Recent content by kamagong

Congratulations. That Randall is a honey. I recently picked up a long-drooled-after dagger myself. The only dagger I want more than it is a Randall No. 2. What a lovely piece of steel. :thumbup:

Harvey Dean makes an awesome knife. Congrats! :thumbup:

I was working in a high rise in downtown Los Angeles on 9/11. I've made sure to EDC a light ever since.

You can open carry that knife without any worries in CA.

Camillus made that knife, based on Jerry Fisk's Southwest design.

Me too. Makes ol' Slabsides look like a pocket pistol.

I have a dozen or so khukuris from HI. This M43 is my favorite.

I keep old SureFire G2s in our cars, updated with LED pills. They don't have the thumpability of a D-cell Mag, but they work better as flashlights. The batteries, being lithium, are in no danger of leaking and leaving you with a worthless metal tube in the dark. And the plastic bodies are...

"Black" wood is very likely bog oak.

That's a huge problem.

They can't. The phrase caveat emptor comes to mind here.

That’s exactly what it is. A lot of people of people are impressed by manufacturers’ claims of increasingly more lumens. “This light puts out 900 lumens on turbo on a single rechargeable cell!” For 90 seconds that is... 90 seconds? What good does it do me?

I carry a flashlight, but I don’t participate in the lumen race nor am I drawn to multi-mode lights. I want a robust, reliable, and predictable light. When I turn on a light I need to know what I’m getting. A single mode 100-200 lumens has proven to provide a good balance of brightness and...

We're talking personal weapons here, so paint them whatever colors you like. But make mine black.

Nope. No stainless I've seen comes close to the beauty that is possible with a carbon steel blade. For example - This is a "plain" example.