Bush Cleaver?!?!?!?

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akthor

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So I am patiently working towards opening my own Brewpub so every so often I stop into antique stores looking for some cool signage or advertising to display eventually. So walking along I spy this in a glass case, some sort of meat cleaver! It just screamed Bush Cleaver at me so I bought it for $29! I have already contacted Lamont Coombs and I am going to bring it down to him and have him rehandle it in green or black micarta with stainless pins and thong hole and get the rust and dings off the blade and give it a satin finish, make it razor sharp and craft a heavy duty leather sheath with an Altoids tin pocket on it. It says Briddell on the blade and it's a beast over 1/4" thick too. Can't wait to see it after Lamont works his magic on it :)
 

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That's pretty sweet. any idea on the steel?...I agree that we must have ''After'' pics!
 
akthor said:
So I am patiently working towards opening my own Brewpub so every so often I stop into antique stores looking for some cool signage or advertising to display eventually. So walking along I spy this in a glass case, some sort of meat cleaver! It just screamed Bush Cleaver at me so I bought it for $29! I have already contacted Lamont Coombs and I am going to bring it down to him and have him rehandle it in green or black micarta with stainless pins and thong hole and get the rust and dings off the blade and give it a satin finish, make it razor sharp and craft a heavy duty leather sheath with an Altoids tin pocket on it. It says Briddell on the blade and it's a beast over 1/4" thick too. Can't wait to see it after Lamont works his magic on it :)
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Sweet, dude! Lamont is the MAN! Real great guy and he does amazing work--can't wait to see what he whips up for you!
 
Do you think that it has been ground way back to that size? Sometimes with vinegar you can see a temper line in the old cleavers.
 
I have a Sabinier Meat Cleaver in carbon
I have had it more than 40 years
It is very thin, perhaps 1/8"
It is a great woods knife'
It handles between a hatchet and a small machete
 
Nice score! +1 for seeing the finished product. I remember seeing a Cleaver that Koyote Knives made and always wanting one since then.


Eli
 
That is a sweet find...looks like it already has a nice Scandi-grind on it :D


nickortizzle1035 said:
nice find!! on a side note, what is a brewpub?
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I'm assuming it's a small pub where they locally brew their own beer (micro-brew). I've been in several and they are good little pubs with often unique and tasty beer!

ROCK6
 
Great score,it should make a great chopper.
I have a big old cleaver I need to cut down & rehandle.
The dang thing weighs 3.25 lbs.
 
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