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I better get this posted before our next Becker family weekend which starts tomorrow!
Anyway, I've mentioned recently that I bought my three girls Remoras. Part of the reason was that now that it's summer and our difficult exchange student has moved out, Wife and I are getting the hell out of town every weekend and I figured new knives would help the younger ones get more excited about getting out and about. This past weekend was the new Remora's first outing at our weekend place in the AZ mountains.
Unlike Wife and kids, I have to work all day Friday so they left early. When I rolled up, they had already been hard at work.
Thas allota shavings!
Kid1 and Kid3 were going to town. Kid3 had been interested in my story about carving a spoon for my buddy's kid while camping a few weeks ago, so she had started in on her own.
The kids kept their neckers around their, well, necks. Everywhere we went, the BK13s tagged along.
Carving at the park:
Carving wooden knives back home:
Taking a break from cuttin' for some reading, but still clutching her new treasure:
Quick break for a night sleeping out on the deck, then back at it the next day.
I wanted to get up to higher elevations so I could collect some aspen for some hiking stick projects I'm working on, so of course the kids came with me. At first they were running around cutting on everything, so I had to reel them in and talk a bit about not cutting live wood.
Fortunately we encountered a lot of deadfall once we got to walking, so they went to town.
At some point I found some dead and down wood that fit my criteria, and the BK2 came out of the pack.
2+ inch wood went so quick. That knife is a beast, even considering that the edge needs some maintenance now. I haven't replaced my lanyard to test out the lanyard-chopping technique moose showed in his potbelly review, but that'll be tomorrow.
Good times! I suspect that this weekend will be mostly pictures of me slicy-slicing stuff with the new Phat Bob (and struggling to open the blade one-handed, heh) so I'll have to find a Phat Bob forum somewhere
Anyway, I've mentioned recently that I bought my three girls Remoras. Part of the reason was that now that it's summer and our difficult exchange student has moved out, Wife and I are getting the hell out of town every weekend and I figured new knives would help the younger ones get more excited about getting out and about. This past weekend was the new Remora's first outing at our weekend place in the AZ mountains.
Unlike Wife and kids, I have to work all day Friday so they left early. When I rolled up, they had already been hard at work.
Thas allota shavings!
Kid1 and Kid3 were going to town. Kid3 had been interested in my story about carving a spoon for my buddy's kid while camping a few weeks ago, so she had started in on her own.
The kids kept their neckers around their, well, necks. Everywhere we went, the BK13s tagged along.
Carving at the park:
Carving wooden knives back home:
Taking a break from cuttin' for some reading, but still clutching her new treasure:
Quick break for a night sleeping out on the deck, then back at it the next day.
I wanted to get up to higher elevations so I could collect some aspen for some hiking stick projects I'm working on, so of course the kids came with me. At first they were running around cutting on everything, so I had to reel them in and talk a bit about not cutting live wood.
Fortunately we encountered a lot of deadfall once we got to walking, so they went to town.
At some point I found some dead and down wood that fit my criteria, and the BK2 came out of the pack.
2+ inch wood went so quick. That knife is a beast, even considering that the edge needs some maintenance now. I haven't replaced my lanyard to test out the lanyard-chopping technique moose showed in his potbelly review, but that'll be tomorrow.
Good times! I suspect that this weekend will be mostly pictures of me slicy-slicing stuff with the new Phat Bob (and struggling to open the blade one-handed, heh) so I'll have to find a Phat Bob forum somewhere
