I just posted a sale notice on the Trestle Pine Knives website and thought I’d pass it along. Starting today I’m offering a 15% discount on orders over $50 from the Throwing Knives Axes and Hatchets category. The sale runs through Sunday and there’s some dynamite deals to be had! All you have to do…
Latest News from the Northland
Had an email the other day asking if I had died or just in a catatonic winter doldrums stupor. Well, I’m not dead so I guess you can draw your own conclusion. So what’s the latest news from the Northland. Let’s start with the Fergus Falls, MN Gun Show from a couple weeks ago. This…
Online Selling Gets Tougher and Tougher
While internet businesses continue to expand, online selling gets tougher and tougher. There are a lot of advantages to selling online as opposed to having a brick and mortar storefront. I know as I’ve done both. For nearly 10 years I owned a brick and mortar sporting goods store before arriving at where I am…
Gun & Knife Show This Weekend
Can’t believe this is the first gun & knife show I’ve been to in almost a year! This weekend, February 15-16 try to join me in Fergus Falls, MN at the National Guard Armory. Hours are 9AM-5PM on Saturday and 9AM-3PM on Sunday. I’m bringing in a lot of the new products you’ve seen in…
Vintage Ax Sharpening Project
Back in the 1950’s I had a relative working for one of the major lumber companies in the Northwestern US. At some point in time, he gifted my dad with what he referred to as a ‘boys ax’. It measures just 25″ and weighs a grand total of 3#’s. I like axes and hatchets and…
Cold Weather EDC
It’s that time of the year when I start whining. The days are too short. It’s colder then the hinges of hell. Right now it’s +1F and we’re looking at -21F overnite with miserable windchills. The battery on my wife’s Expedition died. Ice conditions suck for ice fishing. Get the picture????? When I get the…
Throwing Knives, Axes and an Ill Spent Youth
If you’re easily offended, have thin skin or have a bent toward political correctness….move along. This post isn’t for the weak of heart. You see, I’m gonna discuss my ill spent youth and my yearning to fulfill a childhood fantasy of throwing knives and axes. My introduction to axes and hatchets goes back many years….
Condor Mini Bushlore Review
I’ve gotten hooked on the powdered premium steels but every now and then, along comes another knife that catches my eye. The Condor Mini Bushlore is one of those knives. Let’s start with the fact that the Mini Bushlore has a 2 7/8″ blade of 1075 steel. In simple terms, the 1075 has slightly less…
iKC Contest Winner!!
Bryan Wyszkowski is the winner of the iKC Christmas contest TSA Eureka Jack SFO ! Congrats to Bryan for winning a great looking knife donated by Erin at TSA Knives to iKC for Jan’s Christmas contest. Now, I’ll remind everyone you still have a chance to be a winner through the Trestle Pine Knives website….
Christmas is HERE!!!
December 22. Just a couple more days and Christmas is HERE! Every year I marvel at how the time span between Christmas’ gets shorter and shorter. Sixty years ago I would have bet there were at least 465 days between Christmas’. Now is seems more like about 165 days. Don’t get me wrong, I love…