Playing with Hell Razor

[Tree Herder V]

This weekend I get to do some chopping and spliting with HR. In my opinion HR is for it's size a good chopper. I never have the pleasure to use larger Busses than my HR and I'm sure FBM is much better than HR in chopping, but as a genral woods walking/all around camping blade HR is really good. It choppes much better than Ka-Bar that I used to have...
As to spliting - I splited some birch fireplace wood. It was seasoned, but birch itself is not to hard. No problems there. As a baton I used another stump of birch (also showed in the pics) due to not having anything better suited at hand... I don't think the shape of the upper edge of the HR or the swedge would cause problems while batoning. You just have to use thick enough batton
As to CBT - to me no difference. The coating amazes me. Beside smoothing - no signs of wearing. And after all the work the knife was still shaving sharp. Love that blade:thumbup:
Here are the pics:

 

[mikeymoto]

Nice work! I like the HR a lot, though I haven't had much opportunity to use mine. I am sold on CBT for splitting.

Yeah that swedge might be hard on a baton, but I'm sure it'll work fine for extended use. If you think it worked well with a piece of wood for a baton, try a "dead blow" hammer! Tyrkon and PrincessGunner recommended that to me and it really works great. I got a 27 ouncer and after some use I wish I had gotten a heavier one, though that one works fine on softer stuff.

Here's my use of wood for a baton:

 

[Crafft]

Great story Tree Herder.
Those Razors are awesome blades:thumbup:

 

[Tyrkon Lawson]

That's awesome. The HRs seem like they would make a great camp knife. Great pics. I can't wait to go camping. Thanks for sharing.

 

[JurT]

I'm sure you had a great time. Thnx for the great pics!:thumbup:

 

[Tree Herder V]

Thanks guys!
mikeymoto - hamer would be good, but not easy to find in the forest
Nice pic! Makes me want FBM:thumbup:

 

[westllen]

cool pic's thanks for sharing!:thumbup:

Jules

 

[stabber]

Great pics:thumbup:

 

[Hog Butcher]

Thanks for the story & pics!!!

 

[TurnerIII]

Great all around knife indeed. Nice to see you using her Great pics !

 

[xaman]

Great pics!

I think the HR is pretty close to a perfect "only one knife" knife...

 

[XMP]

Thanks for the batoning report. I've been waiting to hear what you thought.