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Jaeger

Jaeger

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Well, I just got back from the Rendevous yesterday. Cooking over a camp fire for every meal means that lots of wood needed to be chopped. I used to look at this as a chore. Not any more! I took my shop 2 village Dankuta and my 15" AK. I just never got around to using the village model much. The AK on the other hand....
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Now everyone knows how the AK performs when chopping wood. Nuff said. However, I did some other chopping that I thought might be of some interest. There was a gentleman there who had a car full of old lead plumbing pipes. Melt 'em down and clean 'em up and you have the main ingredient in bullet making! Cheap!!! So I bought 50 lbs. Unfortunately the pieces were too big to fit in the melting pot. So I got to thinkin'... lead's soft, AK's hard, why not! So I sat down at the chopping block and proceded to chop up 50 lbs of lead into small, pot sized pieces. About 20 minutes of good, solid lead chopping. The AK was barely fazed when I was done. A few passes with an Arkansas stone and the edge was as good as when I started. (chopping sharp, not razor sharp. I have yet to master the razor's edge on a khukri)
The performance of the AK far surpassed that of the tomahawk that is generally used for wood chopping. ('cept for throwing) I even tackled some large pieces of seasoned, curly oak and used another piece of wood to to drive the blade all the way through. This method works very well for the big stuff!

Another Rendevous next month. Super Salyan will join me.

Mike
 
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Hey Mike!!
How did you explain the 'period' thang to your fellow 'vousers?
hehehe.

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>>>>---¥vsa---->®
The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.
 
Yvsa,

The 'vous wa in a beautiful location and was generally pretty good but the "dress code" was disappointingly lax. There were a few campers who wore 20th Century clothes the whole time. It kind of detracts from the whole experience.

I didn't wear the khuks much. I bought a period correct knife from my father in law recently and wore it most of the time. I took some pictures of it as well as some other knives with the intention of sending them to Uncle Bill to post for all to see but they did not come out well enough. Poor focus. It is an incredibly beautiful blade and I will have to try again.You guys will really appreciate it! I used the AK more than anythng else though and impressed many people with it's abilities.

Mike
 
Thanks for update, Mike. Too bad about the pix. Sounds like an Uncle Bill photography attempt.

Uncle Bill
 
Mike,

Check out Berkley's comments in the sharpening thread about using a Lanksy sharpener. This device is extemely easy to use and would put a razor edge on almost any blade.

A few words on warning though. The angle on the guide would not be close to the real value. The angle will be much less, I am pretty sure you will thin out the edge. Note, Berkley wisely used the highest blade angle. On thick blades the clamp will wobble and may require adjusting.

Will
 
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My 18" AK just never ceases to amaze me.We went to the country Sat. night and running on Indin time I didn't
have a lot of time to do much chopping.Then one of the guys had brought an Australian Bull Roarer and I had to play with it some.
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I found a Well Seasoned piece of hickory about 2 1/2" in dia or so
and with about 5 good whacks it parted.
Now the whole deal with this was it was about 1/2 heartwood.Well seasoned Hickory is what is used for most axe and hammer handles and such.
The heartwood of well seasoned Hickory is tremendously hard!!
The people there couldn't hardly believe the blade still shaved hair at the place on the blade I used to cut the wood.
I am really looking forward to the day when it cools off some and I can go do some real work with this knife and some of the others I have.
I know my results won't be any different than anyone elses,but with all the good knives I have had in the past,there are none that can compare to these.
They truly are awesome and amazeng!!

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>>>>---¥vsa---->®
The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.

 
Yvsa, my grandmother had a favorite "hickory stick" she used as a cane and used to part weeds and brush when she was out looking for medicine in the woods. She told me that hickory was the toughest wood there was.

Was grandmother right?

Uncle Bill
 
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Uncle Bill:
There are some mighty hard woods in Oklahoma.
I have talked about Bois'D'Arc for bows.(I think that's actually french for "wood of the bow",but I don't know for sure.)

I don't know if I have mentioned Black Locust which also ha a pretty yellowish and orangeish colored heart and was also used for bows by the Cherokee.

Then there is the dayamed scrub oak or Blackjack that sucks sand up its roots,besides just being dayumed hard and is hard on knives and saws even before it is seasoned.

Then there is well seasoned Hickory.
Although all these others are tough I would have to defer to your Grandma Uncle.
After all she is an Elder of mine too.
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(sheesh!! What is wrong with my wireless keyboard today?Maybe I need new batteries.) I surely couldnt make that many mistakes.
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>>>>---¥vsa---->®
The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.



[This message has been edited by Yvsa (edited 23 August 1999).]
 
Yvsa, when I was young I sometimes doubted a little of Grandmother's wisdom. The older I get the more I realize just how much she really knew.

Uncle Bill
 
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