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If you look ant the collections thread you will find that thurin has some big Fiddlebacks as well. But I did not see a CC. So I second this suggestion.
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Fiddleback Forge Camp Nessie Video Review
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If you look ant the collections thread you will find that thurin has some big Fiddlebacks as well. But I did not see a CC. So I second this suggestion.
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i've been waiting for over a week for you to atleast post some pics!
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Thanks Rhiney!
You can see the sheath I'm currently carrying it in in the Show Off you Fiddlebacks and Leather thread. It's from BadgerClaw. Originally made for my Turley Green River, but fits the Camp Nessie perfect too.
I'll post up a better pic of it tomorrow if light allows.
You can see the sheath I'm currently carrying it in in the Show Off you Fiddlebacks and Leather thread. It's from BadgerClaw. Originally made for my Turley Green River, but fits the Camp Nessie perfect too.
I'll post up a better pic of it tomorrow if light allows.
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I'm sure you all get tired of me pushing this knife on you, but it's a pretty darn good one, so I'm going to tout it's praises and hope Andy makes more of 'em for you all. I have had a chance to put the Camp Nessie through its paces as my sole Camp Knife for a 3 day camping trip (see my submission in xxwjtxx's giveaway thread) and wanted to update this post with further information.
This was the sole knife I carried for the entire trip except for a SAK Farmer and I only used that for it's Awl as a Firesteel scraper since the CN has Andy's chamfered spine and doesn't do well in that category. The hatchet that I normally use for doing firewood prep never came out of the truck. The other knives I brought along (Fiddleback 12" Machete, KE Bushie, Hiking Buddy, Turley Green River) all stayed wrapped up in my backpack. I really wanted to see if this blade could do everything.
I also refrained from touching up the blade. I had my field sharpening gear with me, but I wanted to see how the edge would hold up and make it through the trip.
Since we were car camping in a national park where they'll haul you off to jail for touching a stick lying on the ground, fire prep consisted of buying firewood bundles from the camp host and processing the seasoned, pre-split logs (no lighter fluid for me). For every fire (breakfast, lunch, dinner, evening keep us warm cuz darn it's cold) I split the wood down by batoning it into different sized pieces, using the tip to split the finer pieces and made shavings for kindling and either doing some scrapings with the spine (another area that suffered due to the chamfered spine) or just using some kind of man made tinder like PJCB (petroleum jelly cotton balls), dryer lint, jute twine, etc. I especially relished doing the breakfast batoning to wake up our neighbors that had been up binge drinking until 1AM and keeping the kids awake with their loud talking.
Granted it's not chopping down a hardwood tree, but this knife got beat on a LOT.
Of course, there's lots of camp kitchen duties as well. Cutting up the steaks into manageable portions, cutting up apples, do the random "hey Nathan, can you cut this up for me" tasks. Everyone loved the fact that this thing was on me 24/7. Plenty of "wow that's sharp" type comments as it cut through steaks like butter right after doing all the fire prep for cooking potatoes in the coals.
While everyone else dealt with plastic knives, I had the ultimate steak knife.
And at the end of it all, the edge could still make some fine curls.
Resisting the urge to pull out other blades to play with was hard. But I wanted to prove the statement Andy makes in his description of the Camp Nessie:
Heck, I used it for more than just the hatchet part of the trio, it was pretty much the whole trio.
I know this is all subjective, and any number of knives could do this role (see my upcoming poll for the next all-around camp knife), but I was really happy with how the Camp Nessie performed on this trip. My only wish would be for a nice flat spot along the spine somewhere for firesteel and wood scraping.
Thanks for putting up with my Camp Nessie obsession.
This was the sole knife I carried for the entire trip except for a SAK Farmer and I only used that for it's Awl as a Firesteel scraper since the CN has Andy's chamfered spine and doesn't do well in that category. The hatchet that I normally use for doing firewood prep never came out of the truck. The other knives I brought along (Fiddleback 12" Machete, KE Bushie, Hiking Buddy, Turley Green River) all stayed wrapped up in my backpack. I really wanted to see if this blade could do everything.
I also refrained from touching up the blade. I had my field sharpening gear with me, but I wanted to see how the edge would hold up and make it through the trip.
Since we were car camping in a national park where they'll haul you off to jail for touching a stick lying on the ground, fire prep consisted of buying firewood bundles from the camp host and processing the seasoned, pre-split logs (no lighter fluid for me). For every fire (breakfast, lunch, dinner, evening keep us warm cuz darn it's cold) I split the wood down by batoning it into different sized pieces, using the tip to split the finer pieces and made shavings for kindling and either doing some scrapings with the spine (another area that suffered due to the chamfered spine) or just using some kind of man made tinder like PJCB (petroleum jelly cotton balls), dryer lint, jute twine, etc. I especially relished doing the breakfast batoning to wake up our neighbors that had been up binge drinking until 1AM and keeping the kids awake with their loud talking.
Granted it's not chopping down a hardwood tree, but this knife got beat on a LOT.
Of course, there's lots of camp kitchen duties as well. Cutting up the steaks into manageable portions, cutting up apples, do the random "hey Nathan, can you cut this up for me" tasks. Everyone loved the fact that this thing was on me 24/7. Plenty of "wow that's sharp" type comments as it cut through steaks like butter right after doing all the fire prep for cooking potatoes in the coals.
While everyone else dealt with plastic knives, I had the ultimate steak knife.
And at the end of it all, the edge could still make some fine curls.
Resisting the urge to pull out other blades to play with was hard. But I wanted to prove the statement Andy makes in his description of the Camp Nessie:
Heck, I used it for more than just the hatchet part of the trio, it was pretty much the whole trio.
I know this is all subjective, and any number of knives could do this role (see my upcoming poll for the next all-around camp knife), but I was really happy with how the Camp Nessie performed on this trip. My only wish would be for a nice flat spot along the spine somewhere for firesteel and wood scraping.
Thanks for putting up with my Camp Nessie obsession.
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Cool insight. I'm hoping to see you take the woodchuck on your next adventure! I was totally sold on that as a great kitchen worker but one that could easily transition to the woods too. But from you Camp Nessie reveiw, it seems that it may do the trick too. One advantage your CN has is that it's guardless and your Woodchuck isn't.
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Well, I'm almost 2 years late it appears. Lol. Nevertheless, awesome thread and review. Currently saving up for the Fiddleback Forge Camp Nessie...