- Joined
- Sep 29, 2002
- Messages
- 2,965
Before anything else, I had to pay twice for the thing!
When my wife brought my coffee in at noon (Best advice I ever got was, "Marry a woman with dirty feet and who can make good coffee"). Worked for better than 30 yrs.
Anyway, she says, "I'll trade you a package from Idaho for a 12 pack and some smokes. She goes barefoot a lot, but ain't dumb. LOL
Of course I agreed and got coffee and a HH in bed.
Handled it for a bit and saw the first problem, or rather felt it. The 'agressive' grooving up near the first fastener, where your thumb would go comes to points in a couple of locations. Looks like just a random result of the grooving and the placement of the fastener holes.
Not a big deal, but I put off my side by side testing of a smooth micarta contured grip SHSH till I could get some 220 or so grit sandpaper and knock these points down a bit.
Nice thing with the Mag grips, you have plenty of material to work with.
This thing is WAY more blade heavy than my SHSH's. Closer to the SHBM in feel. Totally different animal.
I'll probably start out with the tuff stuff, the banana trees! Then work my way around to the palms. The Avacado tree gets a bow saw+shears. Ya just don't go whanging on a prize fruit tree.
Rob
When my wife brought my coffee in at noon (Best advice I ever got was, "Marry a woman with dirty feet and who can make good coffee"). Worked for better than 30 yrs.
Anyway, she says, "I'll trade you a package from Idaho for a 12 pack and some smokes. She goes barefoot a lot, but ain't dumb. LOL
Of course I agreed and got coffee and a HH in bed.
Handled it for a bit and saw the first problem, or rather felt it. The 'agressive' grooving up near the first fastener, where your thumb would go comes to points in a couple of locations. Looks like just a random result of the grooving and the placement of the fastener holes.
Not a big deal, but I put off my side by side testing of a smooth micarta contured grip SHSH till I could get some 220 or so grit sandpaper and knock these points down a bit.
Nice thing with the Mag grips, you have plenty of material to work with.
This thing is WAY more blade heavy than my SHSH's. Closer to the SHBM in feel. Totally different animal.
I'll probably start out with the tuff stuff, the banana trees! Then work my way around to the palms. The Avacado tree gets a bow saw+shears. Ya just don't go whanging on a prize fruit tree.
Rob
So far I've not felt any hot-spots on mine. I've done a max of only 6-8 minutes of chopping but I've had other blades that I felt the problem waaaaaay earlier than that. 
