Carbon steel slipjoints are good for you...

flyfishrman

flyfishrman

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It's true.

I'm like most guys, a big fan of meat and potatoes. Funny thing happens though when I have a nice carbon slippie in my pocket. I eat more fruit:eek:! I'm not trying to be healthy, but I desperately want to get a nice patina going and that has a direct impact on the number of apples I peel and oranges I cut into. I think I've stumbled into a way for all of us to convince our wives to let us buy more knives. Let them know that they are actually good for our health;).

One of you guys try that story out and let me know how it goes:D:D.
 
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree. I eat a BUNCH more fruit when I have ANY slippie in my pocket. They just beg to be used to cut soft fruit.

Nice post,
Brett
 
FF, This is so funny that you bring this up.

I swear. This is true. Yesterday morning my wife and I were enjoying one of the few Saturday mornings where both of us have the day off. Relaxing in bed my wife got up and made herself some breakfast. Ham & egg on an English muffin. She asked if I wanted one and I really wasn't in the mood so I told her I'd get something when I went down for a cup of coffee.

She returned to the bedroom to finish watching whatever it was we were watching on TV. I went downstairs and returned with an apple and two oranges in the bowl that had a handfull of remaining grapes. Grabbed my 34OT Stockman and sat down with the Mrs. for a relaxing day indoors as the temp outside was single digits.

Her response was typical. "Oh, I'm sitting here eating this and you're eating healthy food?! Are you trying to make me feel guilty?"

Unfortunately, the idea of fruit, patina, and carbon steel slip-joint knives wasn't even in my head as the blades of the 34OT are almost black as it is. I just grabbed what I wanted and got barked at for it :p.

Next time I'll keep this in mind and grab a knife that has no patina. Once I run out of those I'll have to buy more. Thanks :D.

Chris
 
Mmmm, ham and egg on an English muffin!:thumbup: Did she have some melted Velveta cheese on it too?

Yummy!:D
 
For me it's the same,
but don't buy a Laguiole.........you'll drink much more wine :)

regards
surfer
 
flyfishrman said:
It's true.

I'm like most guys, a big fan of meat and potatoes. Funny thing happens though when I have a nice carbon slippie in my pocket. I eat more fruit:eek:! I'm not trying to be healthy, but I desperately want to get a nice patina going and that has a direct impact on the number of apples I peel and oranges I cut into. I think I've stumbled into a way for all of us to convince our wives to let us buy more knives. Let them know that they are actually good for our health;).

One of you guys try that story out and let me know how it goes:D:D.
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It works, trust me. When my wife saw how healthy my snacking was when I was trying to apply a patina to the Case CV Trapper I have, she actually offered to go out and buy me another knife if I'd continue to eat healthy! That's actually what led up to me getting the Case CV Stockman I'm carrying as my Lone Wolf Project knife for the year.
 
I even peel after diner fruit for the girls at work these days. Builds up patina on the knife, lets me show off my slippies in the ultimate sheeple friendly way and on top of that it makes them happy (and whatever makes thém happy... :D)
 
And you get more exercise--- You see if I don't have a carbon steel on me I walk upstairs to get one and then walk back down so I can use it to eat fruit. So true
 
zeppos said:
I even peel after diner fruit for the girls at work these days. Builds up patina on the knife, lets me show off my slippies in the ultimate sheeple friendly way and on top of that it makes them happy (and whatever makes thém happy... :D)
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And you gotta love the girls..:D
 
navihawk said:
I have a little starting on my Mooremaker. I used it to cut up a steak.
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Not a bad way to go if one can get away with it. Some knives that are provided top cut steaks are pretty sorry. (However, some female partners take umbrage at such applications for reasons which escape hairy savages such as myself. Possibly a good means of sorting these ladies out?!)

What I don't recommend is what I saw some Yahoo do at a restaurant, a few weeks ago. He was cutting his steak with a knife, a SAK as far as I could tell. No problem there. But, when he was finished, HE LICKED THE THING OFF! It was a good thing for that idiot that he probably did not know how to properly sharpen a knife!
 
You're ruining me. I never carried anything before. Then I bought a Vic Cadet. Then a cv peanut, then an ss peanut, then an ss mini-trapper, then a Buck cadet, & finally a lime yellow Mora.
Now I'm going to have to get a cv trapper, or stockman, or maybe a carbon Mora. OH I DON'T KNOW, & ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!
 
HMC said:
You're ruining me. I never carried anything before. Then I bought a Vic Cadet. Then a cv peanut, then an ss peanut, then an ss mini-trapper, then a Buck cadet, & finally a lime yellow Mora.
Now I'm going to have to get a cv trapper, or stockman, or maybe a carbon Mora. OH I DON'T KNOW, & ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!
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We all feel the same, so why dont you make the best of it and get all three. :p
 
stockman242 said:
We all feel the same, so why dont you make the best of it and get all three. :p
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Then take a look at some old knives and put a few of those back to work and your done. :D.
 
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