The Venerable F1

I've got it bad. I've mentioned it before. I flat out like the Fallkniven F1.

While investigating a new burrowing guest I decided to grab the camera and snap a few pictures of my ever-growing F1 collection with the more refined cousin the NL5 (also from Fallkniven.)

You can see my hard user second from left, my two customs from JRE Industries, and a brand new production model.

There's nothing I've asked of this knife that it couldn't perform. It's a great size and weight. The sheaths I use range from the factory plastic to custom leather from JRE and custom Concealex from Rob Humelbaugh at Survival Sheath Systems.

Combining the factory blade blank from Fallkniven with custom handle/liner combinations and custom sheathing options offers the best from both worlds in a fully customized knife with easily-replicated geometry, heat treat, and quality. In other words, I can have a one of a kind knife today that I can have made again sometime down the road if I choose.

I'm breaking in the green canvas micarta F1 with red liners but the production model with kydex from MBHanzo (on eBay) is the one that gets the call most often and it shows. I'm curious to see just what this knife will look like a year from now when compared to the unused factory version. Will I sharpen away enough steel to notice? Will the handle start to wear away from repeated insertion and extraction from the sheath?

Only time will tell but I suspect this knife will keep on ticking no matter what I throw at it...

Thanks for reading,


B