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Got this in the mail today, HI Annapurna Bowie-12.5 inch blade, 5160 steel, real cool black with white grained horn handles
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Got this in the mail today, HI Annapurna Bowie-12.5 inch blade, 5160 steel, real cool black with white grained horn handles
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Sure thing! I'll see what I've got kicking around...looks like these are the best I've got at the moment.
Mistwalker has the 12". Mine are the 16" and 18" ones. Fiddleback also makes a 14" but neither of us has one...yet.
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Perhaps! They're more of a companion to a large knife rather than a replacement. Consider it more of a replacement for a hatchet. For general usage I prefer something either with a more open hook or double-edged for making cuts with the hook trailing.
I hear ya. They do look nice. I think I might have to get one sometime in the future. Maybe a 12" or 14" and them order a kydex sheath from one of the makers on here. Hmmmm.Sure thing! I'll see what I've got kicking around...looks like these are the best I've got at the moment.
Mistwalker has the 12". Mine are the 16" and 18" ones. Fiddleback also makes a 14" but neither of us has one...yet.
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Perhaps! They're more of a companion to a large knife rather than a replacement. Consider it more of a replacement for a hatchet. For general usage I prefer something either with a more open hook or double-edged for making cuts with the hook trailing.
Oh, I could manage to deal with it ok as long as it was a companion and I had another smaller knife with a good point. Hell I think... in the right terrain... I could maybe even deal with something with a point...even a steeply angled one (think reverse tanto with more angle), good forward weight, and a trailing hook. I just gotta have some kind of point
That's why I prefer my RMJ hawk over any of my hatchets....which I tend to see more as a hammer with a cutting edge on the back...
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Here are most of mine. My 28" Imacasa Guarizama and 18" Imacasa Pata de Cuche are not pictured. Pics taken with ancient cell phone.
Tramontinas: 24" Bush, Two-hand Cane, 20" Bush, Bolo, 14" Bush, Cane, 12" Bush.
Condor Golok and friend.
Tramontinas: 24" Bush, Two-hand Cane, 20" Bush, Bolo, 14" Bush, Cane, 12" Bush.
Condor Golok and friend.
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Oh, I could manage to deal with it ok as long as it was a companion and I had another smaller knife with a good point. Hell I think... in the right terrain... I could maybe even deal with something with a point...even a steeply angled one (think reverse tanto with more angle), good forward weight, and a trailing hook. I just gotta have some kind of point
A couple of cool old ads for billhooks from days gone by.
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Ok over the last week or so I have been working on this 20 something year old Collins machete. 1st thing I did was strip it and clean it, rehandled with a pc of oak, then removed the chipped edge and convexed it. Handle is not as nice as I wanted but it was for practice. At some point I plan on putting micarta on it. Anyway it was fun.
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Handle looks pretty damn good to me, Caine. Nice machete.
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Can't wait to see what you whip up!