lightweight leuku style knife

[Everything Mac]

There you go - exactly what I meant. - Looks good. Cheers for the Link Jonathan, hadn't seen that thread.

Andy

 

[Shinken]

Any chance of a close up on the false edge?

 

[luckylee]

It means living in a temporary shelter, usually made from bent poles such as hazel and covered in a tarp or something suitable.

well thats a new one to me, where i live bender means getting drunk all the time.

 

[maddave]

A bender......

 

[luckylee]

A bender......

dave the pic has not worked mate, would love to see one of these please.
and not the male variety, lol only joking.

 

[Xunil]

Handle looks stunning, sheath is a very nice job as well but I'd like to see you do one with a ore traditional sheath some time. The false edge is not to my tastes and detracts (IMHO) from the working qualities of an otherwise great knife, but the customer always knows best...

I'd love to see another one done exactly the same way minus the false edge because that handle really is the business.

In summary it's great work, but a lot of its mass appeal has been lost due to it being personalised to the clients request.

I won't directly comment on some of the observations made by others but I would like to say that since most bushcrafters regularly use military kit of various sorts it seems a little knee-jerk to jump all over the use of certain descriptions of an item.

I regularly wear military ummmmmmmmm soldier-type clothing where the labels inside are marked 'combat' and my main two bergens are designed for military ummmmmmmm activities and...

Let's not get unnecessarily excited over nothing.

Bottom line - if the client is happy then everything else is academic and I can see a lot of things going on in your knife that would make the client very, very happy indeed.

I'll be keeping an eye on your progress because you are doing such a grand job overall.

Out of curiosity would you mind if I PM'd you to discuss certain aspects ?

 

[mrcharly]

They call them benders up here too - and you have to be pretty hard core to live in one 365, even in the SW. That's a lifestyle, not a hobby like bushcraft almost always is.
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I had an acquaintance who lived in a bender, in North Yorkshire. He made drums and fantastic chairs - he made a ladderback rocker for me. Used ash, cut locally, did all the work on a pole lathe or with hand tools.

 

[Siberianfury]

Out of curiosity would you mind if I PM'd you to discuss certain aspects ?

Go for it

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

A bender......

If you go to this site, it shows the basic framework for a Bender shelter.

timberframe

 

[luckylee]

If you go to this site, it shows the basic framework for a Bender shelter.

timberframe

Thanks mate, never heard of one of them, where i'm from, a bender means going out and drinking copious amounts of alcohol

 

[Grayfox]

I'm pretty sure that benders were originally used by travellers, popularised by the women at Greenham Common in the '80s.

Just occurs to me to wonder how many people actually remember the whole Greenham Common thing.

 

[Chinkapin]

LOL, the only definition of "bender" that I know of here in the u.s. is: "a prolonged drunken state."

Sombody once said, and I'm paraphrasing here: "Great Britain and the United States - - separated by a common language. So true.