Whiskey Bent Knives
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 7:56 pm
If anyone has more accurate or up to date information on these please post it here. This is all I could find out at this time.
Here they are the Whiskey Bent Knives. They are made by Hank Gevedon at Reptile Toolworks in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky (according to Blade Magazine) and are a part of Whiskey Bent Hat Co. of Brownsboro, TX. It appears they started making these knives around 2017 or later.
I purchased the 4 in. Trapper and the 3 ½ in. Canoe with the Burlap Acrylic Handle. The blades are 440 SS with a half-stop on the Canoe but not on the Trapper. With the exception of one blade on the Trapper they are well centered. The blades are tight opening/closing with an excellent snap. The factory edge is very good.
The scales are 1/8 in. Acrylic with the Burlap design under the Acrylic. Each knife can be ordered with various patterns or designs. I do have reservations with these handles due to the material. I believe they will scratch very easily and with daily use or impact you could start to see cracks near the pins. I can’t imagine any moisture being good that gets under the Acrylic. Just about any other material would make these excellent EDC knives. They have nickel/silver bolsters with brass pins. Both knives feel comfortable in my hand and have a solid heavy weight feel to them.
As they are I would put these knives just below the quality of the Rough Ryder knives and they will make very good collectable series knives for display. Change the scale material and you could have a very fine EDC knife at an affordable price. $31.99 to $55.00 retail.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it....
Here they are the Whiskey Bent Knives. They are made by Hank Gevedon at Reptile Toolworks in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky (according to Blade Magazine) and are a part of Whiskey Bent Hat Co. of Brownsboro, TX. It appears they started making these knives around 2017 or later.
I purchased the 4 in. Trapper and the 3 ½ in. Canoe with the Burlap Acrylic Handle. The blades are 440 SS with a half-stop on the Canoe but not on the Trapper. With the exception of one blade on the Trapper they are well centered. The blades are tight opening/closing with an excellent snap. The factory edge is very good.
The scales are 1/8 in. Acrylic with the Burlap design under the Acrylic. Each knife can be ordered with various patterns or designs. I do have reservations with these handles due to the material. I believe they will scratch very easily and with daily use or impact you could start to see cracks near the pins. I can’t imagine any moisture being good that gets under the Acrylic. Just about any other material would make these excellent EDC knives. They have nickel/silver bolsters with brass pins. Both knives feel comfortable in my hand and have a solid heavy weight feel to them.
As they are I would put these knives just below the quality of the Rough Ryder knives and they will make very good collectable series knives for display. Change the scale material and you could have a very fine EDC knife at an affordable price. $31.99 to $55.00 retail.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it....
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