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

My daughter and son-in-law came to drop the girls off so they could spend the night. So Chris my son-in-law hands me his Schrade 8OT stockman and says he can't hardly open or close it and has rust on it. Of course he wanted me to fix it for him so I took it and it was dull as a butter knife. It was obvious he used it but never took care of it. I'm going to get it squared away for him this morning but it really erks me when people don't take care of their knives as well as they do their other tools. Chris is a mechanic and I've watched him baby his other tools but I guess he doesn't consider his knife as a tool.
 
Randy, I guess I'm a bit guilty of the exact opposite. I've been known to not fully clean my tools before tossing them back into the tool box. :oops: I don't put away a knife without wiping the blade on my pants/a towel, though.
 
r redden said:
My daughter and son-in-law came to drop the girls off so they could spend the night. So Chris my son-in-law hands me his Schrade 8OT stockman and says he can't hardly open or close it and has rust on it. Of course he wanted me to fix it for him so I took it and it was dull as a butter knife. It was obvious he used it but never took care of it. I'm going to get it squared away for him this morning but it really erks me when people don't take care of their knives as well as they do their other tools. Chris is a mechanic and I've watched him baby his other tools but I guess he doesn't consider his knife as a tool.
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Many people have that exact feeling about knives, like sharpening it on a grinder. I do "use" my knives, but I baby them as well.
People think we are weird...
 
pertinux said:
Eclipse: We were slated for 86% coverage or so. Our forecast had called for clouds and possible thunderstorms, plus I was going to buried at work, so I didn't prepare for any eclipse sightings.

When the skies suddenly cleared, I did a fast search for possible methodology; eschewing the cereal box option(!), I ran home at lunchtime for some binoculars and quickly jury-rigged this back at work:

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Not only did I get to see the eclipse, but most of the staff made it down at one time or another to take a look, with the General Manager (my direct boss) staying through the peak coverage and thus granting me reprieve (in addition to admiring my Fiddleback Forge Sylvrfalcen-- see below). Between my Visual Aid and a tech's welder's mask, we got 'er done. A unexpectedly good interlude in a more stressful stretch at home and work. :)

I took this picture of my Sylvrfalcen in ongoing gratitude for the gang at @Fiddleback forge and their handiwork:

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~ P.
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Very cool ! I took a nap:(
 
SVTFreak said:
Hey, all y'all down in south Texas, baton down the hatches and get on to higher ground. That little storm lookin like it's gonna sit there a few days and give you a good soakin. Talking about 3-5ft of rain! We got 36" over 4 days last year and it wasn't nothin nice.

I'm a praying for y'all.
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Who all do we have there? The flooding is pretty bad and I'm worried we still ain't seen the end of it.
 
Car time.....an unfamiliar sight for our American friends no doubt, but saw this in a street near me yesterday (none too common here either) For me, the Citroen 2CV epitomises a certain kind of Gallic genius, oddity and practicality. Tiny air cooled engine, high suspension&ground clearance, frugal fuel economy and quite unmistakable :D this is an old one from about 62 I think as it had canvas&tubular metal seats that look like deckchairs. It has modern/vintage import No.plates but you can for some weird reason,the original lettering of the French plates on the bodywork. They must have stamped them on:D

This is the Opinel of the car world. Some millions made between c 1948-92 beloved by rural workers and city sophisticates alike. I'd love one as a summer car here, but in the winter that air cooled engine and fabric roof could freeze you to death in -30C:eek:

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Not surprising, try aquaplaning with one front wheel:eek: even more of a death trap than a 2CV plus being fibreglass, a molotov cocktail on wheels:D:eek::poop:

Fibreglass, mmhhh there's an idea for some minimalist knife scales:D
 
Will Power said:
Not surprising, try aquaplaning with one front wheel:eek: even more of a death trap than a 2CV plus being fibreglass, a molotov cocktail on wheels:D:eek::poop:

Fibreglass, mmhhh there's an idea for some minimalist knife scales:D
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I'm old enough to remember the original death trap! :eek: :D

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Why WAS everything Orange in the 70s?? Tangerine Dream...:D

Bubble Car? Well, it is safer to have 2 wheels at the front and one at the back if you MUST insist on a three wheeler. I've heard that disabled people in Britain used to have three wheeled cars called Invalid Carriages. Here the disabled got three wheeled mopeds, you had to be hardy and plenty agile to use one!!:D Rather defeated the purpose....:cool:
 
Cambertree said:
Gev, R8shell and Bartleby are in and around Austin, IIRC.
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Thanks for thinking of me Chin, but I am in the DFW area and am quite safe. My daughter in Austin is on high ground and out of any danger. The flooding down on the coast is beyond belief, I have seen a bunch of pictures from students and their folks whose relatives are living through this mess. The scale of it is beyond my taking in, a great sadness to see so many lives so profoundly changed in such a short time or lost forever. Our prayers are with those who are enduring this, and those who are assisting them.
 
A post WW2 Heinkel Kabine, with the single wheel at the rear:

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This one was made in Dundalk, Ireland in 1960.

Considering Heinkel's 'PR problems' in Britain, these models were apparently sold as 'Trojans' in the UK. (A veiled Teutonic joke, perhaps?)

I daresay if you told the Heinkel engineers who designed and produced the first jet engine fighter plane in 1941, that they'd be making these twenty years later, they would have laughed at you!
 
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Bartleby said:
Thanks for thinking of me Chin, but I am in the DFW area and am quite safe. My daughter in Austin is on high ground and out of any danger. The flooding down on the coast is beyond belief, I have seen a bunch of pictures from students and their folks whose relatives are living through this mess. The scale of it is beyond my taking in, a great sadness to see so many lives so profoundly changed in such a short time or lost forever. Our prayers are with those who are enduring this, and those who are assisting them.
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I'm very glad to hear you and your family are safe, Bart.

Yes, it must be devastating - my heartfelt thoughts and sympathies are with everyone contending with this terrible disaster.
 
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