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

Thank you. The sweetest, gentlest animals ever put on the face of the earth. But then I'm a little prejudiced. They've calmed with their food intake. As pups, it was hard to believe.
 
When they get stubborn, it's no contest. However, since we have property it doesn't usually come up. There is a trick.
 
Run a 30amp 220v extension cord over to the bird feeder and install a game camera. Wire it up so the bear creates ground...;)
 
Owning a 15 year old car has its perks (no car note), but it sure does have a way of giving you a big wedgie from time to time. After working all day, I stopped by the grocery store to pick up some flowers for my wife (she had a rough day). On the way home, as I'm going to cross the major highway to turn into my neighborhood, I lose 1st and 2nd gear. I'm still rolling at about 5mph, so I stick it third and try to ride the clutch; the car stalls right in the middle of the oncoming lanes. My car has a hot-starting issue, so my heart really starts pounding. Thankfully, it cranks first go, and I take probably a year's worth of wear off of my clutch by launching in 3rd gear. Traffic that had stopped at a red light approx 1/2 mile down the road cross about 5 seconds after I cleared the intersection.

Now, here it is at 830pm, steady rain, and me lying in the driveway trying to figure out what caused the issue. Everything underneath looks up to snuff. Jump into the car and start taking about interior trim pieces. The rubber isolation shifter boot under the decorative leather boot is torn to pieces and bunched up to the left side of the shifter, blocking me from accessing 1st and 2nd gear. Ten cents worth of rubber could have cost me my life had traffic been heavier.
 
Oh yeah - agree with Whittlin Away. Also glad you found the problem quite easily too - and everything turned out just fine. :thumbsup:
 
Shawn just like Greg and Duncan I'm glad your safe. I have always driven the oldest car in the family. I drive a 2005 Honda Pilot with 130000 miles my wife drives a 2015 Cadillac CTS with 25000 miles. The only time I get to drive the CTS is when it needs gas, oil change or washed. and I'm the one who paid for it. :eek:
 
Thanks, guys. It was an experience, for sure.

Randy, I know how you feel. I've got the 2002, and the wife drives the 2014. :rolleyes::D
 
This might be as good a place as any to post my gleanings from last week in the antique stores around the hub of the earth.
Twin Tungsten Kutmasters, Kutmaster 3-blade electrician and pretty new Kutmaster trapper; Schrade scrimshaw and advertiser, Schrade Cut Co Walden NY ring opener; Case XX regular Jack, Buck (Camillus) 301, Camillus liner-lock hawksbill, Italian stainless melon tester with secondary pen opposite main. And a Yankee Cutlery shoe knife.
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And a couple of fbs: no-name lambsplitter(?), Kinfolks (MK I Navy, probably not), no-name maybe Colonial.
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scrteened porch said:
This might be as good a place as any to post my gleanings from last week in the antique stores around the hub of the earth.
Twin Tungsten Kutmasters, Kutmaster 3-blade electrician and pretty new Kutmaster trapper; Schrade scrimshaw and advertiser, Schrade Cut Co Walden NY ring opener; Case XX regular Jack, Buck (Camillus) 301, Camillus liner-lock hawksbill, Italian stainless melon tester with secondary pen opposite main. And a Yankee Cutlery shoe knife.
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And a couple of fbs: no-name lambsplitter(?), Kinfolks (MK I Navy, probably not), no-name maybe Colonial.
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Quite a score there Jer. :thumbsup: My grandparents had a screened porch on the back of there house and an old wood table that was a catchall. So when I saw your treasures and then Jack chimed in I couldn't help but think about that old "scrteened porch table". :D
 
Holy Cow, Jer!!! :eek::thumbsup::thumbsup: A dozen good-looking folders in a week of searching??
You must be on Cloud 9; I know I would be!! :D:thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
r redden said:
Quite a score there Jer. :thumbsup: My grandparents had a screened porch on the back of there house and an old wood table that was a catchall. So when I saw your treasures and then Jack chimed in I couldn't help but think about that old "scrteened porch table". :D
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Thank you.
Every horizontal surface I've got is a Jack Black/screened porch table, I'm afraid.
 
5K Qs said:
Holy Cow, Jer!!! :eek::thumbsup::thumbsup: A dozen good-looking folders in a week of searching??
You must be on Cloud 9; I know I would be!! :D:thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Well, a week and a half, but still.

Thanks for the Twin Tungsten phrase, by the way.
I didn't know the Tungsten folders existed, but I think they're from the '70s or thereabouts, because I have some Tungsten kitchen knives that had been found in a barrel in a corner of the factory when I bought them before the factory store closed a couple of decades ago. (If it ever becomes dull, return it to the factory with 50 cents in coin to cover shipping and handling, and they'll sharpen it for you.)

And I've been looking for a Buck 301 that I'm not too cheap to buy for quite some time, so yes, pretty delirious.
 
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