So-so pics of 25" AK at work

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Josh Feltman

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Picked this one up at the 2003 Khonvention. Wonderful blade by Kumar. Sorry for the poor quality pics; they were for another non-knife board. That's seasoned madrone. Splits like a charm with the AK. You could split rounds like this all day and still shave the hair off your arm. One of my best workhorse khuks by far.

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Great pixx Josh!

That's a nice looking khuk too!

What is madrone? What's it like that I might know?

I like the one pic with the little froggie head. If you look immediately behind the khuk handle in that pic there is a long splinter laying parallel to the khuk's handle with a splinter coming off of it that almost looks like some sort of a long lizard setting there. Can you see what I'm talking about or have I eaten too many brownies in my lifetime;)
 
Ha! Yeah, I see it. Looks like a stubbed-off alligator lizard. Mardrone is like, hmmm, not sure what trees you have around you. It looks like manazanita, only it's a very large tree-reddish bark, sorta lobed leaves I think. This stuff was cut down up off Hwy 70 in a burned area. Very dry, and burns great. Almost as hot as oak, and leaves a great bed of coals. One large piece went all night in our woodstove last night. Never burned it before, but, I wouldn't mind having a few cords of the stuff.
 
Josh Feltman said:
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C'mon guys, help me out here! This is a great pic from Josh and there has got to be a hilarious caption for this photo.

Here's mine: "Hey, get that thing away from me! I said I don't need a shave, OK!?" ;)
 
Josh, I remember when you first posted that you bought that monster! Didn't Heber buy one of those too? That is from the time period when a lot of them were coming with hollow ground bevels. My Durba held tough, but my Sanu didn't make it. How would you compare it to an equivalent weight axe for splitting? I've chopped a lot of wood with my khuk, but not much splitting.

Hollow, Josh nailed it. Has red smooth bark that kind of peels off in spots like eucalyptis. Sometimes has one main trunk that grows real straight, othertimes multi-trunks like how an olive tree will sometimes do. It looks like bionic manzanita! But then again, you might not know what manzanita is. It can be harder than woodpecker lips, and burns hot. Has pretty burled grain sometimes. If you do a google image search for madrone, you will get all sorts of pict (I can't post pics or I would). My buddy has a 75-100 year old cabin on his ranch made out of madrone logs that are quite small, about 6-8" in diameter. All of the wiring is exposed and on bobbins!!!!:eek:
 
Svashtar said:
C'mon guys, help me out here! This is a great pic from Josh and there has got to be a hilarious caption for this photo.
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I went and did it again and I'm gonna lay it on Norm.;) It does take some getting used to, not posting off topic or hijackin a thread.

I never did get to cut any Madrone when I was in Oregon but I was *told* it is tuff dayumed stuff, perfect fer an AK!!!!
 
Svashtar said:
C'mon guys, help me out here! This is a great pic from Josh and there has got to be a hilarious caption for this photo.

Here's mine: "Hey, get that thing away from me! I said I don't need a shave, OK!?" ;)
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"I'm a switcher. I used to use Gillette, but for my baby smooth skin, nothing cuts it like an HI AK, 25 inches, that's smoooOOOoooth"

bladite
 
stevomiller said:
Josh, I remember when you first posted that you bought that monster! Didn't Heber buy one of those too? That is from the time period when a lot of them were coming with hollow ground bevels. My Durba held tough, but my Sanu didn't make it. How would you compare it to an equivalent weight axe for splitting? I've chopped a lot of wood with my khuk, but not much splitting.
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I think Heber got his a while before I got mine. Never had any edge problems. It stays sharp longer than any of my other khuks, yet it's a breeze to sharpen.

I'm not much of an axeman, so I can't really say. I have a monster maul for splitting, and it makes easier work of the madrone than the AK, at least on some of the pieces, but it's also far heavier.

For its weight, I'd say the AK does a great job, but I wouldn't want to try to split anything bigger in diameter than that madrone.
 
Those are great pics Josh. It looks like a lot of fun. Do you swing it like the maul, or baton it through?

Yvsa, please don't be so rigid. We love your off topic stuff. I go back into archived threads just to get at that stuff. Back when Uncle Bill was around to comment on it. Good stuff. Don't stop that train, let it keep on runnin.
 
Andy?

I think Yvsa is just self-policing in the manner which he would appreciate all forumites to follow. Good example for me.

I'm given to following threads at right angles...not a good thing. I will try and remember which branch of H.I. Forum I'm in.

The Forum is the no-smoking...er, no deviating...er, uh...stay on topic room. The Cantina is for erratics like me. Tangential thinking has it's place. The other room.


Be well and safe.


GREAT images of the 25in AK !!!
 
Yvsa and Kismet are both right. I don't know when a joke is too many but we should take thread veer over to the other side.





munk
 
stevomiller said:
My buddy has a 75-100 year old cabin on his ranch made out of madrone logs that are quite small, about 6-8" in diameter. All of the wiring is exposed and on bobbins!!!!:eek:
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That IS an old cabin!! I have seen old houses with wiring like that on the porcelain insulators. From what I've heard as long as it is undisturbed that it is actually safer than wires where it is easier for the 2 wires to touch and get shorted.

I don't know manzanita either but I'll check it out online. Here we have oak, white, post, scarlet, red, and chestnut mostly. Red, sugar and silver maple. Beech. Black Cherry. Basswood, Butternut and Black Walnut, Sassafrass, Mockernut, bitternut, shagbark, shellbark, and pignut hickory. Black Gum, Sourwood, Virginia Pine. Those are the most common trees here. For some reason we have Sweetgum in our woods which is an introduced species too.
 
I have not personally cut manzanita with a khuk though lived around it most of my life. (prior khukless life) I'm betting Manzanita would be a challenge even for a khuk. It's resilient and extremely tough.



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aproy1101 said:
Yvsa, please don't be so rigid. We love your off topic stuff. I go back into archived threads just to get at that stuff. Back when Uncle Bill was around to comment on it. Good stuff. Don't stop that train, let it keep on runnin.
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Andy I'm not being rigid at all but one of these days I'm going to have to start being so and I will as I get more and more comfortable with the tools we mods have.
If I were really doing my job I'd be moving all the off topic posts from the threads in this side of our forums to a thread in The Cantina.
We are very, very, fortunate that Spark was good enough to set up The Cantina for us and we should respect that by staying on topic on this side of the forums.
I'm doing my best to be a role model so I can tell you guys do as I do, not do as I say.
I want everyone to be happy and have fun but I just wish everyone would do it in the right forum.:(

I have some Manzanita Burls I collected in SoCal after a fire.
I can testify that the stuff is damned hard, and I mean Damned Hard.
I burned up a high speed tool steel drill bit in a solid piece of it once. I was going to make a lamp out of the burl but never did.
The burls are beautiful as has been said and I understand that some fellow up in Idyllwild was making furniture out of the wood years and years ago, more than 30 years probably since I've been here 25 years.:eek: :thumbup: ;)
 
Thanks for the pics and report. They are good pics as far as I'm concerned. If someone doesn't think so, let them post pics and another report themselves.
 
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Did I post this in the wrong forum or something?
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No Josh, you posted it in the right place.:thumbup: It was just that a couple of the guys, one being me, was commenting on the pic of you looking up at the blade and making off topic remarks.:(

You Sir did good.:thumbup: :D :cool:
 
Cool. Just making sure. I wasn't around when the forum split, wasn't sure if I'd done something wrong. If you want, I can move that pic of me holding the khuk to the Cantina or repost it if people want to have at it. I don't mind, lol.
 
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