Its a good one

thanks!

That Natchez is one of the nicest looking knives on the market.

I love my old San Mai Natchez, but it was a little expensive for me to be able to convince myself to use it for woods work, and the cable tang is maybe not the best suited to those tasks. I’d like to add a Laredo Bowie for the beauty and one of these Old West Bowies for the beast mode!

@@payne540 That Laredo is beauty and the beast combined

@@payne540 I agree with everything you said

thanks my brother!

absolutely

thanks!

Check DMS

@@coleenmccrory9018 will do

For knife polish, I use MAAS. When I'm doing a re-do, lots of fine sanding

Thanks for the reply. You can’t leave many knives stock guns, knives etc. it’s a fun hobby I did that with Mustang and 20,000 later it was faster and handled better. Cost me a lot to keep from a divorce for going a couple seconds faster in a Quarter. Lol

In the jungle, a thick machete would have to be it, but there just might be a Bowie back up

I did a vs with my dbad War Machine where I talk about that and then again in the what is a combat knife vid. My MOD I'll have forever. Love it

Just bought the Kentucky bowie. I'll get back to you once it's here and tested.

@@apugalypse_now Well I appreciate it man! I'm limited on quantity of knives I can buy (wife lol)

A lot of their stuff comes straight from the Szco catalog. They get dealer prices, then raise them a little past MSRP to make some profit. Fit and finish is lack luster and the edges are hit or miss, but you can find some gems. They are very much budget blades, but my Szco High Carbon Bowie is too and that things still kicking

@@DonnieBAllDay Thank you for the info! Personally I think small knives need good edge holding cause they get used so much and for finer work. Big knives? Just need to be tough! Big knife jobs are infrequent and rough... more important to be durable and easily maintained IMO

@@Ajaxykins So the knife arrived today. I cannot test it yet (for a reason I'll get into in just a second) but here are my initial impressions: CONS: - The fit and finish are what you'd expect for $60. There are small gaps between the scales, guard, and tang. - The knife tarnished a little in storage. Small spots on the brass are green, the steel grey. (But hey, at least it's good old-fashioned carbon.) - No information on where it came from or who made it, except for a single word prominently stamped on one side: "INDIA." (Windlass, maybe?) - The knife arrived ... well, not *blunt* per se, but basically bayonet-dull. There's a mostly-even grind, but the angle is so broad it cannot cut anything I would want it to cut. Except people, of course. So before I test it I'm putting it to some stones for a few hours and hoping I can pull back the bevel into a cutting edge. PROS: - Despite the F&F, nothing wobbles. The scales and guard are rock-solid. I think they're both pinned and glued to explain this, which is a plus. - I find the rectangular handle really comfortable. The edges don't jab into my palm at all. Bone is a great handle material too because it warms in your hand. I could hold this thing for hours. - Full-tang, with a very respectable thickness (maybe 3/16?). The full flat grind very easily narrows down into a cutting edge which will be quite respectable when I can put an actual grind to it. - The balance sits barely in front of the guard, so despite the size this thing is not a chopper. However, its weight disappears in the hand, and I can see it being very comfortable for hours of draw-cuts and batonning and such. - Before I fucked it up with sharpening scratches, it was a truly beautiful piece. But that's nbd because I put a patina on all my carbon steel anyway. Maybe it'll be even more beautiful after that.

It is, but there's nothing to keep that from lasting a lifetime. The only thing people get with this knife is the guard rattle that happens with pressure fit guards. I always recommend simply taking off the scales and using good glue like JB Weld on the guard at the scales side and then just putting back on the scales. No more rattle.

@DonnieBAllDay and in fairness Joe does try to break stuff that knife did well I have only discovered your channel a couple of days ago cheers for the videos from ireland 🇮🇪

@@ironkid8836 Joe isn't a knife guy. A nice guy, yes, but no one is more disrespectfull to the art

very simple. This knife needed improvements. There are less stock knives that look like mine than the original. The original grip was a little boxy and slick. The original was a little too big and it bent. The spine was a little too soft and dented.

You got that right!

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