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The Ice Man and Nessmuk

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You think they're both setting together on a cloud with a laptop and surfing BFWS and saying "Look what we started";):thumbup:
 
Either that or old Nessmuk is screaming as loud as he can "THAT'S NOT WHAT THE HUMP IS FOR YOU MORONS!"
 
I think Nessmuk is still laughing at people who are using big thick heavy bladed knives in the woods.

Who is this Ice Man?
 
great post HD...:thumbup: you know they're hanging out around the campfire in the sky...:D
 
I had a dream last night I was in an antique shop.

There was a large candle on a shelf that had melted and wax had ran down the side. It had a tag that said "Horace Kephart, $387".
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Andy?

Do a search in HI on the iceman. Maybe...er...three years ago.

I'd post a link, but I don't have search function right now.



Kis
 
If Mr. Sears was alive today he would be packing the lightest cutting tools that would effectively do the job with or without a hump if it was cheap enough. He was quite a penny pincher. I doubt he would be copying someone's designs from 100 years ago. What we are doing with Nessmania has more to do with nostalgia than sound practice.
I bet his famous knife's hump was a coincidence when he ground off the "extra steel" at the end of a Green River skinner just like beginner Nessmuck makers do today.

I bet he is spinning in the grave at what a Nessmuk is selling for today.

JMHO
 
riddleofsteel said:
If Mr. Sears was alive today he would be packing the lightest cutting tools that would effectively do the job with or without a hump if it was cheap enough. He was quite a penny pincher. I doubt he would be copying someone's designs from 100 years ago. What we are doing with Nessmania has more to do with nostalgia than sound practice.
I bet his famous knife's hump was a coincidence when he ground off the "extra steel" at the end of a Green River skinner just like beginner Nessmuck makers do today.

I bet he is spinning in the grave at what a Nessmuk is selling for today.

JMHO
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No way he was a penny pincher.

If you read the book he was really into expensive gear. Even goes over how his pals ridiculed him over having his custom hatchet made up. Had 2 custom canoes made up. Made a trip to the Amazon? I mean how many Pennsylvania shoe makers put the money out for that?

Hard to say about his knife since so little is really said about it but he definately was not a penny pincher.
 
I would have to agree with hollowdweller...my impression is exactly the opposite, I think he was packing the McHales, Outdoor Innovations and Busses of his day.
 
And doesn't that picture of him show him holding a double barreled swivel breech rifle? I would like to know how much extra that upgrade cost in his day.

I've always found it such an interesting thing, that rifle. Why he was willing to carry that much extra weight for a quick second shot. Doesn't really sound like something that would fit in with his philosophies, especially considering how he only brought like 12 rounds with him on that wilderness trek he wrote about. (unless he was carrying a different rifle on that one?) Did he ever wax poetic on the subject of rifles?
 
If Nessie was alive today, he'd be a member of REI, probably a member here too. He'd have given up his Nessmuk knife for a big chopper made from a new secret steel. Then he'd claim the chopper was too heavy, and move to a Mora and a SAK. He'd eventually get bored with woods tromping and would hang up his gear, start an internet company and convince people they should carry a knife with a funny hump on the spine. He'd make millions. :D
 
tknife said:
If Nessie was alive today, he'd be a member of REI, probably a member here too. He'd have given up his Nessmuk knife for a big chopper made from a new secret steel. Then he'd claim the chopper was too heavy, and move to a Mora and a SAK. He'd eventually get bored with woods tromping and would hang up his gear, start an internet company and convince people they should carry a knife with a funny hump on the spine. He'd make millions. :D
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