Condor Tool & Knife Selknam Full Tang Fixed Blade Knife with Leather Sheath - 1075 High Carbon Steel - Micarta Handle - 5.2 in Blade - 10.9oz

If you’re looking for a sturdy and dependable bushcraft blade - anything from this company will take a beating and get the job done. Watch any YouTube video about bushcraft knives and you’ll hear about this company. I worked for an outfitter and sold their products, we couldn’t keep them on the shelves. As advertised, they are a workhorse knife. I gave this particular knife as a gift, and yes I was proud to do so.

good knife but needs shapening before use

tool the leather on the side you can get a 6inx5/8in ferro rod in the little loop on the sheath. the front pouch on the sheath can hold a wetstone as well as a small altoid tin for making or storing char-cloth or tinder. -the blade is machine ground to a knife edge, not razor edge. there is a small divot in the handle for a bowdrill compress point, and ample tie-ons for cordage. large and sturdy, baton kindling easily... sharpen to razor edge for fileting fish and you'll have a strong back to help balance against the bones. 8 out of 10

Mine measures .210 at the spine. This is a brute of a knife. You will NEVER wear this out and I seriously doubt you could break this regardless of how hard you try! An excellent case as with all Condor products I have purchased. The blade is CONCAVE, not hollow ground as some buyers seem to expect. It takes an edge very easily, I used a Diamond Sharpening Stone Pen Knife Sharpener. took 1 min to razor sharp. 90 degree spine as well as a notch at the heal of the handle for ferrous striking. A loop on the side will hold a 5/16 ferrous rod as well as 3 loops on the rear of the sheath. This will last multiple generations of hard use. Best Camp/Survival knive I have ever owned. Buy it David

First, some things needs to be made clear: These are not 1095. I was told by the Condor customer service rep that the 1095 rumors are untrue. In his own words, they are "fake news". Also, the blade grind on the latest version is a high flat saber grind. It's not convex or scandi or hollow. It is flat.Also also, this is not a bushcrafting knife, so when you see people call it that you can pretty much disregard anything else they have to say. The Selknam is a camp/survival knife designed to perform camp tasks such as chopping, delimbing, batoning and shelter building. Bushcraft knives are designed to make fine cuts and notches, etc. and are typically small, around 3-4 inches, and thin.Anyway, here's my review of the Condor Selknam after extensive use:* The current price is WAY too high. For the same or less money you can just about take your pick of RAT or Esee models, all (or most) in 1095. Most Condors, including this one, are 1075. In practice you won't know the difference, but still... At the time of this writing you can buy an Esee 6, the absolute king of camp/survival knives with a bulletproof, no questions asked, fully transferable, lifetime warranty for $108 from Knife Works. Why in hell would you buy this for $120? You wouldn't. And I didn't. I sucked mine up when they were selling for like $88.Even so, it wouldn't matter if the knife costs $120 or $20. Regardless of price, it's still going to perform poorly so there's no magic number that makes the knife worth buying.* It doesn't do anything particularly well. It's too short to be a good chopper and too long (and too thick) to be a good bushcrafter. It's definitely not a hunting knife, though it is similar in design to the highly sought after Elmer Keith skinner.* It delimbs and batons okay and it's passable at making feather sticks, but that's about it. Batoning is it's biggest strength, but it's not enough to justify carrying it over any one of an infinite number of better, cheaper knives. Oh, yeah. It will strike a ferro rod very well, too.* The grind is functional, but sloppy. On mine one side is ground higher than the other and neither are straight at the top of the grind. I swear I think they must hold the blanks down with their feet and grind them with an angle grinder. Mine even has gouges in it. Gouges! At the edge and higher up near the flat. On both sides! At least they did change the grind from convex to flat.The blade also has some kind of high gloss clear coat on it to prevent rust. Looks artificially shiny, like it's wet or something, until you actually use the knife and then it starts wearing off so you don't get a natural patina, but patchy areas of either worn and stained or just off the showroom floor shiny. Fortunately, this coating is barely attached and scrubs right off with a SOS pad or abrasive backed sponge.* The thumb jimping looks like it was cut in with a Dremel tool and is too flat, smooth and liberally spaced to offer any additional traction whatsoever.* It's 1075. Nothing wrong with that, but it runs super soft, like 50-55HRC, so while it's crazy tough, just laying it next to a piece of wood is enough to dull it. The claimed 50-55 is a great variance, too. Enough to create a noticeable performance difference from one batch to the other. In the same product line? That's crazy!* The canvas Micarta handle scales, as ironic as it seems, are superb. Beautifully done..... except the bow drill divot is in entirely the wrong place and all but unusable because of it.* The sheath is heavy duty and the materials are good quality. A little dry maybe, but a light oiling fixes that right up. The dangler is great, but the overall assembly is as sloppy as the blade grind. The stitching isn't straight and it's coming out of both the pouch and the pouch flap, the pouch itself is a little crooked on the sheath and the snap is very crooked on the pouch. These are just aesthetic things, but they're still sloppy. The pouch also isn't really big enough for anything. I guess you can put a piece of flint in there or a bow drill string, but that's it. Maybe that's what it's for because it's too big for the tiny Altoids tin, which itself is useless, and too small for the medium one. You can add a new snap higher up and the medium tin fits perfect, but YOU have to do it.This all makes me really mad because I wanted to love this knife. Believe me, I tried. Oh, I tried. The design is beautiful and it wants to work, but it just doesn't. Sloppiness aside, the Selknam, while a beautiful knife, simply doesn't perform any task you'd want a knife like this for efficiently enough to justify buying it instead of something else. And for less money (cough... RAT 7... cough) even? It's a no-brainer! It needs another inch on the blade, a better grind, 1095 at a higher (and tighter) hardness, and the bow drill divot moved to the back of the scale instead of dead in the center. The sheath I can live with and I'll eventually just take the pouch off and throw it away. Unless it falls off on it's own, which is likely.What Condor ought to do with this knife if they're not going to significantly improve it is lower the grind height, change the tip to a tanto point then cut off 1/2" or 3/4" of it, grind and sharpen what's left and call it a pry bar. Because it'd be an amazing pry bar. A knife? Not so much unless it's the only knife you have.In conclusion, just buy something else. I know, I know. The Selknam is so primitive and rustic and gorgeous, but don't get sucked in. It's just not a good knife. It does NOT perform the tasks it's designed to perform well and it's way overpriced. All these great reviews? These are by people who don't actually use their knife or only use it to cut briars out of their flower beds or something. If they did actually use it for the things it was designed to do they would be severely disappointed.

Right out of the box it sliced phone book pages like butter. It is a beauty well balanced knife. Sheath is very well made. A little mink oil to condition and preserve. Maybe I got lucky but nothing like other reviews. Only challenge I see is finding a stone to fit in pouch. Not sure how much good the fire steel will be but better than nothing. Bottom line is I love this knife.

I will agree with a few reviews on the sheath. It is very nice, however, arrived very brittle and in almost unusable condition. After working with it for 20 minutes a day over a week or so and using a half a can of saddle soap, it is back to being soft and supple and a really nice sheath. The knife is large and heavy as other reviews stated...but that is why you are looking at this style. It arrived razor sharp, balanced well and will stand up nicely in the bush. It would be an amazing value if I didn't need to put the elbow grease in on the sheath, however, when I look at the value of what I received vs what I paid...I'm pretty satisfied. I will continue to purchase Condor products. Oh, BTW, the pouch on the front of the sheath is intentionally left empty. The small Altoids tins fit PERFECT.

Great value for the money. With a little refined fit and finishing this would be Top Notch. It’s a great tool you don't worry about banging around. Big Blade and ok sharp.SDG