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…say I’ve been prepping since I was a child. I even drew floor plans. Of course we never built it, couldn’t afford it back then. But history is our great friend, if we will learn from it. John Carter I also lose knives. I have a Kershaw folder that I have named Lazarus. I have lost this knife multiple times. One time it was lost for several months. And then one day I was driving down my gravel driveway and I saw something in the gravel that did not look right. I got out of my truck and low and behold, there it was. It had been run over and buried in the gravel. It was scratched but not broken. I lost it again and looked everywhere. Then one day I was doing some work using my tractor. I looked down on the foot rest platform and there it was….

…extent, in mainland China (the oppressive PRC). You may have read that Seki City, Japan used to be the world leader in top-of-the-line knives. Today, not many knives are being made in Seki City. One reason is, that having knives made there is a very expensive proposition. Then again, you are getting some outstanding cutlery. Many Japanese warriors of the past had their Katanas made in Seki. They demanded the best! Cutlery Shoppe, in Meridian, Idaho is run by Jeff Loffer, and he’s a really good guy to do business with. I used to make a lot of trips to his then walk-in shop, and we’d visit a lot. He knows quality blades and tools. 15 years ago, I moved from the east side of Oregon to the west side. So I haven’t had a chance to visit with Loffer. He no longer has a walk-in store – too bad….

…right side is because that‘s the side of the knife we look at when we open the knife and look at it. And it’s the one that gets photographed by the reviewers when they’re tested! Winchester figured all this out years ago when they put out an inexpensive knife that was chisel ground. They ground it on the right side and put their name on the right side of the blade–and it’s the best chisel grind knife I’ve ever had. Still not crazy about chisel grind knives as cutters, but if I’m going to own one, it’s gotta be for right-handed people! Blade material is another issue. I’ve got a COLD STEEL Recon One Tanto and I love it. Got it on sale and it’s one of the finest knives I’ve ever owned. The CTS-XHP steel is sharp but don’t yet know how tough it is if it’s whacked on!…

…Many readers have asked me to review more “expensive” knives, instead of lower priced imported knives. Well, I’m here to tell you right up front that the Cold Steel Bush Ranger is also an imported folding knife, and it isn’t on the low end of the scale, when it comes to cost. I’ve repeated this hundreds of times, especially for all you haters of anything imported. You get as good as you want from overseas, and overseas doesn’t always mean China or Taiwan either. To be sure, Cold Steel does not have any of their knives made in a slave labor camp, far from it. They are made in modern factories, with all the modern machinery you’d expect to only find in the USA. A “Custom” Knife At A Much Lower Price Not all that, but many years ago if you wanted a “custom” knife, folder or fixed blade, you…

…a particular job, when it comes to assembling and fitting knives. If there is something that isn’t quite right when a partially-assembled knife comes into the hands of the next person, they either send it back to the person who gave it to them or it is set aside to be examined later on. Either the defect is corrected or the knife does not get shipped out, period! Make no mistake, Kershaw/ZT Knives fits their knives. They aren’t simply thrown together with no thought about how nice the parts fit together! Kershaw’s Knife Sharpening Crew Then we have the crew whose only job is to sharpen each knife, and it is amazing to watch these folks at work. It takes about a minute to sharpen each knife on a grinding/buffing wheel. Each knife is checked to make sure it is hair-popping sharp. They use newsprint for this purpose. If a…

…It is easier to do, than to explain, trust me. So, the Wave feature effectively turns a manually opening folder into an automatic opening folder – if you want it to be that way. You can also use the thumb disk to open the blade. Just don’t apply that rearward pressure on the knife as you draw it from your pocket, and you can use the thumb disk instead – but why open it that way? Check out the video they have on the patented Wave feature and how easy it is to deploy your knife that way…its on the Kershaw and Emerson Knives websites. The new CQC-4KXL-D2 is a larger version of another similar folder that Kershaw is producing, and I like bigger folders. I like mine to have a blade between 3.5-inches and 4-inches long, and this one comes in right at 3.9-inches – love it. The blade…

…thing actually has a pressurize pen that works. Nice! There is also a bottle opener and flat head screw driver in the top of the pen, and it opens easily. Lastly, if you pull up on the top of the “pen” and fold it over, it reveals a very well made spring-loaded scissor that is super sharp. The scissors are made from 5CR15MOD stainless steel. The Baton Q2 The Q2 appears very similar to the Q1 when it is in a pocket; however, it has several totally different multi-tools on-board. There is no pen. Instead, where a pen would be, there is a 75-lumen LED flashlight that is turned-on by rotating the bezel. There is also a pocket clip for ease of carry. In the upper portion of the Q2 is a 2.5-inch, single sided knife blade that is super-sharp. To open the knife, you press on a release button…