Woodsman's trio ( vintage style )

Hickory n steel · Dec 11, 2018

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.

phantomknives · Dec 13, 2018

dont have much in the way of belt knives so my rasp-chete will have to suffice

Hickory n steel · Dec 13, 2018

phantomknives said:
dont have much in the way of belt knives so my rasp-chete will have to suffice

The axe and the Jack are definitely good choices.
That rasp machete is just plain barbaric and cool.

Moonw · Dec 13, 2018

What's the story behind the raspchette? Do you know for certian what steel it is? Thanks.

phantomknives · Dec 13, 2018

Moonw said:
What's the story behind the raspchette? Do you know for certian what steel it is? Thanks.

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.

Hickory n steel · Dec 13, 2018

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.

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.

phantomknives · Dec 13, 2018

Hickory n steel said:
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.

as far as i'v heard that's one of the best

plumberroy · Dec 13, 2018

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

Hickory n steel · Dec 13, 2018

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

The idea here is vintage tools, but those would be good choices.

Fmont · Dec 14, 2018

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.

Hickory n steel · Dec 14, 2018

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.

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.

Fmont · Dec 14, 2018

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.

Hickory n steel · Dec 14, 2018

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.

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 · Dec 15, 2018

My choices.

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.

junkenstien · Dec 16, 2018

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

Hickory n steel · Dec 17, 2018

Yankee Josh said:
My choices.

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.

Good choices on the axe and belt knife ( gorgeous western btw ).

Hickory n steel · Dec 17, 2018

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

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.

Nbrackett · Dec 17, 2018

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?

Hickory n steel · Dec 17, 2018

I definitely like that first trio.
That wards is a nice looking hatchet.

Arathol · Dec 17, 2018

Something old, something new
Something sharpened, something blue...
Large moose folder by Miller Bros and Marbles Woodcraft, both early 1920s or earlier with a
Two Hawks double bit