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In excitement over the sawback on the tops tracker, I fool around with notch crafting. The teeth are offset, leaving almost rounded saw cuts, like the shape of M.
here's a pic of the notches, the first one describes the M effect pretty well. The one on the right describes a notch made at an angle.
Here, the Gerber axe does notches too!
Two cuts close together make the beginnings of a notch, and after removing the inbetweens...
a holy notch is born. In a resilient wood like cherry, this works great.
This is from the inside out, so to be more realistic with trap parts, I use portion of dried walnut sapling with its bark still intact.
Here, the saw back makes clean work:
To make a cleaner notch, the bark is comin off.
Here, I made three notches right next to each other. The process was so effortless, thin walls could exist between them.
Here's the kukri doing a notch in the walnut. one good streight-on strike gives me the depth I need for a notch, and an angled cut cleans and clears the notch. VERY easy.
and here again in cherry, the kukri.
The inside edge of the tops knife is hallowground, and could be sharpened to be great for drawknife applications, but Tops puts such a shitty edge on it that it might as not even be any thinner than the axe edge.
This wraps up my day of demo'ing with these blades. I got the Tops this morning in the mail, was hoping it would make a little more of itself than it did and in the end, was somewhat irritated with the edges on it.
I love the kukri style machete. Though its only 1/8 thick, i take it camping on week-longs and do basically everything, though saving smaller stuff for an acompanying folder. The allure that originally attracted me to Tops Tracker could easily be fit into a true kukri with the simple addition of a sawback. It was fun to hammer the shit out of the tracker while splitting logs, but far from economical. Perhaps if I get good at throwing it into walls, I might save it for thanksgiving drama.
here's a pic of the notches, the first one describes the M effect pretty well. The one on the right describes a notch made at an angle.
Here, the Gerber axe does notches too!
Two cuts close together make the beginnings of a notch, and after removing the inbetweens...
a holy notch is born. In a resilient wood like cherry, this works great.
This is from the inside out, so to be more realistic with trap parts, I use portion of dried walnut sapling with its bark still intact.
Here, the saw back makes clean work:
To make a cleaner notch, the bark is comin off.
Here, I made three notches right next to each other. The process was so effortless, thin walls could exist between them.
Here's the kukri doing a notch in the walnut. one good streight-on strike gives me the depth I need for a notch, and an angled cut cleans and clears the notch. VERY easy.
and here again in cherry, the kukri.
The inside edge of the tops knife is hallowground, and could be sharpened to be great for drawknife applications, but Tops puts such a shitty edge on it that it might as not even be any thinner than the axe edge.
This wraps up my day of demo'ing with these blades. I got the Tops this morning in the mail, was hoping it would make a little more of itself than it did and in the end, was somewhat irritated with the edges on it.
I love the kukri style machete. Though its only 1/8 thick, i take it camping on week-longs and do basically everything, though saving smaller stuff for an acompanying folder. The allure that originally attracted me to Tops Tracker could easily be fit into a true kukri with the simple addition of a sawback. It was fun to hammer the shit out of the tracker while splitting logs, but far from economical. Perhaps if I get good at throwing it into walls, I might save it for thanksgiving drama.