Good 106 Axe Stand?

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Never had a good axe display stand. Always wanted one.

Ice storm mangled some of the bamboo forest. Cleaned up a ton of it today with chain saw. Got out the chop saw and whittled on one chunk a bit and it works. This stuff is green so it needs to dry slowly to see if it cracks and then if not oil/varnish/wax/or something else and use to display the precious 106s. I can't have them fall in the glass display case. Uh uh.

The 45 degree one with the cut out for the middle of the axe works for me right now.









 
Thanks for this photo. Those bamboo plant are so interesting. A Botanist here works for the university and has some of those in his yard. When I first saw them I was amazed and could not believe they could grow here, as cold as our winters get. A great idea toward using them for a display of your 106 axe. I hope you move forward with this project. DM
 
Catherine_Montana said:
I like your Buck axe!

Cate
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You are so kind to say that thank you.

You know I had a 110 and a 119 for ages. The minimum required gear for a fellow. I had read about Mickey Finn and had his name in the back of my memory banks for years when I walked into a dark and jam packed pawn shop full of police in riot gear in the lawless frontier town of Medford, OR. Way back in the corner was the knife case and in it was a funny folder that I asked to see after the store keep was free when the officers left. I wasn't sure, it smelled like titanium to my ignorant nose, but it turned out to be a Buck titanium 186 built one year. Bought it. Came to the forum to find out about it and boy did find out about it (yes I did). Mickey (who had a hand in the knife's creation) had died. Talked with his son and everyone else involved in its creation who would sit still for it and here I am still a decade later. What a ride it has been. If these knives could talk. The legacy of Buck Knives is that of a nation.

I favor the rendering axes, the Micarta 106 axes are beautiful. Fancy outdoor cleavers. I enjoy the black and the red Micarta handle colors. The same goes for the 124 Frontiersman. Like the black and red ones. They, red and black 106 and 124, display nicely together.
 
Your knife story in some older and newer 'stores' reminds me of some of my late husband's and my MT husband's stories.

Interesting stuff!

Thanks again.

Cate
 
I can see a stack of bamboo with angled slots for your future 106 collection. :D

Nice work... :thumbup:

Imagination is your only limit playing with the bamboo.
 
Great pics! And now you've made me curious to know if bamboo will grow here after reading Davids comments as well.

Be kinda cool and I've plenty of room. Need to research that.
 
LostViking said:
I like it, versatile stuff for sure,
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I have stands/forests of 3 flavors of the stuff: green giant timber you see above that can crush you when felled, brilliant yellow with thin green vertical racing stripes not as thick as timber but oh so gorgeous I can't bring myself to cut it and black brooding bamboo which I enjoy cutting. The stalks come out of the ground the diameter that they will be. As they age the interior thickens making it stronger and heavier as the years roll bye. Young canes cane be very lite while old one are profoundly heavy like lengths of steel bar. For a work out I swing a 20' section of a gray beard around in the field until I reach max breath limit trying to keep the pole off the ground.

Pack Rat said:
I can see a stack of bamboo with angled slots for your future 106 collection. :D

I can drill twin small holes on opposite sides midway down on the 45 angle cuts and place small super magnets flush into the holes and cover the exposed end of the magnets with thin white rubber paint instead of carving out the surface. I have 500 linear feet of various ages and wall thicknesses of giant timber bamboo in my driveway. It's raining now. Waiting on the chop saw. I want to use thicker wall stalks, cut them 45 degrees then flat, then repeat with lengths that keep the blade off the table a bit. Then let them dry out on the North side of the place out of sun out if the rain safe from mold (big order).

Nice work... :thumbup:

Imagination is your only limit playing with the bamboo.
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Joe58 said:
Great pics! And now you've made me curious to know if bamboo will grow here after reading Davids comments as well.

Be kinda cool and I've plenty of room. Need to research that.
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Thank you for the kind words.

You have at least 500 vastly different bewildering and unusual varieties of bamboo to consider. Perhaps find an enthusiast near you for guidance. Some like water some don't, some grow high and others will not, some spread and others clump, some stink and others smell sweet. If old man winter loads the leafy tops with snow and/or ice stalks can bend to the ground, torque right out of the dirt or break with loud cracking noise. In my case this can blockade my driveway until chainsaw man gets it together. Birds love the stuff but become angered when their shelter inverts during a snow storm! The roots, oh the roots, are real gems to behold. Dense with finger grooves built in and multi-colors. I use a pressure washer to expose some just to look at them. They are extensive and make hand/shovel digging a feat of strength. You should do it.
 
and some bamboo is highly invasive and hard to kill off when it gets started.
 
Pack Rat said:
and some bamboo is highly invasive and hard to kill off when it gets started.
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You couldn't be more right. Good point.

The black swan, sad story of bamboo, happens about every 50 years when it goes to seed and seems to die off. The seeds are all but invisible. They looks like very small mosquitos. The leaves mostly fall off and most of the canes seem to die. And, of course, the pandas become quite annoyed will show up at your door asking for Kikoman canned bamboo shoots. :)

For the spreading kind: If I don't want it to spread I simply mow the new shoots or step on them or kick them or take the driver/9 iron to them and once broken they will stop in their tracks. Break each shoot and no new bamboo that year. Bamboo is like ancient woody grass that you only have to mow once a year. Once established you got chainsaw work to do. Uh huh. My phyllostachys bambusoides (giant timber) grows around my underground power box and electric line. Whenever the power company folk are around they just shake their heads.

For the clumping kind: It grows densely in a circle and the outer canes tip outward.

I lived in Hawaii (the swamp, Honolulu) for a few years as a teenager. Up on the Nuuanu Pali there was a giant forest of the stuff that was so thick I couldn't stick my arm into up to my shoulder. That is dense. Here is a photo of it found online:

 
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