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

I used my new-to-me nameless Czech on the church pot-roast today.
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Could be for all I know. Mikov is the only Czech cutler I know. The tang has Czechoslovakia on one side and a double-headed eagle on the other.
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None of my three have the double eagle; just "MIKOV" in a round corner rectangle.
All of mine are recent production (post 2010), so no double eagles may amount to less than a gnat's butt burp. 🤔
Could the eagles = "Cold War" or earlier production?
 
afishhunter said:
None of my three have the double eagle; just "MIKOV" in a round corner rectangle.
All of mine are recent production (post 2010), so no double eagles may amount to less than a gnat's butt burp. 🤔
Could the eagles = "Cold War" or earlier production?
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Will Power says that "Czechoslovakia" puts it between WWI and the split-up of Czechs and Slovaks (199+?). The two-headed eagle has a crown above and is clutching an orb with a cross on it, which is something to do with the "Ecumenical Patriarchate of Mount Athos," which is something to do with the Greek Orthodox Church.
The eagle is very badly worn, though. I might be seeing with the eyes of faith a bit.
Here's some solid evidence: I have a feeling it's from between the world wars.
 
With the usual caveat that I trust my knives didn't raise a sweat, I used both of these at the farm this morning. (Nobody there but me. It was raining but warm for the end of November.)
The Parapluie cut a little ornamental herbage to offer to the ghosts at the farmhouse, and cut some orange twine to string across some black mesh fencing that surprised me by being where it was and being almost invisible.
The A, Wright cut a little channel down the side of a wooden fencepost by the farmhouse garden, to drain the water that was standing in a hollow on the top of the post.
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Just Tom. said:
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(It’s a long story…)
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Electrical/electronics work?
My sincere condolences. ☹️🥺

From the photo it could have been much worse ...
Mount, assemble, aim, and connect a 3 meter receive & transmit satellite dish, or electrify ten studio broadcast equipment racks ... or assemble a high power (up to 2500 watts) VHF transmitter ... only to discover after picking it up in St. Louis, MO, and transporting it to Twin Falls, Idaho, it is 24 inches wider and 15 inches taller (without the exterior top mounted cooling fans and filters) than the broadcast shack door ... and the complete unit is seven foot longer and a foot wider than the assigned (and available) space inside said broadcast shack*. (that transmitter cost over 100K used. After the convert to digital mandate, its only value (in the USA. Not sure about Canada or Mexico and South America) is scrap. It is in a 28' storage semi trailer, 22 years later.)
(4 or 5 radio stations were also in that shack and using the antenna tower) just 8 months before the FCC's unfunded mandate that all high power (AKA: "VHF") TV stations HAVE to convert to digital broadcasting ... or completely rewire and upgrade a 1948 Ford C- 7, 5.5 ton dump truck (no replacement wire harnesses available) ... for example. 😇👍

(* Just as well. When we put the station on the air in April, 2000, the quote - unquote "road" up the mountain was still under 8 foot of snow. We would have needed to charter a much larger helicopter to take us, and all equipment and tools, to the broadcast shack the week it took to get set up and on the air. Using the ski resort's ski lift was not an viable option.)
 
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afishhunter said:
Electrical/electronics work?
My sincere condolences. ☹️🥺

From the photo it could have been much worse ...
Mount, assemble, aim, and connect a 3 meter receive & transmit satellite dish, or electrify ten studio broadcast equipment racks ... or assemble a high power (up to 2500 watts) VHF transmitter ... only to discover after picking it up in St. Louis, MO, and transporting it to Twin Falls, Idaho, it is 24 inches wider and 15 inches taller (without the exterior top mounted cooling fans and filters) than the broadcast shack door ... and the complete unit is seven foot longer and a foot wider than the assigned (and available) space inside said broadcast shack*. (that transmitter cost over 100K used. After the convert to digital mandate, its only value (in the USA. Not sure about Canada or Mexico and South America) is scrap. It is in a 28' storage semi trailer, 22 years later.)
(4 or 5 radio stations were also in that shack and using the antenna) just 8 months before the FCC's unfunded mandate that all high power (AKA: "VHF") TV stations HAVE to convert to digital broadcasting ... or completely rewire and upgrade a 1948 Ford C- 7, 5.5 ton dump truck (no replacement wire harnesses available) ... for example. 😇👍

(* Just as well. When we put the station on the air in April, 2000, the quote - unquote "road" up the mountain was still under 8 foot of snow. We would have needed to charter a much larger helicopter to take us, and all equipment and tools, to the broadcast shack the week it took to get set up and on the air. Using the ski resort's ski lift was not an viable option.)
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You are making me feel much better about having to spend some of my limited free time fixing the dishwasher 🤣.

Stay tuned for upcoming plastic shed assembly…
 
Just Tom. said:
You are making me feel much better about having to spend some of my limited free time fixing the dishwasher 🤣.

Stay tuned for upcoming plastic shed assembly…
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Plastic sheds are fun. Did you get the 2 piece plastic floor panels as well, or are you going with a concrete slab?
I did a 8x10 plastic shed with plastic floor at the Florida Keys vacation rental my then employer had.
(80 sf = no building permit required. over 88 sf = building permit required - even if no plumbing and/or electrical installed. That eliminated the 10x12 shed.)
 
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Plastic sheds are fun. Did you get the 2 piece plastic floor panels as well, or are you going with a concrete slab?
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Sorry for the late reply. Plastic panel. I had a nice level spot, but I did put some fill dirt down to make a nice even pad first.
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No traditional knives were harmed in the assembly of this, so I think I will post the details on the multitools forum. I DID however encounter the ONE time I could have used the parcel hook on my Fieldmaster, but I wasn’t about to take my muddy shoes off to go in the house and get it. One of the “male” sliding tabs was crushed - I would have used the awl to punch a hole in it, and the hook to pull it back into shape. As it was, I managed to sort of do the same thing with the awl on the multitool.

I did just use the Fieldmaster’s tweezers to pull a metal splinter out of my thumb, left there by the thread of a cheap screw.
 
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The rest of the story…
Just Tom. said:
More use today for the multitool my buddy gifted me.

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(The Case Mako lockback wound up staying on my belt, since I already had the multitool out, and it had a knife blade)

The knife blade got used for opening the packaging. The scissors trimmed the window gaskets to size. The pliers got mostly used for mounting the door hardware. I used the awl to poke and pry in a semi- successful attempt to re-form a crushed male slider tab.

I got the roof panels mounted by myself no problem, but when it got time to secure them to the side panels with screws, one of the 4 screws required, as explained in the instructions, a second person pushing down from the outside to fully seat the roof panels. Voilà my “second person” 🤣:
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The most frustrating part of the whole operation turned out to be peeling the protective paper from the plastic window panes😫. That stuff was stuck on good - I wound up having to scrape it off bit by bit with my fingernails and an old plastic gift card, while running it under hot water.🤬

Opened the box around 7:30, and was all done and cleaned up by 11:00.
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