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

festerfromnzed said:
...a nice gun,a good dog and a taditional knife in your pocket,it dont get much better than that!!.....

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That's a great shot! Looks like you had a fun and relaxing -- and productive -- day. BTW, what time's dinner? ;)

Oh yeah, knife content ...... what knife is that?

-- Mark
 
The knife in this pic is a 1977 hunter by WESTERN...It is the same age as the Miroku shotgun it is accompanying (knife kindly given by CAMPBELLCLANMAN).......the other knife shown is a CASE trapper.....both are very good knives imo........FES
mnblade said:
That's a great shot! Looks like you had a fun and relaxing -- and productive -- day. BTW, what time's dinner? ;)

Oh yeah, knife content ...... what knife is that?

-- Mark
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festerfromnzed said:
Hi guys...im not sure this is the right forum for this but here go,s.....Heres a couple of pics of what i like to do on clear,cold mid winter sundays...a nice gun,a good dog and a taditional knife in your pocket,it dont get much better than that!!.....

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Great pictures. It doesn't get any better than that... How do you like the full size hunter ?
 
The full size hunter is just perfect all round field knife for me....it has enough blade length for gutting deer and blade design are very practical imo..i rarely carry my fixed blade now....FESQUOTE=338375;9871435]Great pictures. It doesn't get any better than that... How do you like the full size hunter ?[/QUOTE]
 
Now there's time I can appreciate not-so-sharp knife, like when you split tip of your finger it doesn't go that deep... :p Anyway, I made my beautiful GEC #25 ebony barlow today mine when I sharpened and noticed main blade was bit ununiformed. Well, I managed to cut my self on finger tip, not bad but enough to bleed quite bit but clean cut. edges are already sticking together and it doesn't hurt. Lately GEC's factory edges have been improved. This one had nice and sharp edge but I still wanted to make it mine and sharpen it like I want.

Anyway, now the knife if sharp, enough sharp anyway :) And as it bit me, its truely, now mine. Last time I had this kind of knife bite, it was GEC #73... But lesson learned: Do not start sharpening knife at 01.00 am. Its too bloody late for that... :D This time is also I appreciate my above average wound treatment skills, thanks to army medic training and two year civilian schooling about wound treat and first aid. Those lesson's did not go waist. :D

Live and learn. But honestly, do not sharpen knife after midnight, sleep first. That will be one lesson I will be teaching to my kids, if I ever get those :)

For a person who supposedly have pretty high IQ (according various highly educated people like psychiatrists and various tests they did to me and what results tell me) I do sometimes really stupid things and such things like this have made me question the accuracy of tests that claim I supposed to be intelligent :p
 
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thejampa, I think there is a difference between intelligence and common sense, and I think both are in short supply between midnight and sunrise. Maybe not for everyone, but definitely for me.
 
I picked up a copy of Knifeaholics Case books at Borders bookstore going out of business sale. Been thumbing through it, great read. I keep flipping through looking at the pics, I don't think I've gotten past the foreword yet...
 
Anybody lost or misplaced their knives recently? I just realized I haven't used or carried my Case backpocket in a long while. I hope its in the bottom of my Maxpedition Jumbo. If not, someone has a nice knife to carry :(.

I think my Peanut kicked it out of the rotation deliberately. My Remington scout better watch out...

Anyway, to stay optimistic, what better reason do I need to get a CV backpocket?
 
Hey Guys,
When I was a boy I remember seeing my grandfather use a pocket knife for daily tasks. The blades were kinda small and they were all stained black. The knives really just looked dirty and gross. As I got older it became a tradition with us boys to receive knives as gifts for Christmas and birthdays. I had tons of knives from slipjoints to lockbacks and fixed blades and bone handles and well yall get the point. As I got older the knives have stayed with me and the stories have gathered. I used to carry just the cheaper "cool" knives that I bought here and there. You know the ones with the "special forces" blade stamps and the fully serrated blades w/ liner locks. Well while these knives did the job for the most part they were often replaced/discarded when dull or broken. The concept of keeping a knife long term was absent. After my grandfather passed away all those old knives became mine. As I looked at them and studied their design I began to learn a lot. I read books on blade shapes and read reviews in magazines. I read biographies of knifemakes and material list (slightly obsessive I know). Another thing I learned was that these knives were used and used hard. They were resharpened to the point of reprofileing the blades dramatically and those black stains were in fact kinda cool them selves. I don't carry them although I have thought about it many times. I mostly just open and close them every couple of weeks and pack them away. When I think about the knives and the brands. I think about how the knives were acquired. From General Stores and Feed and Seed shops. That's sort of how those "cool" knives I used to carry came to be from local stores and malls. Well now that I am grown and have three kids of my own our traditions start. With my boys I have the safe knife handling and blade basics but have added some thing extra. My experiences with traditional knives and I hope they look back with there kids and remember the carbon steel bladed knives I carry with me now. I still carry other one hand openers with awesome blade steels and advanced materials but always have a traditional blade as well. I hope you guys do the same with your children and that my grandkids are writing things like this one day with other knife enthusiasts.
 
I've started that tradition with my son and daughter. They are nine and twelve. I have the modern folders also as well as older passed down knives. My son thinks the coolest knife I have is an old schrade stockman that has been well used. He likes it because there is a story behind the knife.
 
Cool story!!! I carry a the same knife every day (peanut), and us two have developed a pretty good relationship :D. Hopefully when I'm dead and gone someone will be able to appreciate it.
 
My grandfather (Poppa) was born in 1909 in a small KY town to parents who were the children of slaves. Adult life for him was working at the local Army Depot and then coming home to split the time between his family and the small farm that he had. As a child i spent alot of time with Poppa listening to him tell me how good life was and how rough it was for him as a child. It seem like that during all of these discussions he was chewing tobacco- cutting a plug off with what i remember to be a Case large stockman. This is what first started my interests in knives. It had a black blade- i used to think it was from the tobacco, but now after being on bladeforums i realize it was probably patina. He was a simple man- overalls,boots, twist tobacco, a pack of Redman, a pipe with canned tobacco, and the same 2 knives ( a large Case stockman and a stag congress he called Bladey Mae). Then my father using his yellow imitation pearl looking large stockman Boker to open mail every evening when he got home from the Army Depot in which he worked with Poppa. Then there is the TL 29 - one of my first knives ( the Army Depot gave them to employees in mass amounts)- as a kid it was my scout, hunting, and tactical zombie killer all in one. I have been addicted to knives ever since (ask my wife). The traditonal knife is history to me. My grandfather died in the early 90's and after things settled down, everyone was asking who had Bladey Mae (his stag handeled congress). Out of all the property, money and other things of value, the kids wanted to fight over who had a knife. To the this day, it has never been found (wink, wink), but i am sure it is safe.
 
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