warrigal
11-11-2007, 10:32
The super les Hiddens, stealth, game getter, Australian tanto maxi knife. Also know as #33
I brought this knife from Stewart Townsend In late July. Just in time for that Army Cadet survival course I ran. There are pics, but there are big problems publishing pics of someone else’s kids, and of course there are none of me using the knife. One day I will work out how to use some of the face distorting drawing programs.
So after the conversations we had after the “snuff movie “ thread I decided I wanted to do something a little more realist. I decided to make a tarp choker. It is reasonably easy constant use of a knife. Yes it is a bit out the bounds for what a drop point hunter is designed for. But#33 is a little big for that mangy grey cat that hangs around which is the only thing I’m likely to skin in the foreseeable future. (I want the plans for that Homer snare you know the one that flings the rabbit/cat into the stratosphere)
So I gave it a bit of a touch up on my double sided diamond paddle ( as you might do in camp) and off we went. The wood is a bit of gum from the big tree next door that has been sitting in the wood pile for probably 18mths ( so it is seasoned)
I was surprised how hard the wood was. You can see in the pic the fine little shavings. So the touch of the knife was quiet delicate.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y233/warrigal/tarpchoker005.jpg
This whole exercise would have been much quiet quicker and easier if I had used a vice and a saw but that is not the point.
Once the tapered ends were down where I wanted them I cut the job of the stock by cutting straight into the job then chiseling into the vertical cut till the cut was all round and deep enough that a sharp whack with the spine of the knife broke it at the cut. Cleaned that up then split through the piece lengthwise by batoning the knife through. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y233/warrigal/tarpchoker009.jpg
The wedge was another piece of the wood pile but thankfully softer. The pivot came from the same supply shop. Some cotton kitchen string to bind it up. And some hootchie cord to what would normally be going to a guy line. I couldn’t be stuffed pulling a tarp out so I just grabbed a hat.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y233/warrigal/tarpchoker018.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y233/warrigal/tarpchoker019.jpg
So there you go a little some thing a bit different than all those normal test you see. So how did #33 hold up? Really well I didn’t re-sharpen during the test and with all that hard wood it has kept a working edge it is still sharp enough for general use but I would give it a touch up before I was heading out for the day again.
Again Stewart, job well done. You bastead Now I’ll have to get more.
Carl
I brought this knife from Stewart Townsend In late July. Just in time for that Army Cadet survival course I ran. There are pics, but there are big problems publishing pics of someone else’s kids, and of course there are none of me using the knife. One day I will work out how to use some of the face distorting drawing programs.
So after the conversations we had after the “snuff movie “ thread I decided I wanted to do something a little more realist. I decided to make a tarp choker. It is reasonably easy constant use of a knife. Yes it is a bit out the bounds for what a drop point hunter is designed for. But#33 is a little big for that mangy grey cat that hangs around which is the only thing I’m likely to skin in the foreseeable future. (I want the plans for that Homer snare you know the one that flings the rabbit/cat into the stratosphere)
So I gave it a bit of a touch up on my double sided diamond paddle ( as you might do in camp) and off we went. The wood is a bit of gum from the big tree next door that has been sitting in the wood pile for probably 18mths ( so it is seasoned)
I was surprised how hard the wood was. You can see in the pic the fine little shavings. So the touch of the knife was quiet delicate.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y233/warrigal/tarpchoker005.jpg
This whole exercise would have been much quiet quicker and easier if I had used a vice and a saw but that is not the point.
Once the tapered ends were down where I wanted them I cut the job of the stock by cutting straight into the job then chiseling into the vertical cut till the cut was all round and deep enough that a sharp whack with the spine of the knife broke it at the cut. Cleaned that up then split through the piece lengthwise by batoning the knife through. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y233/warrigal/tarpchoker009.jpg
The wedge was another piece of the wood pile but thankfully softer. The pivot came from the same supply shop. Some cotton kitchen string to bind it up. And some hootchie cord to what would normally be going to a guy line. I couldn’t be stuffed pulling a tarp out so I just grabbed a hat.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y233/warrigal/tarpchoker018.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y233/warrigal/tarpchoker019.jpg
So there you go a little some thing a bit different than all those normal test you see. So how did #33 hold up? Really well I didn’t re-sharpen during the test and with all that hard wood it has kept a working edge it is still sharp enough for general use but I would give it a touch up before I was heading out for the day again.
Again Stewart, job well done. You bastead Now I’ll have to get more.
Carl