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This thread is awesome - love cats.
But most breeders don't let you declaw them. She jumps on my head from the floor. Prepare to frequently get slashed by 20 mini karambit's at once. Multiple times a day if you don't play with them enough.
What is the knife on tfar left?
Looks like a Hinderer XM-18.
Pertinux has some great kitten photos. :thumbup:
Here's mine...
pertinux said:I remain frustrated with my Peanut experiences, and given the preponderance of the extant literature supporting others' success with this knife, I continue to be reluctantly being pulled toward the conclusion that it really is just me.
For example, for my latest project I determined to carve a kitten. First, I attempted this feat with my White Owl, with the following result:
I know, I know, the posture is hunched too far forward, the eyes a little buggy, the head out of proportion even for a kitten. Still, you must admit it is a passible rendition. Not only that, but it is posable; here is another angle, with the legs more fully extended:
I muffed the eyebrow whiskers; making them almost as long as the kitten's ears leads to an unintended Samurai effect.
But, I digress. Here's the point: buoyed by my moderate success I next attempted the same project, same setting and pose, with my Peanut, and ....
*Sigh.*
Yes, I must be holding it wrong.
Either that, or-- lightbulb!-- the White Owl is carbon steel, the Peanut blue-scaled stainless. Perhaps I just need a CV Peanut, in a more traditional color?
Oh, I hope.
Too funny!
That "kitten" sure has great taste in knives....
Your pictures remind me of a post I made in a tongue-in-cheek thread about Peanuts (the small Case knives, implied in the following pictures):
~ P.