Mistwalker
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This knife incorporates almost every single aspect I have ever wanted in a knife. If it weren't for badges, idiots, and sheeple I'd never take it off my belt.
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Breeden Knife Number Three, and some Firestarting Under Very Wet Conditions
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Almost LOL . I am with ya on keeping my the Warthorn on your belt. I wish I could to but the paster of my church frownds on that LOL so my Warthorn gets put in
my bag LOL. Then after church I put that knife back on and then I am a Warthorn carring happy dude LOL
Bryan
my bag LOL. Then after church I put that knife back on and then I am a Warthorn carring happy dude LOL
Bryan
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Yep...mine gets it's share of bag time too lol....I'll explain the almost in an email later.
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I think I know what the almost is. You are wanting one with
Orange handles
LOL
Bryan
Hahahahaha...actually I was thinking about it on one or two.....
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One or two
Bryan
Yeah...I guess it did. Also Ken made a really good point when he brought up attributes of that striker that he really likes.
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I learned today that this knife, with the sheath and an Army Model Swedish firesteel weighs 21.4 ounces or 610 grams. This makes it one inch longer (over-all), and 2.1 ounces or about 60 grams heavier than my old S1 Bowie. Not really a noticeable difference in weight to me. I didn't weigh just the knife itself...wish I had thought about that at the time.
Hi all,
mistwalker thanks I never thought about wieghing them.
So what do you think this MEGA Warthorn wieghs in at?
here are some pics.
The Mega Warthorn by it self.
Then the Mega and my smaller Warthorn.
I have it now with a forced mustard patina.
I am going to take this Mega out today and play some. I will make up a new spear that I seen in a new survival book while at camping store this last weekend. I am going see how it makes up that spear that I seen and thought now that is slick I am going to make one up too.
Well anyways I will see how it does today while out on my walk with kelly Girl.
Bryan
mistwalker thanks I never thought about wieghing them.
So what do you think this MEGA Warthorn
wieghs in at?here are some pics.
The Mega Warthorn by it self.
Then the Mega and my smaller Warthorn.
I have it now with a forced mustard patina.
I am going to take this Mega out today and play some. I will make up a new spear that I seen in a new survival book while at camping store this last weekend. I am going see how it makes up that spear that I seen and thought now that is slick I am going to make one up too.
Well anyways I will see how it does today while out on my walk with kelly Girl.
Bryan
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veryyyy nice!! Whats the thickness on that beast?
Thank you very much LOL.
This one is in 3/16" with a 12" blade. and about a 5" handled. But the next one I make for me is going to be made out of 3/32" thickness and it would be just a nice light wieght cane cutting knife for clearing the cane that grows in with the milo or soybeans that we have here on the farm. Now for thicker brush the 3/16" does pretty darn good. I will have some more pics up later of what I did today with this MEGA Warthorn.
Bryan
This one is in 3/16" with a 12" blade. and about a 5" handled. But the next one I make for me is going to be made out of 3/32" thickness and it would be just a nice light wieght cane cutting knife for clearing the cane that grows in with the milo or soybeans that we have here on the farm. Now for thicker brush the 3/16" does pretty darn good. I will have some more pics up later of what I did today with this MEGA Warthorn.
Bryan
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Man, now there is one that should chop great and has a good useable point too. That's really sweet!
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Yeah! Lets see what this thing can do!
Hi all,
Caine thanks.
Joben I put the mustard on and then left it over night. But you can do a couple of hours to. Some even put on severeal coats.
Ok here is what i have done so far the last couple of days.
First I made up a sheath for it. I put a small knife in front and then did the normal pouchs for a firesteel and then a ceramic sharpener.
I wanted to make a spear but not just any spear so I made this kind op in stead it reqires a bit more carving I think then the normal ones that I make.
Ok I went to a area that is going to be cut of all locust trees. ( by this guy that has a tree cutting service named Breeden LOL)
I found one that I thought would work just fine and it was pretty straight too.
Then I cut it down.
Then I sliced off the outer bark with my MEGA as you can see in the pic.
Now here is the interesting part of the tip of the spear I needed a Y.
One thing about a longer knife is that when you are cutting around in a tree that has thorns it sure is nice cutting what I wanted not getting stuck. It is also nice to be able to carry that thorn covered Y back to my little camp.
I skinned the bark and the thorns off and now it looks a little different would n't agree LOL
Now that I have the Y peace debarked and the point sharpened some what.
I put some notches in both the Y and my shaft at the end as you can see in the pic.
Well I attacted the Y to the end of my spear shaft , but instead of using 550 cord or some other typr of cord I used some good ole wire, I hope you all carry a least a little bit of wire in your kit.
The nice thing about wire is that is will not burn when i put it in the fire to help dry out the wood and fire harden the tip.
I will show that in the next part.
Bryan
Caine thanks.
Joben I put the mustard on and then left it over night. But you can do a couple of hours to. Some even put on severeal coats.
Ok here is what i have done so far the last couple of days.
First I made up a sheath for it. I put a small knife in front and then did the normal pouchs for a firesteel and then a ceramic sharpener.
I wanted to make a spear but not just any spear so I made this kind op in stead it reqires a bit more carving I think then the normal ones that I make.
Ok I went to a area that is going to be cut of all locust trees. ( by this guy that has a tree cutting service named Breeden LOL)
I found one that I thought would work just fine and it was pretty straight too.
Then I cut it down.
Then I sliced off the outer bark with my MEGA as you can see in the pic.
Now here is the interesting part of the tip of the spear I needed a Y.
One thing about a longer knife is that when you are cutting around in a tree that has thorns it sure is nice cutting what I wanted not getting stuck. It is also nice to be able to carry that thorn covered Y back to my little camp.
I skinned the bark and the thorns off and now it looks a little different would n't agree LOL
Now that I have the Y peace debarked and the point sharpened some what.
I put some notches in both the Y and my shaft at the end as you can see in the pic.
Well I attacted the Y to the end of my spear shaft , but instead of using 550 cord or some other typr of cord I used some good ole wire, I hope you all carry a least a little bit of wire in your kit.
The nice thing about wire is that is will not burn when i put it in the fire to help dry out the wood and fire harden the tip.
I will show that in the next part.
Bryan
Hi all,
PART 2 of my spear making with the MEGA Warthorn.
To get my fire going I collected some wood and then split it up. in the next to pics I wanted to show what 20 chops looked like with the MEGA then my hatchet and then my Axe that I carry. Well I only did 15 chops with my axe in seasoned locust wood.
I thought the MEGE did just a little better than my hatchet and the aze of corse did way better. But with a longer knife like the MEGA I it really was way more veratile than my hatchet would have been. When you consider the thorns in the trees that I was cutting my spear parts from. I know from my own testing that my longer knives with out do my hatchet when cutting wood. but it will not oout do my Axe. and I was using my 24" S&N that I got from Brian Andrews.
Ok I also got some Walnut wood and split it up into smaller kindling peaces and then made a hand full of fuzz sticks with my MEGA Warthorn as seen in this pic.
Then I arranged my fuzz sticks and kindling.
I do not use matches persay I make mine up in camp. I took from my tinder capsule some cotton and pj mix and then wrapped that around a stick. as seen here.
Then with my MEGA Warthorn and my firesteel I struck the steel and sparked the cotton to life shall we say as seen in this pic
Then I lit one side of my fire lay and then the other side. I like suing that method to light fires it really keeps my finger from getting burnt by a short match. and when I put on enough cotton and pj mix I can have a match that will burn for a nice long time 1 to 2 minutes with the little that I put on .
Once I let the fire burn down some I had a noce bed of hot coals and then started to fireharden my spear tip. Like I said using wire for this instead of string really works great.
Well this is what I did so far with my MEGA Warthorn. I have a few more pics but will post that later.
I am so far really happy with the MEGA and the sheath that I made.
So how is that for seeing what this MEGA Warthorn can do?
Bryan
PART 2 of my spear making with the MEGA Warthorn.
To get my fire going I collected some wood and then split it up. in the next to pics I wanted to show what 20 chops looked like with the MEGA then my hatchet and then my Axe that I carry. Well I only did 15 chops with my axe in seasoned locust wood.
I thought the MEGE did just a little better than my hatchet and the aze of corse did way better. But with a longer knife like the MEGA I it really was way more veratile than my hatchet would have been. When you consider the thorns in the trees that I was cutting my spear parts from. I know from my own testing that my longer knives with out do my hatchet when cutting wood. but it will not oout do my Axe. and I was using my 24" S&N that I got from Brian Andrews.
Ok I also got some Walnut wood and split it up into smaller kindling peaces and then made a hand full of fuzz sticks with my MEGA Warthorn as seen in this pic.
Then I arranged my fuzz sticks and kindling.
I do not use matches persay I make mine up in camp. I took from my tinder capsule some cotton and pj mix and then wrapped that around a stick. as seen here.
Then with my MEGA Warthorn and my firesteel I struck the steel and sparked the cotton to life shall we say as seen in this pic
Then I lit one side of my fire lay and then the other side. I like suing that method to light fires it really keeps my finger from getting burnt by a short match. and when I put on enough cotton and pj mix I can have a match that will burn for a nice long time 1 to 2 minutes with the little that I put on .
Once I let the fire burn down some I had a noce bed of hot coals and then started to fireharden my spear tip. Like I said using wire for this instead of string really works great.
Well this is what I did so far with my MEGA Warthorn. I have a few more pics but will post that later.
I am so far really happy with the MEGA and the sheath that I made.
So how is that for seeing what this MEGA Warthorn can do?
Bryan
Hi all,
PART 3
Well in this part I only have a before and after pic but here on the farm we have some plants that get pretty tall over the corse of the spring and summer and into fall. So I decided to make a path way throught some.
Here is the before and the after pics.
Well that was pretty easy.
Thanks for looking you guys and the kind comments on the
MEGA WARTHORN
As I us this knife in the upcumming days and weeks and years I will post some more pics of what I and the MEGA Warthorn do
Bryan
PART 3
Well in this part I only have a before and after pic but here on the farm we have some plants that get pretty tall over the corse of the spring and summer and into fall. So I decided to make a path way throught some.
Here is the before and the after pics.
Well that was pretty easy.
Thanks for looking you guys and the kind comments on the
MEGA WARTHORN
As I us this knife in the upcumming days and weeks and years I will post some more pics of what I and the MEGA Warthorn do
Bryan