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"The Trapper" Model #25-5" - Moosehead Gets a User!
Hi all!
At the Blade Show I finally obtained a Randall to be my user. It's a brand new Model #25 with a 5 inch stainless steel blade of 1/4 inch stock and thumb notches. It is the standard configuration, with a nickel silver single hilt and a Duralumin butt cap. The knife is perfectly balanced. The stag insert on the handle is both gnarly and colourful, and just what I like. It has a type A sheath, which I prefer to the basic pouch type F. This knife will accompany me on all my walks through the woods, and during various outdoor activities. It will hang from my belt for all the animals and birds to admire. It may even get to cut something (a sandwich, or apple perhaps), and I will be the envy of all. (I know, I'm sick!) 0] More pics to follow. Moosehead P.S. Special thanks to Silverknife for helping to snag this beauty for a very reasonable price. __________________ It takes less effort to smile than to frown ! Last edited by Moosehead; 06-23-2005 at 07:44 PM. |
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"The Trapper" Model #25-5" - Moosehead Gets a User!
Here are three more photos of this really neat knife!
Moosehead __________________ It takes less effort to smile than to frown ! Last edited by Moosehead; 06-23-2005 at 07:50 PM. |
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David,
That indeed is a beauty! I don't think I could ever bring myself to actually mar the perfection of a knife like that and I'm not sure you could either! May I be so bold as to suggest that you carry two knives: Your 25 for "show" and this one for "go": http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1 And if the occasion ever arises that you have to protect yourself, you just whip out that old 3-7. Just the threat of Tetanus alone will keep the bad guys at bay Best, Ron |
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Moose,
...Your great PICs do a perfect job showing off all the nice details that make these knives so great. Ya got me thinking about ordering another 25-5 Jeff |
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Thanks Ron and Jeff!
I know it will be difficult to strap this baby on for the first time, but I promised myself that one day I would have a great looking Randall to be my user. This knife has all I could want, so I'll just have to pass on that old "vintage" #3-7. However, if you guys keep it up, I could probably be talked into making my #25 part of my collection. Hmmm...Oh no...It's my user, it's my user, it's my user... :confused: Moosehead __________________ It takes less effort to smile than to frown ! |
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Moose use the knife. Once you do you wont belive the smile it brings to your face when you do. Take it from me I have 4 that I use. It is almost magical. So go outside and use the darn thing already. If I get time I will post a pic of my 23 being used. The 25 is a great camp and hicking knife.
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Moose, congrats on the knife. Looks like perfect geometry to me. Very beautiful. The hardest thing about "user" knives is the first scratch. Once you get that under your belt, then the coast is clear and happy cutting begins. You can never fully appreciate a knife's virtue without using it. User knives become precious in a very different way than "show" knives. Use it Moose! let the new romance begin!
__________________ Thewap |
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Moose,
What a Great Looking #25! Your pictures are superb! I think that you should carry it at least once or twice, and see what happens. I have a #25 in stag, and another one in stabilized maple burl. Both are great. Congrats on your find! Kent |
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" It may even get to cut something (a sandwich, or apple perhaps)" "...but the knife was meant for darker things." Guy Clark, "The Randall Knife" |
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To hear Guy Clark singing "The Randall Knife", click here: http://home.comcast.net/~willhunt1/G...dall_Knife.mp3 And you can sing along too: The Randall Knife My father had a Randall knife My mother gave it to him When he went off to WWII To save us all from ruin If you've ever held a Randall knife Then you know my father well If a better blade was ever made It was probably forged in hell My father was a good man A lawyer by his trade And only once did I ever see Him misuse the blade It almost cut his thumb off When he took it for a tool The knife was made for darker things And you could not bend the rules He let me take it camping once On a Boy Scout jamboree And I broke a half an inch off Trying to stick it in a tree I hid it from him for a while But the knife and he were one He put it in his bottom drawer Without a hard word one There it slept and there it stayed For twenty some odd years Sort of like Excalibur Except waiting for a tear My father died when I was forty And I couldn't find a way to cry Not because I didn't love him Not because he didn't try I'd cried for every lesser thing Whiskey, pain and beauty But he deserved a better tear And I was not quite ready So we took his ashed out to sea And poured `em off the stern And threw the roses in the wake Of everything we'd learned When we got back to the house They asked me what I wanted Not the lawbooks not the watch I need the things he's haunted My hand burned for the Randall knife There in the bottom drawer And I found a tear for my father's life And all that it stood for Best regards David __________________ It takes less effort to smile than to frown ! |
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And you can sing along too:
I will do everyone a favor and not sing along. Jeff |
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Moose,
Great choice for a hikin' knife. I like that style of sheath better than the pouch too. I believe the best way to turn a knife into a user is to put it to a stone and give it your edge - not the completely serviceable but generic edge from the shop. You do that and the resale on eBay immediately drops. Think of the condition description - "As new - never actually used or stored in the sheath, merely sharpened by my skilled hand." At that point you're better off actually cutting things with it and calling it "carefully used" when you sell it than thinking it's an "investment" - which you said you were not lookng for. Cut, Slice, Dice - go Moose, go! |
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Cut it out!
Hi Azgator!
Thanks for your support and tip. This knife is begging to be a user and will definitely get a chance to show its stuff. However, I'm don't think that I will try scratching it before I have a chance to check out it's shop sharpened edge. Later on I can practice my sharpening technique Quote:
David __________________ It takes less effort to smile than to frown ! |
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Moosehead,
That stag is jaw-dropping gorgeous! Please do everyone a favor and keep it in view at your side. Don't hide it in the safe. |
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I love my Model 25 and though I haven't used it much yet, I have turned a couple of my other Randalls into real users and boy do they loved to be used! In fact the first Randall I decided to convert to a user was my Model 16 "Diver's Knife" and it happened in just the way azgator mentioned. I was not happy with the factory edge on it (first and only time that's happened in my experience) so I resolved to touch it up. Well, it wasn't long before I realized that by doing so the knife would never be "mint" again. At first I was kickin' myself for tinkering but after I started putting the knife to some hard use I realized what I'd been missing. My appreciation for the knife grew dramatically the more I used it. If I'd resisted the impulse to put 'my edge' on it I would have never used it and therefore never fully appreciated it or, for that matter, any of my other Randalls. To fully appreciate these fine Randall knives it just makes sense to take at least one and really put 'er to the test. Here's a picture of my Model 25 which is similar to yours but with the pouch sheath. By the way, if you ask my wife she'll tell you this is her knife and technically I did tell her she could have it if she ever needed it. But I also told her that I would be glad to keep it safe for her until that time comes. |
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