Short Hike with Cmdr249

Stomper said:
Looks like you guys had a great day out. I also got some more of your pictures for my website :thumbup:
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Just a quickie note on John's kephart. It was crossed batoned through the same wood, not at junction like Cmdr did, as the Sarsquatch pictured in the 2nd post. The kephy did great with its convex edge. At the end of the day, we noticed a very slight nick in the blade. Just barely visible (< 1 mm) to the naked eye that could be felt with the thumbnail slide along the edge. The small nick occurred where the blade was cross batoned. Otherwise, the edge was nice and clean and just as sharp as it started. That tiny weeny little nick will come out with a bit of stropping and in no way compromised the functionality of the blade. First time I cross batonned a piece of wood that big, and one that was frozen too. So I was really happy with the way the kephy performed there.

The Busses performed awesome - but who would have guessed otherwise?

Hey Cmdr - sorry about all the ribbing on the 'stairmaster' shot. When I saw it I thought it was funny and just couldn't resist a little joking :D :D :D Now its not like we were bumping hammocks in the night or something :p
 
Great photos kgd.
You guys sure carry a lot of impressive steel.
I really like the picts of the patterns in the ice.
 
Great stuff, ...thanks for sharing. :thumbup: :) :thumbup:

kgd said:
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This picture reminds me of when Tony and I get together; :D

...always enough steel to effect compass readings. :cool::eek::cool:




"If you're not living on the edge, …you're taking up too much space."

Big Mike
 
Blue sky - yes I use the edge. In fact, I use my Jiimi Wade necker as a devoted knife for doing this. You know what - using the edge of your knife hardly dulls the edge! I know, this doesn't make sense to knife nuts and we like to keep things razor sharp. My compromise is that I use the same knife for this activity. Now and again it gets a little touch up and is back to razor sharp. It also kicks ass as a striker! Lots of folks have a dedicated striker knife. John makes his Tin knife for this purpose, Gossman also has a small striker.

I actually picked up this tip from Jeff Randall at rat cutlery who is always getting ribbed about the coating interfering with using the spine to strike a ferro-rod. Jeff's response is always - just use a bit of the edge. If you use the same spot of the knife then you only dull a small portion of the usable edge. Also, you would be surprised but even 1095 suffers very little dulling from carving up ferrocium!
 
Hey k,

Looks like you guys had a knice :rolleyes: day. It's good to see members getting together. Unfortunately, I didn't see a Bravo-1 in the line up. Oh well, it gives you something to aspire to. :D

Also the BK-9 looks good, but I already have a Machax and several machetes so it probably is a non-starter for me. Don't tempt me with a BK-1 though. :rolleyes:

Anyway, as to the vine. I have never seen Poison Oak - it doesn't grow in Ontario. To quote from Shrubs of Ontario, James H. Soper / Margaret L. Heimburger, ROM, 1994, ISBN# 0-88854-283-6, page 279 "Poison oak is a name that should not be applied to plants in the Great Lakes region. It more properly belongs to two species that do not occur in Ontario, one in the southern states and the other on the Pacific coast."

If I saw that vine around here, it would be Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans).

And your Iron Maiden tree, I'm guessing that it's Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) - a fairly rare tree in Ontario.

Doc
 
Thanks Doc - my first thought was poison ivy. Its the same stuff that Cmdr eluded to in his earlier thread on fire starting with his son. Good thing he didn't burn the vine! I'm assuming the vine itself contains little of the alergen relative to the leaves.
 
kgd said:
Blue sky - yes I use the edge. In fact, I use my Jiimi Wade necker as a devoted knife for doing this. You know what - using the edge of your knife hardly dulls the edge!
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Surprising, I'll have to give it a try. I would have thought the heat from creating the sparks would rapidly degrade the edge, being so thin. I don't doubt it throws great sparks though!
 
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There has been some discussion on this in the past. Most of the makers think it is a none issue just because the heat sink of the total knife, even at the edge, is so large relative to a spark. In any event, the knife edge doesn't seem to suffer any and I do this quite often. Again, in my case, this knife is used as a kit knife and this is one of its tasks so I have no qualms in striking with the edge.

If there was a heat treat issue it would be so tiny that simply sharpening it would fix it. Consider the Fiskars axes which often suffer heat treat effects from use of grinders on the edge. You sharpen them up and remove about 0.5 mm of material and the full edge and its toughness is brought up to what it should be.
 
Great pics, it looks you guys had a great time. That's a heck of a lot of knives.
 
kgd said:
Thanks Doc - my first thought was poison ivy. Its the same stuff that Cmdr eluded to in his earlier thread on fire starting with his son. Good thing he didn't burn the vine! I'm assuming the vine itself contains little of the alergen relative to the leaves.
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The way I understand it is: Urushiol is contained in all parts of the plant, whether or not the concentration differs is something I don't know, however, it is not exposed to you, unless there has been some trauma to the plant, e.g. a bruised leaf, either by you, or some critter passing by, etc. For this to happen to the vine itself would be less likely, so therefore you're less likely to contract the allergen in the simple touching of the plant.

As to the burning of the plant, I have read that it has been fatal to some people!

Doc
 
There was no danger of burning it - I was taught that lesson a long time ago: don't burn something you don't know.

Especially something that grows onto/into a tree like that.

It will be a lesson passed on as well.

I do have one question though on burning - is there any harm in burning wood with fungus or rotting bark on it?
 
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