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

r8shell said:
Is Jack Black Jack Black clearing off his table?!?

A package came late Monday from Yorkshire with an A.Wright & Sons Hartshead Barlow, as expected. Not only that, but a pile of treats and treasures from Jack Black's famous table of knives. There were nuts and candies, and ten surprise knives! :D It's a busy week, so I won't have a chance to spend much time inspecting and fettling until the weekend, but there are some very nifty knives in there. Thank you so much! I hope your table isn't too bare now.
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That is just, like, awesome! Literally!! Congrats, Rachel! Wow! Jack is da Man! :thumbsup:
 
r8shell said:
Is Jack Black Jack Black clearing off his table?!?

A package came late Monday from Yorkshire with an A.Wright & Sons Hartshead Barlow, as expected. Not only that, but a pile of treats and treasures from Jack Black's famous table of knives. There were nuts and candies, and ten surprise knives! :D It's a busy week, so I won't have a chance to spend much time inspecting and fettling until the weekend, but there are some very nifty knives in there. Thank you so much! I hope your table isn't too bare now.
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That's a box of COOL :cool: right there.
 
WHT said:
Since things are quiet, I am going to change the subject and talk about my avatar. The pistol is a 1859 Colt Navy 44 that my great grandfather carried as a private in the Alabama 43rd infantry. It was probably part of a shipment that Colt sold Alabama in 1859. My father inherited it when he was a teenager and then he gave it to me while I was a teenager. I didn't give it to my son until he was in his forties. When I received it, it was in pretty rough shape. I had a gun smith in Virginia bring it back to museum quality. He wasn't able to replace the nipples for the caps but was able to make them look good. Mechanically, everything now works. I hope that it will be passed down to future generations. I received the holster at the same time as the Colt Navy but it may belong to a Colt 44 Frontier Model that I inherited from my grandfather. In any case, they are both 19th Century family treasures. My son has all my guns so I concentrate on collecting knives.
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Super nice. Thanks for sharing.

r8shell said:
Is Jack Black Jack Black clearing off his table?!?

A package came late Monday from Yorkshire with an A.Wright & Sons Hartshead Barlow, as expected. Not only that, but a pile of treats and treasures from Jack Black's famous table of knives. There were nuts and candies, and ten surprise knives! :D It's a busy week, so I won't have a chance to spend much time inspecting and fettling until the weekend, but there are some very nifty knives in there. Thank you so much! I hope your table isn't too bare now.
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Beautiful. Just beautiful. :) :cool: That puts a big smile on my face. :D
 
WHT said:
He couldn't pull the nipples (after many tries) but he made them look great. They went from cracked and rolled back to looking like new. Yes, I would worry about firing it as it has probably been a hundred years plus since it was last fired. You would be much better off buying a high quality reproduction. By the way, the Colt Navy is best known for being the Clint Eastwood pistol in the man with no name Westerns.
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I hate it when the broadcasters cut the violence out of movies like that: "Wait a minute, what happened?" It makes more room for commercials, though.
Pale Rider was cool, with the extra percussion cylinders he changed during the fight.
 
scrteened porch said:
I hate it when the broadcasters cut the violence out of movies like that: "Wait a minute, what happened?" It makes more room for commercials, though.
Pale Rider was cool, with the extra percussion cylinders he changed during the fight.
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The worst I've seen is when Me-TV cut out my favourite scene from the Star Trek episode, The Trouble with Tribbles. They cut out the fight scene and the discussion Scotty had with Capt. Kirk about the fight.
 
r8shell said:
Is Jack Black Jack Black clearing off his table?!?

A package came late Monday from Yorkshire with an A.Wright & Sons Hartshead Barlow, as expected. Not only that, but a pile of treats and treasures from Jack Black's famous table of knives. There were nuts and candies, and ten surprise knives! :D It's a busy week, so I won't have a chance to spend much time inspecting and fettling until the weekend, but there are some very nifty knives in there. Thank you so much! I hope your table isn't too bare now.
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Whoa!! That's a pile of cutlery to the right hands!!!
I'm sure you will render them all useful along with Your Hartshead!!
 
Prester John said:
Yeah, it's all for old people, not young guys like myself! How 'bout some beer and truck commercials, Me-TV?
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My wife and I watch MeTV on Saturdays because of their "westerns" marathon... I love Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, Gunsmoke and Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen... BUT... you're right, it seems the MeTV commercials assume an age demographic of like 80 years old LoL. I'm 45 and wouldn't mind some more funny AT&T commercials :D

Bret Maverick whittling...

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I was watching Fawlty Towers on my Amazon and was surprised that they cut a whole bit. They don't need to end at a certain time, but in the episode where Basil thinks Mrs. Peignoir (great name) is hitting on him, his scene with the major about how "there's something about the French, isn't there- a certain oh, I don't know". "Je ne sais quoi?" "Exactly, Major! Exactly", wasn't there.

Strangely, I no longer find Fawlty Towers funny.
 
btb01 said:
I took Eleanor fishing for the first time today. She has her own rod and reel, but we're still working on casting, and she doesn't quite have the patience yet to sit and wait for a bite, so I did most of the fishing. We had a good time, and "she" caught her first fish, a little pumpkinseed. She helped reel it in, and was excited to hold it up for a picture.

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Great pics Barrett :) :thumbsup:

Cambertree said:
Nice one Jack.:thumbsup: Firestarting is definitely another nice skill to pass on to the younguns.:cool:

I give my younger nephews a ‘possibles’ bag each when setting out on a bushwalk and ask them to find the best tinder they can to fill it, by the time we get back.

They were both pretty sharp in zeroing in on pine fatwood and birchbark as the best tinder.:thumbsup:
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Great idea Chin :) :thumbsup:

WHT said:
Since things are quiet, I am going to change the subject and talk about my avatar. The pistol is a 1859 Colt Navy 44 that my great grandfather carried as a private in the Alabama 43rd infantry. It was probably part of a shipment that Colt sold Alabama in 1859. My father inherited it when he was a teenager and then he gave it to me while I was a teenager. I didn't give it to my son until he was in his forties. When I received it, it was in pretty rough shape. I had a gun smith in Virginia bring it back to museum quality. He wasn't able to replace the nipples for the caps but was able to make them look good. Mechanically, everything now works. I hope that it will be passed down to future generations. I received the holster at the same time as the Colt Navy but it may belong to a Colt 44 Frontier Model that I inherited from my grandfather. In any case, they are both 19th Century family treasures. My son has all my guns so I concentrate on collecting knives.
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Fascinating :) I can remember firing a repro of the same gun as a little lad, it would have been the first pistol I fired. It belonged to a friend of my dad's, who was an interesting old feller. He was still shooting regularly, and riding around on his Brough Superior motorcycle well into his late 80's :) :thumbsup:

r8shell said:
Is Jack Black Jack Black clearing off his table?!?

A package came late Monday from Yorkshire with an A.Wright & Sons Hartshead Barlow, as expected. Not only that, but a pile of treats and treasures from Jack Black's famous table of knives. There were nuts and candies, and ten surprise knives! :D It's a busy week, so I won't have a chance to spend much time inspecting and fettling until the weekend, but there are some very nifty knives in there. Thank you so much! I hope your table isn't too bare now.
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I've got to eat my dinner somehow Rachel ;) Thanks for the kind words folks :) :thumbsup:

scrteened porch said:
I was watching Fawlty Towers on my Amazon and was surprised that they cut a whole bit. They don't need to end at a certain time, but in the episode where Basil thinks Mrs. Peignoir (great name) is hitting on him, his scene with the major about how "there's something about the French, isn't there- a certain oh, I don't know". "Je ne sais quoi?" "Exactly, Major! Exactly", wasn't there.

Strangely, I no longer find Fawlty Towers funny.
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I hate it when that happens :( I still find Fawlty Towers funny, but most of the Python sketches make me cringe o_O

r8shell said:
I suppose not, if they cut out the best jokes. :mad:
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Good point! :D :thumbsup:
 
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