EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

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RLB0414 said:
Awesome buildings. The first three remind me of Appalachian homesteads
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Such houses were built by rich peasants of the Russian north. On the left, where there are no windows, there is a place for keeping pets and birds during the cold season. Typically, three generations of the same family lived in such houses. Old people, adults, and children.
 
woodysone said:
Bet you couldn’t lose it if you tried 🤔. Nice looking, so this is the last time working with micarta?
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Haha, this is That knife that humbles me.
Everything has been a challenge so far. This is a modified blade design of mine, and a rehandle, and now a redo of my flared lanyard tube. First time drilling one out.
I'm taking a break, enjoying a beer. Because I was successful drilling it out Clean.

My "knife making career" journey so far has been constantly falling down in turds....
And somehow I get up, and smell like roses.... :D Idk how that works out, but it does.


Maybe Im just use to dark handle material?
I normally don't sand much, as you know. Haha. :/
With This stuff I had to keep getting fresh paper, otherwise it looked "dirty" contaminated looking.
I don't think I've seen that before?

My next scales are bone colored. That might be fun too
 
maxjeg said:
Such houses were built by rich peasants of the Russian north. On the left, where there are no windows, there is a place for keeping pets and birds during the cold season. Typically, three generations of the same family lived in such houses. Old people, adults, and children.
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Thank you for the information.
Thank you for sharing your family outings and country's history with us
 
This'll be even more picture heavy than my usual. As I thought I'd mention cleaning out the Russian fireplace and checking the chimney this morning before settling down to a relaxing Sunday of NFL football, I'm reminded of last season's back and forth with M maxjeg about the difference between the traditional style of his homeland's fireplace and my masonry mass heater with an extended flue above the firebox for more complete combustion and heat extraction. I had promised him some pics too which I didn't deliver at the time. The styles are different, but the principle's the same and I've always referred to mine by the sobriquet of its forebears.

Our house is an open plan salt box with split levels alternating from low side to high, front to back. The main heating shell sits at the first of the four wood deck levels (plus attic) in the kitchen, extends under the chimney, and is surrounded on two sides by masonry stairs with a half-story-deep hearth along the front.

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The firebox is a half-story down, accessed and loaded from the basement level with firewood usually coming in through the bulkhead. The firebox is welded steel plate with a 1`/2" top and lined bottom and sides with dry-laid firebrick.

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Inside the unit, back at the kitchen level, the smoke exits into a steel upper chimney then enters the top of the steel baffle box where it travels down, up, and halfway down again, before exiting into about 30 feet of 8x12 clay tile flue, right behind the clean out door in the pic above.

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Anyway, I burned up a bunch of cardboard when I was done. That gets re-cycled in the warmer months and sent skyward during heating season. My Ritter Griptilkins did yeoman work putting those boxes out of their misery before incineration.

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