Experimental goblin skinner

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Experimental goblin skinner

There isn't anything more fun than to make something for the first time. That thrill which runs back and forth in your bones, before the very first try is unmistakable and unforgettable. I crave this notion like a junky craves his daily shot. It doesn't really matter what it is, tasting a new, unknown fruit is just as exciting as seeing an unfamiliar bug on my balcony, a new scenery with a strange unearthly lighting, a fresh movie or reaching 150 km/h an a 40 year old motorcycle for the first time, what was dead for ten years and could fall apart any minute. Oh the sweet firsts! Every first is like the first kiss, you don't remember the fourth or the two hundred twenty-seventh, only the first! That burns into your memory so deep, like a short circuited thick copper wire burns into your thumb, before the old school fuse has the chance to melt down. The seconds can never be compared to them.
The "first" of every experience consorts you unfaded till the end, when the distant relic of the very first breath finally meets the last and the great cycle is done.

Well, this type of handle is also a first :) in the long line of firsts I was lucky enough to experience.
It is made of normal oak, but it is mounted aslant, opposite to what is usually seen, so the growth-rings are all visible.

The blade is forged of barbed wire with 5160 steel core.
The overall length is 17 cm, the blade is 8.5 cm long, 3 cm wide and 4 mm thick at its base.

Hope you guys like it :)


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That is a beaut. I so like those simple elegant lines.


Should make a goblin yelp with fear prior to skinning!

Your old bike does 150! My '52 does 117 max......, if Im home sick, have a following wind and am going down hill!
 
That is a beaut. I so like those simple elegant lines.


Should make a goblin yelp with fear prior to skinning!

Your old bike does 150! My '52 does 117 max......, if Im home sick, have a following wind and am going down hill!

Thanks a lot! :)
Well, it only did around 147 once, actually, but that doesn't sound so good. It is a gs450 from '78, so not exactly 40 years old either, but than again it sound cooler, sorry. But I too need the down hill and following wind too. ;)
On a normal flat highway, it can only run at 135 maybe.
Hey a working bike from '52 is awesome! Do you have some pics??
 
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