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

Newbish said:
^^ love the turquoise on that toothpick.
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thanks!
its a real nice looking knife. though for the price they get for it i have to suppose it is some sort of reconstituted material or that they took some sort of shortcut or something. i find it appealingly gaudy lol.
 
Thank you Uncle Andi,

I enjoyed the Schleiper vid. Reminds me of small town Iowa or Wisconsin 60 years ago.

Mike H.
 
UK knifemaker Grace Horne posted a pic of a pile of Sheffield made blades on Facebook that she recently came into. I asked her permission to post them here. She has quite a few interesting designs, and uses older blades. I am interested to see what she comes up with in regards to these Sheffields. I am on my phone at the store or I would post the link.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
UK knifemaker Grace Horne posted a pic of a pile of Sheffield made blades on Facebook that she recently came into. I asked her permission to post them here. She has quite a few interesting designs, and uses older blades. I am interested to see what she comes up with in regards to these Sheffields. I am on my phone at the store or I would post the link.
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Be great to see them :thumbup:
 
silenthunterstudios said:
What was the first?

Such a tough choice for me. Magnificent Seven, the Wild Bunch, Good the Bad and the Ugly, Big Jake, Tombstone. I grew up on John Wayne and Clint Eastwood movies, gotta be either Big Jake or Good Bad and the Ugly for me.

thawk, Tommy Lee Jones nailed that scene, great scene in the movie.
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Big Jake is my all time favorite Western without a doubt. I can't think of anything I dislike about that movie.
 
besides lonesome dove, robert duvall was in a couple other westerns; open range and broken trail. duvall in his later years really plays an excellent cowboy imho.
 
wouldestous said:
besides lonesome dove, robert duvall was in a couple other westerns; open range and broken trail. duvall in his later years really plays an excellent cowboy imho.
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He held his own in True Grit (not the best acting but another one of my favorites, the new one has grown on me).

Ned Pepper: What's your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?
Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?
Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.
Rooster Cogburn: Fill your hands, you son of a b****!
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im sure i must have seen true grit at some point but i cant recall it. maybe i read the book and didnt see the movie at all lol.

if were talking john wayne westerns i very much enjoyed 'the man who shot liberty valance', also starring jimmy stewart and lee marvin.
 
wouldestous said:
im sure i must have seen true grit at some point but i cant recall it. maybe i read the book and didnt see the movie at all lol.

if were talking john wayne westerns i very much enjoyed 'the man who shot liberty valance', also starring jimmy stewart and lee marvin.
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"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" was one of a couple of movies that Wayne played a darker character. Turned into a brooding drunk in the end. Once he realized he lost the girl by saving the pilgrim layer, he burns down his own house. Kept the secret about who really killed Valance.

I'm a huge Jimmy Stewart fan, and "Bend In The River" and "The Far Country" are two great westerns.
 
Even though he was popular before my time, I too watched a lot of Eastwood when I was a young kid. While a bit contemporary, I always liked Pale Rider, and found the plot to be very captivating, and pretty reminiscent of High Plains Drifter in some ways. Outlaw Josey Wales was grand too. I always dug Eastwood westerns, seeing as they were minimally romanticized, when compared to earlier westerns.
 
I have to admit, I prefer the darker Eastwood to the (mostly) straighter Wayne (above examples noted). They're kind of like Batman and Superman, and I've always preferred Batman. I guess I like my protagonists a little tortured.
 
bwperdue said:
I have to admit, I prefer the darker Eastwood to the (mostly) straighter Wayne (above examples noted). They're kind of like Batman and Superman, and I've always preferred Batman. I guess I like my protagonists a little tortured.
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I love Eastwoods movies, but the Wayne movies always have better dialog. Wayne's characters were always more down to earth, and mostly won the day. Eastwood was always and unstoppable super power.
 
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