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That little drop point looks cool, rustic, and useful.

Elegant. You gonna mind getting blood on that thing?

Gunstock quality. Impressive.

Man, keeping that ancient material in play . . . that's really cool.

Looks like a very useful shape you chose. I'd love one.

Crudest of the crude, especially for the hours of filing and hand-planing that went into the bone-dry Osage orange, but no one else was gonna fool with the old, bashed blade, and it is more usable now than when found.

Bet it'd be a dandy skinner . . . too functional to be consigned to a box.

Nice story of Great White Northern hospitality. Here's hoping you can post photos.

By one of your blades-in-progress, or do you mean figuratively, out on the paddock?

After using one (smaller than the hefty in this thread), that's a lot more believable. That sort of thing—that a reasonable cleaver can do a fair bit of what my 7" Wusthof chef's knife does—is what was the pleasant surprise. I watched a few cleaver auctions, and they all went relatively rich...

Recently, I had the opportunity (someone else's kitchen) over several days to use a cleaver for the first time and found the knife surprisingly handy. (And so begins CAD, Cleaver Acquisition Disorder? Maybe not, but the one below needed rescuing. The steel and the learning experience ought to be...

Recently, I had the opportunity (someone else's kitchen) over several days to use a cleaver for the first time and found the knife surprisingly handy. (And so begins CAD, Cleaver Acquisition Disorder? Maybe not, but the one below needed rescuing. The steel and the learning experience ought to...

Glad you didn't chop the snake out of fear or to demo a blade. I'm looking at your sites to try and get some insight into your patina process. Looks like the finish is an organic artifact of forging. Instant ancient; pretty cool.