New MEGA One Zero and my swinging pot holder

[sicily02]

Hi all,

A few weeks back a fellow forum member ( mistwalker) sent me a drawing for a knife he wanted made. Mistwalker called this knife the One Zero. Well I made up a knife to his drawing that he sent to me. Now normally if I get a drawing from some one that wants to have a knife made for them and if I like it I will make me one too, Well I liked it and made me one too and have had it for a couple of weeks and have been carring it and using it for my every day carry knife for the last couple of weeks.

Well I like the knife design so much that I made me up another one but with a longer blade. Here is a pic of it and my smaller "1-0". with the sheath I made that holds my new firestriker knife and then a ceramic sharpening steel and then a firesteel also. The bottom knife has a 5.5" blade and the top MEGA "1-0" has a 10" long blade. both have 5/32" for the steel thickness. and green canvas micarta for the handles with black liners.

A in hand pic.

I bet some of you do just like I do when you get a new knife or if you are a maker of knives, right after you open that box and get your new knife or in my case make it up and then put the final sharpening on it , You will or might take it to some post it notes and cut the paper to see how it cuts or maybe shave some arm hair or take a stick and shave it up into a fuzz stick.

Well with this MEGA "1-0" I did just those three things to cut some paper and shaved some hair off my arm then went to my wood pile and got a chunk of seasoned mullberry that I had spit with my axe. The peace I got was a oh maybe a 3.5" by 3.5" roughly as you can see in this pic I am about to show. Well I am a batoner of wood. I just love to take wood and split it with my knives. here is the pic.

Here is the pic of that mullberry chunk all split up.

Well I did that all little bit of wood spliting last night. I also took a few of the splits that I made and shaved up a few fuzz sticks. Well I am not sure what I was thinking but I did not get any pics of my fuzz sticks but you all know what they look like. anyways.

Ok well, years ago I order and got a survival video by a Britsh fellow called John Wiseman, he was a SAS fellow and was there chief survival instructor for some time while in the SAS. Well John wrote a couple of books and then made a video about survival and what you can do if you get lost or have a crash of some kind. Well while watching that video John was showing how to make a fire with a buch of different items and stuff like that well when it cam to doing the water purification part of his video I noticed that he had some kind of swinging pot holder and I thought that was COOL LOL. Well he never went into that and how he made it. but in his book he show and talks about how to do that swinging pot holder.

So I though ok I am going to make one up. Well I did make one back them and have made several since, but yesterday afternoon I decided I was going to make one another one using my new MEGA "1-0" and have it at one of my camping spots.

So out to the timber I go. I needed 3 parts to make up my swinging pot holder.
1. I wanted a stick that was about a 1.5" or so and about 4 feet long and
straight as can be. Well found one from a locust sapling. I cut it out from the others that were with it. Then I took it back to my camp site and sharpened one end and then grabbed a cut up log a foot or so long and then pounded that into the ground near my fire pic.

Here is the pic of that. on the right side of my fire pit I have the stick behind a rock and as you can see it is pounded into the ground.

Well after I did that I now needed to get the 2 other parts that would complete my swinging pot holder.

So I went looking for them 2 peaces, When I found what Iwas looking for I took my MEGA "1-0" and cut them out from where I found them in the woods that I was wondering through.

Ok now back to my camp site and here is what I got for the rest of project.

I needed a straight stick about 2 feet long and with a fork or V atthe end of it. Then I needed a straight stick with a Y at the end of it.
Here is the pic.

The straight stick with the V at one end is below the MEGA One Zero.
and the stick with the Y is above my MEGA "1-0".

Now to assemble this swinging pot holder. I took the straight stick with the V at one end and put it on the straight stick that I pounded into the ground next to my firepit. The V part just sit on the stick that is in the ground and will be the part that holds my tin can that I am going to use for part my cooking. Now while I was holding the V stick in place I grabbed the other stick with the Y at the end of it and the them both in place so I could see where I wanted to conect then together. I wanted to make notches in both stick and in this pic you can see me holding both sticks.

Once I got the notches carved in the sticks with my MEGA "1-0" knife I then took some wire and tied them together . like in this pic.

Now when you look at this pic you will see the swinging pot holder put all together and holding my tin can with a wire bail and small fire under it. The stick with the V goes at the bottom and the stick with the Y goes at the top.
Both sticks are on the straight stick that I pounded into the ground. this a a push / pull type set up the stick with the V The V part just slided over the stick that is in the ground. The Y stick is the pull stick and the slides over the stick and it at the top then the place Where I notced and tied the 2 sticks together with wire stay on the stick that was pounded into the ground. Here is the pic.

Ok at this time I see that have 9 pics and will do a continued part in a little bit.

Bryan

 

[sicily02]

Hi all,
now for the rest of the swinging pot holder project.
In this pic I have the pot over the fire.

Then in this pic I have the pot swung over towards me and now it is not hanging over the fire and I can now grab the bail wire and take it off the stick.

Well I hope you enjoyed this skill project. It was neat to use the MEGA One Zero knife. I am really liking this design also much like the MEGA Warthorn.

Just for fun a pic of them together in the Y of a locust tree.

I made a chair today at my campsite. I used my MEGA one Zero to make it too and will post pics later.

Anyways I am heading back down to my campsite, start a new fire, heat some water in my tin can and use my new swinging pot holder and then I am going to sit in my new chair and split some wood with my MEGA "1-0" for a couple more hours and just enjoy the rest of the evening.



Soooooooo I will chat with you all later maybe this evening yet or sunday morning.

Bryan

 

[sharpguytoo]

What a great idea, thanks for sharing. I bet that is a good way to adjust the heat also if you are "cooking" instead of "boiling" yer meal.Side to side iinstead of up and down. I hate to think on all the spilled beans incidence in my day.

 

[baldtaco-II]

sicily02, hola

Good stuff, I sometimes use those swing arm jobs. Usually next to a sapling to stop me having to hammer in the upright.

Curious - Was the Boker Valkyrie somewhere in mind when the One Zero was conceived? Yours looks more useful with a simplified handle, protruding tang, integral scales and guard, and the fact the grind differs - but it still looks so much like one to me.

 

[richard j]

you made some sweet knives brian. i really like the mega "1-0".

 

[kgd]

I like the potholder design. Very neat!

 

[Odaon]

I'm starting to really like that knife design. Great pictures and info. Thanks.

 

[caine]

Awesome blades work. That pot holder is cool. Going to try that out.

 

[JCavSD]

That's one serious beast of a blade...very nice. Swinging pot holder is a great idea.

 

[sicily02]

Hi all,

Thanks for the kind comments on the MEGA One Zero and the Swinging Pot Holder. I really like this handle shape too, Like the Warthorns slanted guard and blade shape the knife designs are pretty close. I have made other knife designs my own and then what others have sent to me to have made up like this from Mistwalker, ( Thanks again Brian LOL) And out of all of them this is the only one that I have been making more of not only for others but for myself too I am replacing the other knives tha I have in kits and BOB bags and stuff like that with Warthorns and now there are going to be a few "1-0"s too LOL.

I know this is not the design for all, but for me I know these 2 designs are the ones I want to use and carry and have with me for kitchen , camp and if need be the SHTF situation. As soon as I have the ones I want made up and have replaced the other knives that I have kept in the kits that I have. I should at all times be with in arms reach of a Warthorn or a "1-0"

I even made one up that I could carry and conceal with a water bottle pouch so I could out flank the Paster of my church LOL. ( Carrying a combat, hunting, survival knife in church was/is looked up on as being a little nutty. All was going well for the last 3 or 4 weeks untill I hear one lady in the kitchen at the fellow ship hall at church say all the church knives are dull and then she calls out from the kitchen part into the dinning part and calls me out with a Bryan do you have a sharp knife and of course she has to say it loud enough for just about every one to hear, In cluding the Paster.

Well as most of the eyes from the other memebers turn towards me and as the blood drains from my face and a stare into Lorraines pleadeing eyes for help. I am thinking to myself just say no I can not help you out sorry no
Combat, hunting, survival knife here. Heck even my wife steps a few paces from just in case i decided to lie ( now lying is bad but to lie in church has got to be worse) just incase I do lie and get zapped by lightening. Well as Lorraine is still looking at me with them pleading eyes of help. I tell say back Oh I might be able to help you out. So I pic of my watter bottle pouch that I had already put under the table where I was planning on sitting and in a tactical postion so no one passing by could see my Warthorn knife.

Well into the Kitchen I go and when I get there of coure the has to be several other ladies in the kitchen too. Lorraine tells me she brought in some I can not even say the name of it from her garden , but anyways it is tap root of something and hard as a rock and with a skin as tough as leather.

So Lorriane shows me her knife that she is using and it is duller than a butter knife so no wonder it will not cut that Root LOL. She tells me this Root thingy needs to be cut up like sliced tomatos and skinned. I am thinking to myself this is not right. All my thinking on how to keep a Warthorn knife hidden and yet with reach is going to go out the window so to speak.

But I tell Lorraine I will be able to cut that Root up for her and skin it too. I unsling my water bottle pouch from off my shoulder and there in plain sight is my knife attached to my water bottle pouch. As I take my Warthorn knife out of it sheath I can see from the corners of my eye that some mouths drop open and some eyes get big from some of ladies standing around looking to see how this root is going to get cut up.

Here at this point to my story I am going to do some Bragging not a lot but some LOL I have had some of you guys from the forums here get a knife or 2 from and say on here that you knife arrived sharp, or scary sharp, stuff like that. Well my knives are just that sharp. Thanks again to Richard J from here on the forums Richard and I have chatted about knife sharpening and with his counsel so to speak I now get my knives Good and sharp. Thanks again Richard for you help :thumbup:

Now back that danged root. I pick up that rock er I mean Root and did skin and cut it up but I tell ya it was a stinker to do. and then it tasted nasty I thought when I eat some for diiner at potluck dinner.

Well I have not heard anything from anybody Paster included LOL so it must be all ok to carry my Warthorn in church and for dinner after wards.

So for some who read this and thought to them selves what do you or I need a knife for in church, There you go LOL


Thanks again guys for the comments on the pot holder and the MEGA "1-0".

Baldtaco-11 Thanks, I am not sure what knife I guess it is a knife that you are talking about. I do really like the this design that mistwalker sent to me to have made a knife made up for him though.

Sharpguy yea Spilled beans suck LOL

Richard thanks and again thanks for your help in the sharping area.

And to the rest of ya thanks for the kind words on the pot holder, it really is a neat thing to have in you camp.


Ok now for the the pics of my chair making.

This last week I was looking through a survival book I have called six ways in and twelve ways out and in there and on page 107 B there is wooden chair in there and I thought to myself yep that is what I am going to work on and make with this new MEGA "1-0". Here is the pic in the book.

Well I needed some sticks to start out with and I had cut some down in the spring for another project but that one is on hold for now. So I went and got them and here they are in this pic.

I will stop here and then do a continued,

Bryan

 

[sicily02]

Hi all,

Onto the chair making. Well after I did some cutting and some notching and then using some wire for the attaching part I finally got my chair made up.
Here is a few pics.

I started with the 3 main parts that formed the frame and then added on to the side of it with the 2 horizontal peacse.

this pic I thought was to cool not to post LOL

here is my chair done it really is easy to do and with the help of the pic in the book it really makes building one pretty easy.

Here is me sitting it. holding the 2 tools that helped in the making of it.

Well I now have a log chair down at one of my camps and it really is a place to sit and listen to nature and watch my fire and then reach over and grabb my Swinging pot holder and bring it to me and take off the tin can and have some coco or what ever I might be cooking up that day LOL.

Not a whole of telling how it was done it really is easy to do when you look at the pic. I will say it took me several hours and I used about 15' of wire to tie every think down.

If you look in the back of the chair finished, there is some cut up logs that are on the horizontal strut peaces and that acts as a way to keep your cut up wood off the ground and a way to neatly stack it to LOL.

Well I hope you enjoyed this project and the pics I posted. I have some more that I have sone with the MEGA "1-0" and will post them later.

Bryan

 

[WILLIAM.M]

Great photos

Thanks for posting this!!!

 

[Wandering_About]

Sweet stuff Bryan. Now I'm going to have to use my hatchet to try to make a chair and a potholder! Both look very cool. Especially the chair, been wondering how I could rig one up for a while. Thanks for the post on the chair, now I don't have to think about it any more!

 

[TheGame]

Wow, that chair is really cool! As is the swinging pot holder! I may get out next weekend and attempt the chair, as I could really use one of those out back. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Mistwalker]

Curious - Was the Boker Valkyrie somewhere in mind when the One Zero was conceived? Yours looks more useful with a simplified handle, protruding tang, integral scales and guard, and the fact the grind differs - but it still looks so much like one to me.

Nope...I first saw the Boker Plus Bowie that I think you are referring to in a side of the page ad in the latest T.K. about 3 months after I first drew out the Warthorn design. The angled guard is by no means new, several companies have done different versions of it over the years. The knife I got the idea from was a cheap import I had about 20 years ago that looks a lot like the Boker and makes me wonder how long that Boker design has been out. I loved the ergonomics of the design but hated the cheaply done execution. So when conversations about combat environments in the thread on the C.R. came up I thought about it for a while and then I incorporated the angled guard from that knife into the C.R. design when I was drawing up the next knife and thus the Warthorn came to be.

 

[Mistwalker]

I just went to look up the Valkyrie and even if it weren't stated........

http://www.knivesplus.com/bokerknifebk-bo160.html

.....I'd know by looking at it that it was based on a Vietnam era knife...reminds me a lot of the Randall #1 series (with the Randall #1-6 being one of my all time favorite stick tang knife designs), the Black Jack #1 series, and the Cold Steel Military Classic and O.D.A.

The four knives Bryan and I have developed together all started with my statement that I loved my SOG Bowie and that a full tang version would be my dream knife but that if I was going to design one of my own I'd want to simplify the spine leaving the rear scallop for a couple of purposes which I have demonstrated but making the rest of the spine one smooth line.

 

[sicily02]

Hi all,

Thanks again for the comments.

rocketbomb and the game, I hope you 2 can get out there an make chair or swinging pot holder or both LOL they are neat to do.

Mistwalker thanks for sharing that info. on the knives and all.

Take care,

Bryan

 

[richard j]

i'm glad to have helped you brian and all the other members with their sharpening. i'll be sending you some 1075 along with the stabilized maple so you can check out how tough the cultivator disc steel really is. if you follow my directions on how i heat treat it you'll have another favorite knife to carry.

 

[shelbysguns]

Here is another cool chair. Skip to 4:10-4:15 to see the chair. The author of this video is very interesting. There is a part two it'll be under related videos, Enjoy!

 

[sicily02]

Hi all,

Richard thanks again, Ok on the 1075 and the maple. looking forward to it.

Shelbysguns did you try to post a link?

Bryan