finally broke in my chopper

I know its not a SYKCO but I figured you guys would enjoy this.

A few glamour shots.



Here are a few for size.


Some shots of the cuts


The finished product.


No hot spots on my hands, although I do have some good calluses (but not nearly as good as when I was doing construction) so that may have helped but I didn't feel any while chopping.

Overall I am pleased with the performance and astounded by the edge retention. Even after chopping enough silver maple and some lilac for a nice cook fire it would make fuzz sticks and slice paper cleanly on the area of the blade that did the most chopping.


The whole pile took about 8 to 10 min of chopping I could have cut that almost in half I would guess if I had a decent chopping block but I was using a 2 1/2 inch branch so I was getting a lot of bounce sometimes.

Nice work,

Good pics! Did you make that chopper?

Thanks

No I had a friend make it for me with my input on what I was looking for. Here is his page he is really well versed in bushcraft.
http://lrbushcraft.com/index.html

That looks like quite a chopper. I wonder if you'd be worried that the tip might break off, since it could come in contact first with whatever you hit. What type of steel is this made from?

Thanks its a nice set up.
No the tip is a thick convex edge and quite sturdy. I did use it a couple times on the big stuff just to see and when it did make it through it would stick into the branch I was chopping on with no ill effects.

Chop off between it and your 1312 is in order!!!

I traded my 1311 for a Rucki (I didn't like the handle) sorry.

Fine, then a chop off between this and your rucki

LOL I may just have to do that. Let me get a decent chopping block first. If I scrape to much off the Rucki I can just have it satin convexed. (mmmmmmmm yeah i like the idea of that with tan liners)

greaser

That is an outstanding piece of cutlery.

Thanks Marthanus
I just hope I can get out to use it more often.

Yea, what's the steel?

Ok Ted sorry it took so long to get to your question but it is A2 tool steel.

Nice looks almost like a blade sports knife

Thanks Psyop after checking it out yes it does doesn't it I guess I knew what I was doing when I designed it. lol