Hey, if you want to spend 40 minutes with a fixed blade instead of 40 seconds with an axe, more power to you.
thanks for the 'power' powernoodle
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Siegle Blade VS Walnut Tree
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thanks for the 'power' powernoodle
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now, just finish wittling that thing down to a nice pair of chop sticks and a tooth pick. thanks
yes, I have seen your collection ...I know you have one of these BEASTS also..
Thanks for checking mine out
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The bottom of that stump, and the center of the root ball
may hold some PRIME handle material...!
may hold some PRIME handle material...!
I was thinking the exact same thing.
I had two black walnut trees sawn into lumber years ago and the sections near the bottom and at the junction of large branches can be spectacularly figured. They're not the most stable, but wow can they be beautiful.
Here's a jewelry box I made for my wife from Butternut (I found that I can't stand this wood. Too fuzzy.) and a great section of Black Walnut for the top.
Great knife by the way. Thanks for sharing your chopping fun.
I don't know if its worth the effort, But......
....If anyone wants it....location is in lake county CA town of Nice, near Clear lake.....
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We don't want to hear about it unless you can do it in less than 40 minutes.
on an Ironwood tree and both hands tied behind your back......
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Bill makes a fine blade.....I had a RAW Chopper some time back. While throwing it....it hit the driveway hard.....very minor nick in the blade and it was still rocking! I really like that particular model!
I have been bugging Bill to make me an Original Hoodlum for "quite" some time...I would love to have it in 5/16ths!!!!
I have been bugging Bill to make me an Original Hoodlum for "quite" some time...I would love to have it in 5/16ths!!!!
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Now thats a day well spent! You have the trees in my yard shaking in their roots!
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Maybe either you or the knife are the man but more likely both!
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Man really impressive, 40 min ehh. I have cut down similar sized tree's with knives and it sure felt longer than 40 min for me to do it lol.
Great work, hopefully your hands are ok after that.
Great work, hopefully your hands are ok after that.
I had gloves on....I did forward cuts, back cuts, switched to left hand briefly for a few cuts....doubled up with both hands for some cuts and had about a 3 or 4 min break about halfway through the whole exercise....
Thanks again everyone for all your nice comments and checking out this thread..makes it worthwhile!!
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I had gloves on....I did forward cuts, back cuts, switched to left hand briefly for a few cuts....doubled up with both hands for some cuts and had about a 3 or 4 min break about halfway through the whole exercise....
Thanks again everyone for all your nice comments and checking out this thread..makes it worthwhile!!
Would have made a good video, to see just how you did it so fast?
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