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

[screened porch]

Hey guys and gals,

I hope you hade a nice christmas, nevertheless. Spending time with the family is always a good thing.

Stay healthy and safe - all of you.

Same to you.

 

[tongueriver]

Uh Oh.... Dang! R.I.P. Tony! I miss you but you will never be forgotten and your music is in my ears and heart forever.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-rice-bluegrass-guitar-dead-obit-1107829/

 

[Will Power]

Here's a video visit to the Otter Messer factory in Solingen Germany showing the making of their knives including the iconic Black Cat K 55 lockback. These have been in production for 150 or so years with little change, a simple knife design that is extremely well-made and finished. I've been very impressed by the Copper version I recently got hold of. Much 'hands on' work

 

[Just Tom.]

 

[JohnDF]

A picture I took of the full moon this morning... It was so bright.

 

[JohnDF]

The fantasy playoffs were not good to me...

 

[waynorth]

A picture I took of the full moon this morning... It was so bright.

Nice pic, John!! I wondered what it would look like with no clouds!!?? Harrummmph!!

 

[JohnDF]

I wondered what it would look like with no clouds!!??

So bright you almost couldn't look straight at it.

 

[Peregrin]

A picture I took of the full moon this morning... It was so bright.

Great picture! I saw it peek through the clouds once or twice.
It's the last full moon of the year, the Wolf Moon, the Moon after Yule, the Long Night Moon. Whatever you call it, that's a nice picture of it!

 

[JohnDF]

Whatever you call it, that's a nice picture of it!

Thank you, Gary.

 

[Prester John]

A picture I took of the full moon this morning... It was so bright.

Was the wolfbane blooming, John?
"Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright."

 

[JohnDF]

Was the wolfbane blooming, John?

I do feel more hairy lately... or maybe that's just part of being Irish and getting old.

 

[Just Tom.]

I had a can opener blade left over from one of my amateur re-build projects, and a little spare time on my hands this week (being off work and having completed most of my home improvement tasks), and so, ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you the CanSlayer 1000:
I could spend some more time sanding it and filing the pins down, but I won’t.

 

[RayseM]

Nature photos? I've got some of those

 

[JohnDF]

I feel like I'm being watched...

 

[r8shell]

I had a can opener blade left over from one of my amateur re-build projects, and a little spare time on my hands this week (being off work and having completed most of my home improvement tasks), and so, ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you the CanSlayer 1000:
I could spend some more time sanding it and filing the pins down, but I won’t.

Looks sturdy. I like it!

 

[Will Power]

So do I! always satisfying to be able to make something

 

[Peregrin]

Nature photos? I've got some of those

From a recent walkabout - A Bloomin Bounty of Burls

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...and this is a fun one. Walked up to the outbuilding this week early morning to put stuff away.
Here's looking off the porch past the stern of the dinghy ~

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...and then with a bit of zoom - completely undisturbed by me ~


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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE - have a blast open'en them cans J Just Tom.

Very cool! Happy New Year to you!

Reminds me of this print I have hanging in my office. Sorry about the reflections. It's dark here already.

 

[RayseM]

The one in my photo was a good size adult. I watched her for quite a few minutes at which point she decided to get up and get some distance - just barely. She walked 10 yards and then just turned back to watch me watch her. I finally had to get on with my day so I left her to her idles.

 

[Just Tom.]

It was no accident that brought him to this moment - it was the very purpose of his existence. From his single steel-shredding talon, hardened in the fires of the land of the two-tailed lion, to his sleek outer shell ground and polished from aluminum wrested from the earth beneath what was once the dominion of the Raj, to his stainless inner core itself cut from a blade of the Far East, every part of him was chosen by his maker to maximize his deadly efficiency. Reclining on his first kill, his thirst for tin not slaked but just whetted, he was, as he was named, the CanSlayer.

(Inspired by the works of @meako)