Voracious Badger by Herbie

HERBIEDUKE

HERBIEDUKE

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Received the loaner Badger from Voracious today. Stopped by the PO, and there it was. It also came with a very nice sheath made by David Brown. It was on my belt before I got home. My hand was like a magnet to the Badger, and kept picking it up. Really like the balance, and the grip to the micarta scales. The 4 1/2" length, and .150" thickness blade is perfect for my taste. Can't imagine I would want anything thicker for my first Busse.
It was reasonably sharp, but I hit it with a ceramic stick a few strokes anyway. Next I couldn't wait to put it to use. Cut through about 20 aluminum cans, and proceeded to dispatch a bunch of cardboard boxes. The Badger was still sharp enough to push through the cardboard, without having to slice to get it to cut through. Ok off to the wood shed, and see what I can cut up. Had some 16" pieces of wet hardwood, and decided to split some for kindling for my wood stove. Used an axe handle to drive the Badger through, and in no time had a nice pile of kindling. I rechecked the sharpness with a cardboard box, and was still able to slice through without a snag. Not a bad days works for a Badger, and although it wasn't quite as sharp, showed no signs it had done any work at all. Never the less I was done, and although the edge was still reasonable sharp, I hit it a few strokes with the ceramic, and it was back. Tune in tomorrow for "The Badger attacks tin roofing".
 
Thats the easy stuff,Lets see you beat that badger,I mean BEAT that badger!Jody is a great guy for loaning you a knive to beat up! Now beat the badger!
 
Thanks for the pics!! The badger is such a great outdoors blade.

You've got a good brother hog in Voracious! Not every hog would lone out one of their beauties like that :D
 
thats great & all but how did the sheath do ?
where are the sheath pics? :D
 
Tune in tomorrow to see how much wood your sheath can split.

IN VINO VERITAS.....you educated latin lovers.
 
in wine the truth...
a nice chianti here. and to tell the truth, it makes a good chaser!
 
I want to see some pictures of kydex splitting wood, HD, you might as well test everything.
 
Andrew Lynch said:
You've got a good brother hog in Voracious! Not every hog would lone out one of their beauties like that :D
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thanks for the kind word andrew!
i did this for several reasons:
1) spread the infiddiction.
b. tho i've never met jay (hd), i've read posts of his on other forums, and he has always seemed like a good ol' boy.
4- if all else fails, i have friends in his neighborhood! :D
 
randucci said:
I want to see some pictures of kydex splitting wood, HD, you might as well test everything.
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Better yet, maybe BB could fabricate a kydex flagon to hold the chianti? No broken bottles, and, with a little lead shot, a baton suitable for use in inebriated wood splitting? :p
 
David, I never would of thought of a clear sheath for my knife, but the second I saw it I liked the idea. Nice smooth edges, and a comfortable ride. I understand it's not kydex, so what is it? Looks, and feels like tough stuff. Plexaglass? I could see a nice IWB made from the same stuff.

Good idea about the flagon. Would you make mind clear like the sheath so no one would know I'm packin' booz . Ok! you would see the wine inside, so fill it with gin, or vodka, no one would ever know. Install a Tek-Loc on mind.
 

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Ok! yes I was a bit reluctant going into todays metal roof trials.
I had a piece of steel shed material leftover from a building job I did a couple of years ago. Tough stuff, and when cutting it on the job I used a special cutting wheel on my skill saw. Not a job for tin snips IMO.
Now I'm not the strongest guy, but probably thought I could drive the tip of the Badger in a inch or inch in a half. Sucker went in almost to the logo, and no doubt with a little more effort on my part, I could of put it all the way to the handle. Decided to use the axe handle again, and cut a line in the metal another 12" with little effort. Tried to use most of the blade in doing that. My thinking it's going to have some nicks in the edge, especially up close by the tip. Yep! I was right, or thought so anyway. A really bad one up by the tip. Blade still felt fairly sharp, so decided to see what it would do on the cardboard again. No problem there.
Dam! too bad about the nicks, and I'm off to my room to resharpen, and clean up the blade. Put my head loop to take a closer look at the blade, and discovered what I though were nicks, was the transfer of tin from the shed materal. Well you Hogs aren't surprised I guess, but this ol' Kentucky boy sure was. I'm a little at lost for reasonable ideas, before the execution by firing squad next week. Got any suggestions?
 

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