Did your Traditional knife get a workout today? -Part II

[A.L.]

Besides my Balow doing some work at work, my toe nail got some hard work on some italian cheese and german sausage.

 

[StoneBeard]

Used this little guy for some fine slicing this evening-

 

[cchu518]

On lunch duty

 

[Will Power]

Sorry! Wrong place.....

 

[onojoe]

Cut that shrink wrappy thing off the top of a new bottle of hot sauce

 

[johnny twoshoes]

I'm on the road and my new Stag #77 helped repair a broken windshield wiper.
Love the wharncliffe blade!

 

[mp31x]

Gotta keep this thread going.

SAK bantam and strawberries with coffee for breakfast

 

[Cory Hess]

Got a new ferro rod in yesterday and used my 23 and a little sandpaper to turn a chunk of handrail into a handle.

 

[JB in SC]

StoneBeard nice looking tuna

 

[afishhunter]

used old Imperial Barlow to slice green, yellow, orange, and red bell pepper for Italian sausages I had for brunch. Oh, split the hogie rolls with it, too.

 

[screened porch]

Leaf and brush pickup- bundling pokeweed and swinging wild grapes. (swinge- ing, not swinging.)

 

[afishhunter]

how long until the wild grapes become "civilized" wine?

 

[knarfeng]

Needed a piece of Armalon (Teflon-coated glass fabric) for some work we were doing in the engineering lab. The stuff comes on big rolls, which we keep in a storeroom. Company has outlawed razor-knives for use by workers, so somebody went to find some scissors. Time was wasting, so I fished out my little Buck 305 and cut off a length of the fabric. (Personal pocket knives are still legal.) Then in the lab I used the coping blade to cut it to shape.

Sigh. Not sure how you can run a materials lab without cutting blades. I used to keep a box cutter in my labcoat pocket back when I worked in the lab every day. Used it all the time.

 

[screened porch]

how long until the wild grapes become "civilized" wine?

My dad tried making wine once. Six days is practically six months, so he'd open it and taste it, and oh, it was terrible. We did better with ale.

 

[screened porch]

Company has outlawed razor-knives for use by workers. (Personal pocket knives are still legal.)

Crazier and crazier.

 

[Jack Black]

This thread (and its predecessor) used to be one of the mainstays of the Traditional forum. Sadly, it seems to have fallen out of use, something ScruffUK and I were lamenting yesterday. Just as we were having the conversation, an errant mosquito decided to dive-bomb my beer. My new Lick Creek Barlow, a gift from Charlie C, came to the rescue! Scruff snapped the action :thumbup:

 

[lutejones]

Thanks for reviving it Jack, It was indeed one of the pillars of the main page.
I'm now working in hospitals as a salesman, so a lot of time waiting for a free moment to talk to the doctors, I always carry a little piece of basswood to whittle on, that and cutting breakfast are the main workout

Cheers

 

[Jack Black]

Beautiful carving Mateo :thumbup:

 

[scruffuk]

It's aliiiiive!

 

[knarfeng]

We have a chayote squash in the back yard.

chayote has a sprawling habit, and it should only be planted if there is plenty of room in the garden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote

Wiki got that right. It's a creeper. Although ours has a nice large area all to itself, it keeps wanting to expand into and over other plants. This evening while working in the yard I noticed it was impinging on one of the tomato plants. My Opinel #8 was in my pocket, and it easily trimmed the squash back into its own area.