Using Some Blades and my Impressions

[Moped]

Just got back from camping up at Bandy Creek Campground in the Big South Fork about an hour ago. Took the Clash, the Opinel No. 9, my Helle Odel and a CS Trail Hawk. I also had a axe. Processed the larger pieces of wood with the ax and the smaller ones with the Trail Hawk. It was excellent for that task. Very light and handy and didn't wear me out. I also used it to drive stakes with the pole. Took a little more patience, but again it worked like a charm. I think it's an excellent camp tool.

I loaned out the knives to my girls and later on to my son (he brought an old Gerber Gater that I had. He has admired that knife since he saw it, so I gave it to him a month or so ago. I hate it. It has serrations and they are next to useless, as he found out), and we sat down and whittled out wiener sticks and later on marshmellow sticks for the fire. My three knives worked fantastic. I've used the Helle before and it's my general purpose woods knife, sharp as heck, light and handy with a 3.5" fixed blade. Honestly, it's the best knife I own. I want a Helle Viking to go with it. It's a bit bigger.

I hadn't used the Opinel and the Clash before and wanted to see how they did. Both were excellent and made short work out of whittling down the cookers. Each limb started out as big as my thumb and we took each down to about a 1/4" in diameter. As I said, the Gater has serrations and you can't whittle with it, so I soon gave my Clash up to my son so he could use it. My oldest took over the Opinel and carried it around in her pocket the whole time. I'll probably eventually give that one to her, after of couse, I find another one. I had to sharpen it when I bought it, but it was razor sharp in no time flat and stayed that way, the whole time . It's an excellent knife to be so simple in design and an excellent $9 spent at SMKW!!!

The Clash was used on a variety of chores such as chopping food, opening packages, cutting cardboard and rope. Seems as sharp now as it was when I picked it up last week. Very handy knife when clipped to the right front pocket or to my suspenders. I'm very happy with this little knife!!! It will definitely be in my rotation for EDC knife with my Svord Peasant.

Edited March 24, 2012 by Moped

[Oh Shoot]

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The Clash was used on a variety of chores such as chopping food, opening packages, cutting cardboard and rope. Seems as sharp now as it was when I picked it up last week. Very handy knife when clipped to the right front pocket or to my suspenders. I'm very happy with this little knife!!! It will definitely be in my rotation for EDC knife with my Svord Peasant.

Good to see your real world use of the Clash; I have one (have maybe 5 of the different PRC Kershaws); I see it as "poor man's ZT 350", roughly same dimension and grip and blade shape. All the inexpensive Kershaws and 8CR13MOV steel itself have be proven to be quite capable and all around good choices, too.

- OS