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Short walk & S-curve pics

kgd

kgd

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Finally had a confluence of a day off, sunny/nice conditions and finger starting to heal so I took advantage of things and went for a little walk in Normandy woods today. Brought the S-curve out with me to play with it a little bit more. This time, I just used the retention strap as a clip and stuck the sheath through my belt - mountain man style.

The woods are at that time of year where the leaves have fallen, everything is kind of dreary and you are just waiting for the snow to come. Come on snow, I'm ready for you!

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I gathered up a bit of tinder for my pockets as I walked through the prairie part.

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Then I sat down for a little bit of fire prep.

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Flint & steel with true tinder fungus to catch the spark and then some natural tinder to blow it into flames.

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Note holding the coal in the milkweed pod like this didn't work, as I couldn't blow through the shell.

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After the fire trial, I decided to test the S-curve a bit more. In this case I push cut through a sampling after bending it over. Works very nicely as expected. The S-curve hardly required any pressure to make the cut.

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A little bit of notching and tent pegs.

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The S-Curve does well, but I feel more comfortable doing this stuff with a smaller, 3-4" knife. It is easy to really choke up on the S-curve and the blade is sharpened right to the back edge so you can use that back edge for the detailed stuff quite well.

Then decided to make a split-stick trap. This requires quite a bit more notching and shaping. All of this practice with the S-Curve was getting me to appreciate the blade more. I still think I'd prefer having a smaller bushcraft knife for this kind of stuff, but the S-Curve could be readily put to the task on this kind of stuff.

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Here is the trap set...

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A couple of glam shots...

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On the way home I encountered this very fuzzy plant that I never saw before. Looks like great flash tinder, so I harvested some along with a bunch of phragmities.

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Then I popped down a few choke cherries from this tree. Boy these things would be great paired with apples to make apple wine!

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So, are you saying that you are so skilled with Ricks Curves that you don't cut yourself :eek:

Oh wait.. SCurve.. :D

Nice pics, Ken. Looks like it is should look here, but doesn't, yet.
 
Very nice. I am so freaking jealous!
 
kgd said:
On the way home I encountered this very fuzzy plant that I never saw before. Looks like great flash tinder, so I harvested some along with a bunch of phragmities.

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Was it a vine? It looks like Clematis (Clematis spp.)

Then I popped down a few choke cherries from this tree. Boy these things would be great paired with apples to make apple wine!

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I can't tell from your picture, but what is it you're calling choke cherries?

Doc
 
Sorry doc, I think they were crab apples.

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The fluffy stuff was a vine. You mean to tell me I have Clamidia again???
 
I was kinda wishing to seeing more of the S-Curve, so thanks for this!
 
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kgd said:
Sorry doc, I think they were crab apples.

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The fluffy stuff was a vine. You mean to tell me I have Clamidia again???
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Again??

The Clematis is also called Virgin's Bower (no chlamydia there! :D), the other common one is Purple Clematis. Purple Clematis (C. occidentalis) has a reddish/pinkish/purplish flower, when in bloom. Virgin's Bower has a white flower.

I'm not familiar enough with them at this stage to differentiate.

Doc
 
Great pics Ken, I love this time of year. That split stick looked good, and you have to love how Rick's knives look so at home in the woods and hearken back to a different time. I hope to get to try out the tinder fungus soon.



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DOC-CANADA said:
Again??

The Clematis is also called Virgin's Bower (no chlamydia there! :D), the other common one is Purple Clematis. Purple Clematis (C. occidentalis) has a reddish/pinkish/purplish flower, when in bloom. Virgin's Bower has a white flower.

I'm not familiar enough with them at this stage to differentiate.

Doc
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Always heard that you knew you had chlamydia because it burns real good.....or was that real bad. :confused: ;) Chris
 
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