2015, the snarkiest year yet!

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james terrio said:
Me too, but it's a good kind of scary :D
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I know, right?! :D

Nice looking cutting board MM

Thanks for the offer Noswad, I'll save you the shipping and go shoot one out my way ;) They are some dirty little creatures. I would make one into a hat for myself... but processing the pelt is a p.i.t.a. :thumbup:
 
my dots are COMPLETELY safe. very comforting.
 
Sunday fun day:







Spent a few hours yesterday piling up all the snow on our backyard. Then like half a day today digging it all out...but at least now I know that given like two solid days, four different shovels, and a near unlimited supply of baileys and hot chocolate, I can totally bang out a tiny half assed shelter for one. Was only wheezing a little bit at the end too. Nailed this winter survival thing.
 
So I had a pretty fun day today. I spent my focus of today spending time with the kiddos. Mid day we all decided to get dressed and head out to running around. While getting dressed my older boy decided to start copying me in every way. I asked him what he was doing and he was 'acting like a man, to be like daddy'. So dressed in his cargo pants he watched as I started loading my EDC gear into my pockets. He promptly leaves and comes back and lets me know that he put his mag light in his pocket. Then he gets this kinda upset kinda look on his face and inquires if I have a knife he could borrow to clip onto his pockets lol. I checked my old collection amd found a Chinese Winchester folder. Its a tiny 3 finger folding knife. I then went to the garage and ground off the edge completely turning it into a butter knife with a little bit of a point. We then had a long serious talk about how knives are tools and we don't play with them, we only use them for special jobs. I would let him carry it, but he had to ask me before he wanted to open/ use it. I told him if I caught him doing it without asking me he would lose the privileged of having one. We spent some time learning how to open and close it safely, then clipped it in our pocket and away we went.
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He asked me to use it twice during the day. Once after hitting wally world to open his treat, and when we got home he wanted more practice opening it and closing it. At the end of the day it gets turned over back to dad for holding until our next adventure :D Love watching him grow :thumbup:
 
Aikiguy said:
Sunday fun day:
Spent a few hours yesterday piling up all the snow on our backyard. Then like half a day today digging it all out...but at least now I know that given like two solid days, four different shovels, and a near unlimited supply of baileys and hot chocolate, I can totally bang out a tiny half assed shelter for one. Was only wheezing a little bit at the end too. Nailed this winter survival thing.
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Looks like a fun day! We don't have much snow at all :D But its still really darn cold!
 
"Heft" is vastly over-rated IMO. I like light tools, especially when I have to carry them around all day and/or use 'em for more than a few minutes at a time. "Light" does not necessarily mean "flimsy", not by a long shot. Balance is more important than total weight anyway... play around some with a couple ABS JS or MS bowies and you'll see what I mean. It's pretty astounding how "light" a 10" blade that weighs well over a pound can "feel".

On the other hand, lots of people like to carry around barely-sharpened $400 bricks of steel in their pockets and huge $10K chunks of various bejeweled metal with time-telling hand-jobbery cobbled to it, on their wrists... so hey, whatever works for ya baby! :)
 
james terrio said:
"Heft" is vastly over-rated IMO. I like light tools, especially when I have to carry them around all day and/or use 'em for more than a few minutes at a time.
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this makes sense, but to me there is a point of diminishing returns, and a tool that is too light can have lousy balance in the hand. Sure, I'll pick a BK-10 over a BK-2 every time (and do), but I MUCH prefer mass at the smaller end of the spectrum. my 2.5" Dragonfly2 would not be enhanced by being even lighter, nor would it reduce back problems from asymmetrical carry. I figure when a knife reaches the point where it might start dragging down your pants, then it's worth considering lightweight options. Or a belt. Or ass implants. :D
 
A good belt takes care of that... At one time I had 3lbs worth of gear hanging from mine (a BK2 was 1.2 lbs of that :D).
 
daizee said:
this makes sense, but to me there is a point of diminishing returns, and a tool that is too light can have lousy balance in the hand.
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Well sure, and a sledge hammer is a different animal than a pocketknife.

Balance is subjective, anyway... some people love knives that feel like a chunk of lead right in your hand, others prefer something more like a baseball bat with more of the weight way out front. It just depends...
 
james terrio said:
Balance is subjective, anyway... some people love knives that feel like a chunk of lead right in your hand, others prefer something more like a baseball bat with more of the weight way out front. It just depends...
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Different strokes for different folks!

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worldwood said:
I think thats pretty cool!!
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It really is. I love that old stuff. Years ago, I was in a friend of mines garage, and his dad had stacks of old Popular Mechanics magazines laying around. I'm talking about from probably the 1920's on up. Cool collection. I should look him up and see if he still has them. You'd be surprised of how many "modern" items that were actually thought of years ago.
 
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