Knife porn thread

My brother is forty soon. He lives in the Forest of Dean and is a bit of a woodsman.

I'd like to get him a hand axe.

What should I be looking at?

@edmundro? Anyone?

Grunsfors for the real thing, but there are some nice looking ones on eBay, of all places

An old Elwell maybe?

The gransfors bruk small hatchet looks perfect.

Thanks guys.

Left field suggestion, but the Fiskars axes (whilst very non-traditional) are bloody brilliant as functional tools.

i reckon the big b is more of a traditional hatchet man

I got him the gransfors small hatchet and he is chuffed to bits with it.

Watch the news for a Forest of Dean based killing spree.

Any one know where I can get one of these from? Small Victorinox swiss army knife pouch.

I use to have one but have lost it.

@31trum maybe

wearing a knife in a pouch on your belt requires one of two scenarios;

1) You also have a leather tankard on a lanyard, are comfortably over 60 and know (and more to the point, will sing at the drop of a hat) traditional sea shanties.
2) You wear camouflage PJs and fantasise about how, if you were Roul Mout, you would have got away with it all.

Don't go there.

I have my Leatherman on my belt most days, it's liberating.

the blade locks on a leatherman, i stopped carrying mine. have you disengaged the locking mechanism?

Nah, I moved out of town and pretend I'm a builder. I have gubbed the blade up a bit though, think it's beyond a whetstone, how best rectify these chips?

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New camp/beater blade.. Wood Jewel / Nordern lights

Heinnie Haynes

I've been meaning to pick up a garden knife. I was umming and ahhing over a fixed blade mora type or something more classic like an opinel.

Then sorting though my old stuff turned this up. Know absolutely nothing other than it emigrated here from France. The hook was an arse to sharpen but should be useful for deadheading roses.

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My mate is now the sole Australian stockist of the entire Opinel range... I'm getting twitchy, will probably wind up buying a few things...

oh really! Am in the process of buying a couple of opinel's the no.10 and the no.12 possibly, as holiday knives, as I'm tired of the blunt things you always find in apartments.... Not many places stock the inox stainless steel versions in that size..

I'm not bringing a French knife back to the UK via Spain from Australia...

Tell me what you want and I'll find out how much it costs... 😉

this one
http://www.opinel.com/en/pocket-knives-and-tools/tradition/stainless-steel/n10-stainless-steel

and this one
http://www.opinel.com/en/pocket-knives-and-tools/tradition/stainless-steel/n12-stainless-steel

Dude, they'll be way cheaper over there even if I get 20% discount...

This seems like a good place to ask this: My sabatier chefs knife has ended up in the dishwasher quite a few times (visiting relatives trying to be helpful etc), has a good few small notches and generally struggles to keep an edge. I use a ceramic bar style sharpener - just one from ikea i think. It's not an expensive knife, but it's the most useful of the kitchen knives i own, so i'd like to bring it back from the brink - is there a way of re-edging it or something? do i need a whetstone and an hour or so, or is it more involved/costly than it's worth for a cheapish knife?

Pretty much this. I've seen a ton of shops carrying these in France - they are quite easy to find.

You can use increasingly fine sandpaper/wet-and-dry paper stuck to a piece of glass/tile.