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I hope not. Anyway I'm home now and I have specialized carving and skinning axes to compare so I'm up for testing.

Gosh I hope that I didn't kill the thread by offending anyone, but things have gone quiet.

Sound choice! Because I have a review of the Cold Steel LTC copy on my pages, I got lots of email reporting when they broke and blades went flying. Fortunately the only injury was fixed with stitches. There's a reason why people who like khuks like authentic ones which were actually designed...

Wow nice work and a beautiful tool! I'm a bit too far away to send such a tool, and besides I'm still visiting with grand-kids and great grand-kids and so not at home, otherwise I'd be up for testing anything.. In testing such an axe one has to consider the meditations of Marcus Aurelius -...

Hence my advice on wearing chainsaw chaps. If any heavy clearing is on the list then a person is going to get tired and make a mistake eventually. Putting an acute convex edge of about 2-3 cm width on the Martindale will transform it from a brush beater and bouncer into a tool which will cut...

You're not the first to think that way - which is why there are so many axe head designs in existence. I was lucky in that I got interested in axe design at a time when decent axe heads were available for good prices. I've had lots of fun getting to the bottom of what makes the best axe or...

My story with machetes goes like this: in the 70's I'd picked up the best machete available at the time which was the Barteaux with a cast aluminum handle and heavy L6 blade. It simply didn't work on the tough stuff in BC and was put away for decades. When I volunteered for trail clearing I...

Yep it was a five page article with lots of pictures and accounts of his early life and just how much he's put into gaining his knowledge and skills. Apparently he used to live in Edson, which is why the article was mentioned in the local paper, and one of the stores got in extra copies of the...

It was mentioned in the local newspaper so I picked up the magazine and there's a multi-page article on Mors.

I love my FJ on highway or anywhere else but nothing is unstoppable. Then again the latest craze in Alberta are mattracks which enable really tough stuff like deep snow, overflow lakes with fresh ice or mud: https://www.mattracks.com/

I had to pull out a jacked up oilfield truck in Edmonton. The guy had decided to take a shortcut off a parking area by going down a steep grassed slope and over a curb. Regrettably the curb stopped the truck and then it was too late to engage 4x4 and reverse back up (under the grass or anything...

I'm sure seeing and experiencing new stuff too - Alberta is a lot different to the coast. Here one day a person is sweating outside and the next it's snowing. It's hard to get over just how heavy rainfalls are - yet a bit of sun and the bottomless Alberta mud dries out and is fine. Otherwise...

For some reason I always forget to include the marker when I'm out and honing stuff - but I can work with carbon black.. I use an Iwamoto lens to check - which I got from the mining and forestry supplies store in Prince George. I got both the 10X and 20X versions after I looked through them and...

Isn't it a requirement to have some skills and ethics to be part of scouts any more over there? Or are "Gryll's skills" enough? I would really appreciate someone showing me the new pee drinking badge, the hotel sheet tent badge etc..

Yep we have some trees exceeding that 10' diameter! Smoking the blade of the axe to refine to perfect bevels is really important with hewing tools such as broad hatchets, and adzes in order to get smooth perfect cuts. I'm just a newbie with using a single sided or hewing hatchet, but...

I have something similar, a super thin waterproof hooded jacket in one pouch and rain-pants in another pouch - which I keep in my truck or carry when out. Mine are cheap Walmart stuff. They work great for casual use, but obviously would soon fall apart if used for real work.

Blocks of wood split with the grain when you open a crack with an axe. The more suddenly the crack opens and the wider it opens affects just what size of wood can be split. Nothing is new in the world and the technique of twisting the axe slightly just after it bites into the wood to open...

You've got some good suggestions as to knives, but no-one seems to have mentioned the reasoning behind the choices. The Scandi grind with one large bevel on each side leading to the edge is the best for wood prep in wet conditions and for carving. Since Moras are inexpensive you would also be...

Hm.. I'm a sharpening purist, but since I use emery and green buffing compound on cardboard, I don't consider myself a snob. I've used door steps of various rock types too, so most large abrasive surfaces will suit me. I'm a sharpening purist because while V secondary grinds are on almost...

I think we're going to have to choose to disagree about burning out handles being the right way to do things because checking the temper was precisely why I tried it. While it can be done without affecting the blade, I wondered lots about the effect on the metal around the eye, and for that...