Hi all,
Chris seeing your knife in the same pic with your hawk. Sure brings back some memories. I had and used a knife like that shape for many a years,
but mine was a sharade and it was not exacly like yours, but pretty close.
I lived in a rual area on a farm and used that knife for every thing. from cleaning birds to beef and a bunch of animals that I trapped. Late 70s and early 80s when the trapping was really paying. My axe was a blue handled estwing and my knife was the sharade. I used them both for all my hiking and camping that I did. I had such fun, But, there is always but LOL
I would not trade my current set up to back and use that old sharade for nothing. Here is my current set up.
I carry these 2 knives and the hatchet every day here on the farm. I made both knives and the hatchet and the sheath that holds both knives. The reason I would not go back to the old is that these knives fit me. I shaped the handles. That old knife that I had did not fit very good in my hand like these knives do. I did not know any better back then LOL but since I have been making knives and hatchets I can fit them to me just right and they are so comfy. The handles being in orange are great to I love being able to set my knife down after using it and seeing it right away. I would set that old knife down and go to grab it and now where did I put that thing. It was just right here. LOL
Grampa this is him on his atv and me standing next to him last summer when Kathy and I went for a walk. Kathy took the pic.
A couple of weeks back Grampa gave me his pocket knife to sharpen it up. It wa his dads knife I am going to be 40 this year and that knife is twice my age
It was a 3 bladed knife now it is 2 well really one blade is still a cutting blade the other one was ground into a flat tip screw driver. the other blade was broken off years ago. I held that knife in my hand and thought YUCK LOL It did not fit my hand at all. Would it work for cutting yes. I am not a big fan of pocket knives anyways. I like fixed blades so much better.
Any ways I liked to see the older knives that you and others have posted but when you said you look at the new knives and then put them in the drawer and go for the older stuff I thought Man your crazy
I do not mean to say that in a bad way to each his own and all that. But I will still take my newer comfy orange colored handled knives, than that old flat backed,
handled knife with the scales that were to thin and just a little rounded on the edges. Yes I had fun and it did all the cutting chores I needed a knife to do, But now that I have been exsposed to what I make now there is no comparison.
I respect your thoughts and think you are a down to earth kind of guy. I really like the pics you post of of your outdoors adventures. The fishing one are awesome. It was neat to see all the older knives and the hatchet.
11X11 Thank for posting that hatchet /knife with the sheath. I have been trying to remember what that sheath looked like. My cousin had one and when he came to our farm for summer visits he would bring that combo and I thought it was great. We would take off into the timber and explore and roam around. It was such great fun. I have been trying to think of how that sheath looked and was going to post a thread on it this week seeing if any body had one. I have been thinking about making up a sheath like that for one of my hatchets and a knife that I drew up last night.
meedham that knife you posted with the bigger blade on a pack. One of my friends that I went camping with had one. Boy the memories LOL
Bryan
Chris seeing your knife in the same pic with your hawk. Sure brings back some memories. I had and used a knife like that shape for many a years,
but mine was a sharade and it was not exacly like yours, but pretty close.
I lived in a rual area on a farm and used that knife for every thing. from cleaning birds to beef and a bunch of animals that I trapped. Late 70s and early 80s when the trapping was really paying. My axe was a blue handled estwing and my knife was the sharade. I used them both for all my hiking and camping that I did. I had such fun, But, there is always but LOL
I would not trade my current set up to back and use that old sharade for nothing. Here is my current set up.
I carry these 2 knives and the hatchet every day here on the farm. I made both knives and the hatchet and the sheath that holds both knives. The reason I would not go back to the old is that these knives fit me. I shaped the handles. That old knife that I had did not fit very good in my hand like these knives do. I did not know any better back then LOL but since I have been making knives and hatchets I can fit them to me just right and they are so comfy. The handles being in orange are great to I love being able to set my knife down after using it and seeing it right away. I would set that old knife down and go to grab it and now where did I put that thing. It was just right here. LOL
Grampa this is him on his atv and me standing next to him last summer when Kathy and I went for a walk. Kathy took the pic.
A couple of weeks back Grampa gave me his pocket knife to sharpen it up. It wa his dads knife I am going to be 40 this year and that knife is twice my age
It was a 3 bladed knife now it is 2 well really one blade is still a cutting blade the other one was ground into a flat tip screw driver. the other blade was broken off years ago. I held that knife in my hand and thought YUCK LOL It did not fit my hand at all. Would it work for cutting yes. I am not a big fan of pocket knives anyways. I like fixed blades so much better.
Any ways I liked to see the older knives that you and others have posted but when you said you look at the new knives and then put them in the drawer and go for the older stuff I thought Man your crazy
I do not mean to say that in a bad way to each his own and all that. But I will still take my newer comfy orange colored handled knives, than that old flat backed, handled knife with the scales that were to thin and just a little rounded on the edges. Yes I had fun and it did all the cutting chores I needed a knife to do, But now that I have been exsposed to what I make now there is no comparison.
I respect your thoughts and think you are a down to earth kind of guy. I really like the pics you post of of your outdoors adventures. The fishing one are awesome. It was neat to see all the older knives and the hatchet.
11X11 Thank for posting that hatchet /knife with the sheath. I have been trying to remember what that sheath looked like. My cousin had one and when he came to our farm for summer visits he would bring that combo and I thought it was great. We would take off into the timber and explore and roam around. It was such great fun. I have been trying to think of how that sheath looked and was going to post a thread on it this week seeing if any body had one. I have been thinking about making up a sheath like that for one of my hatchets and a knife that I drew up last night.
meedham that knife you posted with the bigger blade on a pack. One of my friends that I went camping with had one. Boy the memories LOL
Bryan
