Woodsman's trio ( vintage style )

Hickory n steel

Hickory n steel

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I figured a thread like this could be fun.

If you were a subscriber of the woodsman's trio philosophy, what vintage axe/hatchet , belt knife, and folder of yours would you choose to take with you ?
EDIT : let's say the fixed blades don't actually have to be old as long as they look like they could be.

This is what I'd take.
 
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dont have much in the way of belt knives so my rasp-chete will have to suffice
 
Moonw said:
What's the story behind the raspchette? Do you know for certian what steel it is? Thanks.
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i have no idea, got it out of a bucket for 5 bucks, spent about 3 hours hammering it with a fairly large hammer and i barely got anywhere, then again i did not know what the mysterious process of "annealing" was... not sure i would have done it anyway.
 
phantomknives said:
i have no idea, got it out of a bucket for 5 bucks, spent about 3 hours hammering it with a fairly large hammer and i barely got anywhere, then again i did not know what the mysterious process of "annealing" was... not sure i would have done it anyway.
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An easy way to anneal from what I've been told is just to get glowing and stick it in pearlite ( that white stuff used for plants ) till it's cold to the touch.
 
Not sure on the Hatchet yet, I am working on a Vaughan camp axe . Folder would be a SAK walker (bantam with a saw) my go to fixed blade is an old hickory slicing knife modified to a sheepsfoot blade
 
plumberroy said:
Not sure on the Hatchet yet, I am working on a Vaughan camp axe . Folder would be a SAK walker (bantam with a saw) my go to fixed blade is an old hickory slicing knife modified to a sheepsfoot blade
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The idea here is vintage tools, but those would be good choices.
 
Sweet fixed blade HnS. Is that a modded old high carbon job? I've got a modded Condor Hudson Bay that's sorta kinda reminiscent.
 
Fmont said:
Sweet fixed blade HnS. Is that a modded old high carbon job? I've got a modded Condor Hudson Bay that's sorta kinda reminiscent.
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Pretty much.
It started life as a 16"+/- 60's USGI Cooks knife that my dad was sent home with some time back in the 80's when wood handles were being phased out for sanitary reasons.
For as long as I could remember it sat in the kitchen rusty with about 2" missing from the tip, my dad eventually gave it to me as a teenager to repurpose and this is what I turned it into.
 
Sweet job, really like the swedge!

I've used a jute/twine wrap myself. I ran it through my fingers in Titebond 3 and wrapped it around a wood handled utility knife, lasted a long as I had the knife (lost it) and provided good purchase.
 
Fmont said:
Sweet job, really like the swedge!

I've used a jute/twine wrap myself. I ran it through my fingers in Titebond 3 and wrapped it around a wood handled utility knife, lasted a long as I had the knife (lost it) and provided good purchase.
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What I did here was cotton twine, then a liberal coating of melted beeswax.
I thought about just twine, but it's really rough stuff.
 
Yankee Josh said:
My choices.
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The multi tool isn't vintage and is a tad large to be considered a pocket knife. But if i HAD to choose I'd grab these items. Of course i have a backpack ready to go that I'd grab too and that's got a whole bunch of goodies in it.
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Good choices on the axe and belt knife ( gorgeous western btw ).
 
junkenstien said:
Old ka bar I got from jblyttle last winter,and I have had that ka bar whittler for better than twenty years.True American hatchet
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3 great choices all around.
JB is a great guy to deal with.
curiously he gets all those axes and related things, but I've only bought knives from him and have one In the works.
I thought about that beautiful old AC.CO 6" butcher I bought from him for my hypothetical trio, but I never got a sheath I really liked made for it and it sounds it's way into the kitchen where it'll now stay.
 
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If I had to go vintage I guess it would be something like this:



If I didn’t have to choose vintage it would look something more like this:



The Bog Oak on both of the knives carbon date to over 4000 years old. Does that count?
 
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