Schrade SCHF36 Frontier 10.4in Stainless Steel Full Tang Fixed Blade Knife with 5in Drop Point and TPE Handle for Outdoor Survival, Camping and Bushcraft

Would be 5 stars, but.....That coating is horrible. It chips off, its way too thick. It makes it hard to cut with. But it's easy to remove. On the picture you can see what it looks like now. I removed the coating, polished the blade and forced a patina. It's an excellent knife and excellent value now. I like it much better than other knifes close to this price. Condor Bushlore, moraknivs, etc... this is a far superior knife once you fix it up... not to mention it comes with a sheath, sharpening stone, and small ferro rod.

...or batoning. The manufacturers video shows batoning, but this knife failed, quickly. Dry wood with mostly bark...Survival knife? Definitely not the survival knife for rough county you want to depend on.Bushcraft? Not gonna use this for dressing small game. I'd be afraid the edge wouldn't hold up against small bones.Camping? Not sure I would want to use this at the campsite, even for small chores.This is a solid, heavy knife, for general household use. Has a great feel. Fooled me into thinking it could perform.

Anyone complaining about this knife could win a million bucks in the lottery, and would complain it wasn't a miilion and one.This is the most incredible 'best knife for the money' you'll ever get!$30!!!!!....And you get a fantastic sheath with a sharpening stone and fire starter kit!Then, you get a magnificent hunk of steel, in the shape of a knife, that could tackle all of your camping/hiking/bushcraft/etc demands!!This thing is SOLID!!!.....Built like a tank!!!....I LOVE the grips on it!!!This isn't a complaint, but it does have a little weight behind it. But I'm a pretty big guy.....so the weight and size of grip isn't a factor to me.I got it FAST, and it has a good edge to it. Not 'shaving sharp', but that's fine. I don't put any of my knives to stones, for a razor sharp edge, unless it's a knife I need that kind of edge for.Some folks balk at any knife you can't shave with, which personally I find ridiculous.Anyway. Point is, as long as I have this knife, for the purposes I bought it for, I'll never look for, or need, another knife in the same category.Thank you Schrade, and the sellers of Schrade, for this perfect knife/deal!

Why there isn't a recall on this knife is beyond me! One obvious problem is that it is or at least the one I got is that it's hollow ground edge. Greats a thin/week spot in the knife. That and possibly a problem with the tempering process.Change in direction in the grain of red oak and popped that knife edge right out.Sharpens up to a razor edge perfectly. Don't try and split wood with it at all.I don't know what its meant for but not a camp knife.Took this on a 3 day 2 night backpacking trip recently. Its all I took to process wood other than a saw. Made do with it..Don't waste your money. It's not worth $5.00.

Although,my first time ordering this knife, the knife blade broke when I was processing wood, the exchange process was really fast and easy. And so far, I really like this knife. It batons wood really easily, and creates really good feather sticks. Can't go wrong with this knife for the price.

The difference between the SCHF36 and 36M is the laminated micarta (M) handle. That might be obvious to some or a mystery to folks like myself new to what have come to be known as 'bushcraft/survival' knives. I have both the 36 and 36M: one of them in the Toyota, the other in my truck. I don't know if the micarta handle justifies the price difference between the 36 and 36M. The fire starter and sharpening steel are convenient additions to the purchase but I don't know as they'd be a deal breaker either. This is the third knife I've purchased that comes with its own buzzwords, i.e. bushcraft & survival. The other is a Kershaw Camp 10. The next will likely be a Morakniv Companion. . .and for the price of those I'll likely buy three.Most bushknives are monsters. I've looked at many of the YouTube video reviews. The sky's the limit to obsessiveness. But, price points usually drive the bus. This Schrade 36 like its brother the 36M is a heavy piece of steel. The blade looks like a combination of "hollow ground" and "sabre ground". The cutting edges on mine were not evenly ground. Good edges are "V" shaped, symmetrical and invisible: out of the box the edge on both the 36 & 36m were both visible and asymmetrical. So, Schrade's price point precludes too much attention to detail. That said, the knife arrives sharp enough with a decent sheath, fire starter and sharpening stone. If you want it sharper or re-ground, go for it. But then, you'd be into Ka-Bar or Kershaw territory. Barring obsessive behavior, most of us would be happy with this knife out of the box.You 'could' potentially shave with it given a bit of work on the edge. But, I didn't buy a full quarter-inch tang, with handle-jimping and a choil to shave with: this blade is 1 1/2" wide, 1/4" thick and 4 1/4" in front of the finger choil!! No swage: the tang is 1/4" all the way to within 3/4" of the tip where it begins to bevel. There's no real pommel on the handle's end. However, the spine is most of 1/4" thick so my thought is, if you can baton with it you'll be able to pound a bit with it as well.This is a very heavy, stoutly-built knife designed for a lot of abuse that will serve for years. If I could only have one knife at this price point it'd be this one or one very similar to it. This one will spend most of its life in my truck for emergency use, i.e. breaking windows, baton work, removing back straps & tenderloins from the occasional gubbermint goat, etc.

Heavy duty knife for a heavy duty job. Works well. Appears to be high quality. Not trusting the sheath. It attaches to your belt with velcro. I want something more robust to carry a knife on my belt.Update: I did address the sheath issue with a needle and some thread. Knife stays sharp. I baton with it and then whittle. The sharpener that comes with the knife is a pleasant surprise. I even used it to sharpen my camping axe and my kitchen knives in my RV. Bumping it up to five stars. The finish is coming off from heavy batoning.

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フルタングで大ぶりなナイフですね。和式ナイフで言う所の、4寸剣鉈と言った感じ。簡単に各部を測った感じだと、刃長：約110mm（ホローグラインド）全長：約260mm刃幅（峰部）：約6mm重量：約380gといった感じ。非常に研ぎやすい合材の様で、好きなように刃付けできます。最初、ファイアスターターを峰でスパークできるか試しましたが、ナイフが負けてしまいました。なので、柔らかすぎないか心配で、バトニング用途と言うこともあり刃をやや鈍角気味に砥ぎました。直径15cmほどの松の倒木を横（繊維に対して垂直）にチョッピングして半分にしましたが、刃こぼれすることが無かったので安心しました。その後、チョッピングした丸太を縦割りして小さくした後もフェザーは作れましたので、刃持ちはなかなかなものかと思いますね。ホローグラインドでも、コレだけ刃厚があると丈夫でいいですね。刃先を鋭利に、それ以外を鈍角にして、箇所毎別な研ぎ方をすることで、ナイフ一本でフィールド歩くってのもできるポテンシャルはもっているかと思います。他、付属品のシースは、ナイロンの中にプラスチックが仕込まれているので、シースとしてはシッカリしています。ファイアスターターについては、ちゃんとスパークするので普段使いできるかなと思います。ファイアスターターのストライカーは優秀です。かなり硬い合材が使われているのか、スパークがものすごくしやすいです。付属のダイヤモンド砥石は使っていません。ムラがありかなり荒目なので、使えばガタガタになってしまうでしょう。グリップは、ボルト留めされているだけなので、容易に脱着することが可能です。グリップが劣化しても、そのあたりフルタングということもあるので、パラコードや木材で自作しやすいのもいいですね。使い捨て感覚の予備用として買いましたが、今ではメインでも十分活躍してくれるかもと心動かされるナイフでした。

重さやサイズ、とても気に入ってたんですが、バトニング利用2回目にして、大きな欠けが出ました。15mmφほどの杉の枝をチョップした際に見たことない欠け方しました。ガッカリです。。塗装剥いで使ってますし、返金とか言わず、販売者さんに何通か品質に関して連絡したものの応答も無く。メールで連絡して下さいと表記しているのにも関わらず、、色々ガッカリ。安かろうの当たり外れなのか、石でも叩いたかのような割れ具合。ホロウグラインドでも、重さやコスト感から期待込めて使って行きたかった。残念

L'acciaio è effettivamente 1095 carbon steel, è di ottima qualità, offre una buona resistenza alla ruggine (il tutto aiutato dalla copertura) e una buona ritenzione del filo.La sensazione che si ha quando lo si impugna è quella di sicurezza.Il manico è forse lievemente sottile per chi ha mani leggermente più grandi della norma, ma compensa con un disegno della gomma che garantisce una buona presa.Piccolo difetto è, a mio avviso, la scalanatura presente sul dorso e sulla pancia del manico, troppo incisiva, taglia un po' le mani, ma dei guanti proteggono a sufficienza credo.La lama è spessa e ha un buon design, il choil è confortevole e garantisce una presa migliore nei tagli di precisione, o "a spinta".Forse non è il massimo per spaccare ciocchi con la tecnica del batoning, data la ruvidezza della lama.Il filo fuori dalla scatola non è eccelso, potrebbe essere migliore.Il fodero è di buona qualità, ma non perfetto.Graditissimi i gadget che la ditta offre con questo articolo.Attenzione: in foto sembra più grande di quanto non sia, ma da amante dei coltelli grossi, questo piccoletto è bello "pasciuto" e tozzo, il che fa suggerire una resistenza fuori dall'ordinario.Sconsigliato assolutamente piantare la punta e torcere, è una serie di coltelli che soffre particolarmente questa manovra abusiva.Per il prezzo è veramente un "must have". Lo consiglio vivamente.

This is a great budget knife. For the price, I can't imagine a better product. The blade thickness is huge, just about a 32nd shy of a 1/4 inch and feels great in the hand.Pros:1. Very heavy duty. I haven't used this knife for very long, but I've done a fair amount of chopping and batoning with it and it has held up perfectly well. My previous knife was very poor quality, and ended up breaking in half on me with some light work. You could hack away with this thing all day and it won't break on you. At least not from my experience.2. The handle has good grip and is safe. This may not be the world's most comfortable handle, but its not uncomfortable. There's really no risk of this slipping out of your hand, or cutting yourself on the blade. I especially like the finger notch just below the cutting edge. Great for getting in nice and close to do detailed work. Gives you great control.3. Full Tang. The full tang on this knife is great. It extends past the butt of the handle giving you something to pound on without causing any damage.4. 90 degree spine. The spine on this is great for striking a ferro rod. It'll also scrape off fine shavings and wood fibres for tinder with the 90 degree spine.Cons:1. Comes with lots of gimmicky junk. The sharpening stone that comes with this knife is warped and of very low quality. I would not use this to sharpen my knife ever. The ferro rod is fine, but I have others that work much better. The striker is pretty useless that comes with the ferro rod as well.2. The sheath is oversized and pretty ugly. It has room for the ferro rod and the sharpening stone in an effort to make it a sort of survival kit. But the extras are kind of useless and it just makes the sheath all bulky and bulgy and just doesn't look very good in my opinion.3. Coated blade. I don't have any problem with coated blades, but this one is a little gritty for my taste. It doesn't cause much of a problem, but any sort of usage will scuff it up and make the blade look more worn than it actually is. The knife is great, but it'll look a little war weary very quickly with this coating. On the bright side, you don't have to worry about rust.4. Really thick blade. This is one of the things I liked about the blade, but it does make the finer detailed work a little challenging. I found it a little tricky to do any feathering with this blade. Not impossible, just a little more challenging than with a thinner blade. You have to cut at a steeper angle due to the thickness, and its more difficult to get the finer shavings that you would with a thinner blade.Overall:I love this knife for what it is. It's not the best knife in the world, but its a great knife and does exactly what I want it to do. I want something that I can really pound on in the woods, and this fits the bill perfectly. It sharpens up nicely, and holds an edge relatively well and for the price, you can't beat it. The sheath and extras are a little silly, but I didn't buy the knife for those things, so it's not really a problem in the long run. I would recommend to someone who's looking for a sturdy knife for the woods with a modest budget.