Whittler - my companion

[timberweasel]

Fantastic choice, zharik! :thumbup: I have one too and it is one of my favourite EDC slippies. I'm also an amateur beer enthusiast, so the beer barrel scales have an added appeal beyond the rustic aesthetic.

I used to have a Beer Barrel canoe as well but I sent it to a friend who did not have a traditional pattern knife.

-Brett

 

[D.B Cooper]

Fantastic choice, zharik! :thumbup: I have one too and it is one of my favourite EDC slippies. I'm also an amateur beer enthusiast, so the beer barrel scales have an added appeal beyond the rustic aesthetic.

I used to have a Beer Barrel canoe as well but I sent it to a friend who did not have a traditional pattern knife.

-Brett

Haha! Amateur beer enthusiast! I'm one of those too! Looking to go pro.
And to keep it on topic, here's my GEC 38 in burnt stag. One of my favorite EDC knives.

I love the split spring design. Very classy and well executed.

 

[markv]

Haha! Amateur beer enthusiast! I'm one of those too! Looking to go pro.
And to keep it on topic, here's my GEC 38 in burnt stag. One of my favorite EDC knives.

I love the split spring design. Very classy and well executed.

pretty sexy whittler , Stag, Clip Blade, Pinched Bolsters.
ohh
buzz
zharik,
thanks for posting image of Hults axe

 

[cheesemaster]

I've got the beer barrel whittler to and it has really become one of my favorites. I love wood handles to begin with, but the rougher texture feels great in the hand. Works great az a worry stone as I walk.

 

[zharik]

Thank all of you for the kind words and beautiful pictures!

Now I am working on wooden pedestal for my new sharpening stone. So I'll have some more interesting pictures.

Whittler is going well, performing small EDC tasks.

 

[pertinux]

Welcome, Zharik!

Our hobby makes us interesting people.

... To each other, anyway!

(I'm sure I'm not the only one who has accidentally overshared my knifely information and enthusiasm with the disinterested. Their glazed-over eyes and arms doing the "bo-ring, bo-ring" wave over their heads may have been a clue.)



But, I understand what you mean, and appreciate your perspective and these pictures.

Another reason for opening this thread is my wedding anniversary and the wonderful gift from my wife - Boker Beer Barrel Wood Whittler knife. I was very pleased with this gift and I want to have this knife with me constantly.

Understandably so! It's not only a great thought, but a great knife. Here's mine:

Out for a graze:

I want to have a thread to observe changes in my knife and my experience.

I am enjoying your pictures and story-telling, and look forward to your further observations.

As far as I can judge it have only one shortcoming - it is too hard for me to open little blades.

They can be a challenge, but please keep us updated on this front as well. I have discovered that use can often (but not always) render certain blades more approachable, a combination of my own familiarity and improving technique, and the blades' becoming smoother through repetition.

Now I am working on wooden pedestal for my new sharpening stone. So I'll have some more interesting pictures.

Wonderful!

Thanks again.

~ P.

 

[zharik]

Hello!

Maybe you heard we have the hottest registered summer here in Europe. So it was too hot for me for any woodworking projects at the shop.

Only work in the garden. I've made palings to hold our bluberry bushes and fruit trees.

Then we decided to fight fire with fire and to heat our vaporarium (don't know the better english term for sauna, but with a humid air).

So I've prepared flinders with my Wittler and hatchet.

These tools are part of my own outdoor trio. I comlete it with fixed blade, puukko usually.

Hultafors hatchet is my favorite one. It is heavy enough to chop wood, but still light enough for long time carrying and precise wood cutting.

Several strikes, several cuts and we have beautiful one match fire at our fire-box.

 

[Will Power]

Fine crop of berries there and a decent hatchet. I've never understood this craze for batoning wood with thick 'survival' knives when a hatchet or axe is the tool for it, and there are plenty of OK small hatchets you can carry in a pack.

Sounds like sauna to me, we in Finland invented it of course and it's very humid when you have a proper wood fired one. I know similar bathing arrangements are popular in Russia and Belarus too

As for hottest summer, no such luck here in Scandiland, it's been very dull, waterlogged fields - incessant rain and hardly a decent day at all :grumpy: The weather is odd all over the continent though.

Glad to see the Böker in action, it's a fine 3 blade knife with much character.

Regards, Will

 

[r8shell]

Thanks for starting this thread, zharik. I look forward to seeing how your whittler ages. I got one of those at the beginning of the year, but haven't carried it much. The wood covers have an unfinished feel to them, and I have wondered if they will absorb much dirt. Perhaps they will get better looking with age and use.

 

[D.B Cooper]

Zharik,
It looks like youre having a fine time over there with that whittler and hatchet! Great pics! Enjoy the sauna, could we see some pictures of the outside? My wife would love an outdoor sauna, and im always looking for some building inspiration.

 

[gruntmedik]

Congratulations on a fine knife, use it in good health.

I am also a fan of the whittler pattern, beer, and Boker, so it was only natural that I add one to my accumulation of knives.

 

[zharik]

Fine crop of berries there and a decent hatchet. I've never understood this craze for batoning wood with thick 'survival' knives when a hatchet or axe is the tool for it, and there are plenty of OK small hatchets you can carry in a pack.

Sounds like sauna to me, we in Finland invented it of course and it's very humid when you have a proper wood fired one. I know similar bathing arrangements are popular in Russia and Belarus too

As for hottest summer, no such luck here in Scandiland, it's been very dull, waterlogged fields - incessant rain and hardly a decent day at all :grumpy: The weather is odd all over the continent though.

Glad to see the Böker in action, it's a fine 3 blade knife with much character.

Regards, Will

Thank you for the invention:thumbup: It helps very well both in the hot and in the cold weather.

Thanks for starting this thread, zharik. I look forward to seeing how your whittler ages. I got one of those at the beginning of the year, but haven't carried it much. The wood covers have an unfinished feel to them, and I have wondered if they will absorb much dirt. Perhaps they will get better looking with age and use.

Thanks for reading. I oil the whole knife with Ballistol weekly or after heavy work. So after several times scales have absorbed enough oil and became smooth. It's a good protection from dirt and dust too.

Zharik,
It looks like youre having a fine time over there with that whittler and hatchet! Great pics! Enjoy the sauna, could we see some pictures of the outside? My wife would love an outdoor sauna, and im always looking for some building inspiration.

Thank you! Sure, I'll take some pictures occasionaly.

Congratulations on a fine knife, use it in good health.

I am also a fan of the whittler pattern, beer, and Boker, so it was only natural that I add one to my accumulation of knives.

Great knife and beautiful patina! What I really like in traditional knives - you won't be able to find two identical. Every knife tells his own story.

 

[zharik]

Hello again!

Today we've been making some pizza, so Whittler had some work. It's a real slicer!

Vegetable juice is very aggressive so patina started to form immediately.

Job is done!

Time for cleaning and oiling.

P.S: D.B Cooper, you asked me to take a photo of the sauna. This is it, just one from the outside, because we are working on pumping the honey and it is clutterd very much inside.

 

[black mamba]

I didn't know Ballistol was good on pizza, I'll have to try that!

 

[Pjake]

Nice thread! Looking forward to updates.

Peter