How many knives and/or axes do you own?
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Here is a selection of some of my blades I have so far, some of the others are scatterd around the house too shy for the photo shoot 
if I manage to post it right ??!!, they all get used often, don't see the point in buying a knife just to look at it ! however nice it looks. But each to their own ways
if I manage to post it right ??!!, they all get used often, don't see the point in buying a knife just to look at it ! however nice it looks. But each to their own ways
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I may have clicked poorly when I included chisels and gouges. 4 knives, 1 axe....lots of orther toys
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how can so many people only have said 1-2??? surely you need a tiny keyring knife, sub 3" non locker for EDC, fixed blade bushy, bigger one for light chopping, billhook and machete for bigger stuff, parang and kukri for even heavier stuff, a small axe for kindling, a larger axe for light felling and limbing, a big feller, and a splitting maul. not forgetting a carving axe and an adze and crook knives in a few sizes, a carving knife, and what about food prep?!!?!? how do they survive with anything less than 15 sharps?!!!?
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Your posting did make me laugh out loud too. Those few words spoke volumes.
Scorpio, maybe that don't have big rucksacks to carry them all or don't want to resemble Rambo on a revenge kick. But only having two knives is taking the mick a bit. I would like to see what those two knives look like though. One's probably a swiss army knife like this:
Harsh, but fair assessment I think.
At the time I voted I had some 80+ blades (knives, axes, machetes, etc.) But since then I have learned to forge an usable knife, so most of my commercial blades (knives, kukries, most of the machetes) were given away except billhooks and axes-those are yet to be forged if I ever learn how. But the thing with knives is that one can never have enough, addiction it is, so now there are 10 scattered around house, some finished with sheath, some wait to be finished (wooden handle and final touch) and two more to be forged if rain ever stops.
If I really counted everything in my kitchen drawer .....
I have 3 SAK's one cheapo Nieto lock knife (which I find good enough for me) one Martinii sommat or other which is not the sort of thing I would take out anywhere these days. An old Joseph Rogers Pruner with plastic scales (I did have one with wooden scales, but lost it) an ancient bone handled folder with a blade that has been sharpened away to nearly nothing, it says something like "sheep dip" on what remains of the blade, I presume a salesmans give away. A Birmingham flea market Kukri of lamentable quality. An Elwood billhook, A "tea pruner" it's a sort of miniature bill hook, and an old square ended rat tailed "chopper" which is pretty efficient. As for axes I once had three, I gave away my big one to my brother since I have long had no use for it, I have a Fiskars cum Wilkinson plastic handled job from homebase, My chopper or bill hook will do the job of that really so it is quite unnecessary and a "legacy" hand axe with a really thick crude blade of indeterminate origins I got from an army surplus store thrity or something years ago. I'll tell you what though if you want to break a door down it will do that. I lent it to a neighbour who locked himself out. However I had to spend ages filing out the nicks on the blade when I got it back.
And I suppose various other toys including a variety of KFS doodahs, some better than others, more often used for opening bottles than anything else.
I used to use the Joseph Rogers pruner for chopping carrots and onions of all things, not meant to be a kitchen knife but it did the job.
I still dream of my John Nowill Bowie that was nicked in a burglary 14 years ago now, I paid Eighteen Shillings and Sixpence for it as a teenager, and whittled many a stick with it even tried to carve a chess set. (not very succesfully) When it was stolen I had no idea what they cost to buy nowadays and claimed well short of the replacement value.
I ought not to be let loose with a knife at all these days Elfin Safety and all, you only have to look at my left hand to see that
I have 3 SAK's one cheapo Nieto lock knife (which I find good enough for me) one Martinii sommat or other which is not the sort of thing I would take out anywhere these days. An old Joseph Rogers Pruner with plastic scales (I did have one with wooden scales, but lost it) an ancient bone handled folder with a blade that has been sharpened away to nearly nothing, it says something like "sheep dip" on what remains of the blade, I presume a salesmans give away. A Birmingham flea market Kukri of lamentable quality. An Elwood billhook, A "tea pruner" it's a sort of miniature bill hook, and an old square ended rat tailed "chopper" which is pretty efficient. As for axes I once had three, I gave away my big one to my brother since I have long had no use for it, I have a Fiskars cum Wilkinson plastic handled job from homebase, My chopper or bill hook will do the job of that really so it is quite unnecessary and a "legacy" hand axe with a really thick crude blade of indeterminate origins I got from an army surplus store thrity or something years ago. I'll tell you what though if you want to break a door down it will do that. I lent it to a neighbour who locked himself out. However I had to spend ages filing out the nicks on the blade when I got it back.
And I suppose various other toys including a variety of KFS doodahs, some better than others, more often used for opening bottles than anything else.
I used to use the Joseph Rogers pruner for chopping carrots and onions of all things, not meant to be a kitchen knife but it did the job.
I still dream of my John Nowill Bowie that was nicked in a burglary 14 years ago now, I paid Eighteen Shillings and Sixpence for it as a teenager, and whittled many a stick with it even tried to carve a chess set. (not very succesfully) When it was stolen I had no idea what they cost to buy nowadays and claimed well short of the replacement value.
I ought not to be let loose with a knife at all these days Elfin Safety and all, you only have to look at my left hand to see that
yep jsut ordered 230 baldes from the laser cutter to go with the 140 left from teh last batch lol
well i posted on here about two months ago,..and since then my count has increased by another axe, two fixed blades, a neck knife, and two folders,...
jeeeez!
if you say it fast it doesnt sound as bad,...
so
9 fixed blades, 12 folders, and 2 axes,..
o dear
jeeeez!
if you say it fast it doesnt sound as bad,...
so
9 fixed blades, 12 folders, and 2 axes,..
o dear
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1 Gränsfors small forest axe
1 Hultafors axe
3 other axes
1 Helle Harding
1 Helle Eggen
1 Helle Symfoni
1 Helle Nying
3 EKA Swede 88 folder
2 Leatherman tools
2 SAK
1 Case Sodbuster for EDC
1 Bacho Lapplander saw
1 Hultafors axe
3 other axes
1 Helle Harding
1 Helle Eggen
1 Helle Symfoni
1 Helle Nying
3 EKA Swede 88 folder
2 Leatherman tools
2 SAK
1 Case Sodbuster for EDC
1 Bacho Lapplander saw
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