A recent convert...

[T. Erdelyi]

Welcome to the dark side and remember, we got cookies.

It starts like this and before you know it, you got boxes all over like this.

 

[2Dead]

Welcome!! A Case CV Mini Trapper was my first too

 

[silenthunterstudios]

Watch out they are addictive! Check out the Queen canoe, although it is a single spring knife. Next, the canittler from Canal Street is a very cool knife, wish I would've kept mine but I am addicted to trading for new stuff. Last, but not least, the GEC canoe is another nice pattern.

 

[pistonsandgears]

Welcome, great looking knife you have there. My first knives were traditionals as a kid. A Case sway back jack is what got me started back into traditionals and it's still one of my favorites, wish they hadn't quit making them.

 

[VictorLouis]

Very nice canoe there, and welcome here.

 

[Hale Storm]

I find that a traditional slip joint kind of makes you slow down and just gives you a little memory of a simpler time.... maybe of grandpa, or your old man.... maybe of something you never even got to experience, but maybe would have liked to.

Well said!:thumbup:

 

[KBA]

Welcome sir, hope you enjoy your time here. Love the patina on that canoe.

 

[davek14]

Thanks guys! The electrical tapeople keeps coolant, grease and oil out of a recent cut at the knuckle. I am a machinist and before steel is deburred, it can slice like no other. This cut was a result of a freshly machined piece of steel. .

I've done the exact same thing many times. Another trick is regular old vaseline under the bandaid. Keeps even the detergent based coolants out.

I was also a machinist for the last half of my working life, and I know what you mean about the coolant. It gets everywhere. Can't begin to guess how many parts I cranked out on a Bridgeport mill or Harding lathe. My knife for most of my machinist life was a Buck 301 stockman. They used to drop off the round stock for the lathes in bundles taped together with greasy filthy plastic tape that had to be cut three or four places before we could stack the stuff on the racks. Some parts we made were machined out of delrin, so the burrs were cut off with the pocket knife. A really sharp knife worked better than the debarring tool.

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Yup,yup. I use my pocket knife to hit corners of plastic pieces all the time. The deburr tools get long straight edges but not corners well. People borrow my knife for that use since it works so well. I have found that, say, Rough Rider steel will dull to working sharp (not sharp enough) with one or three cuts of hard plastic while a good carbon lasts longer. A piece of carbide round stock to steel it and you're good to go all day (and sharpen when you get home).

My machine was down for repair for 2-3 weeks, just up yesterday. I ran a little Bridgeport in that time.

I wish they made a machinist's knife with a carbon steel blade to keep wicked sharp and a small blade hardened to 62rc or so (harder than woodpecker lips, as the saying goes) to deburr steel with.

Anyways... OP, sorry for the rambling. Welcome to traditionals. It is nice to have 2 or three pieces of sharp steel on you id'n it.

Hey, get this guy some cookies.

 

[Old & In The Way]

Welcome!