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

Nice to see you Thom, as usual :) I've just this minute got in :thumbup:
 
scruffuk said:
Hello folks!

I just wanted to give my apologies for another long period of absence and let you know I'm still walking the path!

Just come back from a catch up with Mr Black and ADEE. Promised I would pull my finger out and start posting again (again).

I'll try and do a better job this time!

Hope you have all been keeping well?!

Thom
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Hi Thom,

Still doing ok thanks - good to see you posting again :)


- Paul
 
Couldn't resist:D
The brilliant Peter Sellers
[video]https://youtu.be/N2nA77k_YGg[/video]
the guys with horse cart are the rag n bone men.
 
Proud Pop here.

Last Thursday morning my wife and I dropped our son off at Dulles International Airport for a flight to JFK where he connected to a flight to Tel Aviv for six weeks of archaeological work in Israel. This is his third trip to Lachish, and this time the Director of Archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Dr. Yosef Garfinkel, selected him to be a team leader and unit supervisor responsible for his own unit. I know my son was/is both humbled and a bit scared. Performance anxiety, if you will. Anyway he's on site and working now and sent this pic.

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mrknife said:
cool! what are they digging for?
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In this case, my son is working a subset looking for a Canaanite temple. This dig is concentrating on the 10th - 9th centuries BC.

Questions for which answers are being sought at Tel Lachish and for which it is hoped this expedition may help answer: first Iron Age inhabitation of Lachish; first Iron Age fortification of Lachish; development of the economy, administration, international connections, writing, cult and art develop in the first 200 years of the Kingdom of Judah; and the connections between archaeology and the Biblical narrative of the tenth century BC.

This fourth season (2016) of the fourth expedition to Tel Lachish. My son was also digging in the second (2014) and third (2015) seasons. We funded his first trip (2014) as study abroad with his university. Biblical Archaeology Review and the university he graduated from funded his second trip (2015). He funded this trip (2016). The 2014 dig was ended early due to hostilities/warfare. This will likely be his last trip to Tel Lachish with Hebrew University.

The three previous expeditions to Lachish were 1932-1938 (British), 1966 and 1968 (Tel Aviv University), and between 1974 and 1987 (Tel Aviv University). 1967 was a year of no digging for obvious reasons.
 
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And on the off chance anyone is interested the two knives he took were his Izula which he uses almost exclusively for fruit and the SWIZA D04 he talked me out of a couple of weeks ago.
 
Leghog your son is doing some very interesting work. You must be very proud but at the same time a little bit nervous. My son travels constantly for work he is in Chicago right now and will be leaving there for California but no middle east. A kudos to you and your wife Leghog you have no doubt raised one fine son.
 
r redden said:
You must be very proud but at the same time a little bit nervous.
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I'm not really nervous. More envious. I traveled quite a bit in my career, often to odd or exotic locales, and am thankful I had that great opportunity to do so. I'm also thankful my son got the opportunity to do this the last three years. His mother and grandmother are the nervous ones.
 
leghog said:
In this case, my son is working a subset looking for a Canaanite temple. This dig is concentrating on the 10th - 9th centuries BC.

Questions for which answers are being sought at Tel Lachish and for which it is hoped this expedition may help answer: first Iron Age inhabitation of Lachish; first Iron Age fortification of Lachish; development of the economy, administration, international connections, writing, cult and art develop in the first 200 years of the Kingdom of Judah; and the connections between archaeology and the Biblical narrative of the tenth century BC.

This fourth season (2016) of the fourth expedition to Tel Lachish. My son was also digging in the second (2014) and third (2015) seasons. We funded his first trip (2014) as study abroad with his university. Biblical Archaeology Review and the university he graduated from funded his second trip (2015). He funded this trip (2016). The 2014 dig was ended early due to hostilities/warfare. This will likely be his last trip to Tel Lachish with Hebrew University.

The three previous expeditions to Lachish were 1932-1938 (British), 1966 and 1968 (Tel Aviv University), and between 1974 and 1987 (Tel Aviv University). 1967 was a year of no digging for obvious reasons.
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Cue Indiana Jones theme!!! it belongs in a museum!
 
leghog said:
And on the off chance anyone is interested the two knives he took were his Izula which he uses almost exclusively for fruit and the SWIZA D04 he talked me out of a couple of weeks ago.
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i was going to ask that! i wasnt sure if theyd allow knives on travel to that location
 
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