Wheeler's Steel- The Adventure Continues!

some great country buddy and of course a great knife

Enjoy it buddy

Life is to short to put everything ya like on a shelf
 
Haha, thanks for the explanation Lorien... that makes perfect sense.

Did your big friend handle the knife? I'm curious how it fared in two such differently sized hands (I'd hazard a guess my glove size is right in between the two of you guys').
 
sorry Nick, but I just could not give up the knife for Russ to use. I did let him hold it for, like, 17 seconds, and he was impressed. But I don't think this knife will see use by other than me ever. I've had er out on 3 separate occasions and it just gets better the more familiar I become with it. After a half dozen sessions, I'll write up a bit of a review type thing. Takes a while to get to know a knife.

Now with that being said;
this is, hands down, the best knife I have ever owned. No offence to the other knives, but this knife is EXCALIBUR. I have some tight steel, but this guy is SUBLIME!!!
 
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... But I don't think this knife will see use by other than me ever...
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Well... I guess I didn't realize how lucky I was but Lorien let me cut a few sprigs with it yesterday.
It is a helluva knife. It's huge but light and nimble, very easy to control and I can tell that fatigue wouldn't be an issue. It's about as perfect as one could imagine in the fit and finish and it just flows out of the hand... One of the best parts is the "PING" is makes as it cuts. Such a nice knife in so many ways.
 
I've taken some footage, but I'm having a hard time getting it posted. It will be soon, I promise!
 
my friend, Pelle, put together a little edit with some footage I took with Wheeler's Steel.
We both hope you enjoy it, it's kind of fun.

http://youtu.be/hU8eZPGbiP0
 
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Well after watching the video, I gotta say... You're a nut! :p LMAO :D Oh, and it seems you have the teacher from Charlie Brown doing some voice over work? ;)

Seriously though, it looks like I should have made you a two handed machete instead.

I was relieved to see that small log was bigger than it looked at first, because I was hacking through 4" alder in a few swings before it even had a handle on it. I thought maybe it got demagnetized going over the Canadian border or something. :eek: ;) :)
 
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alder's got NOTHING on Doug Fir- fir is HARD STUFF! One swing is all it takes to get through 1 1/2" dia alder. In the spectrum of wood out here on the coast, alder is the softest, with fir being the hardest.

Funny what you said about magnetism- I'm working on the sheath and it will have a couple of magnets in it to help hold the knife in. Should magnetize it back up to your standards, lol!

ps. maybe you should make another one of these with no guard, monosteel and synthetic handle...
 
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The woods would flee in terror with you having one of those in each hand Lorien.

Fun video. Thanks for making it.
 
Primo knife by any standard!

The video was interesting ( cool music, was that last piece Jethro Tull, Bungle in the Jungle?)

Your havin too much fun!

Steve
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Potomac Forge
 
thanks Steve, you are correct sir. Bungle in the Jungle 'tis.
A life without fun wouldn't be the life for me!
 
I've been working on a sheath for some time now. Last night I drew up the courage to glue it together. Wasn't going to post it til it was done, but now that I know the knife fits, I thought I might as well;

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I can finally see the light at the end of this particular tunnel. It sucks having such a sweet knife but no way to carry it, so finishing this sheath has been a priority which has gotten in the way of some other projects I've been wanting to do.

I didn't wanna just slap something together here, so this thing is pretty complicated. The idea was to get a nice thick welt at minimal weight, while having a very snug fit. You'll also see the magnets I scavenged from a dead hard drive which will magnitize the blade and allow it to shear even more effortlessly through whatever needs shearin'. Feels neat, having the magnets pull the blade into the sheath and also pulling against them. There won't be a built in retention strap or anything, so magnets seemed like a good way to go.

It's gonna be a bitch sewing through this 5 layer, 9/10oz welt, but I'm gonna have to do it. Got some finish work to do, and then a wax treatment and she's done. I've been toying with the idea of either embossing or carving a design into the sheath, but the jury's out on that one. Gotta trim it and sew it up and then we'll see where we're at.
 
I cannot wait until this sheath is finished! What a &!#@%

It's super nerve wracking for me when it comes time to drill and then stitch. So easy to screw up, and of course I always do it's only just a question of how bad. Plenty of mistakes here, but I'm not going too hard on myself- it's all part of the process.

Anyway, it's coming along fairly well. Next step is to finish out all the edges and I'm going to stitch up a border around the 'hood' part of the sheath.
Once I get those things done, I've been turning over some ideas on either carving or texturizing it. Or not.

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Lorien, advise from one who has been there and done that. Any carving or "texturing" should have been done PRIOR to assembly. Doing it now will be a giant exercise in futility IF the looks of the sheath is a factor at all. Stitching around the collar is also not necessary unless you have two little hands that just MUST have something to keep them busy. Finishing the edges nicely, would on the other hand, be a very worthwhile endeavor and will take quite some time IF done properly. Just FYI.

Paul
 
Paul, I would be an idiot to not take your advice:D. In fact, I am an idiot for not purchasing your dvds yet! Soon though.

I will concentrate on doing as clean and good a job as I can and leave the embellishing for another time, when it's part of the plan.

I'm awaiting some wax, but in the meantime, there is lots of elbow grease left on this project. I can't wait to actually be able to carry this knife 'out there'. Season't pretty much over for now, so not a lot of stuff to cut off the trails, but storm season's comin and that always means CHOPPIN!
 
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