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

MT Damascus said:
My wife, daughter and I took a nice drive yesterday to stop at a few breweries and see my good friend Jon Christensen M.S., so he could meet my daughter. A beautiful drive through beautiful country. I knew Jon had a certain piece of damascus laying in his tool box and I asked him if I could take it for a project that I am working on with Johnny Stout, single blade trapper. Here is the piece, it is a leaf feather damascus, it is a complicated pattern and very time consuming, along with some rare cocobolo burl(which was very hard to photograph) that will be used also. Thanks for looking and have a great Sunday.
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That will be one dynamite Trapper, Kris! The steel and burl are surely a great start!
 
That is going to make a beautiful knife Kris. I am glad you were able to get the family out for a bit of a trip. Can't wait to see the final outcome of those materials.
Chris
 
Thanks Jeff, Gary and Chris, I think it will make a nice little trapper also. Johnny builds a great knife and is a gentlemen in the truest sense of the word.

Kris
 
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Shears for clipping points or what have you.
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Thank you, brianv. I've addressed my only 2 hands issue with the electric blower, and my springy anvil stand issue with sturdier anvil stands. Time to get to work pretty soon.
 
My pleasure, I've got a piece of railroad track for an anvil but I don't have a nice horn on it like you do. Truth be told it belongs to my son so I need to find another one. I've looked for a portable forge and blower but the only one I've found so far was in really bad shape and the blower was rusted to the point of being totally locked up. I've got a cast iron pot that has a hole in the bottom of it and I'm thinking it might be a good small forge.
 
Porch, looks like your on your way. I don't often get to forge with coal. I built a propane fueled blown forge due to availability of fuel. I can't wait to see what you turn out. Let me know if I can help in any way.

Chris
 
I have a 3 acre pond on my property that has had bluegills and channel cats in it for 7 years. Last July I put 200 bass fingerlings in. I decided today was the day to see what they have done in a year.

10 inches and about a pound in the first year. Next year I will have to start using a fillet knife to control the population, not that I mind :D

Chris
 
brianv said:
My pleasure, I've got a piece of railroad track for an anvil but I don't have a nice horn on it like you do. Truth be told it belongs to my son so I need to find another one. I've looked for a portable forge and blower but the only one I've found so far was in really bad shape and the blower was rusted to the point of being totally locked up. I've got a cast iron pot that has a hole in the bottom of it and I'm thinking it might be a good small forge.
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Or what do you call a car-wheel without the tire- some people use that for a fire-pot. Just coat your iron with furnace cement so it doesn't burn up.
And your blower might surprise you, if you can get enough penetrating oil into it, or you can use a vacuum cleaner or hair-drier.
 
Chris Montgomery said:
Porch, looks like your on your way. I don't often get to forge with coal. I built a propane fueled blown forge due to availability of fuel. I can't wait to see what you turn out. Let me know if I can help in any way.

Chris
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Thanks, Chris, I'll remember your offer. We'll see how many of my big ideas can stand the heat.
 
Thank you SP! Those pics gives me some reference points to to think about. That's a great setup! :thumbup: :)
 
Scruff reporting in after a far too long hiatus!! My apologies amigos. I hope you are all good and well.
I have been out with some old forum farts and wanted to say hello!

 
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Howdy friends and denizens for the Porch! You may have noticed (or maybe not) that I've been absent for quite a while here in the Traditional forum... My life has been super hectic between work and adjusting to life with a little one at home. My daughter Julia is now 17 months old, and she's keeping Katie and me QUITE busy! :D

I've still been heavily into slipjoints, of course, and am getting my last minute plans together to head to the GEC Rendezvous next week! If any of you are attending, I'll be the one running around chasing a little girl back and forth, while trying to catch parts and pieces of conversations here and there! :)

Anyway, I hope you're all doing quite well, and I'm off to try to do a bit of catching up on some of these threads! Take care!
 
Chris Montgomery said:
I have a 3 acre pond on my property that has had bluegills and channel cats in it for 7 years. Last July I put 200 bass fingerlings in. I decided today was the day to see what they have done in a year.

10 inches and about a pound in the first year. Next year I will have to start using a fillet knife to control the population, not that I mind :D

Chris
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Looks good, Chris!:thumbup::thumbup::thumb up:

A little egg, a little Panko bread crumbs, a nice hot frying pan and olive oil, and you're all set!
 
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