Meet the friendly side of bushcraft with the Humboldt, which is a word that holds the distinction of the single most often mistyped in this entire blurb. Hum-bold-t. With a D and a T. There you go. It's named after a kind of penguin, naturally.
Look, everybody has their shtick, alright?
Rest assured, all you'll have to do is have this in your hand and give your firewood a mean look and it's liable to spit all by itself. The Humboldt is second in my series of ludicrously overkill bushcraft and outdoors knives and this one is a chopper through and through. At a nominal 12-3/4" long and highly absurd 1/4" plus thickness, it is nevertheless bereft of a point. This is much like the blunt-ish beak its namesake prominently sports, at least if we really stretch ourselves with the analogy.
It is a mere, and I say mere, nominal 2-1/16" in breadth, and as such can be slightly lighter than my flagship Emperor from which it is derived at 20.09 ounces or 698.8 grams (or 2850 carats, if you really prefer).
I keep saying "nominal" here because nominal as you know is an old Indian word that means "tenuous correlation with reality." Each and every Humboldt is hand made at great expenditure of effort by yours truly, usually with me grinning like a madman the entire time. Thus there are ever so slight variations from piece to piece because I am not a machine.
What is a machine, of course, is my 3D printer which is how the Humboldt's scales are made — They're the same ones as my other full size bushcraft knives. As such they're interchangeable, exchangeable, eminently changeable which is the whole point. The current colorways of the Humboldt start with scales that actually have a translucent base, so they catch the light and/or let it shine through slightly in various interesting ways. They're made of durable and impact resistant ABS, and I print them completely solid so they're not going anywhere. Unlike your brand name bushcraft knife, these are neither permanent nor bespoke, so if you mess yours up they're easily replaced. Three hollow bolts allow cordage to pass through, for use with a lanyard (which is definitely not included).
Each and every Humboldt knife comes included with a Kydex sheath with a belt loop preattached and rivet holes spaced as to be Tek-Lok compatible. Proudly carry yours on the trail or around the campsite, and confident in the knowledge that your knife will appear "friendly" to passers by with its blunt tip and not make you look like the Hyde Park Slasher or something.
