NJBillK
Custom Leather and Fixed Blade modifications.
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- Mar 27, 2014
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Ok, I posted a photo of my CBK not too long ago in a stump, and it looked too clean... I know some of you (most?) are waiting on a polished JK but that will come...
But I digress, Via PM I had mentioned to John that while my knife won't be abused (batoning or other hard usage for a knife this size), I won't be giving it any pampering. Johns reply was "Go ahead, You won't break it.". So I figured I would take him to task and went looking for some fat wood.
While out I was prying in stumps, dry, rotted, damp and solid. I knocked some 1"-2" limbs out of their overly rotted stumps (one of my favorite hidden supplies of fat wood is the limb base where the rings bind up over the branch as the tree grown around it) and I had to baton the end off.
I honestly just beat the hell out of this knife expecting it to give way and send John an email with a photo and linking his PM about me not breaking it. As the photos show, the knife shrugged it off.
In the first pic, you can see the split pieces including the split pine rosin soaked knotted end, and my baton. The second pic shows a little bit more of the batoned piece.
I will admit that I was a bit worried for the edge, since the knife barely moved 1/16" on some hits and barely at all on others... Eventually I got through it, I grabbed my spoils of war and headed back to the car.
On the way, I used the time to shave off the dead material around the core, shaved some fat wood, and generally checked over the edge and to my surprise
There wasn't One roll or Ding to be seen or felt!
Back at the car, I went a bit further and it was still able to slice a magazine page cleanly...
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John, thanks a Ton! If you haven't had me as a life long customer already, this single outing would have convinced me to become so!
Thanks everyone, have fun and be safe.
But I digress, Via PM I had mentioned to John that while my knife won't be abused (batoning or other hard usage for a knife this size), I won't be giving it any pampering. Johns reply was "Go ahead, You won't break it.". So I figured I would take him to task and went looking for some fat wood.
While out I was prying in stumps, dry, rotted, damp and solid. I knocked some 1"-2" limbs out of their overly rotted stumps (one of my favorite hidden supplies of fat wood is the limb base where the rings bind up over the branch as the tree grown around it) and I had to baton the end off.
I honestly just beat the hell out of this knife expecting it to give way and send John an email with a photo and linking his PM about me not breaking it. As the photos show, the knife shrugged it off.
In the first pic, you can see the split pieces including the split pine rosin soaked knotted end, and my baton. The second pic shows a little bit more of the batoned piece.
I will admit that I was a bit worried for the edge, since the knife barely moved 1/16" on some hits and barely at all on others... Eventually I got through it, I grabbed my spoils of war and headed back to the car.
On the way, I used the time to shave off the dead material around the core, shaved some fat wood, and generally checked over the edge and to my surprise
There wasn't One roll or Ding to be seen or felt!
Back at the car, I went a bit further and it was still able to slice a magazine page cleanly...
-----------
John, thanks a Ton! If you haven't had me as a life long customer already, this single outing would have convinced me to become so!
Thanks everyone, have fun and be safe.
