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

[scruffuk]

Tuesday tinkerings:



Still some shaping to go but couldn't resist a splash of water on that Yew grain...

 

[scruffuk]

Smoothed and oiled

 

[black mamba]

Beautifully done, Scruff!

 

[r redden]

Tuesday tinkerings:

Scurff what a great job you did. You Porch Dwellers never cease to amaze me with your talents.

 

[scruffuk]

Thank you folks

 

[knarfeng]

Wonderful job. Thanks for posting that, Scruff.
That Yew is gorgeous.
Enzo blade?
12C27?

 

[scruffuk]

Thank you sir.

It's Yew, with a brass bolster and birch bark spacer. An Enzo blade yes, but in O1.

This was the first time in MANY puukko's I've used an off the shelf bolster. Speeds things up a good deal, but it needs an attractive piece of wood behind it I reckon.

 

[Will Power]

Great Expectations we have of you Scruff

Turned out really well. Is Yew hard wood to work with? I imagine it could be very tough?

Thanks, Will

 

[scruffuk]

Actually, it was easier to work than I remembered. It is perhaps not the densist piece what with it have both sap and heartier wood. It's comes up quickly though, which is the sign of a denser wood, I've found anyway.

 

[scruffuk]

Next one up; Bog Oak, Birch Bark and Buffalo.

 

[scruffuk]

Folks, please advise, if I post something in The Exchange, For Sale, do I really have to post NO TRADES in order to avoid unsolicited PM's!? Also, NO WILD OFFERS?

 

[black mamba]

Scruff, from the tone of your ALL CAPS I would say "yes" you do. It may prevent someone wasting your time. If the offers are insulting, I just don't respond.

 

[scruffuk]

He he, I just needed to vent. It is irksome.

 

[black mamba]

I totally agree.

 

[r redden]

Scruff I don't think anything will curtail some people from making lowball offer, trying to trade a SAK for a 77 TC Barlow or wanting F&F additional money for G&S. The Exchange is a great place to buy or sale but it's like eating fish you have to pick out the bones.

 

[scruffuk]

Well, put amigo.

 

[JB in SC]

scruffuk “no trades, lowball offers ignored” in the posting eliminates most of the “tire kickers”

 

[scruffuk]

I just forgot what it's like to be honest. I'm a bit out of touch.


Cheers chaps.

 

[Jack Black]

I just forgot what it's like to be honest.

That's a sentence begging for a comma my friend

 

[jc57]

scruffuk I've got some partly chewed gum that still has some flavor left in it, 27 cents in pocket change, and a slightly bent paper clip. Sure you don't want to trade for that? I can throw in the foil wrapper for the gum if that'll close the deal.

Alternately, you could always counter offer with a price $20 higher than your listed price. If a lowball offer is considered inoffensive, then an offer to charge more should be just as inoffensive.