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Scandi grind dissapointment - what am i missing here?
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Hi Thomas,
We don't all carry Rambo knives over here.
Here's one of my thin ground woods knives.
Big Mike
Nice one! Love the color on the handle, look like it have been colored with alder bark! Convex edge and good a user, I can see that you have work hard with this knife.
A thought, during Vietnam war, many US soldiers was over there. New climate, new type of wood and vegetation – and on top of that, also a war. Can the change in knife culture come from that – it fits in time very well as I see it. Bigger knifes who was used for hard work in Vietnam climate? When those soldiers come home, they have this type of knife with them back to use?
Thomas
A thought, during Vietnam war, many US soldiers was over there. New climate, new type of wood and vegetation – and on top of that, also a war. Can the change in knife culture come from that – it fits in time very well as I see it. Bigger knifes who was used for hard work in Vietnam climate? When those soldiers come home, they have this type of knife with them back to use?
Thomas
Thanks Thomas, that's one I ground out of a Brusletto Mystery Blade. :thumbup:
:thumbup:The handle is Manzanita Burl.
Big Mike
West coast of North America.
It's one of the hardest woods I've ever encountered.
It's darken a bit,
...when I first ground it out, it was alive with fire.
Big Mike
Interesting theory. Given some digging, one might also find that correlation around the time WWII vets came back from the Phillipines and other jungle environs.
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I grew up in Northern California where Manzanita grows wild.
When I was in the Forest Service we had to survey access roads and logging roads, and this often required clearing brush from the site where the transit/Theodolite would stand.
Manzanita is some of the toughest, springy-est, just plain gnarly woods I've ever dealt with. It is actually hazardous to attack it with an axe, as the axe head will rebound right back at you. You have to use thin-bladed brush-hook tools, and even then you have to proceed with caution.
When we made camp fires, Manzanita would burn hotter and longer than most other woods, and there were companies that would use it as a charcoal base (yes, this is a whole lot of years ago). On top of this, it has an amazing root system. Once it gets established, getting it out -- all the way out -- is serious work.
Add to this that it is a vibrant, aesthetically dynamic wood, with rich green leaves and equally rich red wood, and its not hard to work out how it came to be a protected species in California.
Technically, it's not a tree but rather a bush.
The wood can be used for any number of crafts where durability is desirable.
A knife handle in that wood . . . awesome!
When I was in the Forest Service we had to survey access roads and logging roads, and this often required clearing brush from the site where the transit/Theodolite would stand.
Manzanita is some of the toughest, springy-est, just plain gnarly woods I've ever dealt with. It is actually hazardous to attack it with an axe, as the axe head will rebound right back at you. You have to use thin-bladed brush-hook tools, and even then you have to proceed with caution.
When we made camp fires, Manzanita would burn hotter and longer than most other woods, and there were companies that would use it as a charcoal base (yes, this is a whole lot of years ago). On top of this, it has an amazing root system. Once it gets established, getting it out -- all the way out -- is serious work.
Add to this that it is a vibrant, aesthetically dynamic wood, with rich green leaves and equally rich red wood, and its not hard to work out how it came to be a protected species in California.
Technically, it's not a tree but rather a bush.
The wood can be used for any number of crafts where durability is desirable.
A knife handle in that wood . . . awesome!