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Italian made A.G.A Campolin Maltese stiletto from a collector. The knife was recently bought brand new from a foreign shop, but it came with quite a lot of blade play, a very rough ~55 degrees inclusive "edge" with a big burr still attached to it, and no point at all. Also both sides of the blade ar...

Besides quite a bit of other green growth i used the modified Bushcraft Parang today to cut up a rather large green branch which had fallen from a big beechwood tree, blocking one of the larger woods trails near my home town. I had already delimbed the branch before i took the pics, but you get the ...

I've never seen one in real life as Cutco knives were never sold here in Europe, but what i do know is that the blade design was "inspired" by the Puma White Hunter & Auto Messer models, while the handle design was licensed from Charles Lamb aka the handle man. From what i've read on other forums th...

A week ago we got home from a camping holiday in the Luxembourg forests and the Belgian Ardennes, and the Condor Eco Golok machete did a wonderful job at trail clearing during several long hikes in the area. The model is somewhat of a wolf in sheeps clothes, in that it isn't overly big or menacing l...

Iirc i traded a vintage Spyderco for it, i think it was a Shabaria or an Ayoob model.

Western Bowies/W49 Stamps 1 ) Bx54 Bushman - All caps "WESTERN" parallel to the spine near the guard on the MARK side of the blade - 1943/1944 2 ) Western "BOWIE" Version 1 - "WESTERN" over "BOULDER COLO" on MARK side with an inverted "BOWIE" on the PILE side - 1964/1965 Examples here: https://www....

From what i hear on various forums i visit that would be these guys: http://www.swordcane.com/

Just finished with a bit of TLC and hand regrinding the blade to it's original full convex zero edge shape again. Based on this i suspect it's also crucible steel (much more wear resistant than comparable German blades), and i wouldn't be surprised if the steel has a certain amount of tungsten carbi...

On Bladeforums member Jack Black had this to say: "The knife is one of the Sheffield 'Town Pattern's, made by hundreds of firms, and still made in Sheffield today. It is one of the patterns described in Sheffield as a 'Whittle-Tang Bowie'. Tens of thousands were sold to Boy Scouts, and so they were ...

Anyone here familiar with Sheffield maker W.Mount & Son ? There doesn't seem to be much info about them on the internet, or i'm looking in the wrong places. The knife itself is definitely a quality piece, with especially the handle construction being strikingly similar to my Wade & Butcher model. My...

Incolma history video in Spanish, but with English subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN_RfaYXqUE

Pauper,

Vintage Incolma No.131 deluxe quality machete, probably made in the '60's or '70's in Manizales Colombia with the use of technology & machines inherited from the Brothers Weyersberg factory, established sword & other quality cutlery manufacturers in Solingen, Germany. Noteworthy are the significantl...

First step refining the blade surfaces with 240 grit wet & dry SiC paper on a rubber backing using WD40 as a lubricant, while using the Tormek WM200 AngleMaster to check regularly if the apex stays around the 30 degrees inclusive mark: https://i.postimg.cc/qt42Hsrt/image.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/1gX...

The Bushcraft Parang already had a convex edge with an apex around 40 degrees inclusive, a bit much for my taste, so i reshaped/reground the blade by hand with a Chinese 120 grit diamond file into a convex form which starts higher up the blade sides and now come together in an apex at around 30 degr...