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

Over in the catalog section that Blues added, in the Sears catalog they call a trapper a "Texas Toothpick". It makes me wonder if this wasn't the origin of the trapper, Texis that is.
 
navihawk said:
Over in the catalog section that Blues added, in the Sears catalog they call a trapper a "Texas Toothpick". It makes me wonder if this wasn't the origin of the trapper, Texis that is.
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Given the opportunity Texans will generally claim to have originated EVERYTHING.
 
I just now got to read this entire thread thru and boy I have missed some good talks. I will have to post pics of all my dogs and cats. I have 4 dogs all rescued and 4 cats. My only true friend in the world is my girl of 8 years. Her name is Sugar and I rescued her from the pound when I was 15 years old. I got her with broken ribs and she was scaried of everything. Her previous owner had beat her and broke her ribs. I'll post a pic shortly. Great thread!
 
It's always nice to hear that abuse animals are getting taken care of. One of ours from the local dog pound was obviously beaten, but he sure has come around. It's amazing what a little love will do. He's a Basset Hound/Black Lab mix, lol. Someone was persistent.
 
CL01 said:
It's always nice to hear that abuse animals are getting taken care of. One of ours from the local dog pound was obviously beaten, but he sure has come around. It's amazing what a little love will do. He's a Basset Hound/Black Lab mix, lol. Someone was persistent.
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I always wonder about some mixes of dogs...like how did that happen? Someone must have made some kind of contraption...labs are pretty tall!


-Freq
 
navihawk said:
She well could have been. my daughter picked her out from petfinder, from a shelter called dixies pet underground. She has quite a unique personality and she is the sweetest thing too. I'm obedience training her and she also is copying my older dog. It makes training a bit easier. She's around 6 months old now. Do you have any pictures?
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Sorry, no pics, and she is in ATL, about 4.5 hours from me. I believe his dog is closer to a year old though. Still, I'll see if I can get a picture.
 
Knife Crazied said:
I just now got to read this entire thread thru and boy I have missed some good talks. I will have to post pics of all my dogs and cats. I have 4 dogs all rescued and 4 cats. My only true friend in the world is my girl of 8 years. Her name is Sugar and I rescued her from the pound when I was 15 years old. I got her with broken ribs and she was scaried of everything. Her previous owner had beat her and broke her ribs. I'll post a pic shortly. Great thread!
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Love to see pics of your dogs & cats, Ash! And :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: to you and everyone who takes in abused pets. The crime of animal cruelty makes my blood boil, as I'm sure it does for most normal people. That's one crime where I can get real sadistic when it comes to imagining an appropriate punishment! :grumpy:
 
I have a rescue cat. Well, to be honest, it was one that was thrown out at the barn and came on up to the house 8 years ago. Indoor cat now.


BTW- good to be back after a week. Thumb surgery last wed., and I'm just now feeling like pecking on the key board again. Be a while before I know if the surgery will help, and how much so.
 
...What's up with every July 14th celebrating Bad Steel Day!?!?

I mean, I have Opinels and Laguioles and Douk-Douk's and customs from Fred Perrin and they seem all pretty good to me, so what's up with this negativity?

;):p


Happy "Bastille Day" to any of our French brethren checking in. :thumbup::cool:

Vive la France!
 
wagglebee said:
Given the opportunity Texans will generally claim to have originated EVERYTHING.
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ROTFL

I had a couple of family members that recently came back from vacations overseas (Greece and Paris). It was funny how some folks didn't particularly care for Americans but when they said they were from Texas, it was a different reaction altogether. Maybe that's why we have such big hats because we have such big heads cause everyone loves us! :D LOL
 
Glad to hear you are healing up OK Ken. Stay with the light pecking for now.
 
Blues said:
...What's up with every July 14th celebrating Bad Steel Day!?!?

I mean, I have Opinels and Laguioles and Douk-Douk's and customs from Fred Perrin and they seem all pretty good to me, so what's up with this negativity?

;):p


Happy "Bastille Day" to any of our French brethren checking in. :thumbup::cool:

Vive la France!
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Talkin about the Bastille...

The way I heard it, the French kicked off thier own revelution for the same reason we fired on the British at the old north bridge in Concord. The French were not really interested in the few prisoners left in the crumbling old Bastille, but in the muskets and powder stored there. It's really very hard to have a revelution without arms and ammo.
 
You got that right, Carl. Much of the reason why corrupt regimes take pains to disarm the citizens.

As for the Bastille, it's an impressive edifice! (As is much of the architecture in and around Paris. An amazing city just to walk around and take in.)

Fortunately, when I was there I was often in the company of one French forum member, one French knife maker (Perrin) and my cousin, a citizen born and raised in Paris.

Good knife shops too!
 
I've heard that France is a great place to be from. :D
 
jackknife said:
Yeeeeah, I've seen the remakes. It's like the original in form, same layout. But those old Remingtons were something else. It seemed to me the brass liners were thicker, the jigged bone scales more vivid, generaly better finished. Its sort of like looking at a Smith and Wesson K22 from the 70's, and then looking at one from the late 40's or 50's. The older one had metal finishing in a different and higher plane than the later stuff. You can see the difference when you have it in hand.
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Jackknife:

I was hoping to sucker you into telling another Mr. Van story, and all I get is a knife review.

Ah well. Win some, loose some.
 
Let's get some pup pics

My yellow labs, Beau, Remington and Dock. All three drive me nuts, have a good time, and are brothers to the core. They have no problem teasing each other unmercifully, but will band together when the cards come down. I call them the Three Stooges...

Here's one of lil Dockie, this moose is now the biggest of his "brothers", weighing in last time he was at the vet at a whopping 90 lbs, all of it muscle...
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Mr Remington, politely requesting that the cameraman leave him and his rawhide bone alone...
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Ol' Beau, showing the camera how he likes to whittle on a stick...
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