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

GarnetandBlack said:
My dad's birthday is coming up this fall and i want to fix up his father's old pocket knife and surprise him with it. I emailed Case with the hopes that they can help me. If they can't i'd like to plan some other options so I don't run out of time before his birthday. All suggestions welcome.

I emailed Case; the letter follows:

"To Whom It May Concern:

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate avenue for my request, but here goes:

My grandfather was an elevator repairman for Millar in Cleveland, Ohio for nearly 40 years. He carried the same Case pocket knife every day for as long as my father can remember. My grandpap was a blue-collar, hardworking man who was anything but sentimental. Sadly, he passed away several years ago and, as you may imagine, my father doesn't have much in the way of keepsakes to remember him by.

Just this past year my grandmother passed as well. As we were cleaning out the house my dad was raised in, i came across his old Case pocket knife, buried in a box of old mementos. Still intact, a dark patina, minor corrosion, broken scales and a dented, but still attached, shield.

This fall is my dad's 50th birthday. I think it would be a very special and touching gift to give him his dad's old Case pocket knife.

Forgive the length of this inquiry, but this is all to ask if it's possible to send it in for new handle scales, some TLC and a little bit of a refurbish job.

I can supply pictures of the knife as well.

Thank you for your time."
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I agree with Jack, get in touch with a member named Glennbad. He's a wizard when it comes to breathing new life into an old pocket knife.
Nice gesture for your dad; I'm sure he'll be pleased. :thumbup:
 
thanks for the input guys, i really appreciate it. I'll contact glennbad for sure :thumbup:

Thanks!

ps. I guess i can post a 'before' shot and 'after' shot too when i get around to it
 
Argh, what a shame.

The "Did Your Traditional Knife Get A Workout Today?" thread was eaten (accidentally merged?) with a thread from General. So, for those of you who wonder where it might have gone?

*Poof*

I just tried to read through to try to recreate the thread-- one of my favorites, even though I didn't participate much-- but the hundreds of threads from General were too much to wade through on top of the added difficulty of re-formatting links from a closed thread.

This was my report in Tech Support:
pertinux said:
And keeps on Eating!

EDC II Which Knife or Knives Are You Carrying Today?

... It just ate the "Did Your Traditional Knife Get A Workout Today" thread that was legitimately in Traditional.

The Borg Assimilation begins (or becomes immediately evident, for those who were keeping current previously) at this post.

This is a job for... true Tech Support!

~ P.
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And this is the unhappy outcome as just posted in the thread that used to be the "Traditional Knife Work-out Today" thread:

karda said:
Due to technical difficulties the threads once merged will not be unmerged.
You'll just have to start another thread for which knives are you...
My apologies.:o:D
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:(

Not only that, but it looks like "our" posts are gone, while the General one rolls on.

(Now that the EDC thread is back in General and not here, maybe there's hope for a restoration of the one here?)

How to archive the good stuff from here on out, lest this happen again?

:confused:

~ P.
 
Honest, Mom. The software ate it.

At my request, the supermods were trying to remove a non-traditional post from our thread. (I have not the ability to move a post from a thread in this forum to a thread in another forum.)

Unfortunately, the software merged the two entire threads instead of just merging the errant post with the thread in General. When the software merges threads, it treats each post individually and the posts are merged by post date/time. So it was as if all the posts in each thread were shuffled into a single mass. Impossible to separate them back out once it happens.

General started a new EDC thread. I just started a new thread for Traditional.

Apologies.
 
knarfeng said:
Honest, Mom. The software ate it.
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... Wow. That was some "oops," eh?

A quick note, however: the thread wasn't moved to the back end, it came here, ate ours, took off today's posts if not more (I posted today but my last post in the thread is now from 5/13), and moved back to General, where-- locked-- it's slowly slinking away into the depths. The cad.

This is important to stats geeks who have now had 20 posts removed from their Traditional total and moved to the unwashed General area. :p

(The impact on Jack Black's, Doug Add's, and Stich2442's totals shall be much higher, heh.)

Thank you very much for the explanation, and the apology sans smilie face. :thumbup:

~ P.
 
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Boy .... You take few days off and see what happens? :D
My knife sat in the safe in my NYC hotel room. Better to be safe then sorry.
 
Peregrin said:
Boy .... You take few days off and see what happens? :D
My knife sat in the safe in my NYC hotel room. Better to be safe then sorry.
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I hope you left your large bottles of soda pop there too!!! lol as much as NYC fascinates me, I don't like leaving my pistol or knife home (geeze I settled in quick haha).

Have a good trip.
 
Jack Black said:
Shame to lose such a big thread :(
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I just spent about an hour retrieving and reformatting posts via the original links still in the thread into which ours was subsumed, but previews of the in-progress results weren't (aren't) favorable enough to warrant continued effort, especially since the thread is locked which disables the ability to easily quote-- let alone multi-quote! Even were the thread to be temporarily unlocked (which would introduce new problems, no doubt), it would still take hours, every post in an Archive Post here would appear as "quoted," image links would need to be rebuilt (or are already missing), etc.

It's just not the same.

Yes, a shame.

... Onward.

~ P.
 
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Don't want to speak too soon, but there's a possibility Spring might actually be here at last! Had a walk up Leeds canal and the River Aire to a 19th Century water mill today, absolutely amazing place, which was still operating (making putty) with water power and a steam-driven crane into the mid 1970's! Lots of cool stuff there, and plenty of wildlife too. I saw a young rabbit, a mink, a cormerant, terns, various other gulls and birds, a Red Admiral butterfly, swans, ducks and geese and their young, moor hens, and got pics of most. I'll post more pics or a thread if anyone is interested :)

 
Has anyone heard any news about Paul B, hope he's going to be OK, very worrying.

Jack
 
scruffuk said:
Jack, that pic of those ducklings is smashing. Thanks :thumbup:
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Thanks mate, here they are with their mum and dad (about 5 minutes out of Leeds city centre) ;)



I'll try to find time to post a thread about the mill sometime this week.
 
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