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Look at the way that axe is held and used and you can tell a lot about both it, and the man using it. He's been practicing a while ;) He knows exactly where that edge is without even looking at it. Over years of use (practice) the axe has become an extension of his arm. He could probably brush...

Impressive work, no doubt about it, but I get the feeling that a good degree of 'artistic licence' has been applied to the wording of the piece ;) "On the sharp edge" and "letters a tenth of a millimeter high" simply doesn't correlate. Try putting anything a tenth a of a millimeter wide...

To say that you cannot sharpen a full convex with flat sharpening hones (because the bevels are curved and the hone is flat) is as correct as saying you cannot draw a curved line with a straight pencil :lol: Try this for size, it might not be waterstones or DC4 that I use, (I'm a fan of DMT...

22:16 hrs .. Entry to the hallowed halls of BB now viable :)

Yep, John T is your man for belts ;) If you cant find him (His username is something like JohnT100) just search for 'Trizact' once the site is up and running and you'll soon find him from there. ... and guess why I'm on here telling you this ? ! :p

Scorpio... the best advice I can give you on all of this is simple... Slow down fella ;) A 500mm OAL zombie slayer as your first ever knife-making project ? Unless you have a grinder, and some previously earned knowledge and skill-sets in this sort of field you're really going to struggle...

On the rear bumper of my car :o I'd been out shooting and stopped by the car to paunch a few bunnies with my 110 before I took them home. Put the knife on the bumper, and the bunnies and gun in the boot, and drove off home. 23 miles later I pull into our street, realise that the knife pouch is...

Was someone calling for reprobates ? :lol:

As a registered BladeSports Cutter Instructor and keen participant in cutting competitions all over the world (including the World Championship event at the Blade Show) there are one or two matters being raised here that I feel I should address... Cutters in a BladeSports event must have...

Nicely done that man :35: It's always a case of of 'Will it ? Won't it ?' when you try straightening something like that. Looks like you got the measure of it nicely.

Ouch ! That's dodgy territory :( There are a number of things that can be said and done here. The first is that you can simply try tapping it straight again with a hammer on an anvil or similar flat surface. this will result in one of two things happeng.. you will either get a starightened...

Dibs on the lot, ScotchDave posting on Longstriders account as I'm round his bit, will post from my own account later. Dave

Just take what has been listed above, along with suitable clothes for Welsh weather ;) You can cook on a fire, or on a burner of some sort as long as you have pans or billies that are suitable. You'll cope OK. If you need help with anything... ask. If you can't find advice, and help where...

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For deep recurves I use either a decent cigar stone initially, or I shape a piece of wood to roughly the same curve as the edge and cver that with wet-n-dry held in place with SprayMount. The SprayMount allows you to swap between grits easily but holds the abrasive in place nicely when it's in...

Having sadly missed last years Moot, my hones insisted they get to go this year :) Lady Longstrider (Sandy) and I are very much looking forward to accompanying them on the trip :D

I'm not happy with any blade that won't happily 'pop' arm hairs. It's not just a csae of shaving them off, it's having them 'pop' off the skin as you cut them, almost as if they were leaping out of the way before the edge gets to them. I consider an edge to be truly sharp when it will easily...

Are you looking to buy just the blade or a finished knife ? I know that there were (are?) some F1 blanks available for self-handling, but I've not come across any other models with this option. I have 3 or 4 F1's. One with the standard thermorun handle and the others with handmade 'custom'...

The fact that the main bevels are uneven on your knife is of little concern other than for the look of the thing to be honest. Most Moras I've dealt with have uneven main bevels. Sopme are very uneven, but at a tenner for a finished (very much machine made) knife and a sheath there is no...

DC 3's and 4's are good bits of kit, but I don't like them for use on larger blades. The temptation is always to use them by gripping with the fingertips either side or either end of the hone. To do this and then use the whole of the hone on the edge is asking for a lack of fingertips ;) The...