stabman
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My wife got me the Boker Bushcraft for our anniversary, and I thought the best way to honour that was to take it to the woods. 
It comes in a handy box, which was good, because the sheath sucks donkey balls.
It scratches the aluminum pins with exposed rivets...but it does hold the knife I got in the JK Knives giveaway fine, due to a slimmer handle on that knife.
It doesn't have the magickal "Scandifluvian grind" beloved by "bushcrafters"...it is a low saber.
It does come with a handy ferro rod though, which has a compass.
The compass works...but the small diameter means you have to stand in one spot for a bit for it to get the direction fine.
I had been planning on testing the ferro rod, but there was a heat warning, and we already had fire.
I tested it at home though, and it works great for starting a fire on the kitchen counter.
My brother brought the axe he got off Kijiji for $15, and it was put to good use. I chopped down a standing deadwood tree that was leaning right towards to middle of our site; it was one of the trees supporting my original shelter back in 2010. Back then it had leaves...now it had rotted bark falling off. We managed to make it fall in the direction opposite to the lean (teamwork!).
You'll notice an ugly tarp in the background; some doofus left a tarp out there (others have used the site from time-to-time), and then a storm dropped a tree on it. My brother axed it apart good though.
Fire!
People talk of big sticks or spears for woods defense...I figured why not make a combo of both. :thumbup:
It gave a chance to test out the performance of a bunch of different knives.
Here I am drying it more while cooking (it was a fresh cut maple).
Note the freed-up tarp in the background; don't worry, it got packed out along with all other trash.
Using a custom knife made by a Canadian knife-maker who went out of business about 5 years ago. He shall remain nameless, as I picked up a bunch of his stuff on the condition that his name not be attached to it, as the things hadn't quite met his standards. 154CM steel...nice! All the edge and polish on it are due to me.
Slightly sweaty...did I mention it was hot?
Here's the spear along with all the knives involved in making it.
A better handle wrap will happen; some red paracord was all I had in the woods.
File-work on the custom:
Another view:
The tip after some sanding:
All in all a successful outing.
The Military was the sliciest of the knives, but the Boker Bushcraft actually worked okay. I think it will do nicely once I get some more silicon carbide paper and convex it to the edge, removing that secondary edge bevel.
The Boker is now in a Grohmann Knives sheath, so I don't have to lug a large box around everywhere.
It comes in a handy box, which was good, because the sheath sucks donkey balls.
It scratches the aluminum pins with exposed rivets...but it does hold the knife I got in the JK Knives giveaway fine, due to a slimmer handle on that knife.
It doesn't have the magickal "Scandifluvian grind" beloved by "bushcrafters"...it is a low saber.
It does come with a handy ferro rod though, which has a compass.
The compass works...but the small diameter means you have to stand in one spot for a bit for it to get the direction fine.
I had been planning on testing the ferro rod, but there was a heat warning, and we already had fire.
I tested it at home though, and it works great for starting a fire on the kitchen counter.
My brother brought the axe he got off Kijiji for $15, and it was put to good use. I chopped down a standing deadwood tree that was leaning right towards to middle of our site; it was one of the trees supporting my original shelter back in 2010. Back then it had leaves...now it had rotted bark falling off. We managed to make it fall in the direction opposite to the lean (teamwork!).
You'll notice an ugly tarp in the background; some doofus left a tarp out there (others have used the site from time-to-time), and then a storm dropped a tree on it. My brother axed it apart good though.
Fire!
People talk of big sticks or spears for woods defense...I figured why not make a combo of both. :thumbup:
It gave a chance to test out the performance of a bunch of different knives.
Here I am drying it more while cooking (it was a fresh cut maple).
Note the freed-up tarp in the background; don't worry, it got packed out along with all other trash.
Using a custom knife made by a Canadian knife-maker who went out of business about 5 years ago. He shall remain nameless, as I picked up a bunch of his stuff on the condition that his name not be attached to it, as the things hadn't quite met his standards. 154CM steel...nice! All the edge and polish on it are due to me.
Slightly sweaty...did I mention it was hot?
Here's the spear along with all the knives involved in making it.
A better handle wrap will happen; some red paracord was all I had in the woods.
File-work on the custom:
Another view:
The tip after some sanding:
All in all a successful outing.
The Military was the sliciest of the knives, but the Boker Bushcraft actually worked okay. I think it will do nicely once I get some more silicon carbide paper and convex it to the edge, removing that secondary edge bevel.
The Boker is now in a Grohmann Knives sheath, so I don't have to lug a large box around everywhere.
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