So we had some weather today - gorgeous snow coming down while i dug out a snow cave.
After that, chopped down a large weed (AKA juniper tree) with some other knives
The Fugitive is NOT a good chopper - it's too balanced -- but will do the job with a little extra effort.
OTOH, it did a good job of stripping small branches off the trunk, scraping dry bark off the lower part of the tree, making shavings & feathers, and striking a spark off a ferro rod. (the Spanish notch is the perfect size for the ferro rod I had with me - spine also made great sparks)
love the reflection of the bark in the blade as i was making shavings (slab of elm bark)
and this was just a cool pic.
overall impression - nice knife, love the handles, could learn to like the steel a lot -- did not need to do any sharpening, it sheared newsprint well before I started today and never hesitated at any reasonable task I gave it. Since I used it last fall to convert oak firewood to matchstick and thumb sized kindling, I did not repeat that today -- but it did that with aplomb as well. Tip works well for drilling, too.
knife sheath carried great in my coveralls pocket while I was digging out the cave. heh.
Knife went home with Psyop at the end of the afternoon -- will be interesting to see what all he does with it. (rumor has it he is planning on trying to baton it through a piece of INFI...)