>>2743105>buck 100Kek, do people really buy these? You'd thinke their "if you sharpen your knife, you void the warranty" clause would be a red flag.
>>2743044Haven't bought anything from odenwolf (yet - the boar hunter is on my wishlist for, you guessed it, boar hunting). Those knives ar pure combat / hunting knives. You can't freely vary your grip because of how profiled they are, and the two-stage bevel makes it hard to carve precisely. They're to thick to comfortably cut food (though you can still do it, of course) and the sheaths suck, as the solid plastic loop means they won't follow the movements of your leg but stick out all the time instead.
Basically, it's another of those manufacturers making semi-useable knives, where you have to modify the grind (generally to convex, since a full scandi grind would mess up the coating and make it look like shit), get a custom sheath and still end up with a piece of steel that is somewhere between box cutter and sharpened nail. it (probably) won't chip on bone, though.
If you want a good general purpose knife, get a Mora. If you want a heavy duty knife fo stabbing things or batoning in a retarded way (as proper batoning works just fine with the Mora), Glock 79 is reasonably good and affordable. Opinel is also fairly good, if you're fine with a folder, and Victorinox is alright if you're fine with sharpening a bit more often.
And since I'm recommending brands already, let me warn you of some: esee is not worth the price. Their grind sucks (same as with the odenwolf knives) and makes them a real pain to work with, and they are tempered for toughness, making them get blunt to quickly. Cold steel is alright on materials and tempering, but ships with pretty much no sharpness. My two CS knives had spots that were completely blunt, and others that were ground way to much and notched the edge. They're alright if you have a belt grinder to finish them properly, but not worth buying otherwise.
