• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Seems like it’d be a good skinner with that belly I’m not a fan of serrations I rarely find them useful and I like having blade at the base of the handle bc it’s easy to control for tasks that need a lot of torque like stripping bark.

      • Lerios [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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        4 months ago

        i can’t speak for this specific knife, but generally knife serations are fucking phenomenal for rope (or anything you’d need to saw). like, i used to work on a farm and carried a half serated knife and loved it - the normal part is for general use while the serrated part is for opening hay bales and emergency untangling animals from fencing/nets/etc.

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        4 months ago

        I guess for cutting rope and such. You can’t really use them as a saw for anything more than that but they’ll cut rope real fast. I wouldn’t mind having serrations on the back of the knife but I don’t like them on the blade.

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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          4 months ago

          I see, thanks for the explanation! I’ll be sure to take a serrated knife if I ever visit that bridge in Temple of Doom.

          Speaking of, (I digress) cutting rope with a sword or knife is a common trope in movies set in ancient times. It’s dramatic but anachronistic because rope was painstaking to produce. Ancient people would certainly rather take an extra minute to properly untie the knot.