Pat's Review of #25 Barlow EZ Open "Burnt Stag"
I got the knife from Steve around the middle of February and carried it for a month. When I received it I changed the geometry on the edge, which makes it a really nasty little cutter. Went outside and whittled for a while on a piece of fir 2X4, cut up a lemon just to see if it really was high carbon 1095...it was...stained the crap out of the blade. :> Then I cut up some heater hose from my truck.
Haven't found anything yet it that the knife won't/can't do. Mostly, I was paying attention to how it felt in my hand while using. No hot spots or blisters. The thing that makes it usefol for me (what Steve doesn't like about it) is how fat the scales are. Gave me something to hold onto and kept it from rolling in my hand. Even the groove cut in the scales and liner so's you can reach the nail nick provided added support for my ring finger. The knife also walks and talks like its big brothers!
My 40 year old pickup has 456 thousand miles on it and needs attention now-and-then. Used the knife to clean corrosion off the contacts of the brake light switch and to cut some new wire ends for it. Because of the knife's small size I was able to work in tight spaces under the instrument panel, which wouldn't have been possible with a larger knife.
It also cut some blackberry vines that were encroaching on my backyard. The large scales kept it from rolling in my hand, as noted above.
Summary: all and all, this is a great and useful little knife with a big heart!
Pat


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