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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5220 on: July 30, 2019, 02:16:59 AM
Two more and I'll stop...




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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5221 on: July 30, 2019, 02:18:40 AM
Two great shots, but I really like that BSA knife.  :tu:
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5222 on: July 30, 2019, 02:29:11 AM
Me too!
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5223 on: July 30, 2019, 04:08:04 AM
Quote from: SAK Guy on July 30, 2019, 02:16:59 AM
Two more and I'll stop...

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That 5 blade is one of my holy grails. Yeah, for $20 I can get the current one from the BSA, but it's "imported". I personally wonder--how come so many of the early ones (based off the WWII Ulster Mountain Knife) have the Phillips missing from the tool itself. Weak construction? I know on almost all later iterations (Imperial, Camillus), the Phillips is one piece .

Day 29. Kinda cheated. Most of the day, I carried my early '80s Buck 703 Colt (first gen; which allegedly has the tendency to have overly hardened, brittle backsprings). Had it as a kid (truly, my first Buck; nearly a decade before the 110 came into my possession), not long after I got it, it disappeared. Finally found the thing in the top of a closet along with a couple others (my "backup" Schrade 34OT and an Imperial shell-handed knife) last year. I like the 703 because it's slightly fatter than any comparable Medium Stockman.



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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5224 on: July 30, 2019, 04:54:59 AM
Quote from: SAK Guy on July 30, 2019, 02:16:59 AM
Two more and I'll stop...

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Great shots Robert! Good to have ya back! :multi:

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Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5225 on: July 30, 2019, 04:56:02 AM
Once again such a nice variety of beautiful traditional knives.  I’ve seen so many knives that seem reminiscent of ones I saw as a child and is mainly what drew me to do this challenge.

My first knife was a camp knife which is considered traditional by many.  From there it was mostly SAKs with a few plier based multitools.  The only other traditional knives I’ve owned were acquired within the last 15 years.  I loved the way they looked and their simplicity, but never bonded with them because they didn’t have the same utility to me as my SAKs.  Even with the more modern folders that I like, they would supplement but never replace the SAK or occasional multitool.

This challenge required me to give the knives more of a chance than I had in the past.  It also gave me more of an appreciation for the traditionals, especially those with different style blades for different tasks like the Trapper and Stockman.  But I also always found myself wanting the utility of my SAK.  That being said I think a traditional in the pocket with my SAK is probably going to become a common practice.  How could I not, especially when the new Soddie Jr goes so well with my Syph Yeoman?


I’ll probably even purchase a few more, like the Case Half Whittler I’ve been looking at.
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5226 on: July 30, 2019, 05:12:06 AM
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5227 on: July 30, 2019, 05:13:09 AM
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5228 on: July 30, 2019, 05:14:23 AM
Quote from: SAK Guy on July 30, 2019, 02:16:59 AM
Two more and I'll stop...

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The BSA is always a winner!  :like:
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5229 on: July 30, 2019, 05:15:15 AM
Quote from: cody6268 on July 30, 2019, 04:08:04 AM
That 5 blade is one of my holy grails. Yeah, for $20 I can get the current one from the BSA, but it's "imported". I personally wonder--how come so many of the early ones (based off the WWII Ulster Mountain Knife) have the Phillips missing from the tool itself. Weak construction? I know on almost all later iterations (Imperial, Camillus), the Phillips is one piece .

Day 29. Kinda cheated. Most of the day, I carried my early '80s Buck 703 Colt (first gen; which allegedly has the tendency to have overly hardened, brittle backsprings). Had it as a kid (truly, my first Buck; nearly a decade before the 110 came into my possession), not long after I got it, it disappeared. Finally found the thing in the top of a closet along with a couple others (my "backup" Schrade 34OT and an Imperial shell-handed knife) last year. I like the 703 because it's slightly fatter than any comparable Medium Stockman.

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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5230 on: July 30, 2019, 05:16:08 AM
Quote from: Spartan19 on July 30, 2019, 04:54:59 AM
Great shots Robert! Good to have ya back! :multi:

Packing the case again today
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5231 on: July 30, 2019, 05:20:51 AM
Quote from: Sos24 on July 30, 2019, 04:56:02 AM
Once again such a nice variety of beautiful traditional knives.  I’ve seen so many knives that seem reminiscent of ones I saw as a child and is mainly what drew me to do this challenge.

My first knife was a camp knife which is considered traditional by many.  From there it was mostly SAKs with a few plier based multitools.  The only other traditional knives I’ve owned were acquired within the last 15 years.  I loved the way they looked and their simplicity, but never bonded with them because they didn’t have the same utility to me as my SAKs.  Even with the more modern folders that I like, they would supplement but never replace the SAK or occasional multitool.

This challenge required me to give the knives more of a chance than I had in the past.  It also gave me more of an appreciation for the traditionals, especially those with different style blades for different tasks like the Trapper and Stockman.  But I also always found myself wanting the utility of my SAK.  That being said I think a traditional in the pocket with my SAK is probably going to become a common practice.  How could I not, especially when the new Soddie Jr goes so well with my Syph Yeoman?
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I’ll probably even purchase a few more, like the Case Half Whittler I’ve been looking at.
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So many points that fit me also. A traditional knife will be with me on a daily basis also. :cheers:
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5232 on: July 30, 2019, 05:51:59 AM
Not my last post, but I wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone for an outstanding challenge!  Nix, you made this so much fun with your GAW's and mini challenges!  Once again, this is the best group of people anywhere!
Barry
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5233 on: July 30, 2019, 05:57:51 AM
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I made plans to go camping a couple of times this month, but fate and circumstance were against me this July. So it goes....

I still wanted to get out and have a 'campfire' in the backyard before the challenge (ICC#2) came to an end.

We had a big thunderstorm this evening and everything cooled off nicely, which gave me an opportunity for an evening fire out on the patio. I decided to light my fire old-school with flint and steel. Well, chert and steel.


Top, clockwise: jute twine teased apart, steel striker, Opinel Nº 07, Chert chip with char-cloth on top


Since the Opinel is high carbon, I thought I might get a spark from it, but that didn't work, not with the chert, anyway. I suspect that the Opinel's spine is too soft. Or perhaps the size and angle made it too difficult.  :dunno:

The forged striker worked well though, and after a few strikes my char-cloth caught a spark and formed a nice ember:





I think you can see (despite the blurriness) that the jute fibers start to smolder quickly. I mixed some wood shavings into the jute prior to getting my ember going. Once the jute flamed up, the shavings caught readily and I was fired up.






Nice evening for a fire. Lightning off in the distance for added a little atmosphere. Practice over, I need to get out and go camping now!

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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5234 on: July 30, 2019, 06:02:18 AM
Nice fire pics !   :cheers:
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5235 on: July 30, 2019, 06:03:43 AM
 :cheers:
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5236 on: July 30, 2019, 06:48:21 AM
Nice fire and pic Nix.
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5237 on: July 30, 2019, 06:55:04 AM
Quote from: Barry Rowland on July 30, 2019, 05:51:59 AM
Not my last post, but I wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone for an outstanding challenge!  Nix, you made this so much fun with your GAW's and mini challenges!  Once again, this is the best group of people anywhere!
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5238 on: July 30, 2019, 07:02:57 AM
Quote from: Barry Rowland on July 30, 2019, 05:51:59 AM
Not my last post, but I wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone for an outstanding challenge!  Nix, you made this so much fun with your GAW's and mini challenges!  Once again, this is the best group of people anywhere!
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5239 on: July 30, 2019, 07:06:00 AM
Quote from: Nix on July 30, 2019, 05:57:51 AM
Day: 29  (bonus material)


I made plans to go camping a couple of times this month, but fate and circumstance were against me this July. So it goes....

I still wanted to get out and have a 'campfire' in the backyard before the challenge (ICC#2) came to an end.

We had a big thunderstorm this evening and everything cooled off nicely, which gave me an opportunity for an evening fire out on the patio. I decided to light my fire old-school with flint and steel. Well, chert and steel.

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Top, clockwise: jute twine teased apart, steel striker, Opinel Nº 07, Chert chip with char-cloth on top


Since the Opinel is high carbon, I thought I might get a spark from it, but that didn't work, not with the chert, anyway. I suspect that the Opinel's spine is too soft. Or perhaps the size and angle made it too difficult.  :dunno:

The forged striker worked well though, and after a few strikes my char-cloth caught a spark and formed a nice ember:

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I think you can see (despite the blurriness) that the jute fibers start to smolder quickly. I mixed some wood shavings into the jute prior to getting my ember going. Once the jute flamed up, the shavings caught readily and I was fired up.


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Nice evening for a fire. Lightning off in the distance for added a little atmosphere. Practice over, I need to get out and go camping now!

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That last photo is great!  :hatsoff:
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5240 on: July 30, 2019, 07:54:24 AM
Quote from: cody6268 on July 30, 2019, 04:08:04 AM
That 5 blade is one of my holy grails. Yeah, for $20 I can get the current one from the BSA, but it's "imported". I personally wonder--how come so many of the early ones (based off the WWII Ulster Mountain Knife) have the Phillips missing from the tool itself. Weak construction? I know on almost all later iterations (Imperial, Camillus), the Phillips is one piece.

Day 29. Kinda cheated. Most of the day, I carried my early '80s Buck 703 Colt (first gen; which allegedly has the tendency to have overly hardened, brittle backsprings). Had it as a kid (truly, my first Buck; nearly a decade before the 110 came into my possession), not long after I got it, it disappeared. Finally found the thing in the top of a closet along with a couple others (my "backup" Schrade 34OT and an Imperial shell-handed knife) last year. I like the 703 because it's slightly fatter than any comparable Medium Stockman.

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Thanks Cody!    :cheers:  I looked for one those 5 blade scouts for a while.

BTW, nice knives and Matchbox! :cheers:
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5241 on: July 30, 2019, 07:55:16 AM
Quote from: Spartan19 on July 30, 2019, 04:54:59 AM
Great shots Robert! Good to have ya back! :multi:

Packing the case again today

Thanks buddy!!!  :salute:

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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5242 on: July 30, 2019, 07:56:48 AM
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5243 on: July 30, 2019, 07:57:17 AM
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Not my last post, but I wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone for an outstanding challenge!  Nix, you made this so much fun with your GAW's and mini challenges!  Once again, this is the best group of people anywhere!

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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5244 on: July 30, 2019, 08:02:08 AM
Quote from: Sos24 on July 30, 2019, 04:56:02 AM
Once again such a nice variety of beautiful traditional knives.  I’ve seen so many knives that seem reminiscent of ones I saw as a child and is mainly what drew me to do this challenge.

My first knife was a camp knife which is considered traditional by many.  From there it was mostly SAKs with a few plier based multitools.  The only other traditional knives I’ve owned were acquired within the last 15 years.  I loved the way they looked and their simplicity, but never bonded with them because they didn’t have the same utility to me as my SAKs.  Even with the more modern folders that I like, they would supplement but never replace the SAK or occasional multitool.

This challenge required me to give the knives more of a chance than I had in the past.  It also gave me more of an appreciation for the traditionals, especially those with different style blades for different tasks like the Trapper and Stockman.  But I also always found myself wanting the utility of my SAK.  That being said I think a traditional in the pocket with my SAK is probably going to become a common practice.  How could I not, especially when the new Soddie Jr goes so well with my Syph Yeoman?
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I’ll probably even purchase a few more, like the Case Half Whittler I’ve been looking at.
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Awesome carry combo Sos!!!!
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5245 on: July 30, 2019, 08:20:51 AM
Thanks SAK Guy.  I didn’t even realize how well they went together until I was taking the Soddie out of my pocket yesterday and set it down next to the Yeoman.
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5246 on: July 30, 2019, 09:54:10 AM
Quote from: Barry Rowland on July 30, 2019, 05:51:59 AM
Not my last post, but I wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone for an outstanding challenge!  Nix, you made this so much fun with your GAW's and mini challenges!  Once again, this is the best group of people anywhere!

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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5247 on: July 30, 2019, 10:34:36 AM
Day 30: Some instant dark roast and a true classic!
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5248 on: July 30, 2019, 11:24:32 AM
DAY 30 (FINAL)

Well it's been a month (ish) guys. 30 days. Weird for me. I've carried a traditional for years without thinking about it much. Case, Queen, GEC's, Northwoods, Remingtons, Kissing Crane, Lionsteel and plenty others besides. That's not including the ones I carried as a kid, I don't think I knew what they were at the time even. So what do I think about having carried this Buck for a month? Well. This isn't going to be popular but I'd already come to the conclusion a while ago that I prefer SAK's and nothing about this month changed anything.

I got fed up of substandard build excused in the name of 'tradition'. Of having to send new knives for a regrind before I ever saw them. Of niggling QC and problems. Of patterns that are so close but just miss what I actually want in a pocket knife. I know that when I buy a SAK, I get a SAK. It will have a blade and tools which are a known and reliable value wherever and whenever.

This CPM 154 two blade Buck for example. I drop shipped it for a full regrind (0.015" BTE) before ever seeing it, the reports had been of a thick grind. When I got it I used potassium permanganate to make the elk sides match better, carefully and gently rounded off the sharp corners of the bolsters and worked the main blade until it had the snap required. It's now a great knife, an incredible slicer and should be a true pride to a collection. But. Prior to that I had bought a $9 second hand Spartan, chopped off the opener layer and created what was for me the perfect EDC pocket knife. While this challenge was going on I made a mkII version, this time I had learned from my mistakes and the action/pull/snap is perfect, truly perfect. Total cost was $20 for the new Spartan and about 1.5 hours of modding time. I get my perfect blade size and combo and a package which is custom to my own requirements but which wouldn't bother me much if I lost it, no big deal to make another. I can dress it up with custom scales (I have wooden ones on the way from Germany now) and it is all that I need, all that I want. Moreover, if I want a similar package I can buy a non mod but similar toolset off the shelf for peanuts anywhere and it will be a 'sure thing' every single time.

I carried traditionals for years, always looking for 'the one'. The one which would be my carry for the next decade or more. I never was a collector. I tried different patterns, blade shapes and grinds. Then one time I did a google search and up popped a photo of a Pioneer Settler and realised that I'd been looking in the wrong place the entire time. I'm sorry traditional world. I've carried some beautiful examples of what you had to offer but it wasn't enough. I honestly believe Victorinox is and perhaps always was my solution.



The Buck is for sale if anyone is interested. I hope someone else will bond with it in the way which I could not despite choosing this challenge specifically to see if I could learn to love it, I'd only carried it for a week and a half prior to the challenge.
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5249 on: July 30, 2019, 12:05:46 PM
Quote from: Nix on July 30, 2019, 05:57:51 AM
Day: 29  (bonus material)


I made plans to go camping a couple of times this month, but fate and circumstance were against me this July. So it goes....

I still wanted to get out and have a 'campfire' in the backyard before the challenge (ICC#2) came to an end.

We had a big thunderstorm this evening and everything cooled off nicely, which gave me an opportunity for an evening fire out on the patio. I decided to light my fire old-school with flint and steel. Well, chert and steel.

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Top, clockwise: jute twine teased apart, steel striker, Opinel Nº 07, Chert chip with char-cloth on top


Since the Opinel is high carbon, I thought I might get a spark from it, but that didn't work, not with the chert, anyway. I suspect that the Opinel's spine is too soft. Or perhaps the size and angle made it too difficult.  :dunno:

The forged striker worked well though, and after a few strikes my char-cloth caught a spark and formed a nice ember:

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I think you can see (despite the blurriness) that the jute fibers start to smolder quickly. I mixed some wood shavings into the jute prior to getting my ember going. Once the jute flamed up, the shavings caught readily and I was fired up.


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Nice evening for a fire. Lightning off in the distance for added a little atmosphere. Practice over, I need to get out and go camping now!

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Cool pics Nix! Love to start a fire with flint and steel.     :like:
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