What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[paulhilborn]

 

[JOELSM]

Back to basics!

 

[pat9198]

 

[mitch13]

 

[Old Engineer]

Thank you kindly.
Yes Black locust is like osage, very rot resistant and make good fence post. The first dozen or so osage bows I made some 30 years ago came from osage fence post a farmer had pulled from the ground. He told me his grandfather and dad had built the fence at least 65 years before he pulled them from the ground.
You're also right about locust being a b----h to split, especially when splitting it into 6' lengths for bow staves. The most work IMO though is removing the thick sapwood on a seasoned stave like the one pictured below with the drawknife. I always need Ibuprofen for the shoulder and arm pain after that task.

Knife content; Two Cherries brand, curved blade drawknife.
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I really like a Good Draw Knife .

Harry

 

[majorpain1]