Besides CPK knives, whaddaya like?

I picked up this nice little bird and trout from J.Hoffman. It’s AEBL and crosscut vintage Westinghouse canvas micarta.
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Forgot about this little guy and upon rediscovering it today I remembered why I tucked it away.

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Loaned it to a friend 5-6 years ago for a weekend trip or to use for hunting or? Doesn't really matter. When he returned it it was obvious he did something with the knife he shouldn't have been doing...huge warp in the blade and looks like he tried to pound it back and it ended up with a small crack. Swears he knew nothing about it. Annoyed with it and thinking it was a lost cause I put it in bag and basically forgot about it.

Found it today and decided to try the 120 edge pro, hog off just enough metal to get past the crack and see what I ended up with. The ripple is still there, the blade is all scuffed (one reason I don't like using the EP) but the crack is no more and I've got one of my old favorites back. 👍
 
trevitrace said:
Forgot about this little guy and upon rediscovering it today I remembered why I tucked it away.

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Loaned it to a friend 5-6 years ago for a weekend trip or to use for hunting or? Doesn't really matter. When he returned it it was obvious he did something with the knife he shouldn't have been doing...huge warp in the blade and looks like he tried to pound it back and it ended up with a small crack. Swears he knew nothing about it. Annoyed with it and thinking it was a lost cause I put it in bag and basically forgot about it.

Found it today and decided to try the 120 edge pro, hog off just enough metal to get past the crack and see what I ended up with. The ripple is still there, the blade is all scuffed (one reason I don't like using the EP) but the crack is no more and I've got one of my old favorites back. 👍
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This is why I make everyone who borrows a knife from me pass a written test plus a practicum. ;)
 
Box_Opener said:
This is why I make everyone who borrows a knife from me pass a written test plus a practicum. ;)
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I've learned that any grown man who needs to 'borrow' a knife, probably can't be trusted with one of mine. 90+% chance that a man who doesn't have their own, will damage yours.

The ones who have enough experience and knowledge in proper knife use generally have their own.
 
A grown ass man who doesn't have a knife? Huh? Does not compute?

I can remember being a little boy and skinning a squirrel with my buck knife and using a stone as a cutting board outside and dulling it. I learned something that we all just take for granted, cutting against stone will make your marvelously sharp knife instantly dull. And then you get to learn about sharpening.

Try shouldering a rifle on your opposite arm or even just cross your arms backwards from how you normally do it. It feels really weird doesn't it? That's what it feels like to someone who has never shouldered a rifle before. The same is true for people who have never really used a knife. It's baffling to them. They just don't know how to use it and what is reasonable and what is not. You shouldn't look down your nose at them.

I'm just kidding. You should totally look down your nose at them.
 
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Nathan the Machinist said:
A grown ass man who doesn't have a knife? Huh? Does not compute?

I can remember being a little boy and skinning a squirrel with my buck knife and using a stone as a cutting board outside and dulling it. I learned something that we all just take for granted, cutting against stone will make your marvelously sharp knife instantly dull. And then you get to learn about sharpening.

Try shouldering a rifle on your opposite arm or even just cross your arms backwards from how you normally do it. It feels really weird doesn't it? That's what it feels like to someone who has never shouldered a rifle before. The same is true for people who have never really used a knife. It's baffling to them. They just don't know how to use it and what is reasonable and what is not. You shouldn't look down your nose at them.

I'm just kidding. You should totally look down your nose at them.
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Might want to correct your typo else the po-po come knocking:oops:
 
As Townsend Whelen so aptly wrote in "On Your Own in the Wilderness" (c. 1958):

"The most indispensable tool for a hunter or fisherman or camper, and in fact for any outdoor man and boy anywhere, is the knife-a businesslike knife, sharp and keen. Mrs. Whelen's aunt, who taught high school Latin for thirty years in Nebraska, had the right idea. She asked every class, "Which boys have a jackknife in their pocket?" The ones who had none did not rate very high with her.

Her philosophy was that if a boy did not have a knife and know how to use it, he was not likely to grow up able to do many things for himself...I have had a knife like this in my back pants pocket ever since I was knee-high to a chopping block."
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Common sense from back when common sense wasn't against the law.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
A grown ass man who doesn't have a knife? Huh? Does not compute?

I can remember boing a little boy and skinning a squirrel with my buck knife and using a stone as a cutting board outside and dulling it. I learned something that we all just take for granted, cutting against stone will make your marvelously sharp knife instantly dull. And then you get to learn about sharpening.

Try shouldering a rifle on your opposite arm or even just cross your arms backwards from how you normally do it. It feels really weird doesn't it? That's what it feels like to someone who has never shouldered a rifle before. The same is true for people who have never really used a knife. It's baffling to them. They just don't know how to use it and what is reasonable and what is not. You shouldn't look down your nose at them.

I'm just kidding. You should totally look down your nose at them.
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He knows how to knife reasonably well, I just think he thought the knife could take a little more sideways force than it ended up being able to without damage. It is a pretty thin blade. BUT, I have not hesitated since to ask him if he needs assistance any time he's doing knife things. He knows he messed up so I'll continue to give him small doses of shit for it. 😁
 
When I was in Florida I had a knife and it was dull. To that point at the age of 28 I had never sharpened a knife. I asked a co worker’s husband who had become a shooting buddy of mine if he knew how to sharpen a knife. He looked incredulously at me and asked “is a pig’s ass pork?”
He taught me how to shoot*, sharpen a knife, fill me car tires with air….
All things to that point in my life I had never had to do myself. Pretty wild when I think about it.

* he was a good instructor, and I still suck at shooting.😓
 
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