Very nice!Any pointers for a whittling newbie?
Day 05The Exec made quick work of cutting. Lunch turned out great!Sonoran Desert Dweller
Good use McStitchy!
Day 05/30No use came up for the Executive today
Nice pic McStitchy!
Bonus entry day 5.Opening up some corn nuts.
Day 5 BonusI finished whittling my first spoon. I did use the Executive on some straight parts along with a dedicated Flexcut blade, and needed to use a hook spoon for the bowl. Hopefully that does not disqualify me. Here is a before and after photo.
Day 6
they managed to cover it so discovered ants in my pocket later
Opening up some corn nuts.
I used to love corn nuts but now I'm afraid they would break my teeth.
Day 6 more stuffThe 6" Cobra arrived! (Image removed from quote.)
It is a very handy flashlight,It is rechargeable and has 3 brightness settings, 38 lumens, 145 lumens, and 380 lumens
They're good Same size like the SwissCard ones (Image removed from quote.)
On the bright side Tasky you'll have some great inspiration when it does arrive Day 04Quiet day because I needed my bushcraft knife "just in case" wading through our fen. And I didn't want to lose my black Executive to a bog.
Day 5Working some more on the right technique to open bottles with the orange peeler, I found that it's sufficient to bend the rim outwards in just one place. Once it's bent enough for you to slip the tip in all the way to the top of the bottle, you can simply flip the cap off. The cap then looks like in the picture. It's pretty quick to do it this way, but you have to concentrate. I failed to do so once, and as soon as I had become careless the Executive's orange peeler immediately drew blood. When tending to the cut, I thunk about why I edc SAKs. It's to have the proper tool ready for all those small chores you are presented with in daily life. Instead of ripping apart or gnawing through things, or using your key as a makeshift saw to cut something, the right SAK gives me a proper tool for all those little jobs. A civilized way of doing things. For me, carrying a SAK is about not having to resort to workarounds. That's why I like and carry them. And it's in that respect that the Executive falls short as far as I am concerned. Comforting as it is to know that it can be used to open a bottle in a pinch, I know of other ways to get the cap off a bottle. So that's not the point. The point is that I carry a SAK so that I don't have to think of creative ways anymore to solve a problem for which a dedicated SAK implement exists. For me, the fun in chosing an EDC is to find a SAK that's as small as possible while giving me all the implements I might require in the course of my average day. This is why SAKs without scissors just don't work for me (unless I carry the missing tool elsewhere), and it rings equally true for SAKs without a blade or without a bottle opener: I might be able to work around their shortcomings, but if I have to do that, what's the point in carrying them in the first place?
Simon and cbl, I agree with you both, which is why the Executive will never be my favorite SAK. Its tool set is just too limited for the way I like to use a SAK. I like to have Classics and other small SAKs around and I find them handy, but I usually have other tools close at hand so I'm not so limited. Trying to use the Executive exclusively has been difficult.
I'm only a little more than a month into it. I highly recommend these items.Then some basswood. And that's all you need to get started. A hook knife is handy if you're going to do spoons.
Day 6(Image removed from quote.)On a second thought, I would recommend light chain mail glove too, because it's somewhat stab proof.
I think that's kinda why we all participate a challenge in the first place. To find out whether a certain tool is right for our use, and if not, any creative workaround to sustain the rest of the challenge.
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