1066vik
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On 2 of them, the makers already posted that they missed the "bushcrafting" partof the testing and anticipating a pure cutting competition went with thin blades in the 63-64 RC range. At that point, it the user was making a snap cut and applied some lateral stress while the knife was still in the branchlet, chipping does not surprise me.
On Rick's knife, my suspicion is that there was a "bad spot" in the stock it was being hammered out of.
Specifically an internal flaw that was drawn out during the forging.
Looks like a tackett picture show to me
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1065494-A-Few-Pictures?highlight=guyon
there's another picture thread that shows Terrio's knife getting pounded on as well.
Man that looked like some kind of fun! Still can't get over that size of bamboo growing up in those mountains.
@ James and anyone else who handled my knife, feel free to drop you opinions/theories on my knife if you'd like. Seriously, we learn nothing if we can't take constructive criticism. Don't hold back, I'm a big ole boy now.
Thanks again to Moose and all who participated. Don't they have one of these in the Fall also? It's never to early to get started on another knife!
It was a hoot - and I brought some scraps home to mess around with.
As to another gathering, we're having one up by Topeka July 5-7 if you want to come visit and bring toys for folks to play with.
Otherwise, the next big one will be this fall, location to be determined.
I'm tempted to go sweat it out with you guys in July, but that time of year maybe something happening here we'll see... much closer for me and Don though...
. I may have some toys to send up though, I'll just have to dig around my toy box and see.
