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He's also an authority on sharpening as well.Or get better at using it so you don't bang up the edge that much, or get better sharpening equipment so the resharpening goes way faster.
He's also an authority on sharpening as well.Or get better at using it so you don't bang up the edge that much, or get better sharpening equipment so the resharpening goes way faster.
Hoping this is what he actually meant (commas added)
Training a new guy from the looks of it. Poor kid cut notches all day. I felt bad as I watched him from my warm office. He just didn't seem to be getting it. Bet he wishes he used a pocket knifeNot too sure what's up with all the notches but whatever takes up a person's time I guess...
Commas are super. Important as I'm sure, we've all seen.
Hoping this is what he actually meant (commas added)
Well , after all this years on blade forum I found that this is only LOGICAl and true theory..........people like knives...so they buy them !!!Another radical theory: people like knives...so they buy them.
“I, am also, a professional butcher, and use, my own knives, that I, personally sharpen, for 50 hours, per week, at work.”
I prefer everything to read like Christopher Walken is also a member. It makes me feel important.
I would like to know where he works. I have been a meat cutter for 45 years (next month) and wages in the industry are..."modest"... to say the least. I wish I could afford a throw away knife like a CRK or a Shiro or an Olamic....
i posted a link toKephart would have laughed at all the survival knives that are popular today.
I was referring to youtube-style batoning.
Kephart would have laughed at all the survival knives that are popular today.
I was referring to youtube-style batoning.
True, but we really don't have anything better to do today.14 pages of troll food!
You could also read that like Captain Kirk, overly dramatic and staccato!“I, am also, a professional butcher, and use, my own knives, that I, personally sharpen, for 50 hours, per week, at work.”
I prefer everything to read like Christopher Walken is also a member. It makes me feel important.
I've battoned thousands of logs and boards into kindling. Abused some of my knives at 60RC (,so in no way a spring temper) for a a decade or more.
It is a dandy method of making small kindling without packing a hatchet or axe.
I grew up cutting trees to heat my home. Grew up felling lumber, swinging a maul to split wood, and making kindling.
I have no hesitation using many of my knives to chop, and baton...both thick and thin. Big and small.
I've used wedges to split logs before.
I've helped build multi story cabins with lumber I helped cut and shape. I have the knives inherited from my grandfather that he used to butcher farmstead animals. I still use them. I buy similar versions today.
The steel is not perfected. Thinner geometry cuts, but it needs to be sharpened more, and is not as stable, impact resistant, etc.
Super steels. New designs. Classic designs. Thick. Thinner, thicker. Hollow ground, flat ground, convex.
I've got expensive knives, and cheap. I've used $1000 Busse choppers to do all of the things you detest, while grinning. I've used cheap machetes, and axes, and hatchets. I've got a nice Japanese arborist saw.
16 inch bladed old Hickory knives too. All the way to folding opinels.
I like cutting tools. Expensive, bargain. I like them all.
I guess I am glad you've solved all knife related issues for me.
I've used too many steels to list. Tool steels, plain haight and medium carbon. 52100, L6, AEBL, INFI, San Mai laminated, CPM3v, and many many more...
But I'll keep liking what I like. Batonning when I feel like it (with knives strong enough to do it....I would not do so with my hidden tang hollow ground Buck, or my custom stag handled hunter with a thin hollow grind).
Nice knives but they have not single ONE scratch on them ? How you know that they can slice , dice , baton................ Guys , life is short ...find time to spend more time in nature...............View attachment 1086760 There are so many modern designs in great steels with top notch heat treats that aren’t to thick or obtuse. They can slice, dice, baton, pry (lightly) and precision chop without missing a beat. I like my tools to be as versatile as possible, not a one trick pony. Recently I’ve been loving my Carothers Fk2.
you might be better off using your time to make a beaver trap, and then convincing the beaver to chew the tree down for you