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I found this at the bottom of a drawer, something I made 4-6 years ago and forgot about. nicholson mill bastard file, one edge rounded the other with hand dremelled/filed teeth, one side left with the mill file teeth, and the other flattened out, as well as a chisel tip. the handle is pyrocantha wood, a plant that normally doesn't get large enough to have what you would call "wood" as it's normally a shrub, but you can kinda bonzai it into being a tree and having a nice thick trunk. it's a very dense solid wood that does not take well to dremeling (it burns rather then cuts), and smells like burning popcorn when burned. held in by jb weld 
I dressed an old axe head with it, and it really is a one stop chakma. large enough that you can use both hands to really burnish an edge back into alignment with the round edge (so you don't end up cutting into the steel), enough file teeth to be able to sharpen a large edge, and a smooth flat side for light steeling. and if you wanted, you could use it as a detailed chisel.
this was done on kinda of a whim, so the teeth are completely uneven and only really good for notching branches and not much else, but the ancient busted up axe I dressed went from dead to usable, so its definitely up to snuff for field dressing.
I dressed an old axe head with it, and it really is a one stop chakma. large enough that you can use both hands to really burnish an edge back into alignment with the round edge (so you don't end up cutting into the steel), enough file teeth to be able to sharpen a large edge, and a smooth flat side for light steeling. and if you wanted, you could use it as a detailed chisel.
this was done on kinda of a whim, so the teeth are completely uneven and only really good for notching branches and not much else, but the ancient busted up axe I dressed went from dead to usable, so its definitely up to snuff for field dressing.
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