Kitchen Knives....

Kevin, you mentioned earlier that you made a birch bark and leather sheath for a knife like this? I would love to see a picture of that. I want to make sheaths for these...not that I intend to carry them all...just something more to continue this addictive hobby ;)
 
It does seem that to a travelling man a light set up like the Holy Trinity is a darn good idea . Something that is versatile enough to do most things and yet be light enough to not slow you down . Kind of a minimal tool supply with room to spare .

My buddy gave me an Indian drawknife which isn,t much more than a butcher knife stuck into a handle made from a birch branch . Its certainly not as versatile as a regular drawknife . It gets the job done . With a butcher knife .

Funny thing is the butcher knife was an Old Hickory lookalike called Old Homestead . Unfortunately it is stainless steel and made in China . The good thing is its hollow ground . It was nice to compare it to my Old Hickory . I betcha even with the hollow ground it couldn,t keep up .
 
Jackknife, I remember reading a story a few years ago about a horse-mounted ranger in South Africa who carried a large butcher blade in a sheath (these were the days before custom knives). He was attacked by a lion and used the blade to kill it. Of course he got chewed up too. This may be just one of those legendary stories....
I like custom knives, own a few, but I particularly love these everday blades that pioneers and frontiersmen, including our grandparents, used to survive.
 
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Wow how ironic can ya get, my two knives I got from my Grandma Reynolds are the exact same as the top and bottom pictured :D

What a small world !

Yea , the nice things about these knives is , they are still somewhat easily found and usually do not cost a lot , the steel is excellent.
Goes to show you do not need exotic materials and "de-animating blood grooves with tritium inserts" to get the outdoors job done.
 
Coldwood . I have several images from archery/arrow making ,Tomahawks and the sheath I made . Unfortunately my U:S:B: port doesn,t see my camera external drive and vice versa . I upgraded from 98 to X:P: and I was told the problem may be anything like I need a driver for the camera (which I doubt) to I have to configure the U:S:B: port which I have to figure out how to do with my X:P: . If I don,t get it done in the next week I am going to do it on someone elses computer .

I am proud of this sheath cause it fought me every inch and every second of the way . I almost chucked it a few times and it turned out half decent .
 
Kevin the grey said:
I upgraded from 98 to X:P: and I was told the problem may be anything like I need a driver for the camera (which I doubt) to I have to configure the U:S:B: port which I have to figure out how to do with my X:P: . If I don,t get it done in the next week I am going to do it on someone elses computer .
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Got a quick question/possible solution for you-- Is it just your camera that your usb port won't detect or will it fail to detect any external device(excluding a mouse)?

Regardless, make sure you have Service Pack 2 or at least Service Pack 1 installed on your xp operating system. The Service Pack will intall USB 2.0 which is needed for your usb ports to detect most external devices.

If you aren't familiar with finding specific updates for Windows, you can visit this website and it will basically do everything for you:

www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Hopefully that will help.

Regards,
Quinten
 
Thanks Quinten The problem has been isolated to the U:S:B: port itself as the possible culprit . The only empirical test not performed is to attach another drive to that port .

I suck at computers . (Pardon my language) I will try what you suggest .
 
Coldwood said:
Jackknife, I remember reading a story a few years ago about a horse-mounted ranger in South Africa who carried a large butcher blade in a sheath (these were the days before custom knives). He was attacked by a lion and used the blade to kill it. Of course he got chewed up too. This may be just one of those legendary stories....
I like custom knives, own a few, but I particularly love these everday blades that pioneers and frontiersmen, including our grandparents, used to survive.
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I remember that article, it was in one of the Ken Warner Knife anuals. Yes, he was mounted, and just after dusk a lion attacked him and his horse. The horse bucked him off and got outa town and left the ranger there to deal with the lion. The ranger had a 5 inch or so butcher knife in a Zebra skin sheath that he fought the lion with. He lived, but a bit mauled, but managed to kill the lion by stabbing it repeatedly in the neck.

The funny upshot of the story was that years after the incident, he was in London, and they stopped at a store that had a block of cheese on the counter and the customers could help themselves to a slice. The knife sittiing there to do the cheese slicing was the same brand and size as the knife he killed the lion with. He made mention of this deed to the clerck, and the store clerck just gave him a "yeah, sure" look.

You can get pretty far with a good sharp butcher knife.:D
 
LOL rebeltf. I wanna know what "de-animating blood grooves with tritium inserts" are all about. Sounds like something from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Kevin, I look forward to seeing that picture of your sheath. No rush...computers are such labor saving devices ;)
jackknife, thanks for confirming that story for me. I was afraid it might be an old age fantasy. I've got what I think is a cheese knife, unmarked, with a heavy 12.5 blade, used for cutting wheel cheese, I'll get around to posting it eventually, looks like you could gut a grizzly with it in a fair fight.
 
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I hope I've got the hang of this. Here are pictures of two blades I own...they are unmarked...I believe they are both cheese knives, for cutting large wheels of cheese. I'm posting them here because they both also could do double duty as small machetes. I also want to post them on the Bernard Levine page to see what he thinks of them. Any thoughts?
 
They are both pretty neat . I especially like the top one , There is something about the shape of the second one though . Its hard to decide .

You don,t think that front point on the bottom one might get caught or hang up in cheese ? It kinda looks like a chopper of some kind to me . Is it heavy ?
 
Yeah Kevin, one looks like a small scimitar and the other one looks like a small scimitar ;) Both are somewhat substantial, blade thickness the same at between 3/16-1/8. We don't use them much, keep them in the kitchen butcher block so my wife has something to chop up evil-doers. If I didn't already have a couple of machetes, I would use one of these.
 
The top one looks like something they used to call a "breaking knife", used for the breaking down of large carcasses into sides and qaurters of beef. The scimitar shape was good for cuts all the way through the side you were working on.

I don't know about that bottom one. I have a Martindale golok that is the same shape, and is handy in the woods.
 
I have a Martindale golok that is the same shape, and is handy in the woods.
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It is called a Golok because that is the sound it makes chopping into a forehead . L:O:L
 
Interesting! I have no idea what either of them were intended for, other than speculation. Your ideas are a lot mor interesting than mine, which was just for cutting cheese.
 
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