Great eastern cutlery Dynamite knife

I finally made it to the PO and picked up this monster. Love it.
Kinda reminds me of the Schrade 858 in size and feel for some reason. Can't wait to put it to work.
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i mean i can imagine a punch like implement being used to help with sticking the fuse in. again not much experience with dynamite except the scene in the mummy where brandon frasier's character threatens to use a stick of dynamite to stop the medjai, but he pulls out the fuse with moments to spare. oh and of course wile e. coyote but thats a cartoon.
 
DaveHS said:
I’d like to know the real history too. My 70s kid imagination immediately goes to a hypothetical
scene of The Lone Ranger slicing the end off of a stick of dynamite with a burning wick to prevent a railroad bridge from blowing…
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From. https://www.bisbeeminingandminerals.com/blasting “Preparing the dynamite, this varies from miner to miner. I personally take each stick and twist it just enough to wrinkle the wrapper breaking up the dynamite inside for tamping. Some miners will roll the stick between both hands to soften the dynamite. Other people take a knife and cut a slit in the wrapper loosening the dynamite inside. This technique is especially useful when loading holes that are overhead or at a steep angle, because it allows very good tamping. Rarely, the wrapper is removed entirely and the dynamite inserted this way. This allows you to put a lot more of the explosive into the hole and gives great tamping. Some miners do nothing at all and just load them right out of the box. Each loaded hole will need to have some type of fuse and blasting cap. Bisbee's underground mine nearly always used fire fuse (safety fuse).“
 
brownshoe said:
From. https://www.bisbeeminingandminerals.com/blasting “Preparing the dynamite, this varies from miner to miner. I personally take each stick and twist it just enough to wrinkle the wrapper breaking up the dynamite inside for tamping. Some miners will roll the stick between both hands to soften the dynamite. Other people take a knife and cut a slit in the wrapper loosening the dynamite inside. This technique is especially useful when loading holes that are overhead or at a steep angle, because it allows very good tamping. Rarely, the wrapper is removed entirely and the dynamite inserted this way. This allows you to put a lot more of the explosive into the hole and gives great tamping. Some miners do nothing at all and just load them right out of the box. Each loaded hole will need to have some type of fuse and blasting cap. Bisbee's underground mine nearly always used fire fuse (safety fuse).“
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Excellent!
 
mrknife said:
i gotta ask, how much dynamite is one cutting these days to require four sheepsfoot blades?
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Not much- the stuff they use to stabilize and shape dynamite would be hell on steel edges.

Kieselguhr: A porous siliceous earth that was mixed with nitroglycerin to create a paste that could be shaped into rods
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