Knifin' Around

So for those of you that don't know, Nick and I have a Trailmaster knife. We did a lot of research to determine what the sharpest blade we could afford would be and the Trailmaster won. Well, mostly, it catered to our innate immaturity with the marketing videos. Seriously, you should check out the hilarious videos on the page linked to above.

Anyways, when you have a 9 inch stainless steel bowie knife (of sorts) it's imperative that you get out there every now and again and actually slice stuff. The obvious answer is to roam about the woods doing things parents typically tell children not to do. Like smoking. And getting married too early.

Well, Sunday was one such day for Nick and I. It was a pleasant fall day, we didn't have a whole lot to do and earlier this summer we had visited an abandoned railway grade nearby that has these imminently slice-able weeds that grow about as tall as a person. They're really pulpy and fairy heavy, which makes for incredibly fun slicing. So, we decided to take a stroll and have some fun with the Trailmaster. And of course, we had to bring along our new toy: the Nikon DSLR. After all, good photos make for good memories.

At first we tried photographing the actual slicing in progress, but even at a shutter speed of 2,000 the camera just wasn't fast enough to catch our supersonic slicing attacks. We took a lot of photos and got a few good ones of the dried out weed husks exploding at the moment of bladular impact:

Upon reviewing the photos however, we realized that the best part of them wasn't the slicing, but the faces we were caught making mid-swing. So without further ado, here are the faces made when knifin' around:

We hope you found those as funny as we did. As you'll notice, our faces are rarely in focus as these were taken from larger photographic attempts to capture the knifing carnage. Just the same, look at us in all of our manly glory!

I for one think the second-to-last picture is the funniest, but Nick likes #4 from the top. Nick's Stallone impression is also pretty good.