Anyone have a Meat Cleaver for bushcraft/camp??

I use a thin cleaver almost exclusively in the kitchen, so I imagine that a slightly modified version might have some uses outdoors. Grinding a point on a standard cleaver might not be a bad idea.
 
I have a very old cleaver I picked up at a barn sale, it is a nine inch long blade, about a quarter inch thick. Best for cleaving the heads off of catfish. If you chop chicken chinese style, it will do that as well. It is not really useful for anything but the most coarse of work. No doubt it will cleave limbs off deer size game.
 
I've used a Marble's Camp Cleaver. Works very well as a camp knife. $11. First knife shown...
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this thread has definite possibility's, lots of good information...I also had no idea there were premade camp style cleavers out there.. NICE>>>>
 
It was a good German stainless cleaver before I got hold of it, just cut it out with the high speed grinder in the pictures then mostly ground it to shape and used the slack belt to convex it, plenty of water dunking so I didn't muck up the heat treatment, finished it with a blue scotch bright belt.
Richard
 
Some of the vintage cleavers on e-bay are a great deal. Be sure the handles are tight and that the spine has not been smashed too hard with a hammer. Cleavers represent a cheaper way to get into the survival knife game if you are down on your luck and can't (or won't) fork over the dinero for a Wauseon product. I have several older examples which feature high carbon steel blades that have lots of life left in them. Butchering tools can double as bushcraft blades if you are skilled.
 
As you were gentleman,
Every once in a while I check out the local pawn shop. the reason is I find alot of nice blade's here. Not to long ago I found a S.O.G. Tomcat in excellent condition at the right price, then not long after that a pair of rare Al Mar's, today I picked up a Samuel Lee LF&C #7meat cleaver, so I googled the question if its a good tool for bushcraft. what do you think guy's? should I modify it or leave it alone? the patent is marked 1886?
Regards,
Paul'ie
 
I'd need to see pics first to determine an answer to the "mod or not" question. But based on the description so far I'm probably going to say "not." :)
 
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