I just bought this Rinaldi Kindling Kleaver from Benjamin at Baryonyxknife.com
The design appealed to me because it looked like it could perform several functions and be a
one stop buchcrafting tool. What it is not, is a Mora with a 3" blade.
It can:
1. Act as a shovel
2. Large knife, because it is.
3. Baton well conventionally due to its tall vertical dimension.
4. Horizontal baton (ala Ray Mears) due to the two points on its edge.
5. Pick dirt with the tip at the far end of the spine.
6. Feather-stick.
7. Pick up wood with the hook at the tip of the blade.
8. Clear a trail with the hook at the tip of the blade.
Low and behold, I guessed right, it does all those things very well.
However, what Im really curious about is the steel. Benjamins advertisement says that its Silicon Manganese Spring Steel at 58RC. I started chopping hard dry wood with it before checking for sharpness. I stopped chopping about 15 minutes in to check and found that it shaved hair off my arm. Off and on through the day I chopped for a total of about two hours, and at the end it shaved hair off my arm. Ive never had that happen before. Usually, chopping wood takes the hair popping edge off a blade. Im interested to know if anybody out there has a Rinaldi blade, particularly a billhook, as thats what Ill probably get next. Does the steel on yours perform in the same way? I copied the picture off his website and it came with the name.
The design appealed to me because it looked like it could perform several functions and be a
one stop buchcrafting tool. What it is not, is a Mora with a 3" blade.
It can:
1. Act as a shovel
2. Large knife, because it is.
3. Baton well conventionally due to its tall vertical dimension.
4. Horizontal baton (ala Ray Mears) due to the two points on its edge.
5. Pick dirt with the tip at the far end of the spine.
6. Feather-stick.
7. Pick up wood with the hook at the tip of the blade.
8. Clear a trail with the hook at the tip of the blade.
Low and behold, I guessed right, it does all those things very well.
However, what Im really curious about is the steel. Benjamins advertisement says that its Silicon Manganese Spring Steel at 58RC. I started chopping hard dry wood with it before checking for sharpness. I stopped chopping about 15 minutes in to check and found that it shaved hair off my arm. Off and on through the day I chopped for a total of about two hours, and at the end it shaved hair off my arm. Ive never had that happen before. Usually, chopping wood takes the hair popping edge off a blade. Im interested to know if anybody out there has a Rinaldi blade, particularly a billhook, as thats what Ill probably get next. Does the steel on yours perform in the same way? I copied the picture off his website and it came with the name.