Also congrats on the Jackhammer SF! The Jackhammer is a very nice knife. It balances far better than I thought it would looking at the pictures versus having it in hand. I expected that cutting away more metal would ruin the balance but in fact, it is more like redistributing the blade weight with the CBT blade. Still balances excellent! As Vic said, it just feels like a fighter when you pick it up.

I have 2 CF Hell Razors and noticed just today some light rust. I would have expected the rust in TX; I was surprised to see it in CA. I used a very mild abrasive (Bon Ami) and it nuked the rust pretty darn quick. A good coat of WD-40 and we're good to go.

I have a Browning HP and it is one of my favorite pistols, despite my bias toward .45s. The HP is just fun to shoot.

What about using a brass bristle brush?

S/F - congrats on the comp. edge Jackhammer - it's a sweet knife! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> In fact, I have one at my side right now. As soon as I received it I put a good coat of RenWax on it, and have not had any rusting at all. I was a little slow to do that with my HellRazor and was rewarded with a little light rust. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

Dan HAS posted his favorite knife before - the DogFather - my personal favorite! In fact, I won the naming contest when they chose the DogFather name, and Dan referred to me as the DogFather's GodFather - hence my avatar! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> It is my most used knife (I live in rural Missouri), and I can carry it just about any time I want. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Tom

Hahah, I'm in no rush. Happens when it happens, right? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Wow! I did a salt water soak test just after the SS4 came out on a few different knives and in a few hours time frame INFI kept up with stainless (AUS 8 I think) and showed much better corrosion resistance than sr77.. I'm surprised to hear nekkid INFI is such a tin-worm magnet..

Anyway, back on topic- wherethehellis Dan!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I want to know what's next (I'm sure I'm in good company on that one!).. At this rate my next knife will be a Bark River Evo 2 and there not even on the drawing board yet! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

The INFI I have stripped is almost stainless?

Comp blades seem to have an issue that can be fixed by taking a very thin layer of steel off with sandpaper.

I did not like the Jackhammer until I saw Ted's pics of a comp one and they totally blew me away.

Mellow out dudes. If bitching made knives come out faster we would have had an S7 long ago.

Thanks for the tips on rust prevention everyone. Over the years one of the best things I have found to use is simple Vasaline Petroleum Jelly....it is none toxic so if you are keeping your knives out of their sheaths in a drawer ready to use....and want to go hunting or camping...the jelly acts like a grease and blocks the "Air" from the steel so it cannot oxidise and does not need cleaning off before putting the knife in its sheath and using it. Food prep or larder/meat work is fine. We had some guys using gun oil on their knives in Borneo...not good if you don't want gut rott...the Marine Tex Tuff Cloth is very good though...but they don't last forever and dry out and you are never sure "when" it has lost it's "zing".

The Vasaline Jelly is a great bit of kit for your first aid pack...use it mainly for "skin chaffing" which you get on the very long marches....and cracked lips from windchill....and it is great for rubbing on your eyelids to prevent and sooth midgy or mosquito bites....some guys use a full face veil but it obscures your vision for shooting when it gets covered with dead mossy's/midges from the repellant. I use one which has slits cut for your eyes. The jelly stops them biting you on the lids and does not cause eye sting ...a real blessing. A great bit of kit.

My Golok was issued first time in 1966..I got it back in 1981/82...more rust marks were on it than possible to imagine...so I just clean the surface rust off and let it stay that way.You cannot get rid of them....they are too deep. It always reminds me to look after my knives. I will post some pics of it soon...it took a great Convex edge.

I like the Jackhammer more and more as I look at the picture....it sure has "prescence" in it's design....those ridges look like blood grooves designed to "stop the suck" as opposed to "embracing it"....maybe that's what Jerry had in mind when he did the Satin version with straight sides and the logo? A reminder of one of the problems you might have by going for traditional asthetics? I love it....real graveyard humour. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Thanks gents for the ideas....Tolly I will try that stuff! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Jeez! My internet is down for a week and everything changes.

The corrugated bevels are supposed to make the blade stronger.

Ok, who dropped Dan's plan in the shredder? (Or pressed delete on the folder!) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

The best-laid plans of mice (er...dogs) and men often go awry. - Robert Burns

"No plan of operation extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force. Only the layman thinks that he can see in the course of the campaign the consequent execution of the original idea with all the details thought out in advance and adhered to until the very end." --Helmuth von Moltke, chief of the Prussian general staff during the wars of German unification.

"(The commander must keep his objective in mind) undisturbed by the vicissitudes of events....But the path on which he hopes to reach it can never be firmly established in advance. Throughout the campaign he must make a series of decisions on the basis of situations that cannot be foreseen. The successive acts of war are thus not premeditated designs, but on the contrary are spontaneous acts guided by military measures. Everything depends on penetrating the uncertainty of veiled situations to evaluate the facts, to clarify the unknown, to make decisions rapidly, and then to carry them out with strength and constancy." --Helmuth von Moltke

Make big plans, but change your plans as time changes.--Marchant

Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood.--D.B. Hudson

No plan originated by another will be as sympathetically handled as ones own plan.--Conrad H. Lanza (Napoleon and Modern Warfare)

Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.--Confucius

Plans get you into things but you must work your way out.--Will Rogers

Strategic planning is worthless--unless there is first a strategic vision.--John Naisbitt (Megatrends)

There is enough time for everything in the course of a day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.--Lord Chesterfield (Letters to His Son, April 14, 1747)

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.--Napoleon Hill, American Author, Speaker, Motivational Writer





We need one of these to decode “two weeks”. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />