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Blade Show Texas March 2022
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Climber
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Hey TENTEX,
Nice Find... He Shoots, He Scores!!
Does that say "A2D" on that there Cap-Lifter Nail-Puller?
Does that mean it's A2 Tool Steel with a "Delta" Heat Treatment?
I've not seen that designation, I'm merely guessing. . .
So Edge-Uh-Kate Me...
And that Handle Material...?
My Top Guesses:
Acrylic Basket-Weave?
Scottie Tan Plaid?
"Wheat Chex Under Glass?" (My Personal Favorite...)
(In Case Of Hunger, Break Glass, Verrry Carefully... A True Survival Tool.)
Oh, Wait; I know: Assassin's Loom Weave from the Film Wanted...!?
Uh Oh! I think I see an over/under thread they missed...!
You Know what That means: Someone... is going to Die...
(If Blade-Forumites reading this post haven't viewed that Film: Every Blade Buff Needs to:
So go find it & watch it: You'll be Glad you did =8^O )
I Await your Rep-LY
to fully Satis-FY
my Innate Climber's Curiosi-TIE...
Nice Find... He Shoots, He Scores!!
Does that say "A2D" on that there Cap-Lifter Nail-Puller?
Does that mean it's A2 Tool Steel with a "Delta" Heat Treatment?
I've not seen that designation, I'm merely guessing. . .
So Edge-Uh-Kate Me...
And that Handle Material...?
My Top Guesses:
Acrylic Basket-Weave?
Scottie Tan Plaid?
"Wheat Chex Under Glass?" (My Personal Favorite...)
(In Case Of Hunger, Break Glass, Verrry Carefully... A True Survival Tool.)
Oh, Wait; I know: Assassin's Loom Weave from the Film Wanted...!?
Uh Oh! I think I see an over/under thread they missed...!
You Know what That means: Someone... is going to Die...
(If Blade-Forumites reading this post haven't viewed that Film: Every Blade Buff Needs to:
So go find it & watch it: You'll be Glad you did =8^O )
I Await your Rep-LY
to fully Satis-FY
my Innate Climber's Curiosi-TIE...
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TENTEX
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Hey TENTEX,
Nice Find... He Shoots, He Scores!!
Does that say "A2D" on that there Cap-Lifter Nail-Puller?
Does that mean it's A2 Tool Steel with a "Delta" Heat Treatment?
I've not seen that designation, I'm merely guessing. . .
So Edge-Uh-Kate Me...
And that Handle Material...?
My Top Guesses:
Acrylic Basket-Weave?
Scottie Tan Plaid?
"Wheat Chex Under Glass?" (My Personal Favorite...)
(In Case Of Hunger, Break Glass, Verrry Carefully... A True Survival Tool.)
Oh, Wait; I know: Assassin's Loom Weave from the Film Wanted...!?
Uh Oh! I think I see an over/under thread they missed...!
You Know what That means: Someone... is going to Die...
(If Blade-Forumites reading this post haven't viewed that Film: Every Blade Buff Needs to:
So go find it & watch it: You'll be Glad you did =8^O )
I Await your Rep-LY
to fully Satis-FY
my Innate Climber's Curiosi-TIE...
M4 “PBT” | Attn2DetailMercantil
Dont mess up your blade using it for things it wasn't designed for! Use your A2D PBT!!Pocket Pry Bar - Bottle Opener - Tool OAL 4.75" .150" thick64 Rockwell C HardnessBurlap Micarta Scales
www.attn2detailmercantile.com
Don’t remember the steel. I’ll try and find out
Climber
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Ah, I see All now... Thanks, TENTEX...!
"A2D" is the Company Name: Attention To (2) Detail... (What I'm trying to pay... Attention to details)
The Steel is M4, the upgrade from the already wondrous M2 -- M2 is a material I have a small utility knife in, my friend from this forum made me years ago; that works Great on Steak & Potatoes, Veggies and other meal items at restaurants. I think I've used M4 Steel in Big Metal Snips, and they cut through lesser hardened metals like nobody's business. I know as a Locksmith, I've cut through tens of thousands of metal keys, some German Steel keys that are the Ruin of other cutters, with M2 Cutting Wheels; and they Rock in cutting efficiency. Not that that has anything to do with that tool you bought; Just my experience with Molybdenum based steels, so I can testify that they are worthy...
The Tool Name is PBT, which I figure must mean Pry / Bottle / Tool or Pry Bar Tool, or something similar: as the description on that page says "PBT -- Pocket Pry Bar - Bottle Opener - Tool" ... Yeah, that's it, I guess...
And the Handle material?
"Burlap Micarta Scales" the page read.
I still think Wheat Chex Under Glass sounds better
Heck, even Assassin's Loom Weave sounds better, but not everyone may agree: YMMV ...
And for a 200 Dollar Cap Lifter & Pry Bar -- Cap Lifters being giveaway items at some Fests & Gatherings -- that May seem a bit exorbitant to poor-boys like me ( & MacLaren1, He says he's a poor-boy, too) BUT...
Perhaps NOT... I Now See A USE for that GEM that You May Not Guess At Right Away by Looking at it...
I'll tell you my sad tale: I had a Mishap due to excess "windage" two weeks ago;
While kneeling over my driver's seat, not quite out or in the vehicle, after arriving home one Eve,
My SUV door blew shut upon me in the huge winds we've been having this Winter;
I pushed back, hard.
I heard a CRACK at its end of its travel, as the Wind Let Up Right At That Moment, Naturally...
So much for the double detente stop points in my vehicle door's travel anymore.
But wait, it gets worse.
So, then I go to Close the door, and it won't budge.
I get out, push gingerly on it & hear that wrenching of metal we Never wish to hear...
I can close it, but as I do so, as it's dark out at that hour, I realize "something is terribly Wrong."
I go to OPEN it, and it resists!
Flashlight now out, I see the Front Fender, above the Front Left Wheel Well is Jammed In about an INCH & A HALF out of Alignment, somehow from the Door Movement! How the Heck did the Door get so far from its hinge Movement? "Me No Know..." But, I all-too-hastily grabbed a PRY BAR, And Pried it back, with my Flashlight as my only light to see by, all the way down the door; for the pry bar only affects a small area at a time, Right?
BIG MISTAKE-O, INDEED-O...!! Although I pried the Front Fender back into alignment, the Driver Door now has 36 bare-metal dings in it from my Hasty Pry Bar Actions: Rag Anyone? Didn't see it in the wavering hand-held light beam, in the continuing ferocious winds, as I was focused on the fender problem, Not thinking that I was creating more problems along the way. ALAS... {Welcome to my Current View of Life: To Fix One Problem, I Create 36 More Problems Along My Not-So-Merry-Way... Hmm.}
SO, IF one had a Micarta-Handled Little Pry Bar -- like the little Gem that YOU picked up at the Texas Blade Show -- it might NOT have put 36 bare-metal dings into aforesaid door, as the (Wheat Chex) handle would/might have shielded the paint at the fulcrum point of the lever action; at least methinks.
But what do I know? I'm the guy that puts 3 Dozen Dings into his SUV door by flashlight in ferocious winds without seeing it happening...
All that to Say: Think Outside the Box, when you Use that Golden-Brown Handled Little Gem you picked up at the Show... I now know that If I had roamed around a Blade Show, Disappointed in No Busse-Kin being Plied for Sale, a small Wonder-Kin Tool may appeal to me as well... At Least Now...
(Then Again, a Simple Rag would have made my evening a "Little Brighter" in lieu of when I'm not thinking "all too Brightly" myself...)
Let us know if You Use Your PBT fashioned from uber-hard (64 Rc!) Very-Tough M4 Tool Steel, in Unusual Ways:
I For One would Love to Read about a success story; that's one that doesn't end with a cringe...!
Enjoy!
"A2D" is the Company Name: Attention To (2) Detail... (What I'm trying to pay... Attention to details)
The Steel is M4, the upgrade from the already wondrous M2 -- M2 is a material I have a small utility knife in, my friend from this forum made me years ago; that works Great on Steak & Potatoes, Veggies and other meal items at restaurants. I think I've used M4 Steel in Big Metal Snips, and they cut through lesser hardened metals like nobody's business. I know as a Locksmith, I've cut through tens of thousands of metal keys, some German Steel keys that are the Ruin of other cutters, with M2 Cutting Wheels; and they Rock in cutting efficiency. Not that that has anything to do with that tool you bought; Just my experience with Molybdenum based steels, so I can testify that they are worthy...
The Tool Name is PBT, which I figure must mean Pry / Bottle / Tool or Pry Bar Tool, or something similar: as the description on that page says "PBT -- Pocket Pry Bar - Bottle Opener - Tool" ... Yeah, that's it, I guess...
And the Handle material?
"Burlap Micarta Scales" the page read.
I still think Wheat Chex Under Glass sounds better
Heck, even Assassin's Loom Weave sounds better, but not everyone may agree: YMMV ...
And for a 200 Dollar Cap Lifter & Pry Bar -- Cap Lifters being giveaway items at some Fests & Gatherings -- that May seem a bit exorbitant to poor-boys like me ( & MacLaren1, He says he's a poor-boy, too) BUT...
Perhaps NOT... I Now See A USE for that GEM that You May Not Guess At Right Away by Looking at it...
I'll tell you my sad tale: I had a Mishap due to excess "windage" two weeks ago;
While kneeling over my driver's seat, not quite out or in the vehicle, after arriving home one Eve,
My SUV door blew shut upon me in the huge winds we've been having this Winter;
I pushed back, hard.
I heard a CRACK at its end of its travel, as the Wind Let Up Right At That Moment, Naturally...
So much for the double detente stop points in my vehicle door's travel anymore.
But wait, it gets worse.
So, then I go to Close the door, and it won't budge.
I get out, push gingerly on it & hear that wrenching of metal we Never wish to hear...
I can close it, but as I do so, as it's dark out at that hour, I realize "something is terribly Wrong."
I go to OPEN it, and it resists!
Flashlight now out, I see the Front Fender, above the Front Left Wheel Well is Jammed In about an INCH & A HALF out of Alignment, somehow from the Door Movement! How the Heck did the Door get so far from its hinge Movement? "Me No Know..." But, I all-too-hastily grabbed a PRY BAR, And Pried it back, with my Flashlight as my only light to see by, all the way down the door; for the pry bar only affects a small area at a time, Right?
BIG MISTAKE-O, INDEED-O...!! Although I pried the Front Fender back into alignment, the Driver Door now has 36 bare-metal dings in it from my Hasty Pry Bar Actions: Rag Anyone? Didn't see it in the wavering hand-held light beam, in the continuing ferocious winds, as I was focused on the fender problem, Not thinking that I was creating more problems along the way. ALAS... {Welcome to my Current View of Life: To Fix One Problem, I Create 36 More Problems Along My Not-So-Merry-Way... Hmm.}
SO, IF one had a Micarta-Handled Little Pry Bar -- like the little Gem that YOU picked up at the Texas Blade Show -- it might NOT have put 36 bare-metal dings into aforesaid door, as the (Wheat Chex) handle would/might have shielded the paint at the fulcrum point of the lever action; at least methinks.
But what do I know? I'm the guy that puts 3 Dozen Dings into his SUV door by flashlight in ferocious winds without seeing it happening...
All that to Say: Think Outside the Box, when you Use that Golden-Brown Handled Little Gem you picked up at the Show... I now know that If I had roamed around a Blade Show, Disappointed in No Busse-Kin being Plied for Sale, a small Wonder-Kin Tool may appeal to me as well... At Least Now...
(Then Again, a Simple Rag would have made my evening a "Little Brighter" in lieu of when I'm not thinking "all too Brightly" myself...)
Let us know if You Use Your PBT fashioned from uber-hard (64 Rc!) Very-Tough M4 Tool Steel, in Unusual Ways:
I For One would Love to Read about a success story; that's one that doesn't end with a cringe...!
Enjoy!
Climber
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2001
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Thanks for those kind words, Tex...!
I'm Glad You Enjoyed it!
Good, Bad, or Ugly, that's the way it went down; I might as well share, and make someone else laugh!
I look forward to reading your story; And I have NO Doubt a Great Use will come up for that Pry Tool.
And in the meantime, You can keep an Accurate Count of
How Many Bottle Caps or Nails Have "Succumbed to its Prying Might"
Those are legitimate "war stories" Right...?
I'm Glad You Enjoyed it!
Good, Bad, or Ugly, that's the way it went down; I might as well share, and make someone else laugh!
I look forward to reading your story; And I have NO Doubt a Great Use will come up for that Pry Tool.
And in the meantime, You can keep an Accurate Count of
How Many Bottle Caps or Nails Have "Succumbed to its Prying Might"
Those are legitimate "war stories" Right...?