Buck Pathfinder for 1.3 road trip section
Hey Traveler, what is that knife on your belt.
A Buck Model 105 Pathfinder, my dad gave it to me when I was in scouts. He was always partial to Buck knives, despite the ridiculously hard heat treatment, but they have a back story.
Fire, cabin, story seems quite appropriate, please.
OK, story goes it starts with Hoyt H. Buck. As a kid, he decided to become a blacksmith, so he apprenticed in Kansas. So what does a tween male working steel learn? Knifemaking!
Rumor has it he would forge, or heat treat anything that was not nailed down. By the time he was 13, word of his skill in the firepit spread to neighboring towns, he would have had a business, but instead he joined the United States Navy.
When he got out, he settled in Mountain Home Idaho, he was there for the attack on Pearl Harbor. With the entry of the USA into WW2 the government asked the public for donations of fixed blade knives to arm the troops with.
So he started pounding on an anvil making knives for our boys. After the war he kept making them, handmade, not production like this one.
Great story, makes me want to own one.
Nah, I carry this for a couple reasons, sentimental first and foremost, that knife in my kitchen, the liquid metal, it can cut straight through this one. In fact, now that we are on the subject, I have a guy that can upgrade that pig sticker of yours with an edge of the same stuff, won't be the whole blade, that would cost more than a Carbanado, but all of the edge and fix that point.
Point, what do you mean point?
Look I know you have the whole escrima DNA and all, Traveler said patiently, but if you ever have to thrust, it needs more penetration. I know a guy, that's all he does. But seriously Wonk, you don't use that monster everyday right?
Nah, I've got one of those Swedish Mora laminated hunting knives. My dad gave me my first one, I bought one for myself and Rhea at Bestow. Much of our jewelry comes in from India and China. It comes in plastic boxes with about a kilometer of tape wrapping the box. These knives help free the jewelry trapped under the tape.
Travler nodded, Mora is good stuff. I think I am ready to fall asleep.
A Buck Model 105 Pathfinder, my dad gave it to me when I was in scouts. He was always partial to Buck knives, despite the ridiculously hard heat treatment, but they have a back story.
Fire, cabin, story seems quite appropriate, please.
OK, story goes it starts with Hoyt H. Buck. As a kid, he decided to become a blacksmith, so he apprenticed in Kansas. So what does a tween male working steel learn? Knifemaking!
Rumor has it he would forge, or heat treat anything that was not nailed down. By the time he was 13, word of his skill in the firepit spread to neighboring towns, he would have had a business, but instead he joined the United States Navy.
When he got out, he settled in Mountain Home Idaho, he was there for the attack on Pearl Harbor. With the entry of the USA into WW2 the government asked the public for donations of fixed blade knives to arm the troops with.
So he started pounding on an anvil making knives for our boys. After the war he kept making them, handmade, not production like this one.
Great story, makes me want to own one.
Nah, I carry this for a couple reasons, sentimental first and foremost, that knife in my kitchen, the liquid metal, it can cut straight through this one. In fact, now that we are on the subject, I have a guy that can upgrade that pig sticker of yours with an edge of the same stuff, won't be the whole blade, that would cost more than a Carbanado, but all of the edge and fix that point.
Point, what do you mean point?
Look I know you have the whole escrima DNA and all, Traveler said patiently, but if you ever have to thrust, it needs more penetration. I know a guy, that's all he does. But seriously Wonk, you don't use that monster everyday right?
Nah, I've got one of those Swedish Mora laminated hunting knives. My dad gave me my first one, I bought one for myself and Rhea at Bestow. Much of our jewelry comes in from India and China. It comes in plastic boxes with about a kilometer of tape wrapping the box. These knives help free the jewelry trapped under the tape.
Travler nodded, Mora is good stuff. I think I am ready to fall asleep.
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