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

[Cambertree]

The Germans were prepared for the blitzkrieg...they invented methamphetamine and gave it to troops to keep them going without sleep for days at a time.
No sleep is very bad for peoples minds.
It was marketed as a pick me up for housewives in chocolate bars.
Perveteen.

Yeah, the German slang term for methamphetamine/Pervitin was actually ‘Blitz’, which gives a new meaning to ‘Blitzkrieg’.

I flew to New York last month, so was basically knifeless for a few days (aside from borrowing one of Mom's SAK Classics to have in my pocket) While wandering around Chinatown, I saw a lady selling various odds & ends spread out on a blanket on the sidewalk. Couldn't resist buying a $2 folding knife just to ward off the no-knife-shakes. I just got a package in the mail; Mom went back and found the lady and bought a few more of them, kept one and mailed me a couple.

There's something cool about a friction folder stripped down to nothing but function. There are a few interesting details. The white part is a very thin metal collar, and there's a nail head driven into the wood at the spot where the tang of the knife hits when open. I wish I could find out what the writing says:

Nice one r8shell. Context can change meaning, but the characters basically mean ‘Smooth and Sharp’. The first character means a river, so presumably it’s a poetic modifier to the smooth cutting claim. The ‘river’ character might also be a family or persons name.

 

[1066vik]

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If you're on a phone/touchscreen device, I have no idea.

cool - right click on the arrow, then select details.
thanks!

 

[r8shell]

Nice one r8shell. Context can change meaning, but the characters basically mean ‘Smooth and Sharp’. The first character means a river, so presumably it’s a poetic modifier to the smooth cutting claim. The ‘river’ character might also be a family or persons name.

Thanks! "Smooth and sharp" That's a cool knife name.

 

[JohnDF]

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You're awesome! Thank you.

 

[screened porch]

I flew to New York last month, so was basically knifeless for a few days (aside from borrowing one of Mom's SAK Classics to have in my pocket) While wandering around Chinatown, I saw a lady selling various odds & ends spread out on a blanket on the sidewalk. Couldn't resist buying a $2 folding knife just to ward off the no-knife-shakes. I just got a package in the mail; Mom went back and found the lady and bought a few more of them, kept one and mailed me a couple.

There's something cool about a friction folder stripped down to nothing but function. There are a few interesting details. The white part is a very thin metal collar, and there's a nail head driven into the wood at the spot where the tang of the knife hits when open. I wish I could find out what the writing says:

How can you tell when your Gold Membership is due?

I can't find it anywhere either, but I'm fairly certain that I received a reminder email about a week before it was going to expire.

By the time I got here with my quotes, they'd been taken care of.
Cool knife and translating.

 

[screened porch]

I don't think this question rates its own thread. Does anybody hunt with this blade shape? I think that was what they were for, and I think they were popular, but I don't think I've seen one in the "Trads and hunting" thread.

 

[1066vik]

the schrade trailing point hunters were very popular for many years - i'm pretty sure there are versions of that still in production under the new owners.

 

[knarfeng]

You have got to have some Yorkshire ancestry Frank!

Maybe. My grandmother was of English ancestry.
Actually, what I had was parents who were born over a hundred years ago. Some of the expressions that I picked up as a youngster are a bit dated.

 

[Jack Black]

Maybe. My grandmother was of English ancestry.
Actually, what I had was parents who were born over a hundred years ago. Some of the expressions that I picked up as a youngster are a bit dated.

A shame so many have been lost or simply gone out of use Frank One that I recall hearing, and finding funny was, "He'd follow a muck-cart and think it were a wedding"!

 

[JB in SC]

Jack Black

We had a bread box when I was a kid.

My late FIL told me about the first time he saw a bread slicer back in the 30’s. “The best thing since sliced bread” was a familiar saying of his.

 

[screened porch]

We saw hand-cranked circ-saw bread slicers in Germany in 1967, and bought one and mailed it home. Mom made all our bread for years. Mostly honey whole wheat, four loaves at a time on Saturdays, that we would eat warm with French omelettes. Who cared that Saturday lunch interfered with Sky King?
Of course, as a knife knut, I prefer to use a knife these days.

 

[RayseM]

We saw hand-cranked circ-saw bread slicers in Germany in 1967, and bought one and mailed it home. Mom made all our bread for years. Mostly honey whole wheat, four loaves at a time on Saturdays, that we would eat warm with French omelettes. Who cared that Saturday lunch interfered with Sky King?
Of course, as a knife knut, I prefer to use a knife these days.

"Out of the clear blue of the Western sky comes Sky King!" I remembered the name of the plane too - Songbird

Yikes - out of the fading gray matter of the eastern man comes these memories!

I would have enjoyed Saturday lunch with you guys even if I had to watch Roller Derby.

Ray

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

How can you tell when your Gold Membership is due?

good question - there used to be a subscription tab on my profile that listed the date - it's not there now.

I can't find it anywhere either, but I'm fairly certain that I received a reminder email about a week before it was going to expire.

If you're using a desktop browser, hover your cursor over "Paid Subscriptions" at the top of this page. A drop-down menu will appear. Click on "Purchase Details"

If you're on a phone/touchscreen device, I have no idea.

This question prompted me to look around, as I only use internet from my phone. In the upper right corner the 3 lines indicating the menu, touch it, scroll down the menu to "paid subscriptions" but dont touch the text, touch the down arrow beside it. Then a new line appears will say "purchase details" touch that, and you'll get a search bar letting you look up other people's details (I find that one odd) but below that it'll give you yours, for example mine runs out Sept 2

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

I searched just to see what info I got, JohnDF yours expires July 1,

 

[JohnDF]

I searched just to see what info I got, JohnDF yours expires July 1,

Yup. I wonder if we get a reminder?

 

[joeradza]

Yup. I wonder if we get a reminder?

If I remember correctly, we do.

 

[JohnDF]

If I remember correctly, we do.

Thanks, Alan.

 

[JB in SC]

RayseM

 

[RayseM]

JB in SC - - I never liked that show very much (preferred ZORRO) but it's what we had, so I watched it. Still, I might just sit back for a 1/2 hour tonight and tune in. As we know - $ 15,000.00 is a lot of loot so I'm intrigued ...

Thanks.

Ray

 

[JB in SC]

JB in SC - - I never liked that show very much (preferred ZORRO) but it's what we had, so I watched it. Still, I might just sit back for a 1/2 hour tonight and tune in. As we know - $ 15,000.00 is a lot of loot so I'm intrigued ...

Thanks.

Ray

Guy Williams was a better actor