All About Pocket Knives

pinnah wrote:Morning walk in the local woods trying to get my addled mind clear before talking to adults in the working world. Light rain falling. Mixed woods with plenty of pine trees...

The trick here is to practice making fire without mucking up the area for those who come along later. Coffee can bottom makes a small fire base to minimize the damage. Shavings are courtesy of my Buck 500.


fire practice 1 by Pinnah, on Flickr

The small fire plate favors a "log cabin" style fire.


fire practice 2 by Pinnah, on Flickr

I'm not opposed to "cheating" a bit. A small cache of pre-cut tack cloth rides in the fanny pack. Wrapped around a twig, it makes an easy to control torch.


fire practice 3 by Pinnah, on Flickr

The torch makes it easy to get the flame in the middle of the shaving bundle.


fire practice 4 by Pinnah, on Flickr

Nice to smell the fire while feeling with woods hiss with rain.


fire practice 5 by Pinnah, on Flickr

After the fire dies out, it's super easy to douse with water and dispose with the ash and cinders in a safe place. No fuss. No muss. And back to the world of keyboards....

trail wrote:I'll bet Philco has lots of nice old classics to post, but I'll sneak this modern day lockback in. This is a Japanese made I*XL, a big, solid knife, a good working tool. They are inexpensive and there are plenty of them around, a good place to start for the novice collector.

Old Hunter wrote:A line-up of the original four Bucks in the 500 lockback series. I still need to add a 506 Lady Buck (aka White Knight) - same as the 505 but with white Micarta handles. All of the Buck's pictured here have the earlier style Olde English BUCK script on the tangs. OH