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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 1384640" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>I know right? I read the online specs for it and it said 1/4" spine and I thought to myself "no way", but I looked up some pics and was blown away. Even with the length-specs given to me, I somehow thought it was bigger than it ended up being in real life.</p><p></p><p>It reminds me of the fatty wardens. I am looking into a way to have a CNC machinist friend fab up some custom G10 or Linen Micarta scales made for my Skelly Warden so it can act like a Game Warden when it wants to (I want to use similar screw/barrel-connector hardware to the ESEE or TOPS knives so I can replace the scales when I want to), so it might become the game warden I want and the Izula might end up as the Neck knife that cuts its first deer.</p><p></p><p>I keep teetering on the Ridgeback. It has a taste for my blood with that shorty handle and long blade, but that's what I both hate/love about it. It fits a niche that none of my other knives fit, but I'm also very much not used to a knife with a handle that short (especially one that's deceivingly fat - which gives you great control even with a shorter handle, but I keep over-reaching up past the choil onto the blade).</p><p></p><p>Its cut me 3 times now and none of my other EDC knives have ever done that. To be fair, I've used the Ridgeback a lot more than the others because I really want to see how much it takes to dull the blade (so far, a lot of boxes, huge zip-ties, tree limbs bothering me in the deer stand, a few horse apples, and some tree-bark have not even phased the edge on the blade).</p><p></p><p>And I'm starting to think that I really don't have a need for this many knives, but for now, I'll keep them and put them all through their paces (I still want a scrapyard dog, an ESEE 3 or 4, and ESEE HEST fixed-blade, and possibly an ESEE 5 or 6).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 1384640, member: 229"] I know right? I read the online specs for it and it said 1/4" spine and I thought to myself "no way", but I looked up some pics and was blown away. Even with the length-specs given to me, I somehow thought it was bigger than it ended up being in real life. It reminds me of the fatty wardens. I am looking into a way to have a CNC machinist friend fab up some custom G10 or Linen Micarta scales made for my Skelly Warden so it can act like a Game Warden when it wants to (I want to use similar screw/barrel-connector hardware to the ESEE or TOPS knives so I can replace the scales when I want to), so it might become the game warden I want and the Izula might end up as the Neck knife that cuts its first deer. I keep teetering on the Ridgeback. It has a taste for my blood with that shorty handle and long blade, but that's what I both hate/love about it. It fits a niche that none of my other knives fit, but I'm also very much not used to a knife with a handle that short (especially one that's deceivingly fat - which gives you great control even with a shorter handle, but I keep over-reaching up past the choil onto the blade). Its cut me 3 times now and none of my other EDC knives have ever done that. To be fair, I've used the Ridgeback a lot more than the others because I really want to see how much it takes to dull the blade (so far, a lot of boxes, huge zip-ties, tree limbs bothering me in the deer stand, a few horse apples, and some tree-bark have not even phased the edge on the blade). And I'm starting to think that I really don't have a need for this many knives, but for now, I'll keep them and put them all through their paces (I still want a scrapyard dog, an ESEE 3 or 4, and ESEE HEST fixed-blade, and possibly an ESEE 5 or 6). [/QUOTE]
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