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

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My companion in the garden this weekend
 
The BR Tusk came in handy with a little leather project I have going on today. Hard to beat a stout, fixed-blade sheepsfoot for stuff like this:

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Down in Baltimore, at General Ship Repair on Key Hwy, between Federal Hill, Fort McHenry, and the Inner Harbor.
Little pocketknife workout.

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Yesterday's knife of the hour was my Vic Classic. It saved the day when I was buying a cup of coffee at the company commissary.

My left thumbnail currently has about a 1/4" split in it. (victim of a knife with overly strong springs.) I was reaching into my back pocket for my wallet and a thread caught in the split. The thread was thick and with my hand behind my back, I could not see to free it. Now, we've had the same gal at the checkout line in the commissary for at least a decade. I buy enough stuff to know her by name and she greets me by mine. I explained my problem to her and asked if she would cut the thread for me. From my front pocket I fished out my keyring with my Classic on it. I gave it to her and she used the scissors to cut the thread. (This took a certain amount of trust on the part of both parties.)

Freedom! Yay! Vic Classic! Yay! I always carry mine.
 
My #22 has done about 90% of all my cutting this past week. Pen blade cut some threads, opened some packages, open a letter or two, punched/drilled a hole. The clip cut lots of steak, meat, and veggies.
 
knarfeng said:
Yesterday's knife of the hour was my Vic Classic. It saved the day when I was buying a cup of coffee at the company commissary.

My left thumbnail currently has about a 1/4" split in it. (victim of a knife with overly strong springs.) I was reaching into my back pocket for my wallet and a thread caught in the split. The thread was thick and with my hand behind my back, I could not see to free it. Now, we've had the same gal at the checkout line in the commissary for at least a decade. I buy enough stuff to know her by name and she greets me by mine. I explained my problem to her and asked if she would cut the thread for me. From my front pocket I fished out my keyring with my Classic on it. I gave it to her and she used the scissors to cut the thread. (This took a certain amount of trust on the part of both parties.)

Freedom! Yay! Vic Classic! Yay! I always carry mine.
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Just can't beat the utility of those tiny scissors!:thumbup:
 
Five of my knives got a workout today.

I got an order for several Rocky Mountain Juniper hiking sticks. I had the sticks on hand as brought from the mountains - I find the dead juniper sticks and use a hatchet to chop off the bark and branches before lashing them to my pack frame and hauling them to my pickup - so all they needed was smoothing up to be ready for the pneumatic drum sander.

It occurred to me that this would be a great chance to do a comparison test of five different knives and just see how they stacked up.

Here are the knives:

Top to bottom left side first: Case Sodbuster JR CV

Imperial Sodbuster knockoff Stainless

Imperial stockman (modified by me)

Rough Rider Half Hawk (modified)

Colt 322 Texas Stockman (modified)

All the knives were sharpened at a 10 degree angle on an India stone, and then stropped on a denim strop loaded with Rick's White Lightnin' stropping cream until hair poppin' sharp.


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I did one stick with each knife. Here are the sticks:

Rocky Mountain Juniper is not very hard wood, but it has a lot of knots, and unlike most kinds of wood the sapwood is tougher than the heartwood. It is very similar to the Eastern Red Cedar that grows all over the Eastern and Southern part of the US.

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You can tell from the shavings that this WAS a pretty good workout for the knives (and my arm).

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The results:

Not too many will want to hear this, but the two Sodbusters both had to be stropped halfway through their sticks. The el cheapo Chinese Imperial did just as well as the Case.

The most impressive knife was the chinese Imperial Stockman. (By the way I only used the master blade on the knives with more than one blade). That Imperial really cut and kept on cutting and was still shaving sharp when the stick was done. It is a well put together knife too. Good fit and finish, stiffish pull, but not too stiff and good closing snap.

The most comfortable knife to use was the Rough Rider Half Hawk, and it stayed sharp right to the end too.

The Colt stayed sharp to the end too.

I was expecting more of the Case, which I just got a week or so ago. I just picked up the Imperials too, to see if at their absurdly low price (even less than Rough Rider!) they could possibly be worth anything. Well I found out, and I will be getting more of them for my whittlin' students.
 
Sorry: I did something wrong and got those knife and stick pics reversed - Though I think you can figure it out - and should have rotated the knife pic.

Again, nothing knife knuts can't handle
 
Yes.....impromptu Sunday morn fish proved worth its while...Large fish is 16 pound and all were despatched with Schrade locker that Meako sent my boy......Good day on the briny.....Fes



 
I used the pen blade on my little Kabar for the final stages of freeing a couple of manuscript pages from some not quite state of the art frames. (They're pretty old but not at all valuable.)
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Used the clip blade on my little Kabar to smooth off the saw cuts on an old privet that needed some pruning.
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Used this E Miller made knife, gifted to me by Vince, as I worked in the front yard trimming some brush. The handle fits my hand perfectly, with or without gloves. I was wearing gloves today, and the little fixed blade came in handy a couple of times.

Here is why I wear gloves when I work in the front yard:
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And here is the knife that helped me...
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csisland said:
Nice ax you have there. I curious about the pants you're wearing. I'm a carhartt guy but also looking for other strong pants to wear. What kind are those?
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The brand is "Mountain Khakis." Good durable pant. I likes them. :thumbup:
 
knarfeng said:
Yesterday's knife of the hour was my Vic Classic. It saved the day when I was buying a cup of coffee at the company commissary.

My left thumbnail currently has about a 1/4" split in it. (victim of a knife with overly strong springs.) I was reaching into my back pocket for my wallet and a thread caught in the split. The thread was thick and with my hand behind my back, I could not see to free it. Now, we've had the same gal at the checkout line in the commissary for at least a decade. I buy enough stuff to know her by name and she greets me by mine. I explained my problem to her and asked if she would cut the thread for me. From my front pocket I fished out my keyring with my Classic on it. I gave it to her and she used the scissors to cut the thread. (This took a certain amount of trust on the part of both parties.)

Freedom! Yay! Vic Classic! Yay! I always carry mine.
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embarrassment potential-9.97.:o

I went for a walk yesterday late in the arvo. Armed only with my trust Schrade 141OT fixed blade on the belt and an 885UH,Opinel #10 and pmew s 92 calico bone eureka in my bumbag.
I went for a fairly solid bush bash up the side of the hill to spot x where I had a deer encounter .I followed her and spooked up several others who remained out of sight in the thick woods. Bonus sighting a small black wallaby.
I descended into a creek where I found an old broken whisky bottle with a shamrock moulded in the glass. As i removed it from the dirt I ripped my finger open on the jagged edge and it bled profusely. With nothing to bandage it up with I used the eureka to cut off a strip of my t shirt and lashed it round the cut to stop the bleeding successfully. I then used the 141OT to clean out the dirt and plant that was growing in the bottle and rinsed it under a little waterfall. It has VR moulded in the bottom of the old greeny coloured glass. Thats Queen Victoria. So at some stage around 100 years ago some old coal miner or cow cocky sat in the bush nr the creek and drank the "old whisky" and left the bottle behind.
 
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