Let's see your good old basic fixed blades, Bowie's, Stickers, etc.

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Nice batch of snakes. I've never really gotten good at cleaning those, but my brother-in-law does a great job with them and he smokes them and they turn out great. Maybe that's why I've never learned myself. ;)
 
Cory Hess said:
Nice batch of snakes. I've never really gotten good at cleaning those, but my brother-in-law does a great job with them and he smokes them and they turn out great. Maybe that's why I've never learned myself. ;)
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I might have to try smoking some someday. Smoking them and canning them making the bones dissolve would be great. I'm good at cleaning them but not an expert. Always end up with a few bones. I don't always keep them but it's a lot of good meat to pass up on.
 
I thought that this thread could use a little bump, so I snapped a picture of my green micarta fixed blades.



From top to bottom:

L.T. Wright Camp MUK
Phillip Patton EDC
Battle Horse Frontier Valley
GEC H20
 
Cory Hess said:
I thought that this thread could use a little bump, so I snapped a picture of my green micarta fixed blades.



From top to bottom:

L.T. Wright Camp MUK
Phillip Patton EDC
Battle Horse Frontier Valley
GEC H20
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Nice selection, that. I have similar counterparts (including the GEC H20), but my eye is drawn to that Camp MUK-- it looks the right kind of handful. :thumbup:

~ P.
 
pertinux said:
Nice selection, that. I have similar counterparts (including the GEC H20), but my eye is drawn to that Camp MUK-- it looks the right kind of handful. :thumbup:

~ P.
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Thanks, Sarah. The Camp MUK is fantastic. It's by far the thickest handle of the set (0.95" at the widest) which means that it's only gotten duty when I'm camping. That thick, round handle also makes it obscenely comfortable to hold, and of course the Nessmuk is a known commodity as far as useful blade shapes go. If you're looking for a medium sized all around belt knife you could do a lot worse than the Camp MUK in my opinion.
 
556hunter said:
WOW, very nice!!!^^^^^

Who makes that little gem:D
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Thanks. It's Horace Kephart's knife! ;)

If we didn't have pictures and had nothing to go on other than his writings, this knife might very well be. If you compare this knife to Kephart's description, it fits all the boxes except perhaps for the "broad pointed" part.

Smithhammer said:
"On the subject of hunting knives I am tempted to be diffuse. In my green and callow days (perhaps not yet over) I tried nearly everything in the knife line from a shoemaker's skiver to a machete, and I had knives made to order. The conventional hunting knife is, or was until quite recently, of the familiar dime-novel pattern invented by Colonel Bowie. Such a knife is too thick and clumsy to whittle with, much too thick for a good skinning knife, and too sharply pointed to cook and eat with. It is always tempered too hard. When put to the rough service for which it is supposed to be intended, as in cutting through the ossified false ribs of an old buck, it is an even bet that out will come a nick as big as a saw-tooth — and Sheridan forty miles from a grindstone! Such a knife is shaped expressly for stabbing, which is about the very last thing that a woodsman ever has occasion to do, our lamented grandmothers to the contrary notwithstanding."

A camper has use for a common-sense sheath-knife, sometimes for dressing big game, but oftener for such homely work as cutting sticks, slicing bacon, and frying "spuds." For such purposes a rather thin, broadpointed blade is required, and it need not be over four or five inches long. Nothing is gained by a longer blade, and it would be in one's way every time he sat down. Such a knife, bearing the marks of hard usage, lies before me. Its blade and handle are each 4 1/2 inches long, the blade being 1 inch wide, 1/8th inch thick on the back, broad pointed, and continued through the handle as a hasp and riveted to it. It is tempered hard enough to cut green hardwood sticks, but soft enough so that when it strikes a knot or bone it will, if anything, turn rather than nick; then a whetstone soon puts it in order. The Abyssinians have a saying, "If a sword bends, we can straighten it; but if it breaks, who can mend it? " So with a knife or hatchet.

The handle of this knife is of oval cross-section, long enough to give a good grip for the whole hand, and with no sharp edges to blister one's hand. It has a 1/4 inch knob behind the cutting edge as a guard, but there is no guard on the back, for it would be useless and in the way. The handle is of light but hard wood, 3/4 inch thick at the butt and tapering to 1/2 inch forward, so as to enter the sheath easily and grip it tightly. If it were heavy it would make the knife drop out when I stooped over. The sheath has a slit frog binding tightly on the belt, and keeping the knife well up on my side. This knife weighs only 4 ounces. It was made by a country blacksmith, and is one of the homeliest things I ever saw; but it has outlived in my affections the score of other knives that I have used in competition with it, and has done more work than all of them put together."

Horace Kephart, Woodcraft and Camping
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In all seriousness this knife was made by John Landi. IIRC it's his Bushcrafter model.

- Christian
 
It's a very nice knife, that's for sure:thumbup::thumbup:
I bet your right, I bet kepheart would've loved it:)
 
kamagong said:
Thanks. It's Horace Kephart's knife! ;)

If we didn't have pictures and had nothing to go on other than his writings, this knife might very well be. If you compare this knife to Kephart's description, it fits all the boxes except perhaps for the "broad pointed" part.
- Christian
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It misses in one other crucial point:

Horace Kephart said:
one of the homeliest things I ever saw
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That Landi is a beautiful knife. Kephart never would have carried a work of art like that. ;)
 
I just finished a little rust neutralization on this old skinner. All of the pitting was covered in red rust.

The Tang reads:

MARBLE'S
GLADSTONE
MICH USA

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PAT'D 19 pitting:D


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There is enough room to add another leather washer, so I might do that later.
 
Cory Hess said:
It misses in one other crucial point:

Horace Kephart said:
one of the homeliest things I ever saw
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That Landi is a beautiful knife. Kephart never would have carried a work of art like that. ;)
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Lol...

This knife is probably the homeliest I own, at least when it comes to fixed blades. My other users are a Tommi puukko and a criollo knife made by Ray Laconico.

- Christian
 
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