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Taking a look at wilderness survival blades: Featuring the DiamondBlade Surge knife

4/8/2017

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I often stress the importance of having a survival knife in with your gear, especially if you’re camping or trekking through the wilderness. No matter where you are in the world, a quality blade can save your life. Personally, I prefer fixed blade survival knives that can be strapped to my hip, because they seem to work best in tough situations, are easier to control for important projects, and last longer than most folding knives. Having a good pocket knife is something I also believe is important, but if you’re far out exploring Nature and shit goes down, and you have no fixed blade, good luck to you.
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When I go on expeditions into vast wildernesses, I always carry a series of knives. One of my favorites is a smaller fixed blade. I use a Fallkniven 6” for the heavy stuff, but having a small blade that adds little weight your pack, yet can handle most jobs, can be a blessing from my experience. I found the DiamondBlade Pro Series Surge fixed blade to be a high quality knife, perfect for all sorts of outdoor trips and treks alike.

DiamondBlade uses a unique method to forge their blades. They call it ‘Friction Forging,’ which is capable of creating a ‘Super Blade.’ This process brings together metallurgical, chemical, and engineering expertise to craft in this way. They describe the ‘Super Blade’ as a blade that maintains shaving sharpness longer than any premium blade steels. Nano-sized superfine grain structures within the blade provide the knife with greater edge strength, and toughness, and a longer lasting edge. The edge of the Surge knife is marketed as corrosion and rust resistent, which is a very cool feature, considering my nomadic lifestyle.

A lot of chemistry and heat treatment went into creating this blade, most of which make little sense to me, so if you want to learn more, click the link at the bottom. I found the Surge knife by DiamondBlade to certainly be a superior blade. It’s strong and very sharp, and is built for people like me who travel a little rougher than most. And hopefully this is a technology that will save my life and yours someday.

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The Surge blade is thick, and feels very strong, and comes extremely sharp; sharp enough to shave the hair off my arm (and yes, I tried it). So sharp in fact that it must always be used with its special sheath, otherwise there’s a high chance of it cutting right through lesser leather and fabric sheaths. The handle is a thick, molded rubber material that adds friction and a lot of control to the knife.

The previously mentioned sheath is a very nice hard plastic that is precisely shaped for this blade, and comes with a hard plastic belt loop clip, which is in a style I haven’t seen, but I like where they went with the design. Typically I prefer leather sheaths, but in this case, with this particular knife, I love the sheath that comes with it, because it feels like it will outlast just about anything that may happen to you in the wild. The Surge knife is built to last, and withstood all of my tests. When I go overnight in the wilderness, I take a large fixed blade, a smaller fixed blade like the Surge, and a heavy duty pocket knife (and of course, an axe and an electric chainsaw, but these items depend on what sort of areas I’m in and what sort of weather I will be enduring), and between all three, most jobs that I run into run smoothly, and I survive to continue traveling another day.

If you would like to find out more about DiamondBlade, click here.


Article written & Photos by Brandon Scott / Eye & Pen​


2 Comments
Andrew Levetts
4/10/2017 11:12:06 am

Gorgeous blade. I'm digging the sheath with it. You say it's hard plastic, eh?

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Jennifer H
4/13/2017 09:21:20 am

Think this knife would be good for a main camping blade?

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