Well as you may remember I was able to go home for Christmas, it was a wounderful time the drive is just under 800 miles and was great even the passes weren't too bad, a little hairy but not bad. I was able to meet Diceman and his family in Mossoula Montana, it was a great but short visit.

Once at home I was able to show off my supercute little girl and wounderful wife. For Christmas My great wife got me a CS Trailhawk, I had wanted one for a while and am very impressed with it, (pictures to come later).

After Christmas I had a chance to go to about 5 area gun-shops with my dad and just look at all the wounderful tools on the walls and in the cases, I have set my heart on a "scout rifle" and am just looking at all my options, but that is an entire different post with questions.

At home my family has a fireplace and a hearty wood pile to keep it fead, was so thrilled about my new trailhawk I grabed my firesteel and want to work spliting kindeling and making my piles of different sizes, ran in to the laundry room to grab a handful of dryer lint and I was go, I started the fire 3 times with my hawk and steel. One day my S6 was closer so I used it to make fire and found the S6 easier with the medium-large stuff using the batoing method, but the hawk was nicer in the small stuff, just set it on the chop-block and have at it.

One highlight was on New Years day when my dad and I "disassembled" the Christmas tree. He had still not broken in his FBM that he got at blade west. so with my new hawk and the big Busse we went to work. Branches or trunk it didn't matter the carnage was great. The FBM cut like a hatchet but felt like, well, a big knife. While the chopping the tree up my dad grabed a two-liter pop bottle full of water and I cut it clean off in one stroke, with the bottom half left on the table still full to the brim with water, then another stroke to the leftovers again a clean cut all the way through, with watwer splashing all over, it was amazing, then after the tree and pop bottle cutting you could still shave arm-hair, truly amazing.

After the tree was disambled enough, the steel stand was ineed of abuse so I took my Hawk and killed it this is thick sheet metal and the hawk tore it up with out any real edge damage, I was very impressed. After the tree chopping and tree stand destruction, I took the head off my hawk, sanded, stained, and sealed the handel. I think it looks great a little darker.

Time for pictures,
Little Baby Bond having great Christmas .


Me and my new toy.


Tree loftovers.


My dad's FBM, with sheath handmade by Joules360


closeup.


Pop bottle in half

Tree stand caranage


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