 1/2-inch wide. As a result, it would appear that only such knives as the Victorinox Swiss Army Classic and other similar pieces will pass muster.

Meanwhile, overseas passengers will not have to check their applicable knives when traveling through the USA.

For the latest on knives, stay on www.blademag.com.

World’s Top Knives at ECCKS March 1-3

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Some of the world’s top knives and knifemakers will descend on Jersey City, New Jersey, March 1-3 for the 24th Annual East Coast Custom Knife Show (ECCKS).

 

Ron Lake's stag interframe tab-lock folder. (Dave Ellis photo)
Ron Lake’s stag interframe tab-lock folder. (Dave Ellis photo)

Such makers as, in alphabetical order, Van Barnett, Todd Begg, Charles Bennica, Tim Britton, Joel Chamblin, Pat and Wes Crawford, Dellana, Bob Dozier, Allen Elishewitz, Kaj Embretsen, Emmanuel Esposito, Larry Fuegen, Koji Hara, Rick Hinderer, Steve Johnson, Joe Kious, Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Ron Lake, Kirby Lambert, Wolfgang Loerchner, R.J. Martin, Jody Muller, Warren Osborne, T.R. Overeynder, W.D. Pease, Darrel Ralph, Steve Rapp, Bill Ruple, John W. Smith, Jurgen Steinau, Strider Knives, BLADE® Magazine Field Editor Joe Szilaski, Bob Terzuola, Brian Tighe, Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer Michael Walker, John Young and many more will exhibit, as well as top purveyors and suppliers.

 

For more info click on http://fiftyfiftyproductions.net/eccks-info.php

Alaska Pro-Knife Bill Vote Today—Contact Now!

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According to Knife Rights, the Alaska House will vote today on House Bill 33 which, if passed, would ensure one-hand and assisted-opening knives are not considered gravity or switchblade knives. If you live, work or travel in Alaska, please contact your representative(s) and ask them to vote in support of HB33.

Yesterday, Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs Todd Rathner testified at a hearing of the Alaska House Judiciary Committee on HB33 “Definitions of Gravity Knives and Switchblades,” referred to by primary sponsor Rep. Mark Neuman as the “Knife Rights Bill.”  The bill also includes Knife Rights’ requested Knife Law Preemption. HB33 advanced out of committee without dissent and now goes to the full House for a vote.

House Speaker Mike Chenault and Rep. Max Gruenberg co-sponsored HB33. The bill is nearly identical  to last year’s HB55, which was passed by the House but was not heard in the Senate. “With changes to the Senate after the 2012 election, we are anticipating better luck in affecting change in Alaska’s knife laws this time around,” Knife Rights reported.

Preemption ensures citizens can expect consistent enforcement of knife laws everywhere in a state. Preemption prevents the creation of or eliminates a patchwork of local ordinances and laws more restrictive than state law, which serves to confuse or entrap those traveling within or through the state.

When contacting the representative, all that is necessary is to simply ask him/her to vote in favor of HB33. Keep it short and to the point.

For more information visit www.kniferights.org.

Tennessee Knife Rights Bill to Senate Vote—Contact Today!

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Knife Rights reports that Tennessee Senate Bill SB1015, which would enact the state’s Knife Law Preemption, repeal Tennessee’s antiquated ban on automatic knives (switchblades) and repeal the the state’s 4-inch knife length limitation, has been voted out of committee with a 7-1 vote of recommendation for passage. Requested by Knife Rights and sponsored by Sen. Mike Bell, the bill now moves to the full Senate.

Preemption ensures citizens can expect consistent enforcement of state knife laws everywhere in a state. Preemption prevents the creation of, or eliminates, a patchwork of local ordinances and laws more restrictive than state law which serve to confuse or entrap those traveling within or through the state. Knife Rights has helped pass similar Knife Preemption Laws in Arizona, Utah, New Hampshire and Georgia and helped repeal knife bans in New Hampshire, Washington and Missouri.

If you live, work or travel in Tennessee, please contact your senator and ask him/her to vote Yes on SB1015.

Whether writing or calling, all that is necessary is to simply ask them to vote in favor of SB1015. Keep it short and to the point.

For more info visit www.KnifeRights.org.

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