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The ApostleP Designs Gunny Sidekick with Knife Maintenance in Mind

The ApostleP Designs Gunny Sidekick with Knife Maintenance in Mind

March 24, 2017 by The Loadout Room Leave a Comment

Rob Bixby, better known as knife sharpener and YouTuber The ApostleP, is making a longtime dream a reality by designing the Gunny Sidekick fixed blade. The Sidekick, which will be produced by Bark River Knives, reflects Bixby’s frustration with maintenance issues that many other knives fail to address.

“I had this knife kicking around in my head for years,” Bixby tells us. An advocate for user knives and a longtime admirer of the Buck 110, he designed the Sidekick’s 4” clip point blade for maximum durability and cutting performance. The blade features a full 5/32” stock for wood processing or light prying tasks, but with an inch wide blade, the convex grind has plenty of time to come to a thin edge. M4 is the steel of choice for superlative edge retention and toughness. “It’s a good prying tool and a good slicer,” Bixby says.

He has been reviewing knives for four years and sharpening them professionally for nearly as long. Bixby, who takes issue with the way knife makers often treat sharpening as an afterthought, channeled his discontent into the knife maintenance-friendly features of the new design. “There’s nothing more frustrating than knives being brought to market with very little thought put into how the user is going to maintain them,” he says. “There are so many knives out there that when you sharpen them, you ruin them.”


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