Three Day Get Away

[OwenM]

I'll take slightly overdone eggs in the woods cooked on an open fire over perfect eggs at a restaurant in a city any day

I know that's right! Making me jealous with my instant oatmeal, coffee and Clif bar diet. I think for this week's overnighter some real food might come along for a change, especially since it looks like another night stuck in a designated campsite.
How do you like that little TOPS knife? Saw it online the other day. The dealer's pic wasn't very clear, and I assumed it was another sabre grind, but yours looks about fully ground. A better pic might have landed a long overdue impulse buy, but those handles would give me pause, too. I like the way it looks, regardless.

Love that terrain, the lush woods, and water:thumbup:

 

[Mistwalker]

I know that's right! Making me jealous with my instant oatmeal, coffee and Clif bar diet. I think for this week's overnighter some real food might come along for a change, especially since it looks like another night stuck in a designated campsite.
How do you like that little TOPS knife? Saw it online the other day. The dealer's pic wasn't very clear, and I assumed it was another sabre grind, but yours looks about fully ground. A better pic might have landed a long overdue impulse buy, but those handles would give me pause, too. I like the way it looks, regardless.

Love that terrain, the lush woods, and water:thumbup:

Thanks man, glad you liked the pics.

Instant oatmeal is good, and it's light...definitely has it's place in a pack. But after long days out I wanted one really good hot meal cooked over a fire the last night.

I like the knife a lot actually, I'm working on a complete review of it now. The scales themselves don't bother me for the most part, even the bolts sticking up aren't uncomfortable. The only issue is that little point closest to the blade is a little annoying when using the knife in a pinch grip but I think that can easily be remedied. The knife itself handles really well and Paul Bos definitely did a great job on the heat treat. The blade is heavier than some of my knives that size being as it is 3/16 steel but it is nearly flat ground and whittles good while still having enough of a spine to be stout and handle some lateral pressure. I've batoned it through some fatwood and pried off some hunks with no issues. It's meant to be used either with the scales or skeletonized. I'm going to take the scales off and see how it handles, and then try a cord wrap too.

 

[SCALPHUNTER]

Coming from a Native American Mistwalker, you may not have been born one of us, but I'm thinking you might be at heart. I enjoyed your photos, and your appreciation of nature's wonders. Well done. "Os'da su he'ye'i Ugi'na'li" (Good Evening my Friend)

 

[Mistwalker]

Coming from a Native American Mistwalker, you may not have been born one of us, but I'm thinking you might be at heart. I enjoyed your photos, and your appreciation of nature's wonders. Well done. "Os'da su'na' he'i Ugi'na'li" (Good Evening my Friend)

Thank you, I'll definitely take that as a compliment. I'm told I'm roughly 1/8 Cherokee...maybe a little more, great grandmother on my mother's side. But I've always had a close connection with the earth. Also...I have almost no body hair and it took till I was 35 to grow a beard Good evening to you also my friend.