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

Snapped this zoomed-in image through the frosty window of our 3-season room. It's all the way up to 16F today!
Keep safe and warm, folks.
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VCM3 said:
Thanks Alan this is a tough one
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Sorry about your son, Vince. How terrible to have one of our offspring go before us!!
My prayers are with you and your family!!
Charlie Campagna
 
VCM3 said:
Thanks fellas. I wanted to post a few things but just didn’t feel it. I’m glad Alan posted
Reading everyone’s posts and talking helps a little for me I’m very emotional
I wanted to post on the French Friday thread I have both sizes of Liadou and corkscrew model too but it just didn’t happen.
With the handmade slipjoint market being slow during our uncertain times ( consider silver and gold prices as an indicator ), the small handful of makers I work with have slowed a bit , sending their work.
But in the near future I’ll have some nice stuff to show and offer. I hope I have the strength and courage to continue with the knives. I love the community of . Its enjoyment in many ways for me
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Our condolences to you and your family. I can’t imagine losing one of my children.
 
It was a week into a weekend of phone calls ,visits ,etc as we said farewell to my beautiful Son Ryan. I told him I would see him as soon as the Lord OK's it
Thank you all for the words,wishes ,prayers & love . It means the World to Aileen and myself . We will try to resume our next chapter without the best Son we could wish for . Again,thanks to everyone ,respectfully ,Vince
 
lambertiana said:
As long as we are on the subject, and in the same spirit that TCM has at the end of each year when they show all the people who have passed, I looked at some old posts and have a long list of folks who have not been seen here for at least a year, some over ten years. I know some of them have been called home, while most have stepped away for one reason or another. In remembrance of porch members we miss:

timberweasel
avoidspam
dougadd
MTdamascus
jacktrades_nbk
Rdaneel
deltaboy
Robbw
mr_badexample
festerfromnzed
mykel
mykel m
link2derek
kyenglish
9blades
sitflyer
scruffuk
robert.b
quattromori
richstag
jujigatame
sonnemann
stockman242
db
Ivankerley
tarmix101
smilingknife
338375
Navihawk
Bastid
Sunnyd
bigbiscuit
fewpop
kamkazmoto
franciscomv
foilist
chickenplucker
cambertree
half/stop
gevonovich
wurrwulf
pmew
sak guy
humppa
stich2442
zippofan
clutchcarter
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Anyone know what happened to SunnyD?
 
knarfeng said:
Agree, except that for me I start pacing as soon as I click "Buy".
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That big river site has us spoiled with one or two day delivery. Everything else seems like it takes forever to get here. And we can even track our items now.

We already forgot that it wasn't too long ago that we had to tear an order form out of a catalog, fill it out, and mail it in, along with a check. Then I had a four to six week wait for the item to arrive.
 
Ironbut said:
That big river site has us spoiled with one or two day delivery. Everything else seems like it takes forever to get here. And we can even track our items now.

We already forgot that it wasn't too long ago that we had to tear an order form out of a catalog, fill it out, and mail it in, along with a check. Then I had a four to six week wait for the item to arrive.
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The common theme around our neck of the woods is "out for delivery "every day for 4-5-6 days, and then finally on Sunday everything in one big dropoff gets dumped at a random house on our road. Luckily us and all the neighbors know each other, and are trustworthy. We re-divy out the packages to the correct addresses, and file complaints with the Post Office or Amazon, but it doesn't seem to change much.
 
Rookie82 said:
The common theme around our neck of the woods is "out for delivery "every day for 4-5-6 days, and then finally on Sunday everything in one big dropoff gets dumped at a random house on our road. Luckily us and all the neighbors know each other, and are trustworthy. We re-divy out the packages to the correct addresses, and file complaints with the Post Office or Amazon, but it doesn't seem to change much.
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I hear complaints about USPS all the time, but around here, they've always been really good with package delivery. Amazon orders used to come by the Post Office, or UPS, but Amazon just started delivering in this area a couple months ago, and they're pretty bad.
 
joeradza said:
The three favorite words on BladeForums is “out for delivery.” The wait begins. When I lived in NY I had my mailman’s phone number and would just go meet him on his route.
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Ha! That’s funny. I used to chase our mailman down on my lunch breaks because he was always somewhere in our neighborhood when I took lunch.

It would have been in my mailbox by the time I got home from work but I figured what the heck and he didn’t seem to mind.

Those days are gone now. Rarely do we have the same mailman two days in a row and nowadays it’s not uncommon to get our mail delivered at 8:30pm.
 
My older sister is here for a long week visiting due to the recent passing of my Ryan . I was showing her his small collection of pocket knives. One of which I recently gave him was a Douk Douk unicorn. A day later she asked me if she could have it
Back in NY she lives in an assisted living facility
On the one hand I’d love for her to have it , but on the other hand I see all the problems that could come from such an item ( a razor sharp folding knife ) , the policies of the facility etc
I told her I didn’t think it was a good idea and I feel terrible about that
 
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