The problem is that lawyers are everywhere: under rocks, snake bellies etc! lol <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Please don't sue me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" />

Ok so I'll just describe the mod I had in mind to improve this design and then if Dan made it, it would obviously be different to the photochop. The mod I would make would be to extend the area after the handle and before the blade by about an inch or so this could maybe be done with having a double choil.This would throw even more of the weight up front for chopping while still enabling you to choke up and use it as a knife !

I like it but I don't use the skinners I have now.
Hides come off pretty easy with a sharp field knife anyway, but if Dan DID make one............ <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I thought the no photoshop rule was directed at the contest, not general knife discussion, am I missing something

What if Dan was already going to make that design or something like it and now he's not because of this post?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!

YOU'RE ROCKIN' THE BOAT PEOPLE! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" />

so then if what you folks are saying is true then... say there is something we do NOT want to see made photoshop it and it will get passed over in the design meetings. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

QUICK!!! Someone photochop some mudder handles onto a Sus Scrofa <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" />

+1 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

there you go, just keep all the swords and big choppers out of photoshop and we will be okay <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

However, I like the man's idea: a small hatchet with Res-C handle, choil and a tip.

When I first saw in pictures the Paul's Hatchet, I felt two questions in my mind:
1) Isn't it too lightweight on the head to chop like a hatchet?!
and
2) Why doesn't it have a tip??
A tip would not affect the chopping ability in this case! To the contrary: attaching a tip to it, would make it even more forward-balanced with more weight behind the edge and would also give a lot more possible uses to the same tool!

I think big Dan can still make such a knife with no problem if he'll make the tip and the edge profile a little bit different from the picture. The basic source of the image is anyway a bussekin made tool after all. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Cheers!