We just received this email exchange from the father of a US Marine stationed in Afghanistan. A big Thank you for his and everyone’s sacrifice made in the line of duty.

Subject: Fwd: SOG SOG Multitool survives IED  attack

My son is a United States Marine  serving our country in Afghanistan.  His Armored Humvee was hit by an IED  and the attack was detailed in a Fox News video entitled “Courage Under Fire”  as one of their cameramen was involved in rescuing his wounded Sergeant.   Attached is an email I received from him today relating the condition of  the vehicle and its’ equipment after the fire.  While his SOG Tiger Camo  Flash II was destroyed, his SOG multi-tool was the only thing in the vehicle  to survive.   Thank you for making such quality  products.

Dave

Fairfax, VA

Subj:  SOG

Dude,

I forgot  to tell you the story about the SOG.  The SOG   multi-tool that you got for me, was pretty much the only  thing to  survive the incident in my truck.  Literally everything  in the truck was  burnt, and melted.  Even things such as the  heavy duty .50 cal  tripod, rifles, etc., were completely  unrecognizable.  However the truck  frame, the actual .50 itself,  and the SOG multi-tool, were the only things  that survived.  The  .50 cal is obviously destroyed, and will never fire  again, but it kept  it’s shape, which was a big surprise.  But one of the  mechanics  later found my SOG on the floor of the truck.  Still works and   everything.  I thought that was pretty amazing, considering.   The  SOG knife, that I had was also found, although it was welded  to the  floor.  Goes to show you the quality of the product,  thought you would  get a kick out of it.

I don’t know if everyone knew this or has seen the latest issue of Field and Stream, but the SOG Mini Vulcan won a Best of the Best award for 2008.  Check out the article in the September 2008 issue of Field and Stream or read it online.  Here is a excerpt of what they had to say about the Mini Vulcan.

This is a super little knife. Its 3-inch blade, with a recurved edge, is made of VG10 steel and is held open by the SOG Arc-Lock…

Everyone at SOG is very excited about this and we are happy to be in the same standing as the other winners for 2008.

Here is a great video of a SOG user sharpening his Trident Tanto.  This technique will work with most knives and should give you great results with a little practice.

Just uploaded a video of the Mini X-Ray Vision knife.

Let me know what you think.

Check out the video of the Twitch XL that I just finished.  It is a work in progress and let me know what you think.

I just posted a video to youtube of one of the prototype Aegis knives.  This is my first video and the lighting is not that great but you get the point.  Also, I did speed it up a little but I think you get the point.

Just found this review on Sierra Trading Post about the Trident with TigerStripe blade.

“Pros: AUS8 is bloody great mate, No slip grip is hip, Sharp lookin’ - meow

Best Uses: Cuttin’ stuff

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments: I don’t leave home without it. I just nicknamed it Pokey, I hope the name sticks.”

 

Thanks for the review and if any one else has any comments let us know.

We have been working on this for a couple months and I am happy to finally announce that almost all of our Arc-Lock knives are now being produced with VG-10 blades. This now includes the X-Ray Vision, Vision, Mini X-Ray Vision, Pentagon Elite I and II, Spec Elite I. Also, this was done with out increasing the cost of these knives. If you have been holding off on buying one of these knives, you no longer have an excuse. We were also able to do this with out raising prices.

The blades are stamped with VG-10 and should be showing up in stores any day now.

Congratulations to denny and his images.  He won the October prize for best image in the SOG group on flickr with his picture of the Springfield Armory XD40 handgun with SOG X-Ray Vision folder and Seiko chronograph watch.   Keep the images coming and have fun.

One of the things I like about living in Washington is the great diversity of environments here. We have rain forest, wetlands, high desert, mountains with glaciers, and much more. I also like to get out from time to time and explore the wilderness in the area. Recently I friend of mine got the bug to figure out how to forage for chantrelle mushrooms. I know it sounds weird to go searching in the woods for mushrooms but it was quite fun.

This is a picture of the basket of mushrooms at the beginning of the day. We ended up getting a little over a pound of mushrooms and made a great dinner that night. We got a little skunked this time mostly because someone had been through the area the day before. We found tracks and some cut mushroom that had been dropped. On previous trips in the same area my friend had found upwards of 7 pounds of them.

I would highly recommend that if you get the chance to go out and forage for some chantrelle mushroom. For more information check out the following resources

Wild Harvest
Chantrelle on Wikipedia
The Forager Press