TGULB camp knife

[dogboye]

The TGULB really is a fantastic knife. I didn't get into specifics about my last trip with it, but I will here. I had some kiln-dried hardwood that I was using, which had to be split down to smaller stuff to get the fire started. A couple of these were pretty hard, with some knot in them. Now, I will say that I did NOT try to baton through the center of the pieces, especially the center of the knots. I wasn't worried about the TGULB, but quite honestly, it just isn't very comfortable to try to go right down through the center with knots. So I started at the edges. But eventually, I ended up getting into a stubborn knot. The TGULB powered right through (well, -ish; it was still a PITA batonning it through). At one point I sighted down on the spine from the top, because I had been beating it mercilessly, and I remembered the photo from (I think) Rob Stanley, of a Busse with about a 5-ish deg bend in it through a piece of stubborn wood, which straigtened out when he finished. Well, in this case, it wasn't even bent; I was just weak, apparently. Anyway, performance-weight ratio with thie TGULB is just phenomenal, IMO. And the rounding of the perimeter with the scales works marvelously. Oh, and I haven't even touched the edge with a sharpener yet, and it will still scrape hair off my arm.

 

[AK-MAX]

Good report Brother! Looking forward to receiving mine from BC.

 

[scootle]

I hadn't really adopted the batoning syndrome into my firewood routine previously.... but figured the TGULB needs to do some actual work someday. This thread was encouragement to stop dicking around with my $10 HF hatchet on my recent trip to SE Utah...

Oddly addictive once you get going, and oh-so-effective! I'd almost argue this is faster than using a camp axe at this point mostly since the knife is so damn sharp and easy to control. I made a couple of errors in my self-learning and put some small nicks in the blade when it got too close to the concrete pad under the fire pit, but honestly, no issues at all... Ran the Lansky rod on the blade just to clean it up, gave it a wipe with Tuff-Glide, and that's probably all that it'll need for a long while. I was really worried wayward smacking the tip of the blade with the piece of wood would bend or break it off, but it's just as sharp and pointy as it was on Day #0.

Good times!

 

[JACKMANDU]

I hadn't really adopted the batoning syndrome into my firewood routine previously.... but figured the TGULB needs to do some actual work someday. This thread was encouragement to stop dicking around with my $10 HF hatchet on my recent trip to SE Utah...

Oddly addictive once you get going, and oh-so-effective! I'd almost argue this is faster than using a camp axe at this point mostly since the knife is so damn sharp and easy to control. I made a couple of errors in my self-learning and put some small nicks in the blade when it got too close to the concrete pad under the fire pit, but honestly, no issues at all... Ran the Lansky rod on the blade just to clean it up, gave it a wipe with Tuff-Glide, and that's probably all that it'll need for a long while. I was really worried wayward smacking the tip of the blade with the piece of wood would bend or break it off, but it's just as sharp and pointy as it was on Day #0.

Good times!

It’s fun ain’t at! Nice blade you got there. I feel so much more satisfied after beating on these Busse blades. I try not to baton over concrete myself. Hope you didn’t have to pay for concrete repairs to the campground.

 

[Makael]

Nice combo! Please post pics of that one. Dead blow is the way to go. Plus harbor freight has them for less than 10 bucks. Can’t go wrong.

The harbor freight dead blow splits real easy. The original USA made dead blow can be bought for 20 and up. 21oz is 24.00