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Thanks guys for all your thoughts and good wishes, it's good to be back on the Forum. The past few months have been difficult ones for both me and the kids, but our faith and the love and caring of so many good friends has seen us through. I've been reading the topics daily over the months and have really enjoyed the great knowledge you all have to impart. Thanks again guys. Nick
P.S. This part of the Midlands is really green and beautiful Bill - you'll have to look us up when you next come over - it's not all dreary!
 
And we are glad to see you back, RevNick.

My pal was from Derby as I remember and I've never been to the Midlands so can't say if Derby might be "dreary" or not -- but my pal was a bit sarcastic and pessimistic. He was a WWII survivor, maybe that had something to do with it. But, a good guy and a good engineer with a sweet family and I remember him well.

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Uncle Bill
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Sorry about all my postings you had to edit Rusty, I thought that my PC was playing up when it wouldn't display my message, so I ended up trying a few times and gave up in the end. However today I see that the old 'steam driven' PC had been working after all. Thanks agin for all the good wishes guys and sorry for taking up so much space on this page. Nick.
 
thanks gents, for your advice, i will think about the bir gorka bowie. i must confess, it does look good. i was never one of the one-knife-for-all-jobs crowd, i always thought that one knife that will remove splinters, and chop logs, would be too big for the former, and too small for the latter. i always carry a small knife, so i don't need a jack-of-all-trades, i just need a BIG blade to do the heavy work with.
how thick is the bowie, if i might ask? i think a thick blade, as long as the edge geometry is ok, is preferable to a thin blade, if only for confidence in a blade.
does anyone have any experiences with the bowie that they could share with me?
 
I believe it started with a half inch spine, but may have been slimmed down to 7/16, IIRC.
You might want to special order one full thickness (not!).

A couple years ago Busse and Mad Dog knives were having a war of words with Cold Steel also thrown in for good measure over whose knife was
( biggest/best/strongest/toughest/could take most abuse ). More accurately, their advocates were putting out enough hot air to inflate all the entrants at the Reno balloon races. All makers used 1/4" or less blade stock.

Cobalt, who may still be around on other forums, designed it. ( Unfortunately, his wife found out ).

"Well let me tell you all a story bout a man named Cobalt, on that tragic and fateful day..." (from MTA by Kingston Trio)

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"Holiness is not a very serious business, and it is a very serious business indeed. I misspeak - it is not a solemn business."
 
Rus,
Next you will be reciting" The Super Skier " by the Kingston Trio!Got you on that didn't I? Better hang down your head with you know who??
jim
 
I do remember Cliff Stamp's little brother dropping one of his khuks off a mountain and it sustaining minimal damage. I thing it was the bowie I offered to torture test for him by dropping it off the Grand Canyon but he never got around to sending it. Oh Cliff?

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"Holiness is not a very serious business, and it is a very serious business indeed. I misspeak - it is not a solemn business."
 
Jim, we don't have white oak trees out here. And I can take care of Grayson.

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"Holiness is not a very serious business, and it is a very serious business indeed. I misspeak - it is not a solemn business."
 
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