Sap, blades and gun smoke....JK Handmade..

[mqqn]

Hi folks -

I was out collecting maple-sap Sunday, so I took my JK Kephart with me and took some pictures with my cell phone.

I also took a little revolver with me in case we ran into any man-eaters.....

practice featherstick (green wood - this was just for practice....)

I chopped through this dry sapling -

we made a little fire - the spine on my Kephart does an amazing job on a misch-metal rod.....

And finally my little friend.....

We wound up with about 8 gallons of sap.

best regards -

mqqn

 

[Rockywolf]

Mmmmmm, I love maple syrup. Pancakes, syrup, bacon, and coffee. Add a nice fire, knife, and cool gun, good times. Thanks for sharing.

 

[SuzukiGS750EZ]

My uncle makes maple syrup and was the first one in vermont to make birch syrup a few years ago. I love the smell of birch but have yet to try the syrup. Looks great.

 

[Iboschi]

I'd like some real syrup! You have to share it with the W&SS crew! "Did you bring enough for the whole class"?

 

[HornyToad]

And finally my little friend.....

We wound up with about 8 gallons of sap.

best regards -

mqqn

Wow. That Smith is no plinker. I bet the trees gave up the sap without a fight. (The JK was there as backup. Nice knife.)

 

[C Bryant]

Hell of a combo! :thumbup:

 

[lambertiana]

Although I can buy maple syrup out here, I miss the stuff I used to be able to get when I was growing up in upstate NY, especially the real maple candy. That was good stuff.

And there are few smells on earth as pleasant as what you encounter in a sap-boiling operation. I stopped by one once where they had huge cauldrons of sap boiling down over wood fires, each cauldron being a successive concentration step closer to syrup. It was just a frame shed with a roof and no walls, but it smelled like heaven.