Recommendation? I'd like to know about everyone's method of making or carrying your knife baton ! Show me your batons with knives .

[stabman]

I just make one out of a branch.
Usually no shaping required...simply cut/chop to length.

My brother and I did craft some nicer batons at times, but that was just for something to do, not because it was a requirement.
We just left them out there at the site.
Sometimes they remained for a couple of years.
Other times, people who used the site when we weren't there burned them as firewood.

Later that night I chamfered the edges around the handle area to make it more comfortable in use.

 

[eveled]

This guy says the root section of a dogwood tree is best. The grain is so twisted and dense it is almost indestructible.

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One thing for certain if you have a really nice maul. You wont want to leave it behind.

 

[DocJD]

3 pound cross pein

Great , I gotta have one custom made for my new EDC "batten" !

 

[Wild Willie]

Great , I gotta have one custom made for my new EDC "batten" !

Just a word of caution... A mora 511 won't take being batoned with it.


Edited for spelling

 

[DocJD]

Battens are also the wooden slats inserted into pockets on the trailing edges of some sails (there is no doubt a nautical term for this edge of the sail) to stiffen them. This suggests another possible meaning for the verb “to batten”: to create such slats by splitting them off from a larger piece of wood. I had always assumed therefore that hatches were secured by wood slats. Metal never occurred to me. Live and learn.

I never like the term "batoning" and spell check hates it too; and ALWAYS changes to the actual word for something close = BATTEN !
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Thusly , I'm following the path of simplicity and least resistance, by declaring that the proper term for hammering a knife thru something is hereby = batten (verb) !

The thing used to batten shall henceforth be called also by the exact same term = batten(noun) !

The term "batoning " shall no longer be permitted !

The sole exemption shall be for attractive female majorettes !

 

[DocJD]

Just a word of caution... A mora 511 won't take being batoned with it.


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If I can't batten my knife with my custom forged EDC 3# pein (which spellcheck insists is really= pain ) ...

 

[Wild Willie]

If I can't batten my knife with my custom forged EDC 3# pein (which spellcheck insists is really= pain ) ...

Just don't go cross-grain and I think you'll be ok...

And don't drink a sea of beer while you're making an axe handle, pretty sure that's where the lack of judgement came from.

 

[DocJD]

pretty sure that's where

...were conceived many a brilliant and bold endeavor , as well as many unexpected offspring !

 

[ferider]

...were conceived many a brilliant and bold endeavor , as well as many unexpected offspring !

Was wondering where the majorettes came in.

 

[DocJD]

I baton with my fists...pu**ies. Always with me

Maybe YOU can !

Doesn't mean I can .

I've met some that really could have , but their hands were more like hammers than human hands .

 

[DocJD]

Was wondering where the majorettes came in.

bigsurbob

 

[DocJD]

I regularly carry a light plastic mallet for pounding tent stakes when camping. Never tried using it as a baton but wondering if it would work?

Texsport 15066 Tent Stake Mallet, Plastic Handle

Made of heavy-duty molded plastic. Ideal for hammering in or removing plastic or steel tent stakes.

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IDK ? Probably would if heavy enough , I'd bet .

And if was there already for camping ...why not ?

 

[DocJD]

Unless I missed the post ...nobody uses rocks , bricks , pavement chunks etc . ?

I bet JoeX battens all his personal knives regularly with ... whatever's the worst !

Seriously , I got rocks of all shapes and sizes here , just laying around on the ground . Doin nothin !

 

[reaper185]

Just baton with the handle

 

[scdub]

Seriously , for just a second , is it really OK to use hammers or axe polls ?

Might be a problem for some knives with brittle steel...metal chips flying around looking for eyeballs !

It’s the best. If you hit the one piece of steel with the other piece of steel hard enough and at JUST the right angle, you’ll get ANOTHER knife for free!

Look up flint knapping for more details.

(Actually - my bad - according to spell check it’s called “flint napping”.)

I like a 3 pound sledge for car-camping but for backpacking a 1 pound ball pein hammer seems to be more than adequate.

 

[Drop bear]

They are easy to make. You just carve one out of wood with a knife a saw and a baton.

 

[Drop bear]

Seriously , for just a second , is it really OK to use hammers or axe polls ?

Might be a problem for some knives with brittle steel...metal chips flying around looking for eyeballs !

Hultafors heavy duty.

 

[DocJD]

Hultafors heavy duty.

That's a very impressive, tough knife for the $ !

So will equivalent price Mora do as well ?

 

[dogstar]

That's a very impressive, tough knife for the $ !

So will equivalent price Mora do as well ?

Robust or Companion HD

Hultafors has a beefier tang, tho

 

[Drop bear]

That's a very impressive, tough knife for the $ !

So will equivalent price Mora do as well ?

A Mora companion is about $30 over here. So there kind of isn't an equivalent priced one.