Show me your custom camp knife/chopper.

This is my "pocket size" chopper:

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My first chopper build. Stock removal from a '70 Chevelle leaf spring
OAL: 15 1/2"
Full Tang: 7 1/2"
Blade: 8"
Chopping edge: 7 1/2" x 1/2" concave bevel
Slicing edge: 4" x 1" concave bevel
Full Spine: 4" for batoning
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Not to knock you, 8531jarhed, but I own a '70 Chevelle project car (sadly languishing while waiting for other projects to get finished) and it has coil springs all four corners. Maybe that's why the picture's not showing up for me? :) I'd love to see what you've built.

Edit: Here's the link, at least. I really like the wrap.

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I'm apparently not posting it correctly. It ain't pretty but it is a work horse. I'll do some more figgerin' and keep trying to get it where it ain't invisible. I can dig the project car thing... got a '69 Nova SS waiting for me to finish my living room and 2 rifle builds.

Storm Crow said:
Not to knock you, 8531jarhed, but I own a '70 Chevelle project car (sadly languishing while waiting for other projects to get finished) and it has coil springs all four corners. Maybe that's why the picture's not showing up for me? :) I'd love to see what you've built.
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I've made this one just for fun:) just for my self and just for chopping 10 1/2'' of cutting edge.
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{So many great blades in this thread... But what is that larger model there that Sam made? I LOVE the shape of this blade and handle!! Is that a one-off type or one of his 'standard' models? }

Good evening to you
I know that this model is bY Sam, but he was able to do more, it is best to ask him.
 
I know that makers love to get performance feedback on their knives. Here's the text of an e-mail I sent to Russ Andrews today:

"Russ - I gave your camp knife a real workout yesterday. A friend of mine brought me a dozen water coconuts. I didn't know whether to hug him or choke him - my wife and I love coconut water, but getting to it is a real chore.

I don't know if you've ever tried, but there is real skill involved - you can't just chop the thing in half - you'll spray water everywhere and accomplish nothing. You have to chop thin slices of the stem end of the cocont off to make narrow pointed pyramid, then lop off the top of the pyramid to only JUST nick the hard inner nut to get access to the water.

The husk is thick and dense - so you need a quick, fast, short chops to get through it - slicing through won't work at all. And the inner nut is rock hard - you need a sharp edge with some mass behind it, or the blade will just glance off.

The blade of choice for the guys who sell fresh cut coconuts on the beaches in Jamaica is a short machete. Your camp knife did spectacularly well - made me look better than I am. Though my arm still feel like it's going to fall off. 12 is a lot.


I wish I had snapped a pic of the giant pile of chopped up coconuts, but I was a hot sweaty mess (serious heat wave up here right now) and couldn't immediately think where I had left the camera. But here is the knife in question anyway:

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