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The cleaver discussion thread.....

Someone from up the road stopped by a while back with a battered old cleaver and wanted another grip put on. I don't know if he was surprised with the result... It's kind of a style I operate in with the wood as the basis, this one being from pear wood, a simple surface texture feels good in the hand and improves grip, tool marks clearly on there, a ferrule formed with a simple improvised forge set-up with a propane torch, that sort of thing.
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That handle has character. I like it.

Food service handles will do well with a few coats of mineral oil. Electrical conduit makes nice ferrules.
 
I just like so much the way pear wood takes up oils and dirt from contacting the skin and takes on a differential finish after some time of use. A shame to darken this nice wood by oiling it.

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This is a chopper made from an industrial-sized wood chipper blade. Got this from a fellow in Mena, AR. It weights in at 2 pounds, five ounces. The spine is 1/4 inch thick.IMG_0222.jpg
 
A silly photo I took the other day with an F. Dick beef splitter cleaver. I posted this on the thread in General the other day, but I know some of us gravitate towards this corner so it bears reposting. :D

 
I got this Laduk which is a small Dayak cleaver as a gift from Anton aka Naturalist.

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It was made somewhere in Palangkaraya, Kalimantan Tengah (i.e. Central Kalimantan), Indonesia by some unknown Dayak Smith.

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The banana in the pictures is called as Pisang Tanduk (i.e. plantain) which is the largest banana locally in Malaysia.

mohd
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
A silly photo I took the other day with an F. Dick beef splitter cleaver. I posted this on the thread in General the other day, but I know some of us gravitate towards this corner so it bears reposting. :D

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:D

Murphnuge, Snakebreaker - Thanks! When I get a bit further down my list of tomahawk orders, I have more cleaver commissions to tackle. :cool:
 
Some great cleavers in this thread.

Just finished this short cleaver-machete a few weeks ago:

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