Toboggan Thoughts & In Use Photos

Great post Brian! It is funny because I kept wondering what the benefits of having an up angled blade would be. It never occurred to me that the handle is up angled and not the blade. Seeing your food prep pics, it makes perfect sense. Very cool.
 
hasco said:
Great post Brian! It is funny because I kept wondering what the benefits of having an up angled blade would be. It never occurred to me that the handle is up angled and not the blade. Seeing your food prep pics, it makes perfect sense. Very cool.
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Thank you Todd. It's funny but I guess that is all in early views and perception of the design. All of the earliest pictures I had seen of similar designs always had the knife arranged so that the blade was parallel with the materials being cut so the appearance was that of an up-angled handle. Also they were never laid out side by side with other knives. So the "up-angled handle" appearance was solidified in my thoughts of the design. Looking back on sales posts and seeing the Toboggan displayed with straighter knives with the handles parallel to each other, I can see why you would perceive it as such. I have a friend here who has been making knives for about 40 years. He is also an avid hunter who does virtually all of the game processing for his hunting club. He loves knives with up angled handles for the processing. He has made a few larger ones of that style and gets annoyed by the fact that those really don't trip my trigger, but I can't help that. I think the main difference between us is our experiences and how we grew up. He grew up going to hunting camps and having specialized cutlery to do various tasks. I grew up in a holler in the Tennessee hills and whatever one or two knives I carried regularly were what cutlery I had to work with for every thing. It wasn't until I got into commercial fishing that I really looked into and acquired specialized knives to work with. All through the early hunting and trapping years I just used the Old Timer 165 Woodsman and Old Timer stockman I had been carrying for years. Then later on when things went down hill, for several years the knife I used most was an issue pilots knife and it was used a LOT, so I am just much more comfortable with straighter knives. Recently I am able to look more at more specialized cutlery for different purposes and have been doing so. A friend in Switzerland that knows my habits on making my own food on the road, which is honestly as much a trust issue with strangers handling my food as it is a health issue, sent me a lunch box like the one he carries on outings which has a bamboo cutting board for a lid, like this. So now I really want a guardless Toboggan in stainless with an emerald handle to go with it and I will have my perfect on-the-go food prep set up :)

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mistwalker said:
...I have a friend here who has been making knives for about 40 years. He is also an avid hunter who does virtually all of the game processing for his hunting club. He loves knives with up angled handles for the processing. He has made a few larger ones of that style...
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I love my Toboggan and keep my 1/8th specifically as a small game skinner. That being said, I would LOVE a larger bladed version to match it. Just a thought ;)

Great thread and input!

Ben
 
Peroni1973 said:
I love my Toboggan and keep my 1/8th specifically as a small game skinner. That being said, I would LOVE a larger bladed version to match it. Just a thought ;)

Great thread and input!

Ben
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Thank you! I can easily see the Toboggan as being a fantastic knife for small game. Who knows, Andy has been known to make larger and smaller versions with similar profiles so it may happen at some point.
 
Great OP Brian and thanks alot......:p
The first thing i did this morning was go through and see if we had any Toboggans available that suit my fancy.
 
That's a cool set up with the cutting board Brian! I just recently started carrying a small lightweight plastic cutting board in my pack, but that one is definitely a step up. Thanks again for your reflections on the knife. That's a great looking TIBO too!
 
hasco said:
That's a cool set up with the cutting board Brian! I just recently started carrying a small lightweight plastic cutting board in my pack, but that one is definitely a step up. Thanks again for your reflections on the knife. That's a great looking TIBO too!
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Thanks man, but hey, at least you probably get an employee discount :D


hasco said:
That's a cool set up with the cutting board Brian! I just recently started carrying a small lightweight plastic cutting board in my pack, but that one is definitely a step up. Thanks again for your reflections on the knife. That's a great looking TIBO too!
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That one is actually Carstens. He bought a stainless Tibo and was posting some really cool pics of it up in the Alps and on the trails over there. So when he mentioned he really loved those scales I sent them to him. Denny Carey does awesome custom micarta but we got our wires crossed and they were supposed to be green on top not black. When he went back and read through the message exchange he apologized and made me another set and told me to keep those. I thought they would probably look really cool with a snowy backdrop so I sent them to him. He posted this photo on my f b page and I loved that lunch box so much I found a link to a store that sells there that ships to the US and tagged my wife in the post saying I wanted one for my birthday. I few days later Carsten messaged me a couple of photos. One of a new lunch box, and another of it boxed up with my address on it, He liked the scales so much he bought the lunchbox for me. I really like the looks of it, I can't wait to check it out. I do like the pics Carsten sent from his visit to Eiger

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