BPS Knives Nighthawk Adventurer - Camping Knife - Fixed-Blade Stainless Steel Survival Knife - Black Leather Sheath and Firestarter - Outdoor Full Tang Knives - Bushcraft Knives

I order a couple of these after reading reviews from others on the sheath quality. They are extremely affordable knives and figured I could use the sheaths with other knives I have that are just not up to snuff. When I received the knife I was amazed of the quality of the sheath hands down just this is worth double their selling price! The knife is basic and very functional very sharp out of the box. Been carrying it and using it for the past week very impressive today the least. Easy to sharpen light weight and cuts like a champ. Edges are a little square along the spine and handle I just sanded them down a tad to my liking. Definitely going to keep these in rotation! Highly recommend if you’re looking for a solid simple basic light weight functional knife that won’t break the bank. I’ve bought a couple so far and will be looking at other models soon.

This is a great knife at an incredible price. Better yet the sheath is better quality than those that come with knives 4x the cost. The blade and handle are simplistically perfect and set for every task that I've needed it for. I've seen comments that a harder steel would be better but I disagree, I'm not chopping steel or cutting rocks. I use my knife as a knife and the steel on this knife is up to the task and easy to sharpen to a razor edge. I ordered another model because honestly it's a great knife and money well spent.

BPS knows how to get your attention. Was looking for a leather sheath for my Mora Companion when I stumbled on this and just had to have it. The full package - wood handles, leather sheath, ferro rod - just screams old timey outdoorsy bushcrafty. I, and I’m sure a lot of people who wind up purchasing it, had stars in my eyes just looking at the pictures, so I did some research on YouTube and Blade forums hoping they would give me a reason to punch the Buy Now, and sure enough, BPS is indeed a respected brand and this is their most popular knife, and Ukrainian to boot.The sheath is a beauty, smooth, thick, high quality leather. I see sheaths almost identical to this one going for $60-70 on Etsy, but here it’s thrown in almost like a freebie. The blade itself is impressive as well. Broad and thick with a full tang, scandi grind and sharp 90 degree spine, I see no reason why you wouldn’t choose this over the ever popular Mora if you were going into the woods and wanted to carry just one blade. The Mora Companion or Garberg would probably be better for finer tasks, but the Adventurer seems like it would be a more capable all around blade with a construction that looks like a compromise between a bushcraft knife and a Bowie style that could better handle chopping, batoning, or fending off a Deliverance style attack of hillbillies. I read some reviews that complained of the exposed tang being slightly proud of the wood scales making for an uncomfortable grip, but they seem to have solved that issue. Mine is perfectly flush. My main complaint would be that mine did not come very sharp. It couldn’t pop hair and was even struggling to cut paper, but I had a grand old time sharpening and stropping this thing within an inch of its life, now I could circumcise a flea with it. I put a lazy man’s forced patina on it by soaking it in room temp white vinegar for 5 hours, but it didn’t come out as dark as I would have liked. I then tried a criss cross pattern using yellow mustard. It came alright I think, but because I’m an OCD flip flop artist who’s never satisfied, I decided I didn’t like it and wanted it back in its original condition. I used Mother’s Mag & Aluminum Polish and polished the daylights out of it. If you look at the picture you can still see faint remnants of the cross cross pattern, so it’s not exactly in its original condition, but it is now brilliantly mirror polished. I may try again with boiled vinegar and a different mustard pattern.All things considered, this is one of the highest value purchases I’ve ever made, and by buying it you even get the satisfaction of knowing that you’re helping a beleaguered people in some small way. Get the whole collection. They all look great.

Update: I polished the scandi-grind to remove the forced patina I had added from there and burned in the outline "ᛞᛖᚠᛁᚨᚾᛏ" (DEFIANT in the Latin alphabet) on one of the handle scales which I will later carve channels in the middle of and inlay with silver. That is to say I am really liking this knife a lot and making it my own.This is my new favorite field knife to actually use and have on me for camping, wilderness hiking, hunting, and that sort of thing. That might not sound like much but I have many, several times more expensive knives that are great, but they're so pretty I hesitate using them.This knife isn't designed as a show piece nor a collector's item. It's a high quality utility knife, straightforward, effective, and simple, sort of like the perfect cross between a Mora and a Green River. There's a very compelling, classic and yet somewhat unique utilitarian design to this knife. The balance is exactly where it should be, right at the top finger groove.The sheath it comes with is of the highest quality, and in most cases better, regardless of price that I have seen come with any production knife. How great the sheath is really can't be overstated.I have large palms and fists but medium length fingers and the knife handle is just the right size for me. Any smaller and it would be a bit too small, but it isn't. Those with extra large hands or long fingers might find it to be on the small side.The wooden scales had a little play but I tightened them up. The bolts are hex 2.5 metric. The closest imperial bit I have in size was a bit loose, so I do recommend using the metric bit, if you can.The knife I received did not come "razor" sharp, but serviceable, but did come with more of a polish on the edge of the scandi-grind. I fairly easily sharpened it further putting a very narrow convex edge on the edge of the edge, roughly one-third of a millimeter across, using one of those V shaped scrapers a little, but primarily a leather strop. Other than the sticky touch of your fingerprints, use a glint of light on the edge to see it, if at least one of your eyes are good.I put a "patina" (oxidization layer) on the knife, blotching on dabs of mustard with a q-tip and letting it dry, to tone down the brightness of the steel, and it took nicely. Afterword I washed, dried, and then coated the whole knife in a grease mixture I made of food grade mineral oil and melted beeswax which forms a paste at room temperature and works great for wood, leather, and metals.I'll probably eventually file off that extra bit of weird chin metal at the top of the finger groove and use the indent below the blade's edge to slowly shape the edge into having a subtle belly paunch.Overall, I highly, highly recommend this knife. It is an absolute steal in cost effectiveness for functionality and practical quality. Thanks, and God bless all peoples and persons in their struggles against oppression and subjugation.

The shealth alone with the ferro rod is worth the money you pay. The shealth seems good quality leather.The Knife seems good quality although I have no put it thru the paces. Fit and finish are good for a working knife.The set up is Nordic style and the knife is a scandi grind which is the easiest to field sharpen in my opinion.Get it you will not regret it.