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Testing...testing...Behemoth Chopper
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Thank you!
We have avoided the tootsie pop quandary.
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Hey Lorien, what's the name of that steel polish which you use again?
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it does
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I wore the knife for 6 hours yesterday during my trail work. The only times I really noticed it was when I tried to sit down, lol. It carries not too big for such a damn big knife
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The fir I was chopping was flat on the ground, and my back appreciated the extra 2" of reach the BC has over the other CPK choppers I use.
It's highly likely that the chopping you saw there may not have impressed you very much. Part of the reason why I was so sloppy was because of the thick, winter gloves I was wearing, which have a Goretex layer sandwiched between insulating layers. There is a lot of slip within the glove due to the ptfe membrane. I found the knife quite difficult to aim, and my hands and forearms worked twice as hard as usual in keeping the edge from deflecting as it stuck the frozen timber. I usually handle this kind of work bare handed or with thin gloves, but I wanted to test both the lanyard placement's mechanical and retention characteristics, in addition to the handle shaping and took the opportunity to due so when I had my worst case scenario gloves on hand, (sorry for the pun).
The main aspects I wanted to observe yesterday, in this uncharacteristically cold weather, (-2 +/-)were the steel's various attributes. That fir was still green, and a lot older than its diameter would suggest. From time to time, I come across trees which have worked very hard to get up to the sun, for quite a long time. They are spindly, but very, very dense. This one had also been frozen for days.
To this point, I have neither sharpened nor honed the knife. I've cleaned it with Autosol, (which in my experience will very, very slightly blunt the edge, as part of what it does is remove material) and that's it. I will restore the edge before my next use of this knife, as its efficiency for some things is degrading slightly, but it's still quite sharp. Maybe I'll check it on paper to see what's up...
It's highly likely that the chopping you saw there may not have impressed you very much. Part of the reason why I was so sloppy was because of the thick, winter gloves I was wearing, which have a Goretex layer sandwiched between insulating layers. There is a lot of slip within the glove due to the ptfe membrane. I found the knife quite difficult to aim, and my hands and forearms worked twice as hard as usual in keeping the edge from deflecting as it stuck the frozen timber. I usually handle this kind of work bare handed or with thin gloves, but I wanted to test both the lanyard placement's mechanical and retention characteristics, in addition to the handle shaping and took the opportunity to due so when I had my worst case scenario gloves on hand, (sorry for the pun).
The main aspects I wanted to observe yesterday, in this uncharacteristically cold weather, (-2 +/-)were the steel's various attributes. That fir was still green, and a lot older than its diameter would suggest. From time to time, I come across trees which have worked very hard to get up to the sun, for quite a long time. They are spindly, but very, very dense. This one had also been frozen for days.
To this point, I have neither sharpened nor honed the knife. I've cleaned it with Autosol, (which in my experience will very, very slightly blunt the edge, as part of what it does is remove material) and that's it. I will restore the edge before my next use of this knife, as its efficiency for some things is degrading slightly, but it's still quite sharp. Maybe I'll check it on paper to see what's up...