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So this post is a bit late in coming because my computer was out of memory, but the first weekend in February is Gun Show weekend around here. I had not gone to a Feb. show in a few years (breaking both legs and my second stint in University don't leave much extra cash), and the wife was okay with me going. I grabbed my tip money (Massage therapy tips constitute my cutlery budget) and ran. It was much better than I had expected. Of course the production vendors were out with their overpriced new wares, one guy had his speech really down pat- however he was not expecting an educated buyer. His eyes bugged out as he was trying to sell me a $175 Bark River Mini Canadian and I told him of my Mini/Micro/Northstar matching set in dayglo G10
. Made me laugh!
I don't go to these events for new things, I go for good deals on used or unmarked cutlery, or materials for making knives. In this case it was meant to be a chopper day. 2 vendors brought me this:
I am the most excited about the pipe hawk and the francisca thrower. The pipe is a home made job- a Swedish axe cut down and drilled for the bowl. Perfectly smokable, however the bowl is filled with crud and until I clean it I don't trust anything (any suggestions on cleaning oily sludge from a pipe hawk?). It has great heft and seems like it will be a really good user. The throwers were from an old buckskinner who does not do too much re-enactments any more, but the larger thrower was his personal one and the heart hawk was his wife's. The little hawk handle is much too small for any hawk I have, so I guess I'll save it for when I get a forge and make my first baby hawk! I paid a bit too much for a couple, got a deal on others, and am happy with what I departed with and what I took home. I don't mind paying a bit more for personality as long as you don't try and shyster me!
I don't know much about the axe head- it is marked Watson (a Canadian company from what I have found), and seems to be good steel. It has a very narrow eye, not sure how I want to hang it quite yet- does anybody have pictures of axes like this? The back spike is rather obtuse, I'm not sure what the original use was- at first I thought mining, but it looks almost original, while the blade has been used and taken care of until the handle broke by the looks of things.
I look forward to testing them out when car camping on our first trip this year, and maybe throwing hawks for the first time as well- I have enough of them now (some Cold Steel and a couple others as well) to give it a go.
. Made me laugh!I don't go to these events for new things, I go for good deals on used or unmarked cutlery, or materials for making knives. In this case it was meant to be a chopper day. 2 vendors brought me this:
I am the most excited about the pipe hawk and the francisca thrower. The pipe is a home made job- a Swedish axe cut down and drilled for the bowl. Perfectly smokable, however the bowl is filled with crud and until I clean it I don't trust anything (any suggestions on cleaning oily sludge from a pipe hawk?). It has great heft and seems like it will be a really good user. The throwers were from an old buckskinner who does not do too much re-enactments any more, but the larger thrower was his personal one and the heart hawk was his wife's. The little hawk handle is much too small for any hawk I have, so I guess I'll save it for when I get a forge and make my first baby hawk! I paid a bit too much for a couple, got a deal on others, and am happy with what I departed with and what I took home. I don't mind paying a bit more for personality as long as you don't try and shyster me!
I don't know much about the axe head- it is marked Watson (a Canadian company from what I have found), and seems to be good steel. It has a very narrow eye, not sure how I want to hang it quite yet- does anybody have pictures of axes like this? The back spike is rather obtuse, I'm not sure what the original use was- at first I thought mining, but it looks almost original, while the blade has been used and taken care of until the handle broke by the looks of things.
I look forward to testing them out when car camping on our first trip this year, and maybe throwing hawks for the first time as well- I have enough of them now (some Cold Steel and a couple others as well) to give it a go.
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