I had the pleasure of testing the CJS Ironclad. It's a great little knife, and here is the company provided info on it. Originally I must confess that I was not sure in the blades abilities, and let me say that after testing, I found my original thoughts to all be unfounded.
The CJS Ironclad is a small neck knife made of 1/8" 1095 High Carbon steel. The handle material is Black G10 Micarta. The knife comes with a Black Kydex Sheath. The knife is 6 1/2" overall with a 3 1/2" handle and 3" blade.
This is a very concealable blade, I wore it for about a week at work and no one ever noticed that I had it on around my neck under my shirt. Thats a huge +1 for the blade.
The edge of this scandi grind blade is what I think to be around 12 degrees, though its a bit hard to tell, but its noticeable at less of a drastic angle than the 19degree angle of one of my sharpeners. The handle is very nice, no sharp edges on it, It would have been nice if there were liners, but the blade isn't for show, so I can't hold that against it. I would have liked to see some checkering, on the handles, but once I started to use it, I didn't find the blade to feel slippery in my hands at all. And it was very comfortable.
The knife took about 2 days to get to my house. +1 on the fast shipping. Here is the unboxing.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZkiM2-0Ya4[/ame]
You want to talk about a super sharp knife, this thing was scary sharp. And I was feeling a bit shaggy, so I had to remedy that, so I filmed a bit of it. I will say the only reason that I stopped filming is because the blade was so scary sharp and I was afraid I might cut more than hair, if you know what I mean.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8dmzPSi2NI[/ame]
Now for some fun with the blade to see exactly how much it can take.
first off, the perfect test for the blade tip, lets see how digging through some wood to say make the pit for a bow drill does to it. It did great, but I must say, the Scandi blade is so sharp that if you are not careful, you can bite into the wood much farther than you intended as the video shows. And that kydex sheath is quite tight, I shook it hard to see if it would come out and it didn't budge.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlrzI7dnX6Y[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmWhoATzV8I[/ame]
Now for some real abuse, lets take the small blade and beat the crap out of battonning.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di2U7UbRDKM[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baVMx-ErJVs[/ame]
I then washed the blade and without sharpening it, went on to some food prep. Wish it was dear season and I could have done some field dressing, and skinning, but cutting up sausage, onions and potatoes is almost as good. You may all ask yourselves, where is the video of it slicing potatos, I'll tell ya. While cutting potatoes, I did manage to slice open my thumb, I noticed the blood before I felt it. Damn that Ironclad for being such a sharp knife. Didn't get stiches just some neosporan, a bandage, and some duct tape to keep it on. So I have chosen to not include that video as I don't know how to edit out all the NSFW language in it.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x371SC_mRS4[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N425lKAg-6g[/ame]
This is truely an impressive blade for $75. Nice, small, and concealable, for self defense purposes. After seeing the way it slices through several layers of cardboard(sorry no videos allowed at work) I can say, it will have no problems slicing through a few layers of clothing all the way down to the bone. I find myself quite lucky I didn't go down to the bone when cutting up the potatoes.
The CJS Ironclad is a small neck knife made of 1/8" 1095 High Carbon steel. The handle material is Black G10 Micarta. The knife comes with a Black Kydex Sheath. The knife is 6 1/2" overall with a 3 1/2" handle and 3" blade.
This is a very concealable blade, I wore it for about a week at work and no one ever noticed that I had it on around my neck under my shirt. Thats a huge +1 for the blade.
The edge of this scandi grind blade is what I think to be around 12 degrees, though its a bit hard to tell, but its noticeable at less of a drastic angle than the 19degree angle of one of my sharpeners. The handle is very nice, no sharp edges on it, It would have been nice if there were liners, but the blade isn't for show, so I can't hold that against it. I would have liked to see some checkering, on the handles, but once I started to use it, I didn't find the blade to feel slippery in my hands at all. And it was very comfortable.
The knife took about 2 days to get to my house. +1 on the fast shipping. Here is the unboxing.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZkiM2-0Ya4[/ame]
You want to talk about a super sharp knife, this thing was scary sharp. And I was feeling a bit shaggy, so I had to remedy that, so I filmed a bit of it. I will say the only reason that I stopped filming is because the blade was so scary sharp and I was afraid I might cut more than hair, if you know what I mean.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8dmzPSi2NI[/ame]
Now for some fun with the blade to see exactly how much it can take.
first off, the perfect test for the blade tip, lets see how digging through some wood to say make the pit for a bow drill does to it. It did great, but I must say, the Scandi blade is so sharp that if you are not careful, you can bite into the wood much farther than you intended as the video shows. And that kydex sheath is quite tight, I shook it hard to see if it would come out and it didn't budge.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlrzI7dnX6Y[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmWhoATzV8I[/ame]
Now for some real abuse, lets take the small blade and beat the crap out of battonning.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di2U7UbRDKM[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baVMx-ErJVs[/ame]
I then washed the blade and without sharpening it, went on to some food prep. Wish it was dear season and I could have done some field dressing, and skinning, but cutting up sausage, onions and potatoes is almost as good. You may all ask yourselves, where is the video of it slicing potatos, I'll tell ya. While cutting potatoes, I did manage to slice open my thumb, I noticed the blood before I felt it. Damn that Ironclad for being such a sharp knife. Didn't get stiches just some neosporan, a bandage, and some duct tape to keep it on. So I have chosen to not include that video as I don't know how to edit out all the NSFW language in it.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x371SC_mRS4[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N425lKAg-6g[/ame]
This is truely an impressive blade for $75. Nice, small, and concealable, for self defense purposes. After seeing the way it slices through several layers of cardboard(sorry no videos allowed at work) I can say, it will have no problems slicing through a few layers of clothing all the way down to the bone. I find myself quite lucky I didn't go down to the bone when cutting up the potatoes.
