Breeden Hatchet

[Wandering_About]

Decided earlier in the summer it was time to break down and get a chopper of some sort. I thought it would be interesting to have Bryan make me one. I'm a fan of his knives and had handled a couple of his early hatchets at his shop a while back. He's been making more of the recently, so I send him some ideas and modifications of my own and this is what I got:

.25" O1 tool steel, 11.5" overall length, 5" G10 handle scales, and 3.5" wide head.

I've had it for just over a month now, and have been enjoying it quite a bit. Took me a while to learn how to use it, but I'm coming along well, and it works nicely. It's great for cutting wrist-sized trees for shelter, etc., and it slices saplings for traps or whatever else you would need them for like butter. Today I decided to make a Figure-4 trap with just the hatchet.

The hatchet sections a 3/4" branch into pieces for a trap with one good chop.

You can choke up on the head to do some fine whittling on the notches. It cuts pretty well for a fairly heavy hatchet. It's nice and sharp, also.

The finished Figure-4, baited for any bladeforums wss folks that might be loose in the area.

And here's some steel pr0n and a couple pictures of the area:

My "trio" for the afternoon.

Boris the Spider

 

[TwoDogs]

VERY NICE! Thanks for sharing, Bryan makes some great pieces!

 

[Joben]

I like Breeden's stuff.

What's the weight on that hatchet?

 

[WILLIAM.M]

Sweet combo!!!

 

[Odaon]

Looks great. I like that knife hatchet combo you got.

 

[Rockywolf]

Looks great! Which model is the knife?

 

[Wandering_About]

I have no idea how heavy the hatchet is, but it's pretty hefty for me.

The knife is one I designed. LiCK, or light camp knife. 5.5" blade and 3/32" thick steel. It's a great camp, cooking, etc. knife. Does fine with filleting, game processing, and lots of other wilderness tasks. 10" overall on that one.

 

[Mistwalker]

That does look like a good combination. I hear some good things about Bryan's hatchets.

 

[Last Visible Canary]

that knife is beautiful :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

 

[caine]

Thats looks awesome

 

[JK Knives]

I love hatchets. I think that this style is highly underated, they are virtually indestructable!

 

[myright]

Cool you posted Breeden's stuff. I was reading the latest Tactical Knives magazine last night and his collaboration with Going Gear was in there. Pretty cool knife with a fire steel in the handle.

That's a darn fine hatchet you've got there!

 

[pitdog]

That looks great, a real handy little companion !!!

 

[sicily02]

Wow Brent that is really cool what you did with your hatchet. Cool looking Figure 4.

I am so glad you like it. It does take a little bit of getting use to using a hatchet but once you do they really are a handy item to use.
A knife and hatchet just seem to go together.

Thanks again for the review and all the comments on the hatchet.

cool looking orange handled knife too

Bryan