"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Will Power said:
@meako The other day some bearded hipster in his own unique bubble, earphones on and scrolling avidly, just stepped out in front of me in the car park area. Fortunately I was going slowly and alert...but this obsession with connectivity bothers me:eek:
About the knife, the GEC bog chain 15 is too big, would get wrecked with keys etc. So I suppose it is a modern, the Chive is OK nicely put together and not too big, but that flipper opener concerns me...A Ken Onion CRKT I have is a brilliant Modern, thin blade too which slices well, excellently made and light but it has no safety and I don't dare carry it in the pocket-or bag- as I fear it can open just like that...The Chive has this speed safe lock but looks none too confident:rolleyes: Saw an Al Mar keychain knife in Micarta but 125 USD??? uh uh!:D
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I googled "keychain knife" and got a couple of top twenty lists.
 
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Will Power said:
The other day some bearded hipster in his own unique bubble, earphones on and scrolling avidly, just stepped out in front of me in the car park area. Fortunately I was going slowly and alert...but this obsession with connectivity bothers me:eek:
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A few years ago I was driving in a grocery store parking lot and saw someone stepping out in front of me while staring down at their phone. I stopped... and they proceeded to walk right into the front of my stopped car. Then they had the audacity to look up at me, throw their hands in the air and say "What the _ _ _ _?" at me. :rolleyes: Funny thing is... they did NOT have headphones in... perhaps I should have wavered from my usual polite frame of mind and gave them a taste of my German VW Jetta horn. o_O
 
I think it's a great time to be a traditional knife user and collector. Lots of great knives that make for nice collection pieces as well as ones that are super practical. I have gotten to use my Possum Skinner on a deer and fish caught on a very nice day of ice fishing with family. It was delicious cooked in my air fryer for me and my fiancee.
 
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I remember DJ's knife as being small, serrated, and carried in a man-purse. I always pictured a Vic parer, but I'm not sure CC is explicit that it's a FB. And how old was it? Bought in AZ or Sonorra?
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Speaking of thread-appropriate, I'll take my CC rant to trad blades and books.
 
RayseM said:
screened porch screened porch - are you on a CC rant? I hadn't noticed that level of intensity.

Traditional Blades & Books would make a good thread. :thumbsup:

Ray
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https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/blades-upon-books-traditionals.1472512/page-33#post-18742515 :thumbsup::thumbsup:


L.H.S said:
This is gonna come out of nowhere, as I basically never post in this thread, but I find it rather amusing when someone who in the past has railed incessantly against "flippers" and really any markup on a knife on here and especially Facebook then once they get a knife that is currently trendy and commanding high secondary prices comes in and puts it up for sale for ~5x the dealer price.

If this kind of post isn't allowed or wanted here I'll be happy to delete it.
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Ridiculous
 
RayseM said:
screened porch screened porch - are you on a CC rant? I hadn't noticed that level of intensity.

Traditional Blades & Books would make a good thread. :thumbsup:

Ray
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Prester John said:
I think that thread may exist already:
"Blades upon Books -- Traditional", or something like that.
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RayseM said:
Ramrodmb Ramrodmb Thanks for that link - now I can read screened porch screened porch 's rant :)

Ray
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Yup. That's where I put it.
I'm doing a lot of skimming.

"'How does Mescalito teach the good life, Don Juan?
He shows it to you.
How does he show it to you, Don Juan?
It appears as a teaching in front of you.
Is it like a picture in front of you, Don Juan?
No, it's a teaching in front of you.
Does Mescalito talk to humans, Don Juan?
Yes, but not in words.
How does Mescalito talk to humans, Don Juan?
It varies. Sometimes in the reverberations from being struck on the head with a shovel.'
I thought he was becoming tired of my questions."

[Good call, I'll bet.]

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It's quite 11pm, snow started falling down for a while. We have been warned, so tomorrow morning I'll go out and watch the usual big mess in Paris. Fortunately this is not Chicago or Finland!
I remember years ago, late in the evening, the place Pigalle was all covered in white, there was a tramp whistling the few cars on the avenue. Nearly all had the same bad reflex and braked instantly, with the car spinning around (could not be today as the place changed ) and the clochard having a good barrel of laugh! :)
 
Jolipapa Jolipapa At least you don't get woken up at 4a.m. by some monster tractor shovelling and ploughing snow outside your window, bang! Roar of powerful engine:eek: We've had a tonne of snow these past days, can't get to the country place as it's cut off and I can't find anyone to do the snow work-they prefer the city:D
 
OK help for a technically challenged old git please;)

Recently, my MacBook kept nagging me to update to Mojave as a replacement for the previous one ( Dunno) Took a while but went very smoothly. However, the photo editing part on Photos has altered, I cannot find the tool which enables you to brush out various things like reflections of fingers/faces on bolsters, addresses you don't want seen in photos etc. Where is it anyone?:eek:
 
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-8 here and still snowing. High predicted of -6F. Very cold for us, and everything is closed.
If I can contrive to dress warmly enough to go out and clear the snow, it might be worth a picture.
 
Will Power said:
OK help for a technically challenged old git please;)

Recently, my MacBook kept nagging me to update to Mojave as a replacement for the previous one ( Dunno) Took a while but went very smoothly. However, the photo editing part on Photos has altered, I cannot find the tool which enables you to brush out various things like reflections of fingers/faces on bolsters, addresses you don't want seen in photos etc. Where is it anyone?:eek:
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In edit, click the "adjust" button, scroll down to the "retouch" part of the menu, you will see the "bandaid" with the slider bar that allows you to set the size of the "brush".
 
currently -4 here. SWMBO works in Des Moines and comes home on the weekends -- it's up to -17 currently.
she is wearing long johns, flannel lined jeans, and a sweater inside the office as their HVAC can't keep up.
I'm at home with the dogs - didn't seem right to make them sit outside in the -25 wind chill for 10 hours.
 
Will Power said:
Jolipapa Jolipapa At least you don't get woken up at 4a.m. by some monster tractor shovelling and ploughing snow outside your window, bang! Roar of powerful engine:eek: We've had a tonne of snow these past days, can't get to the country place as it's cut off and I can't find anyone to do the snow work-they prefer the city:D
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It's 3°C, so the snow did not stay downtown, for once, preventive measures exceeded the real risk. Problem, it was market day today but except the fishmonger and cheese shop, all other places were empty as they come from the country...
Happily there' an excellent Chinese takeaway, so on for hakao, siomai and sate beef with noodles! :thumbsup::)
 
I got out and throwed the snow after all. I wanted to rake some of the thickest stuff off the roof anyway. My right eyelashes froze, but that was the worst of it. It was 0*F when I got back in, so they were wrong about the day's high.
 
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