Hardcore Knives and tools for Wilderness Camping: Dirk Wanger Brings Back the Linder Super Edge Series in ATS-34!

Dirk Wanger Brings Back the Linder Super Edge 5 Series in ATS-34 (with a few slight changes)

lets have a look at this knife in detail.

I measured a 4.97-4.82mm blade thickness, ie 5mm thick spine.

The grip is still that of a TPE polymer however, this time around Dirk Wanger is offering it up in the "Easy Track" orange color, something which wasn't available before (ok it was for the hunting series). The eyelet/lanyard hole goes through the tang and the tang still sports (you can't see it unless you destroyed the knife handle) the keyways in order to "grip" the over molded handle and prevent it from ever coming away from the tang.

The blade is still being made from the fantastic Hitachi ATS-34 steel and with the special heat and tempering treatment they can achieve an optimal HRC for this blade (60-61 HRC)

I'm a big fan of the "Easy Track" color as even in low lighting, this is an easy knife to spot. let's face, you will at some point put this knife down and the last thing you want to do is to loose it in the fading light after a successful day out hunting-which will then add some expense to your trip and put a "bad taste" in your mouth!.

Nothing much has changed with the no nonsense scabbard. Easy to clean blood and guts and there is a leather version as an option.

Ok so what has changed?

The spine is more acute in order to strike a fire steel upon it (Wanger Messer- actually state this). The laser engraving on the blade has changed slightly, still sporting the Linder brand name, Solingen now appears and so is ATS 34 in smaller text. You can see the older original model below, where all the details are laser engraved upon the top part of the blade. Arguably many don't like to see the type of alloy being used in such large letter's personally I never had a problem with this and for me it is a mark from the manufacturer saying they are not trying to hide anything from the consumer. The text "ATS 34" in the below image was hardly "too large" IMHO.

This model I suggested to Stephan Rosenkaimer (at LINDER) at the time to produce it with the easy track color but alas it never came to pass but now we see it from Dirk Wanger's "new" version.
There is also now a more distinct choil present, which was not present on the original model. I believe the YouTuber "jackknife" had some input into the "revamping" of what i considered already to be a great outdoor knife. Also you will note, "Super Edge" no longer appears on the new models.

So there we have it! Some new color schemes available (Hot pink-limited edition- yes I bought one too for Mrs BushCampingTools- she loves it (A Super Edge 6), a sort of funny colored green??? TPE grip is also available.

SO if you didn't get one before, and despaired when LINDER announced they were "closing up shop" and they were no longer available, yes you can get one now, albeit it won't have any serial numbered blade like my old one above however, the quality is still there in a product made in Solingen Germany.