Solid video. I love knives. The 113 is a good knife.

For my birthday in 2017 I bought myself a Rockstead. You're not really allowed to sharpen it, just hone up the edge with denim on a board packed with a Japanese polish called Pikul. Gorgeous knife... polished DLC coating with stingray skin inlay. Compound full convex grind mirror polished. Complex geometry! A thinning ogive profile all the way down basically. I got the YXR7 blade, because the ZDP I head was too brittle. Aaron or one of his old employees at Northwest Knives heart just about sunk when I told him they fix blade nicks if you ship it to them in Japan. He traded it for some BS LOL.

The 113 is a great knife for skinning game.

Grocery store had wild Sockeye on special and I realized I needed a fillet knife... but my Wusthoffs have the old logo. So I got one on ebay... leather sheath and all. Can't think of a better place to get a used fillet knife than Alaska!

When I started getting into knives I noticed a pattern like 9/10 of the recognized knife names are all in the Pacific Northwest. I think Spyderco is in Colorado. And before this video I THOUGHT Buck was Texas. I didn't know they were ID. We also have Chris Reeve. He moved to ID in like 89 from South Africa I read. I bought a Gough A2 from Aaron in Canada. He uses a 25° edge.... and that thing came so damn sharp.... I have a wicked edge.... diamond down to lapping plattens, 1 micron.... and I can't recreate what he does on his Tormek-like sharpening system... the cubic nickel boron carbide or whatever... I can whittle hairs with 17° edge if they are lapped, polished and stropped enough... yet his was just as sharp with a fatter angle. I don't get it.