Knives in the Wild

[GSPTOPDOG]

A Leatherman Wave is four inches closed, so that bug has to be about a good three inches. Cool photos!

Thanks Dan ... It is starting to look like the Bugs might just be taking over!!!

[Waukonda]

Western States at the base of a Shumard Oak.....

[GSPTOPDOG]

Western States at the base of a Shumard Oak.....

That's a beauty! Great scales ahhh that green patch looks so cool (today is only 108 out west ), I wish I could lay my head down on it and take a nap...

[Waukonda]

Western States at the base of a Shumard Oak.....

That's a beauty! Great scales ahhh that green patch looks so cool (today is only 108 out west ), I wish I could lay my head down on it and take a nap...

Thank you for the comment. We are only in the low 80s today. I agree that the moss looks inviting, but it probably wouldn't be good sleeping, what with the squirrels dropping acorns on your head. Then again, it is squirrel season here!

[GSPTOPDOG]

Western States at the base of a Shumard Oak.....

Oops! not much sleep with a couple of lbs. of acorns bouncing off your noggin ... then again that might be a way to make a few extra "Knife-Bucks" wait for them acorns to start drooping then collect them up for re-sale!

True story, I was in Japan years ago and I was in a semi-remote spot and I missed the bus back to the town and I was stuck there for the night. I ended up sleeping on the forest floor. It was cover in a blanket off moss ... so soft. It was a little spooky but man was it soft...

[Waukonda]

Oops! not much sleep with a couple of lbs. of acorns bouncing off your noggin ... then again that might be a way to make a few extra "Knife-Bucks" wait for them acorns to start drooping then collect them up for re-sale!

True story, I was in Japan years ago and I was in a semi-remote spot and I missed the bus back to the town and I was stuck there for the night. I ended up sleeping on the forest floor. It was cover in a blanket off moss ... so soft. It was a little spooky but man was it soft...

Good story!!! I can't help but think how shocked a local would have been if they had stumbled across you.

[GSPTOPDOG]

Good story!!! I can't help but think how shocked a local would have been if they had stumbled across you.

That was what I was afraid of!!! As I was drifting off to sleep ...I started thinking about all of those Japanese ghost stories I saw years ago in my "Japanese Film Interest Stage" when I was younger ... and I remembered a buddy that had a huge Japanese ghost woman tattoo on his back ... lets just say... I was listening for the slightest sound that night...

[zed6309]

From last weekends camp
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Great pics again, and some cool knives. Love that fixed in the last pic with the wood handle. Beauty. Also wondered what kind of wood you whittled that spoon from? Been thinking of making the boss a nice wooden spoon but wanted something softish and easier to carve, preferably with some good grain like yours. Thanks for any tips you have on woods.

Sorry on the delay mate last month was a nightmare with illness and had covid again for the 3rd time , the bottom knife is one of the ones I make , it’s got canvass micarta handles , the wood I used is a bit of a mystery as I got it from a pile of wood near where I camp , there is a family that live in the woods who do big carvings using chainsaws , this was laying in a pile , looks like pine but I’m not 100% I usually use birch , your better off using a bit of green wood as easier to carve , birch,lime,poplar are a few, birch is plentiful in the uk , a bit like the states with poplar I guess

[GSPTOPDOG]

Very cool story Dog! I've heard about this forest in Japan that people say is cursed and a bunch of people have killed themselves there. I can't remember what it was called though.....I'd be too afraid to camp any where after watching that "Blair Witch" movie when I was a teen. That movie scared the molasses out of me.

Yes, there was a movie made about that forest.... very spooky!

[Quick Steel]

Kim, Your rattlers strike me as being quite classy.

[Quick Steel]

Kim, Your rattlers strike me as being quite classy.

[GSPTOPDOG]

I saw a documentary type thing about that forest a while ago...Japan is strange in that sense. There's a volcano that they had to fence off because so many teens were jumping into it to end it all.

I could never understand why suicide would continue to be such a problem in modern Japanese culture. I study a lot about WWII and thousands and thousands of soldiers and civilians committed suicide when things turned against them.

[GSPTOPDOG]

Sssssssssssss!

Here's a couple of my rattlers, but they don't get out into the wild much....

I didn't get a chance to comment on these sweet Case XX rattlers... they are awesome!!!

[TripleF]

From yesterday's visit to the park....

[doglegg]

From yesterday's visit to the park....

Looks like your kind of knife Scott.

[TripleF]

Wandering around in a dried up swampy area I said.....this tree looks like fatwood.
It was....

[YOUFOUNDADEAL]

Found this Case knife today. It appears odd to me. The "Case" badge has no circle around logo and the tang stamp looks strange. What ya all think?

[knifeaddict1965]

Found this Case knife today. It appears odd to me. The "Case" badge has no circle around logo and the tang stamp looks strange. What ya all think?

Case started using the shields with no circles in 1975 for their Delrin handled knives, so I would say this knife has Delrin scales and was made from the mid to late 70s depending on how may dots it has under "stainless" and the stamp looks correct for a knife from that era. Information below was found in the research section of this website.

[GSPTOPDOG]

Found this Case knife today. It appears odd to me. The "Case" badge has no circle around logo and the tang stamp looks strange. What ya all think?

Looks like ... You Found a Deal!!!

[TripleF]

Wandering around in a dried up swampy area I said.....this tree looks like fatwood.
It was....

Congrats if you need to start a fire! (I Googled what "fatwood" is.) Florida is such an interesting and diverse environment to live in. I don't think any other place matches it in the world.

We do start our fires with fatwood. All the kids I take to the outdoors know the value and how to find and use fatwood

[GSPTOPDOG]

This 'lill guy likes Case XX...

I saw my dog with his head trying to get down in the bucket, so I shooed him away and this little guy was in there. His tail was gone (don't worry they grow back) and after a couple of "staged" shots the lizard was released from his "his own prison".

[Waukonda]

This 'lill guy likes Case XX...

I saw my dog with his head trying to get down in the bucket, so I shooed him away and this little guy was in there. His tail was gone (don't worry they grow back) and after a couple of "staged" shots the lizard was released from his "his own prison".

Those are great pictures!

[OSCAR]

This 'lill guy likes Case XX...

I saw my dog with his head trying to get down in the bucket, so I shooed him away and this little guy was in there. His tail was gone (don't worry they grow back) and after a couple of "staged" shots the lizard was released from his "his own prison".

Those are great pictures!

Very cool indeed.

[Waukonda]

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[Quick Steel]

Lovely, interesting, shots, Ike. The top one is exceptional.