I may have openned Pandora's Box... as I drive in the driveway this afternoon, I have 2 neighborhood kids asking what time the fire is tonight... Well, I always have the knives and fire capability, but, keeping a stock of graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows around for these types of things is tough... we have teenagers around here all the time, and they can hunt down junk food like skunks raiding an open trash container.

One thing I forgot to mention, is that the cheap knife did surprisingly well. It is a Gerber Profile that I picked up a while ago at Walmart, and for under $20, it's pretty good as a messin' around knife. I don't know what type of steel it is, the Gerber box just says something like "surgical stainless steel", but, it's full tang, and a nice drop point design. The handles are hard rubber. For a bargain basement fixed blade with a ballistic nylon sheath, it's pretty good. I'll see if I can find out exactly what kind of steel it is. It does have a coating of some sort, but, it's already starting to show wear, you can see some marks on it in the picture. I cleaned the pitch and stuff off the blade before I took that, it's actually where the coating has been abraded off the blade from splitting stuff.