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My second of 6 knives by Bryan Breeden. His peacemaker model is 6" in length and 1/8th thick. O1 steel with a good edge. Originally this one was V-grind and has since been converted to convex. I think Bryan now works convex grinds mostly. Handle is osage orange. This knife is one of the originals I kept. In fact, its the one that really gets the use in my household. It sits in a place of honour in the kitchen block and gets called to duty on those jobs that we don't want the Henckel's to have to deal with. Seriously, this is the knife that my wife gives abuse by leaving it in the sink wet for the night after its eaten through chicken bones after carving the meat off for our soup. The peacemaker. Works great and those osage handles won't budge. Even when it sits in the sink and get a cursory drying then is stuck back in the block for gosh knows how long.
Anyhow, I took the peacemaker out on a little walk action today and to do a bit of bowdrill fun. So I routed my Ojibway route to a little cottonwood that fell down about a year ago and has been sitting there weathering to bow drill perfection.
Actually, the cutting action was helped out with my new trailblazer folding saw.
Good stuff!
I harvested about 6 pieces from this fallen tree, some for today, some for future use.
I decided to move to a better spot for bow drill. Searching through my pack, I actually could not come up with a suitable piece of paracord to make my bow!!! Thank gosh for those laces on my boots. There is a reason I put up with this spontaneously de-tying action material for laces!
Having a little batoning fun. No problem on this wrist sized cottonwood....
Shaping the spindle. Okay, I gotta admit. If I had my Brian Andrews scandi bushcrafter with me, I would have probably would have grabbed that. I probably would have grabbed any 4" knife rather than this mid-sized blade for making the spindle. However, this one is doable, more doable on this exercise than lets say the ESEE-6. I know, you boys are getting your testosterone vents on the choppers here lately, but they ain't no spindle making tools....Nope...The peacemaker is, however, a good compromise of doability for this kind of detail work. There is some sense to 6" with 1/8" stock thickness and a constrained blade width.....yep the combo seems to work as Bryan envisioned it!
Here we go....
The peacemaker is good at notching. I started if off the notch by batoning and finished it by carving with the tip of the blade. With its current convex edge, no complaints here....(the one thing I hate scandi's for is carving the notch - they suck at that but are good at all other wood work!!)
And we have a coal...
Puff the magic dragon, lives by the sea....
Man, I'm just an old, fat bastard....Thankfully, the peacemaker is light on my belt!
Lets get one more look at the old gal. Over two years in a knife addicts collection and still one of the keepers!!!
Anyhow, I took the peacemaker out on a little walk action today and to do a bit of bowdrill fun. So I routed my Ojibway route to a little cottonwood that fell down about a year ago and has been sitting there weathering to bow drill perfection.
Actually, the cutting action was helped out with my new trailblazer folding saw.
Good stuff!
I harvested about 6 pieces from this fallen tree, some for today, some for future use.
I decided to move to a better spot for bow drill. Searching through my pack, I actually could not come up with a suitable piece of paracord to make my bow!!! Thank gosh for those laces on my boots. There is a reason I put up with this spontaneously de-tying action material for laces!
Having a little batoning fun. No problem on this wrist sized cottonwood....
Shaping the spindle. Okay, I gotta admit. If I had my Brian Andrews scandi bushcrafter with me, I would have probably would have grabbed that. I probably would have grabbed any 4" knife rather than this mid-sized blade for making the spindle. However, this one is doable, more doable on this exercise than lets say the ESEE-6. I know, you boys are getting your testosterone vents on the choppers here lately, but they ain't no spindle making tools....Nope...The peacemaker is, however, a good compromise of doability for this kind of detail work. There is some sense to 6" with 1/8" stock thickness and a constrained blade width.....yep the combo seems to work as Bryan envisioned it!
Here we go....
The peacemaker is good at notching. I started if off the notch by batoning and finished it by carving with the tip of the blade. With its current convex edge, no complaints here....(the one thing I hate scandi's for is carving the notch - they suck at that but are good at all other wood work!!)
And we have a coal...
Puff the magic dragon, lives by the sea....
Man, I'm just an old, fat bastard....Thankfully, the peacemaker is light on my belt!
Lets get one more look at the old gal. Over two years in a knife addicts collection and still one of the keepers!!!
