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Show me your custom camp knife/chopper.

Here's mine, 1/4 1095 and 11 inches long. It's a beefy thing
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Hello!

Here are a few more views of my latest chopper by Milan:

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(that 37 years old Leach is still one massive beast... ;) )

Best regards,
Alex
 
great knife. how would a feller get one of these?
My latest acquisition is a Barung Semenanjung (i.e. Peninsular Malaysia Barung).
It's not a Barung Sabah (i.e. Barung Bidak Bajau or Sabah Barung or East Malaysia Barung).
And it's not a Barung Moro (i.e. Moro Barung or Southern Philippines Barong).

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16 3/8" OAL, 11 1/8" blade, 5 1/4" handle, 2 3/8" width at the widest, ~ 3/16" thick at the thickest and ~ 1/12" thick at the tang with inverse distal tapered profile.
It was applied to a triple quench heat treatment process.
And since it's a field grade Barung so it was purposely made to have a hammer and coarse grind finish.

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It's O'Katz Handmade from a piece of antiquated Solihull Land Rover 5160 (pre India and Brazil production) leaf spring steel.

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Handle is made from a local Sepetir wood (i.e. Pseudosindora palustris).
The Peninsular Barung passed the brass rod test and a Cengal wood chopping test.
The first one also passed the nail cutting test and the tip drop on the concrete floor test.
I didn't do that to this second one because I consider it as rather abusive!

mohd
 
here are a few of mine
DeLeon, Graham, Tomberlin, Mitchell



Crump forge


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Here's one I just finished for a freind.

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AKA, Jimmy's wood chipper

Blade; 9 1/2 inch flat ground to a convexed edge 5160 steel with mustard finish.

Handle; Red Oak with brass pins and lanyard liner and wrapped with epoxy
filled jute.

OAL; 15 1/2 inches.

Sheath; 8/9 oz apocalyptic distressed leather.

Thanks for looking.
 
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Here is one I made recently 1075 steel with 9.5" blade and hamon spalted maple for the scales.

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Another from Hammer Down Forge ( Kieran Klein ) that I just took delivery of. Blade is 8 X 2.125 wide.

 
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