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

[screened porch]

Posting this again, just in case anyone missed it in "Schrade Fixed Blades" and "Let's See Your Good Old Fixed Blades".

 

[RayseM]

I enjoyed the video Jack. Still - it got bogged down in the creek. Less hubris and wiser women would have turned the beast around and retired it in a trailer park.

Ray

 

[Jolipapa]

Interesting. I was wondering why they had Laguiole, which is a style, among the brand names.
I had a deejo once, and traded it back to the vendor. It was too avant garde for me. Very cool, but just not moi.

There's a "smart guy" who patented the name, as it has never been registered. The municipality sued him for abuse of the name. Followed a Solomon's like judgment, he can use the name for lots of things (and he does) but not for knives. In fact there's regularly kitchen and folders selling on discount sites, tobacco shops, country markets and xhibitions, maybe old stock maybe not, all from Pakistan, cheap in every senses of the word.
Deejo tries to sell "gentlemen's knives (in the spirit)" and follows the "urban trends", these days it is tatoos... none is my cup of tea.

 

[screened porch]

I don't know if I might ever have gotten a tattoo, if I hadn't been so impressed by the Bob Newhart episode where Carol has a tattoo removed because the butterfly she got when she was heavier now looked like a flying prune.

 

[Ramrodmb]

..................Less hubris and wiser women would have turned the beast around and retired it in a trailer park.

Ray

Or, may have never made the expensive, dangerous and risky expeditions at all.

I enjoyed the video, Jack.

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Just watched this film about an interesting piece of US history while drinking my mid-morning coffee Have a great Sunday folks

Thats interesting, I had just watched that Saturday evening myself. Ambitious plan,but flawed from the start. It was just to dang heavy,and the approach and departure angles are horrible.

 

[Jack Black]

Or, may have never made the expensive, dangerous and risky expeditions at all.

I enjoyed the video, Jack.

Thank you Mark

 

[Jolipapa]

I don't know if I might ever have gotten a tattoo, if I hadn't been so impressed by the Bob Newhart episode where Carol has a tattoo removed because the butterfly she got when she was heavier now looked like a flying prune.

This the latest commercial. Again not my cuppa.

 

[screened porch]

This the latest commercial. Again not my cuppa.

Looks like the knife attracts creeping arm fungus.
Not for me either.

 

[5K Qs]

This the latest commercial. Again not my cuppa.

As a fan of the toothpick pattern, I find the long, lean profile of that Deejo rather appealing.

- GT

 

[leghog]

NATITUDE!

 

[5K Qs]

NATITUDE!

Congrats to all the Nationals fans; very exciting season for you!!

- GT

 

[Henry Beige]

The Nationals and their fans did themselves proud.

 

[Rookie82]

We had a family picnic last weekend and made apple cider. We had 12 bushel of apples, and were a little disappointed in the quantity of cider we got. Last year we had nearly 3 gallons of cider per bushel of apples, this year was a tad under 2 gallons per. The apples just weren't as juicy this year I guess, but it still tastes great.
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[screened porch]

Enough to go around, I hope.
And save some to ferment.

 

[Rookie82]

Enough to go around, I hope.
And save some to ferment.

I always like to keep 8 gallons for my house, and the rest goes to all the rest of the family. The homemade stuff is amazingly better than what you can buy in grocery stores because the pasteurization process takes out 1/2 the flavor. And I am very picky about the blend ratio of apples that I use.

 

[Cambertree]

Just watched this film about an interesting piece of US history while drinking my mid-morning coffee Have a great Sunday folks

Cool video, Jack.

Brings to mind other ill fated but interesting behemoths.

Most Porch folk will surely know of the Hughes H-4 ‘Spruce Goose’:

The fascinating Soviet ground effect, Lun-class Ekranoplan ‘Caspian Sea Monsters’ are probably a bit more obscure:

And the German WW2 Maus tank, which would likely have topped 200 tons once it accommodated all Hitler’s requirements, surely also deserves a mention:

 

[Cambertree]

We had a family picnic last weekend and made apple cider. We had 12 bushel of apples, and were a little disappointed in the quantity of cider we got. Last year we had nearly 3 gallons of cider per bushel of apples, this year was a tad under 2 gallons per. The apples just weren't as juicy this year I guess, but it still tastes great.View attachment 1223323

Great stuff. I've returned to read and enjoy your maple syrup tapping posts in the Adventures of Pearl again and again. That cider sounds very tasty. My favourite cider is a cleanskin I get from a place out in the town of Yarragon in the east of Victoria, made from Pink Lady apples. It tastes like a soft, mildly fermented, slightly fizzy, delicate apple juice. The same farmers also make a great pear cider.

 

[Jack Black]

Cool video, Jack.

Brings to mind other ill fated but interesting behemoths.

Most Porch folk will surely know of the Hughes H-4 ‘Spruce Goose’:

The fascinating Soviet ground effect, Lun-class Ekranoplan ‘Caspian Sea Monsters’ are probably a bit more obscure:

And the German WW2 Maus tank, which would likely have topped 200 tons once it accommodated all Hitler’s requirements, surely also deserves a mention:

Cheers for the vids Chin

 

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I always like to keep 8 gallons for my house, and the rest goes to all the rest of the family. The homemade stuff is amazingly better than what you can buy in grocery stores because the pasteurization process takes out 1/2 the flavor. And I am very picky about the blend ratio of apples that I use.

We still have a local farm that sells unpasteurized cider. A lot of people are afraid of catching something from it.