kBob
Member
Beginning at the beginning of last December and stretching through May we had a thread on the good deals on knives at Home Depot.
Folks bought a few different kinds and I was wondering how the Coast knives were holding up.
My BX309 black in color is holding up very well so far. I never got a round tuit as far as locktighting those teenie tiny screws on the pocket clip and to night noticed they were a bit loose.....thankfully before I lost one. Walked out to the barn in the dark to find a small sized twix driver and applied a few Gorilla Pounds of torque on those suckers.....that is as tight as you can go without being frightened of stripping anything.
I used it today to cut the top of a dry water bottle off for a funnel when adding oil to the van. I used it over the summer on a fair amount of card board what with the kitchen remodeling. Not sure how many smiling packages in the mail or others have been opened that were dispensed from the Brown Truck of Happiness. I have cut a few different types of cord and light rope.
Nothing really heavy though I tried to cut a huge sucker off the orange tree yesterday and did not finish. Oddly this AM after that hacking at the orange tree the dang thing still shaved a little patch on my thigh when I tried it expecting nothing.
Since my I have once run a pocket steel over it a few passes a couple of months ago when I thought I saw a little curl and once on yea olde SpyderCO triangular sticks a few weeks back.
Personally I say, yes it is a cheap knife, but only so far as price.
My daughter lost her SAK at camp apparently on the last day. She has suggested , in the interest of keeping family finances in order that I see if HD still has BX309s rather than replacing her SAK with another.
-kBob
Folks bought a few different kinds and I was wondering how the Coast knives were holding up.
My BX309 black in color is holding up very well so far. I never got a round tuit as far as locktighting those teenie tiny screws on the pocket clip and to night noticed they were a bit loose.....thankfully before I lost one. Walked out to the barn in the dark to find a small sized twix driver and applied a few Gorilla Pounds of torque on those suckers.....that is as tight as you can go without being frightened of stripping anything.
I used it today to cut the top of a dry water bottle off for a funnel when adding oil to the van. I used it over the summer on a fair amount of card board what with the kitchen remodeling. Not sure how many smiling packages in the mail or others have been opened that were dispensed from the Brown Truck of Happiness. I have cut a few different types of cord and light rope.
Nothing really heavy though I tried to cut a huge sucker off the orange tree yesterday and did not finish. Oddly this AM after that hacking at the orange tree the dang thing still shaved a little patch on my thigh when I tried it expecting nothing.
Since my I have once run a pocket steel over it a few passes a couple of months ago when I thought I saw a little curl and once on yea olde SpyderCO triangular sticks a few weeks back.
Personally I say, yes it is a cheap knife, but only so far as price.
My daughter lost her SAK at camp apparently on the last day. She has suggested , in the interest of keeping family finances in order that I see if HD still has BX309s rather than replacing her SAK with another.
-kBob