Using an OVB Bowie

[joeshredd]

Question for all you Camillus fans... (yes, I'm one, too... have been since the Boy Scouts!)

Anybody here own and use one of the first Fisk OVB's?

I ask this because I got one from Matt Lamey, who actually re-touched the edge... into one with a real 'convex edge'... Well, I guess my question is as to how well y'alls blades hold up to hard use...

I was cutting dead limbs off of a friend's tree; I was standing on an unlevel picnic table, on a windy day doing a darn good impression of swinging a large, sharp blade as I stood on tippy toes on a surfboard in a gale... yeah, my friend was laffing her butt off...but I got several of her limbs down anyway!

Well, after the laffter died down and I got around to cleaning the blade... I noticed several small nicks in the blade... Matt thinks they may have been made a little too hard...

I was curious as to what everyone else's experience was in using what I have found to be a very good working blade size/shape wise... but just maybe not with as good a quality steel or heat-treatment as could'a been done...

 

[Bladeandbarrel]

Probably ground too thin for the steel....The nicks will generally determine the right edge thickness. meaning, if you sharpen the nicks out, it probably won't chip again.

 

[joeshredd]

I've actually got two of these, one in ironwood and one in the curly maple - they both exhibit a very fine edge... But, since I've sharpened the nicks out, I'll see how it behaves over time... Otherwise, it's very close to what I feel is an ideal bowie knife - not too long, not too broad, very light and fast in the hand and a well designed clip point... while still big enough to do all I ever expect to ask of her...