I am quite suprised at the number of knife enthusiasts who did not know how to properly utilize their cutting implements.. Myself included. For me, the realization came late. Middle age is a period where your body undergoes considerable change, and not necessarily for the better. I have perhaps one hundred knives in my possession. Maybe 150. I don't know for sure, unless I count them. But that is not important here. What's important is the realisation that I have been abusing most of my knives. By "abuse", I do not mean using a knife for tasks it was not designed for(e.g. as a pry-bar, can opener, batoning, clever, hammer etc) and then putting it away wet. By abuse, I meant reading up on a knife, looking up reviews of it on the internet forums, watching trials and abuse test of it on youtube, etc., and then after procuring it, unboxing it, fondling it and put it away in a drawer or safe, not to be seen again. Personally, I have this incoherent fear that if I were to...
Go buy one. If you are somehow unhappy with it, it would help to validate the other whittler you own (and paid 10 times as much for) 3-Blade Swayback whittler, model # RR1741 F inally, RR did the right thing with their steel. Don't get me wrong, the 440 (A?) steel that they use currently in all of their traditional pocket knife patterns is adequate. It is not the crumbly mystery steel you get from Tourist souvenior shops. The flip top box that the whittler came in was tastefully aged. It even has a piece of waxed paper covering the knife, a-la WR CASE & Sons. Blades came covered in light machine oil. Don't know what took them so long. I only came across them a month or so ago.If you search the web, people were talking about this "Classic Carbon" series as early as January 2018. 3 3/4" Closed. Yellow "Composition" handles. Delrin? Reminds me of undyed cattle bone of old. Since this "CC" series is all about the...