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I received my S-curve from Rick Marchand, owner of Wildertools and known around these parts as Magnussen. This is the same model that he did for the camp knife challenge started by pitdog and implemented by Brian Andrews.
Slight difference from the camp challenge knife, this blade is longer at 7" and approx. 3/16 wide at the spine. Steel is 1080, hand foraged by Rick. The handle slabs are walnut sourced from a tree on my wife's great grandfather's homestead in Missouri. Her grandfather as a young man cut down the tree, planed the boards and made a bedroom set for his soon to be bride. We inherited that bedroom set, although one of the pieces was ruined and I saved the wood which has now become the slabs of this blade.
Anyhow, I intend to due a full review this weekend, but as a teaser I will provide a few pictures.
Unfortunately, everytime I get home from work now its dark because of the short days and daylight savings time, so the shots are in my garage with hardly any light. For those of you who might remember, I harvested some cottonwood from Ojibway last week and it was wet. Its been curing in my garage but is still pretty moist. I decided to try my hand at a bow drill and use Rick's suggestion of pre-warming the wood first with low pressure fast strokes.
The point of the s-curve does great at drilling.
Unfortunately, this is where I found out about the true sharpness of the S-curve. I usually use the saw of my SAK to cut the wedge, but still loving the new knife, I used the S-curve. Well, I've done wedges with knives many times, but never with a 7" blade, nor one nearly this sharp. A small slip led to the worst bite I've yet given myself. This one was a bad bleeder and this morning I had to get 3-stitches. Not that a wedge can't be done with a big knife, but as I found out the distance between the knife and your finger when doing fine work like that is to short where a small slip will make contact.
I was lucky, no nerve damage and the tendon was okay even though the slice was deep and just below the knuckle of my index finger. I'll spare you the grotesqueness of the cut. However, we now have a knife that has tasted blood.
Well, I'm not going to let a thing like stitches drag me down too much, so today after work, I decided to continue on the drill.
Alas, close but no coal yet. The smoke was good, the dust was getting right. I even had a little bit of a coal by independent smoke but not quite enough to last. Then I poked through the board. I think I can get a coal on this one, but my hand was sore and I'll try it later.
Slight difference from the camp challenge knife, this blade is longer at 7" and approx. 3/16 wide at the spine. Steel is 1080, hand foraged by Rick. The handle slabs are walnut sourced from a tree on my wife's great grandfather's homestead in Missouri. Her grandfather as a young man cut down the tree, planed the boards and made a bedroom set for his soon to be bride. We inherited that bedroom set, although one of the pieces was ruined and I saved the wood which has now become the slabs of this blade.
Anyhow, I intend to due a full review this weekend, but as a teaser I will provide a few pictures.
Unfortunately, everytime I get home from work now its dark because of the short days and daylight savings time, so the shots are in my garage with hardly any light. For those of you who might remember, I harvested some cottonwood from Ojibway last week and it was wet. Its been curing in my garage but is still pretty moist. I decided to try my hand at a bow drill and use Rick's suggestion of pre-warming the wood first with low pressure fast strokes.
The point of the s-curve does great at drilling.
Unfortunately, this is where I found out about the true sharpness of the S-curve. I usually use the saw of my SAK to cut the wedge, but still loving the new knife, I used the S-curve. Well, I've done wedges with knives many times, but never with a 7" blade, nor one nearly this sharp. A small slip led to the worst bite I've yet given myself. This one was a bad bleeder and this morning I had to get 3-stitches. Not that a wedge can't be done with a big knife, but as I found out the distance between the knife and your finger when doing fine work like that is to short where a small slip will make contact.
I was lucky, no nerve damage and the tendon was okay even though the slice was deep and just below the knuckle of my index finger. I'll spare you the grotesqueness of the cut. However, we now have a knife that has tasted blood.
Well, I'm not going to let a thing like stitches drag me down too much, so today after work, I decided to continue on the drill.
Alas, close but no coal yet. The smoke was good, the dust was getting right. I even had a little bit of a coal by independent smoke but not quite enough to last. Then I poked through the board. I think I can get a coal on this one, but my hand was sore and I'll try it later.
great looking sheath set up too.. i love Rick's work...:thumbup:
