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My New Woodsman,
It arrived safe and sound from Andy.
Nicely packaged in a brown wrapper with his card attached, Cool. The band-aids made me chuckle. I was too excited to get a picture before I opened it. So this will have to do.
Fit and Finish is just outstanding. The wood is beautiful. It feels much more substantial in the hand than I had anticipated. Nice grind lines and sharp. Overall it's one very sweet package.
I had hoped this knife to be a "do it all" camp knife and so far so good. Any Woodsman needs breakfast so that's where we started. It sliced and diced the veggies, hacked through some homade bread, and sliced and chopped some slap bacon with great percision.
It sliced my bread better than my bread knife,
Chops bacon like nobody's business,
Now to the outdoors. Nothing special, just messing around at this point.
Some light batoning, The blade's length made fast work of this chore. Mostly birch and beech.
Peeled some birch bark to start a fire. It has been raining here for days. Started working on a bow drill set but I got rained out of that project.
Not a pretty fire, but it was all stuff I scavenged from the woods and processed with the Woodsman. Except for the saw cuts which were made by my Curtis-Stebbins.
They say a knife isn't really yours until it bites you. Well this one is mine. I managed to gently jab the point into my left hand while peeling bark. Nothing serious just a small hole enough to bleed for a minute or two. I guess it's mine now, and I'm glad to have it.
I'll get to the sheath in the next session. Thanks again Andy for a sweet knife!!!
It arrived safe and sound from Andy.
Nicely packaged in a brown wrapper with his card attached, Cool. The band-aids made me chuckle. I was too excited to get a picture before I opened it. So this will have to do.
Fit and Finish is just outstanding. The wood is beautiful. It feels much more substantial in the hand than I had anticipated. Nice grind lines and sharp. Overall it's one very sweet package.
I had hoped this knife to be a "do it all" camp knife and so far so good. Any Woodsman needs breakfast so that's where we started. It sliced and diced the veggies, hacked through some homade bread, and sliced and chopped some slap bacon with great percision.
It sliced my bread better than my bread knife,
Chops bacon like nobody's business,
Now to the outdoors. Nothing special, just messing around at this point.
Some light batoning, The blade's length made fast work of this chore. Mostly birch and beech.
Peeled some birch bark to start a fire. It has been raining here for days. Started working on a bow drill set but I got rained out of that project.
Not a pretty fire, but it was all stuff I scavenged from the woods and processed with the Woodsman. Except for the saw cuts which were made by my Curtis-Stebbins.
They say a knife isn't really yours until it bites you. Well this one is mine. I managed to gently jab the point into my left hand while peeling bark. Nothing serious just a small hole enough to bleed for a minute or two. I guess it's mine now, and I'm glad to have it.
I'll get to the sheath in the next session. Thanks again Andy for a sweet knife!!!
