2 year old Frazer and his 1st knife

[Tat2trev]

View attachment 20604they sell metal ones for kids you can even get plastic swiss army knives .
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so anyone who thinks it's a bad idea can quietly have a word with themselves in my opinion.

Thanks for the idea my boy has been eating with his cutting straw and chasing the chickens .
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Ahhh bless him what a little dude .
My lad got his axe today and a new pimped up look.

 

[Tat2trev]

Trev they're fantastic, you'll have a mini Davy Crocket on your hands now. Bet he charging about with those in a world of his own. Really cool.

Cheers mate!!! ya never know you might bump into him in the woods one day just look for the engraved tools you will know who he is.

 

[Goatboy]

Cheers mate!!! ya never know you might bump into him in the woods one day just look for the engraved tools you will know who he is.

Or defending the Fort at the Alamo!

 

[Graham_S]

It's purely about educating them that the two should always go together

Exactly.
I did something to re-enforce this with a Scout group I worked with.
First day of the camp
"Who all has a knife?"
Hands go up.
"If you have a FAK, Put your hands down"
Most hands stay up.
"Everyone with their hands up, put your knives in an envelope and write your name on the front, you'll get it back when we go home"

Next camp, everyone had a FAK......

(To be fair, they were all warned it'd happen)

 

[rik_uk3]

Well done, first class idea. Introduce children to different things the earlier you can especially food that way you get no 'fussy' eaters.

 

[Tat2trev]

Well done, first class idea. Introduce children to different things the earlier you can especially food that way you get no 'fussy' eaters.

That's our way of thinking too bud I don't want my kids growing up miss using tools etc

 

[weekender]

T2T great pics of the axe and engraving work the kit looks fantastic. You can see the little chap is dead chuffed. Hopefully get a nice quiet day tomorrow and set to whittling.

 

[Tat2trev]

T2T great pics of the axe and engraving work the kit looks fantastic. You can see the little chap is dead chuffed. Hopefully get a nice quiet day tomorrow and set to whittling.

Good for you mate .
The lil lad in the photo is somebody else's his dad made him a knife after seeing my lads kit on here .
The bug is unleashed lets see some more kiddies tools being made .

 

[Swallow]

Are you serious????
I'm not going to the moot but others will be with little kids .if they have wooden tools and do need a FAK I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem to add to their belt kit although I don't see the need .
Rules are rules I suppose.

Tongue in cheek, as in, that is the rule for metal knives*,

serious as in the reasons others have already mentioned about being a good part of the eduction about the two going together.

*I was going to say real knives and then I remembered Myke Hawke has instructions on how to make a wooden knife in his book.

Nice work and great idea.

 

[Tat2trev]

Tongue in cheek, as in, that is the rule for metal knives*,

serious as in the reasons others have already mentioned about being a good part of the eduction about the two going together.

*I was going to say real knives and then I remembered Myke Hawke has instructions on how to make a wooden knife in his book.

Nice work and great idea.

I did wonder but as I've not attended a moot I would not know of the rules anyway.
But rest assured my lil lad will have his own FAK when we are both in the woods

 

[Dougster]

It's great your lad has a knife. Wish I had done it when mine were smaller.

 

[Dougster]

Here's the pics as requested all pimped up and ready for the lil man .
Aka daddy's lil helper.

Superb! They look spot on.

 

[Tat2trev]

Superb! They look spot on.

He's just waiting on mrs tat2 (aka mummy)to make him a belt with an axe loop and he's away .
Thanks for the great comment .

 

[Tat2trev]

Here's the lil man with his EDC just waiting on the FAK and he's all sorted .

.

 

[Goatboy]

Cool, very cute. With the haircut you'll have to carve him a Kentucky Long Rifle and he can pretend he's in Last of the Mohicans Great job by you and Mrs Trev.


ATB,
GB.

 

[grey-array]

That is just awesome! can't wait to see them running round the moot with their wooden kit XD
Cool idea
Yours sincerely Ruud

 

[Albus Culter]

Looking good. What's next of his kit list? Laplander?

 

[Tat2trev]

Looking good. What's next of his kit list? Laplander?

I'm thinking a little pocket folding knife pretty easy to make too.what do you think any ideas????

 

[Albus Culter]

Folding knife sounds good. Those kits listed earlier in the thread are nice but maybe a bit fragile for his age.

A svord copy in wood would be good. Maybe a bit chunky for him tho to get the wood thick enough?

But idea has legs

 

[Tat2trev]

Folding knife sounds good. Those kits listed earlier in the thread are nice but maybe a bit fragile for his age.

A svord copy in wood would be good. Maybe a bit chunky for him tho to get the wood thick enough?

But idea has legs

Yeah I'm liking the idea of a svord the Handel size not too much of a problem he's built like a shed anyway and the axe I made is quite chunky too. I'll wait till my svord gets here this week and I'll look where to start making it