Elephant's toenail

[shrapne1]

Finally figured it out, but only because of your generous offer in the current Cannitler thread.

~ P.

heh, jig is up. Trust me im not THAT cross-eyed in real life

 

[MarkPinTx]

In the Texas (and Arkansas and Louisiana) oilfields, a lot of the rig workers or roughnecks were former seamen. The original cable tool rigs essentially dropped a chisel on a rope to "make hole" and the early rigs were even more rope and hoisting intensive than they were later and today with rotary drilling. I assume this was also true in Pennsylvania. As seamanship became less rope intensive as sails died out, the oilfield replaced the sailing ship as employment ground for those good with rope. Guess that explains the connection between the sailing origin of the knife and its later names like wildcat driller.

 

[pertinux]

I love my steel toe/sunfish.

It gets carried frequently

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Yours is a #36, yes? It looks better every time I see it.

Funky nickage, there.

The next time I get to castrate cattle....

... Or, "Things one will never hear Pertinux say."



"Get to," eh? To each his own.


(All in good fun-- I loved seeing your Oeser in the mix, and mucky thereafter, in the pictures from your previous "got to.")

~ P.

 

[gruntmedik]

Well, my Whaler finally pulled in port today! It is with the Lava acrylic, and trust me when I say pics don't do it justice! The pen blade is nice and thin, should be a great slicer, but it isn't real comfortable to use, for obvious reasons. It is a big knife, but I'm drawn to them.





And here, with it's stable mates, the Roughneck in Grizzly Bone, and the EO Sunfish in Coffeehouse Acrylic.

 

[pertinux]

So, now I want a Sunfish.

Shoot, I even thought a nick/pull combination was too weird looking, until I saw this old 'un:

There really is no accounting for taste, nor the vagaries thereof.


~ P.

 

[gruntmedik]

So, now I want a Sunfish.

Shoot, I even thought a nick/pull combination was too weird looking, until I saw this old 'un:



There really is no accounting for taste, nor the vagaries thereof.


~ P.

I was looking for one like Bigfattyt's with the nick/pull combo, but with just the single blade. Sadly, they don't make one.

 

[Deth]

just got my whaler in ebony yesterday too. love it , wish i had the extra funds at the moment because i would be getting the lava one to.

 

[tambourineman]

This is my favorite toenail in my knife collection

 

[Will Batayte]

So since I first made the topic I have purchased another one. This is a modern version by agrussel. It's called their sunfish. It's a lockback and is absolutely beautiful as well as built like a tank. 6mm thick stock but it's a full flat grind and distel taper so its very usable.

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[Will Batayte]

Oh and I forgot that "nail nick" functions as an opening hole. So this giant is a one hander.

 

[Kirk1963]

So since I first made the topic I have purchased another one. This is a modern version by agrussel. It's called their sunfish. It's a lockback and is absolutely beautiful as well as built like a tank. 6mm thick stock but it's a full flat grind and distel taper so its very usable.

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Cool knife! How's the quality?

 

[Will Batayte]

[/IMG]It's a china made knife but the quality is excellent. Rock solid lock up, great fit and finish. Everything is perfectly smooth. No gaps. Good action. The shield and pins are perfectly matched in height to the scales. It came decently sharp but not razor but that will soon be fixed. The whole thing just feels overbuilt. It is a very heavy duty knife. It honestly dwarfs my other ET un terms of thickness.