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Now the fifth seasson of the year starts.
Here in the north we have Spring, summer, fall, winter AND SPRINGWINTER. From this mounth and into may we have theese terifick season with long, often sunny days after the polar darkness and coldness. During this time we have much snow, at least one meter that cowers the ground and makes it easy to moove abow the tight buches and over frosen streams and lakes with skiis or snowmobile. The snow tightens and isnt endless deep anymore.
Me and my wife and kids try to do the best out of this and this year we will travel to our mountain cottage this following week and two weeks around eastertime. We sleep in our little house of 30 squaremeters and dry all the wet stuff abowe the stove but we live outside in the mountains daytime. Skiing bouth downhill and nordic, traveling around broad wilderness with our snowmobile to good fishingspots and cooking and eating under the sky.
This means a good deal of workout for a knife, used to make fire, cut food, hopefully preaparing fishing equipment and also guting some fish, and some general pleasure wittling resting in the sun.
This year I will do a little different with my knifes. I usually bring a few fixed blades and more than a few folders. I have learned I only use a few of them.
For fixed blades and winter I only use one as it shows. Its a homemade one I did some soon to be 10 years ago. It has a black rather pointy blade with a little upswept point. Its made by the mastersmith Mattias Baudin. Its beaytifully tapered against the point and has a perfect hardness that lets it stay sharp but also is easy to field sharpen. The pointyness is good for fish and the slight upsweep in the point makes it good to use to lift things as the coffeepot when its in the fire. I made with a slightly longer handle than usual to provide grip with frozen hands or glowes and this has made this knife my absolut favorit. I also like the longer handle when its warm as it gives so good grip and security. The handle is around 13 cm and the blade 9,5 cm. It has a dangling sheath leftymade of rawhide making it hard and griping the knife securely. This year it will be the only fixed blade I bring.
For folders I will restrict myself to the one I realy like for this kind of outdoor life, the case 54 trapper SunnyD gave me two years ago. It has a reed jigged bone handle and SS blades. This knife continues to grow on me and every time I use it I like it even more. It has gone from a little to large strange pattern to a knife I realy apretiate. I will bring a nylon belt sheat for it as its only drawback is the size in the pocket. Mabye I carry it in the pocket anyway as I dont realy care for folders in sheats. I mean, they should be pocketknifes after all, but mabye I like the sheat after all, stranger things has happened to me. I will also bring my original letherman pst for its utility around the snowmobile and the fishing equipment and my medium case cv stockman for the evening jeans. The brown jigged bone stockman is also a gift from my knfebrother SunnyD in the far south. I cant thank that man enough.
I will also bring two lockblades, my Fallkniven U2 and my gerber reed handle LST. Those are for my sons as they probobly want to wittle once in a while. I bring them lockbacks as Its a little more secure for eight and five year old boys. We will sometimes be 30-50 kilometers into the wilderness and I want to awoid bleading fingers if possible, but not to the point that they arent allowed to use knifes.
This afternoon the journey starts....
Bosse
Here in the north we have Spring, summer, fall, winter AND SPRINGWINTER. From this mounth and into may we have theese terifick season with long, often sunny days after the polar darkness and coldness. During this time we have much snow, at least one meter that cowers the ground and makes it easy to moove abow the tight buches and over frosen streams and lakes with skiis or snowmobile. The snow tightens and isnt endless deep anymore.
Me and my wife and kids try to do the best out of this and this year we will travel to our mountain cottage this following week and two weeks around eastertime. We sleep in our little house of 30 squaremeters and dry all the wet stuff abowe the stove but we live outside in the mountains daytime. Skiing bouth downhill and nordic, traveling around broad wilderness with our snowmobile to good fishingspots and cooking and eating under the sky.
This means a good deal of workout for a knife, used to make fire, cut food, hopefully preaparing fishing equipment and also guting some fish, and some general pleasure wittling resting in the sun.
This year I will do a little different with my knifes. I usually bring a few fixed blades and more than a few folders. I have learned I only use a few of them.
For fixed blades and winter I only use one as it shows. Its a homemade one I did some soon to be 10 years ago. It has a black rather pointy blade with a little upswept point. Its made by the mastersmith Mattias Baudin. Its beaytifully tapered against the point and has a perfect hardness that lets it stay sharp but also is easy to field sharpen. The pointyness is good for fish and the slight upsweep in the point makes it good to use to lift things as the coffeepot when its in the fire. I made with a slightly longer handle than usual to provide grip with frozen hands or glowes and this has made this knife my absolut favorit. I also like the longer handle when its warm as it gives so good grip and security. The handle is around 13 cm and the blade 9,5 cm. It has a dangling sheath leftymade of rawhide making it hard and griping the knife securely. This year it will be the only fixed blade I bring.
For folders I will restrict myself to the one I realy like for this kind of outdoor life, the case 54 trapper SunnyD gave me two years ago. It has a reed jigged bone handle and SS blades. This knife continues to grow on me and every time I use it I like it even more. It has gone from a little to large strange pattern to a knife I realy apretiate. I will bring a nylon belt sheat for it as its only drawback is the size in the pocket. Mabye I carry it in the pocket anyway as I dont realy care for folders in sheats. I mean, they should be pocketknifes after all, but mabye I like the sheat after all, stranger things has happened to me. I will also bring my original letherman pst for its utility around the snowmobile and the fishing equipment and my medium case cv stockman for the evening jeans. The brown jigged bone stockman is also a gift from my knfebrother SunnyD in the far south. I cant thank that man enough.
I will also bring two lockblades, my Fallkniven U2 and my gerber reed handle LST. Those are for my sons as they probobly want to wittle once in a while. I bring them lockbacks as Its a little more secure for eight and five year old boys. We will sometimes be 30-50 kilometers into the wilderness and I want to awoid bleading fingers if possible, but not to the point that they arent allowed to use knifes.
This afternoon the journey starts....
Bosse
