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

Very cool Kris. People talk about the print world going the way of the dinosaur. I can check FB and forums on my iPhone, but I can't read books or magazines on them. I need the real deal. Nothing better than a used book store, except for maybe an old knife shop.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Very cool Kris. People talk about the print world going the way of the dinosaur. I can check FB and forums on my iPhone, but I can't read books or magazines on them. I need the real deal. Nothing better than a used book store, except for maybe an old knife shop.
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I just received my new (old) edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn from a book seller on the big auction site. Printed in 1953. :cool:
I hesitated and missed one printed in 1948. :( Oh well, I'm happy with the one I got. ;)
-Bruce
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Very cool Kris. People talk about the print world going the way of the dinosaur. I can check FB and forums on my iPhone, but I can't read books or magazines on them. I need the real deal. Nothing better than a used book store, except for maybe an old knife shop.
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I so totally agree with that!!!

I hate the idea that 'E' stuff will replace the printed material. There's nothing like a good book. I can't even imagine trying to read Melville or Dumas on a LED screen. There's something almost perverted about that. :eek:

I gotta have a real book, and turn the page, or it ain't really reading. Not to mention the book as an art form. The leather binding, the whole process.

Carl.
 
Personally, I enjoy the pleasure of holding a printed book as well; I always read quite alot, and I even like the smell of printed paper.
But, honestly, eBooks have advantages that made me shift, and I don't think I will get back. Price, availability (try getting a book in English or Spanish here, and then you'll see), environmental respect, and ease of storage (I have too many books already, and I plan on reading hundreds more in the upcoming years) all lean towards the "new path".
It's not perfect, and I do miss turning the pages or using nice bookmarks and so on...but it does work better for me, at least for novels.

Soon to be published here, a few pictures of my latest holiday trip. Stay tuned ;)

Fausto
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Reading these last few comments on ebooks made me chuckle at the thought of what the impact might be to a questioning young mind reading Farenheit 451 for the first time on a tablet :eek:
 
Easier to burn down every paper book than to destroy every digital copy in the world though :D
Oh, and although I know many people do it, reading on an eReader is fine, but reading on a tablet is awful :confused:

Fausto
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REALLY off topic, but I just finished loading a hundred 44 mag cartridges with 240 grain Sierra JHC bullets, and I sat down to check the brothers while enjoying a Sam Adams Whitewater IPA. Anybody else gettin' ready for fall outdoor pursuits?

Here is my S&W 629 Classic with Millett red dot sight and a target from my deer hunting load.
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And just to relate this post to knives in some way, I opened the bullets with my Schrade Walden 890-- it goes through cardboard and paper packaging like it was warm butter. (Really a sensual experience!)
 
MAMBA....As we don't have a specific season for Deer and pigs here (365 days a year)..I don't have the pleasure of counting down til kick off,so to speak...What that means is that rifle is ALWAYS zeroed and knife is sharp......FES

 
MAMBA.....I forgot to say,Thats a fine bit of grouping from your hand cannon there...Awesome..........................................FES
 
Fes, the No. 1 looks WELL used. I'll say the same thing to you that a fella at the range said when he saw the above target,
"I wouldn't want you shooting at me!" Nice little Backwoods drop point you're breakin' in there, too.
 
MAMBA....I agree with the fella at the range!!....Yes the #1 has been my mainstay for atleast 25 years and its as solid as a rock...Many good memories with this musket.....................FES
 
In my brief time in printing I've seen 2 or 3 trades completely wiped out due to the digital age. I doubt if any print shops have a darkroom any more, no plate makers, no compositors, all done at the push of a button. I still believe that there will always be a need for the printed word. Everyone thought that 'Video would kill the radio star' and that all the movie theaters would shut down. But they didn't. There will always be a market for these, as we all know with fine examples like the traditional knife world! With the company I work for, our core market is calendars, truck driver work time log books, receipt books, waybill dockets and the like.

Kris,.
 
KRIS....My very good friend is head printer at the BEACON in Whakatane...He is an old school printer and has 9 fingers to prove it.................FES
 
Yes the're are plenty of printers out there with fingers missing. I've all mine, more good luck than good management, I put my left hand through a set of rollers 25years ago. Luckily only tore my finger nails out. :eek:

Kris,.
 
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Not printing, but in manufacturing I hit a moving belt and it pulled the glove right off my hand without touching my skin. Lesson learned, for sure.
 
KRIS...That is a brutal way to get a MANICURE !!....In my trade (carpenter) Once you've done 20 years as a tradesman and still have all your fingers intact,you are called MASTER carpenter...I still have all 10.. (touch wood)......FES
 
Bruce I have my maternal grandfathers Mark Twain collection, printed in the 20s I believe. With his harmonica they are my only connection to the man my mother tells me I resemble in actions and mannerisms. He died when she was 10. One of my fathers friends transferred old reel to reel recordings to cd at my fathers request for my mom. They sang together when she was little all the time. I can't sing a lick but it sounded a little familiar!

Knife wise, you'd think I'd've learned by now but I bought an SNG CC for my birthday. Paid layaway for it. Well I just realized I don't want it. You'd think I'd know, after carrying a 73, then a 15, now a Tribal Spear, that a Strider just wasn't in the cards. I had a few Striders over the years but sold and traded them. Now I'm remembering why. The slim CC is still too thick. I will carry my large micarta Insingo or Umnumzaan or large micarta Sebenza instead. Even those have lost their luster.
 
Dan, That is pretty darned COOL to have your grandfathers Mark Twain collection from the 20's. Have you read them? :)
-Bruce
 
Silenthunterstudios, you sound like you were/are deep into the modern stuff. I have a plethora, of Kershaws, and Spydercos, and a ZT, and a CRK Lg 21 Sebenza, not as deep as you were, but don't even carry the CRK, haven't carried a modern knife in 6 months or so. Just going on a full fledged traditional binge. Still don't want to get rid of my modern stuff, thinking I'll get back to it eventually. Meh, it gives me something to have in common with my grandad, whenever we get together, and that's worth it alone. At the age of 83 he's finally got around to trying an Opinel. He's known about them for sometime, but he's the kinda guy that's strictly bone, or maybe Delrin. He's a Rough Rider fan too, and that's saying a lot, the guy has cache of Queens, Eye Brand, and Case from years past, even a Camillus made Buck or two. I think he knows quality. My Opinel 06, has been my only EDC folding knife for the past month or so.
 
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