YCS in the field

[Matt Matheny]

Well I got the chance to take my YCS out for a spin (finally) the other day. I was removing trees and limbs that had broken due to our recent nor-easter here in New England. The woods that I was working on were, oak, maple and locust. Most of the wood was green as oppsed to being dried out and deadwood (18" of snow in a short period of time will do that ).


I started out by removing a lot of the smaller branches to facilitate downing a limb that was hanging on by a thread. It took a few minutes to get the right swing (the balance was a great deal different from a lot of the other knives that I have) After I figured it out, I was truely impressed. I was able to slice through 2" branches like it was warm butter. After the intial limbing was complete I moved on to taking the Main limb itself down. Once again I had to get used to the chopping swing, but after I did... I was impressed again. I was able to make very quick work out of the 8" main branch.

Now that the branch was down I was able to quickly chop it into logs that were fireplace sized. The work went very quickly I attribute it to that fact that I had a really great knife.


YVSA----->>
You are right it does cut like a much heavier knife. It is quite impressive. The wieght is such that it not only makes a good fighter, but a medium to heavy work knife. It is a great work of design process.

Thanks to you for designing it, the kamis (Sanu) for making it so well, and to Uncle Bill for selling them

[Yvsa]

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Matt you're welcome from my part in the creation of the YCS.

And I thank you for the confirmation of the YCS cutting like a much heavier blade!!!!
When I am biased toward something whether positive or negative I know my judgement is skewed and I don't fully trust my own conclusions.
It's very nice to know that someone else got the same results as I did from actually using the YCS!!!!!!!

And the fact that it cuts like a much heavier knife with its lighter weight should mean that anyone using it should be able to perform much more work without gettng as tired as they would doing the same amount of work with a heavier khuk'.
I tested mine on Mulberry which is a medium hardwood when green, but dries into a lighter weight hardwood that is very tough and resileint.
Mulberry makes excellent tool handles due to its characteristics, even axe handles.
Axe handles made from Mulberry are lighter than the Hickory usually used and therefore are more efficient because the weight of the axe is much more pronounced where it should be at the end, and I think gives an axe more speed, kinda the same deal as the YCS.

Now it kinda makes me wonder what a YCS in the 20"-22" range would do, but I will leave that to someone like Tsimi who says they're into
*research* and not HIKV.


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"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.

[Bill Martino]

Tsimi may order one!

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Uncle Bill
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[Yvsa]

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IF Tsimi orders a 20"-22" please send it to me 1st so I can actually
*Research* it!!!
I am afraid that if Tsimi should get it 1st that he will be much *too busy* from then on having to much fun with it to ever post a comprehensible review for
it.

And yet after I am through with my *Research* and send it on to Tsimi then I may be able to believe he is actually engaged in *Research* and is truly not sucseptible to HIKV.


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>>>>---Yvsa-G@WebTV.net---->®

"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.

[Bill Martino]

And thanks to you, Matt, for good report from the field.

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[Bill Martino]

I have been getting a lot of email from Tsimi and I think he may be getting ready to launch a major campaign. What sort of campaign I'm not sure!

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