Did your Traditional knife get a workout today? -Part II

[Just Tom.]

 

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I used the lambsfoot on my new Rosecraft to scrape some wax off a tabletop at church, where I had been cleaning the eternal flame holder.
(That isn't patina already, it's shadow.)

 

[Just Tom.]

 

[Just Tom.]

My wife gave a couple of walking sticks I made to some residents of a local retirement home that regularly shop where she works. Apparently that excited some jealousy in the other residents, so I was pressed into service to make another. The pointy tip of the Pallares was excellent at stripping the bark off the contours of the handle part.

(2 pieces of beech, with a black locust spacer)

I screwed a long lag bolt into the bottom piece, then cut off the bolt head and unthreaded part of the protruding shank, and screwed the handle onto the remaining exposed threaded part. Everything lined up surprisingly well, and it’s rock solid.

 

[JM2]

I didn't get a picture of the knife, but my Case Folding Hunter made short work of this mess while I was down at the river.

I was able to catch a few, including a nice largemouth.

 

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This new Vic cut my flatbread pizza with no effort at all.

 

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I've been out in the back yard again; slightly foolishly, what with the smoky air quality, but I forgot, except it did smell like smoke at times. The teeth on this Fiskars work great. Some of those crabapple suckers were too big for a knife.

My new 24" Tramontina is no longer new, and is a real machete.

I started out with my Broadway of Germany, when the spirit first moved me. This thin blade did great against grape vines and crabapple suckers, and didn't loosen up a bit, even with me wiggling it to see if it had loosened up.

There were also raspberries, pokeweed, a wild cherry growing under the apple tree, and some Lord-knows-what.

 

[Rufus1949]

 

[Just Tom.]

Maple and (I think) hornbeam AKA musclewood. I originally had an ebony spacer between the two, but it cracked when I was assembling it, and I was afraid if I unscrewed the handle to put another one in, I would never get it to fit together as tightly again:

The rounded tip of the Ideal camp knife was useful in stripping off the bark between the “sinewy” ridges in the musclewood.
This one is for an elderly lady my wife knows.

 

[John A. Larsen]

Maple and (I think) hornbeam AKA musclewood. I originally had an ebony spacer between the two, but it cracked when I was assembling it, and I was afraid if I unscrewed the handle to put another one in, I would never get it to fit together as tightly again:

The rounded tip of the Ideal camp knife was useful in stripping off the bark between the “sinewy” ridges in the musclewood.
This one is for an elderly lady my wife knows.

I really like the look of that handle, great job! John

 

[Just Tom.]

I really like the look of that handle, great job! John

Thanks!

 

[.577NE]

One apple a day keeps the doctor away. I should be good for awhile

 

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This got some work yesterday, on the hose that's been draining my dehumidifier for ten years, and on the rose of Sharon.

 

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This got some work at the bar last night. I'd forgotten how tough the "pretzel buns" under the Oktoberfest brats are, or I'd have brought my serrated Victorinox.

Fortunately the brats are served on a plastic tray, so you don't have to guard your edge from a ceramic plate.
An ordinary serrated table knife would have handled it fine, but not the butter knife they gave me, with a toothless edge like a flat-head screwdriver.

 

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I ended up using only the long machete.

I got my yard waste dumpster stuffed.

 

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I find I enjoy yard work more when I've let it go for a while.

I didn't actually use the yellow carbon Case sowbelly stockman I had in my pocket, but if you average this picture with the one above, ...