"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

I've been hankering after a Kissing Crane Christmas trapper. Delightfully garish, but near enough to $50 bucks.
I have knives that need handles; I'll make my own Christmas knife out of clear epoxy and embedded shiny stuff!
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I think it will be the Imperial BSA that I suspect of being celuloid, but there are other possibilities and plenty of shiny stuff.
 
Will Power said:
Who doesn't? So much more convenient, never been a fan of bayonet type knives or Leuku ;) If I need to chop something a moderate Puukko will do it and if that won't , a hatchet's the kit.
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If you continue to exercise this kind of common sense . . . well, let's just say that you're not going to be very popular at the BladeForums Christmas Party.
 
Will Power said:
Who doesn't? So much more convenient, never been a fan of bayonet type knives or Leuku ;) If I need to chop something a moderate Puukko will do it and if that won't , a hatchet's the kit.
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I like a hatchet for chopping. Feels safer. More sturdy. I always feel like I’m flailing around a knife when I try to chop something with it. Then there’s the safety issues around a hatchet. I have seen people use them in ways that make me cringe.
 
That veteran is agile :cool: perhaps he has the same regimen as your ever youthful, active president and his ageless wife.....;)
 
Mister Coffee said:
If you continue to exercise this kind of common sense . . . well, let's just say that you're not going to be very popular at the BladeForums Christmas Party.
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:D not surprised, but then, I never did like work Office Parties: lot of insincere gushing at the start but once the booze kicked in big style it began to morph into boring slobbering or downright offensiveness o_O:D:poop:
 
huntnfishin said:
I like a hatchet for chopping. Feels safer. More sturdy. I always feel like I’m flailing around a knife when I try to chop something with it. Then there’s the safety issues around a hatchet. I have seen people use them in ways that make me cringe.
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Indeed, incompetence and tools are a frequent and dangerous mix.....I use a Puukko for batonning small pieces of wood for fire making (nearly wrote raising...) by hitting it on the spine with another piece of wood. Works well for small stuff if you don't have a hatchet or you use it for wood curls. Point being, a Puukko is usually a moderate sized knife and light on the belt but can do a lot.
 
Will Power said:
That veteran is agile :cool: perhaps he has the same regimen as your ever youthful, active president and his ageless wife.....;)
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Probably not as "agile" as our president to bear, at the same place, in 2018, this:


"We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse ."
William S. Burroughs

I've read that somewhere.

Dan.
 
Have to say always thought those double-bit axes and even more so, hatchets, are a genuine American eccentricity ;) When it comes to splitting anything ,you don't have a flat end hammer to drive the splitting wedges in with...

Nevertheless, even a conventional hatchet offers rich possibilities for mishap :cool: you can still brain yourself with the hammer end if you put your mind to it.... but at least if the axe gets stuck in a trunk you can't overbalance and commit hari-kiri on it like you can with a double-bit:eek:🤪
 

Will Power said:
Have to say always thought those double-bit axes and even more so, hatchets, are a genuine American eccentricity ;) When it comes to splitting anything ,you don't have a flat end hammer to drive the splitting wedges in with...
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I read somewhere that the double bits became popular with industrial lumbermen because with the weight balanced fore and aft it was easier to swing straight.

With a hand and eye like mine, a spare edge makes more sense than Nessmuk's differently beveled edge.

If I ever make a hatchet, it will have a rectangular eye and a hardened poll.
Or maybe a small adze blade behind and hammering surfaces on the sides.
[And why not a billhook on top while you're at it, Jer?]
 
screened porch said:
I read somewhere that the double bits became popular with industrial lumbermen because with the weight balanced fore and aft it was easier to swing straight.

With a hand and eye like mine, a spare edge makes more sense than Nessmuk's differently beveled edge.

If I ever make a hatchet, it will have a rectangular eye and a hardened poll.
Or maybe a small adze blade behind and hammering surfaces on the sides.
[And why not a billhook on top while you're at it, Jer?]
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Jer, looks like you're trying to invent the Swiss hatchet! 😉
 
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