Dexter Russell?????????
 

so I have a cheapo fillet knife that I use for everything. from cutting my steak to slicing pot roast and the like. my wife, who I affectionately call "The Destroyer" somehow bent the tip. i'm in the market for a new "everything" knife. dexter Russell looks nice and relatively inexpensive. 10 bucks. 12 bucks. I will use it for everything from cutting my meat to slicing corned beef to actually filleting a fish.

and GO!!!

Check out Morakniv knives. I bought mine off amazon, $12-$15. Ive got both stainless steel(Sanvik) blades and carbon steel. Gave a bunch out as Christmas gifts last year, so far three people have cut themselves with them. They are scary sharp and hold a great edge. I like the 3.9 inch blade in carbon steel for general purpose, I keep the 4.1 inch SS blade for around the boat.

I like dexter russell oyster and scallop knives. Filet are fine too. I get them in a resturant supply store, but their up to $15-$25 down here. $35-$45 in a marine supply store.

Scored one of these at Christmas; http://www.pelagicoutfitters.com/cat...oducts_id=3700

Very nice for the $

Now THAT is a NICE set. Great find!!!! :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

My favorite bait knife ever was a Dexter I got at the flea market for a dollar, lost it somewhere on the back road on Portsmouth Island.

I don't know if yous guys have flea markets up north, but I find a lot of nice old knives cheap at ours down here.

Yup, we got them up here also. Great sources of equipment if you know what you are looking for and know their worth. :love:

I ended up buying a couple of cheap kvd knives from wal mart, I think they were made by mustad and are the Kevin Van Dam series. It's a 6" filet knife with a rubber type handle, black on top and red on the edge side. I use them for everything from utility, to filet, bait, general cutting, meat work, pretty much everything. I've had real good luck with them holding an edge, but they don't seem to sharpen well with the cheap sharpeners where you just pull the blade through them. I use a wetrock stone, and can get them sharp enough to use for surgery.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/KVD-Musta...Knife/23704232

"meat work"??? what the phuck is meat work????

Deboning, removing fat, spatchcocking, butterfly, criss cross cuts, any kind of work you would do in preparing meat for cooking.

Just throwing this out there. I bought a Ken Onion sharpener.
This thing is amazing! Gives a slight convex angle.

https://www.amazon.com/Work-Sharp-Kn.../dp/B00EJ9CQKA

Wow Barry.... that thing looks awesome. I might just have figured out what my next months birthday gift is gonna be. Now I just gotta figure out how to drop the proper hints to the wife without seeming overeager or pushy. :head:

Re-watch "A Christmas Story" for gift hint guideline.

Fill up the cookies on her electronic devices with ads for one, that way every popup she sees isfor one of them.

OH!!!! I LIKE THAT IDEA (Caps intentional) Thanks Ferm :love::clap::beer::love::clap::beer:

If she has amazon, look them up in her account. I can look stuff up on my phone on amazon, and she will get pop ups on her ipad and phone for things I looked up.

She does and I will (Muhahahahahaha)

The Ken Onion sharpener is the closes thing I have found to having your knives professionally sharpen. I use the 15 degree angle which works well but being such a fine angle it's easily damaged and tricky to use a steel on. It takes a light touch with a steel to bring the point/edge back.

Use a leather strop

Destroyer,
I like the finished edge of the 220 grit myself. I have only used the leather strop belt once.

I meant use a strop instead of using a steel to return the edge. :beer: