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Well........it's time for old Dave to eat some crow!
They say if you have to, it's better to eat your crow while it's still warm! This is a very cold bird in front of me here!!
But 1st I'll run a little interference to distract you all from just how completely inept I can be at times!
I remember ~P. talking about her experience at the Rendezvous making the finished draft for the back label of the latest TC's from Charlie. Here is what she had to say....
Here in this video, at approximately 6 mins in, while Apostle P is talking to me, you can see ~P. actually putting the final draft together! On a hard metal folding chair, with knife-nuts scurrying all around her, she is completely focused to the task at hand.
I wasn't aware if anyone else observed ~P. in the background or what was actually transpiring, but I thought it was pretty cool to have it recorded!
Now for the Crow eating part!!
Friday nite after most folks had gone to bed a few of us got together in my room and shared knives and stories.
Duncan, Paul arrived first with Augie and Apostle P a little later. Duncan brought out this little Schrade Cut Co. Pearl Beauty and gifted it to me! I was floored! He had just gifted me that Beautiful little D-E and then this!! All in a matter of minutes!
I remember thinking I had better put this little pearl beauty someplace safe so she don't get all banged up, it was early in the weekend and I knew there going to be some knives jostled around, so I slipped her into a cushioned knife roll I had.........and by the end of the weekend forgotten all about her!
Well a couple of days ago I found so time to start photographing the Schatt and Morgan knives I acquired at the Rendezvous and in that roll out pops this Sweet little Cut Co.!!
Now it's panic time!!!! I know someone gifted me this Beauty but I'll be d@mned if I can remember exactly WHO!!! At 1st I was pretty sure it was Paul and I wrote him a groveling email asking if it was him that gave it to me or if he could remember who did? Paul set me straight and as soon as he said Duncan all the pieces fell back into place!
So here she is!!!!! Thank You Duncan My Friend! It is a Beautiful Schrade and even though I completely lost track of her I have found her again and I feel MUCH better!!
Now I just need something to get this fowl taste out of my mouth!!
Dave
They say if you have to, it's better to eat your crow while it's still warm! This is a very cold bird in front of me here!!But 1st I'll run a little interference to distract you all from just how completely inept I can be at times!
I remember ~P. talking about her experience at the Rendezvous making the finished draft for the back label of the latest TC's from Charlie. Here is what she had to say....
Finally, of Knives and the Man; a lifetime Highlight:
As many of you know, I often help Charlie (waynorth ) bring the back labels of his SFOs to completion, reading over his prose and assisting however I can to make sure he's saying what he means to say-- and means what he's saying!!
This has occasioned multiple 11th-hour email flurries involving a wild variety of encumbering variables, including non-congruent time zones, painstaking clarifications (to ensure accuracy in the absence of tone and other context), sent emails that never arrive, un-openable attachments, etc.
The Bladesforums Barlows were in full production during the Rendezvous. Thursday night, I suddenly wondered to myself, "Wait, Charlie will have knives coming out as well. I wonder what he's done about the label?"
Friday morning, I arrived at the GEC factory to discover 1) the first of Charlie's barlows, hot off the cookie sheets-- they were a'comin'! and 2) Charlie, sitting at his knife display surrounded by passersby, furiously scribbling on a clipboard holding unlined paper-- his label, due NOW.
He finished up his thoughts and handed the clipboard over to me. I sat in the hallways of GEC, surrounded by passersby, and wrote out the label once, conferred with Charlie, wrote it out again, checked with Charlie, then wrote it out one last time to (hopefully!) remove any confusion due to handwritten vs. typed text. We then walked the final version over to the correct office and person at GEC, and soon enough the actual label was printed and DONE.
... I cannot tell you how much this experience means to me. After all the years of emails, any one of the following would have made an impact, but to have them at work at the same time?!
Charlie and I were togetherOh, my little heart.
at the GEC Factory
while the knives in question were being produced
and we wrote out the label and its revisions long-hand, kickin' it old school
and could ask and answer and clarify questions in real time
and we handed in the label together to the person who actually prints them
and got to see the finished result almost immediately
I am grateful for technology, for email, and for .pdf documents that preserve formatting, but there is something personal, direct, and deeply moving about putting pen to paper-- an engagement, an investment, an oh-so-fitting culmination of a lot of work and words.
I am especially grateful to Charlie for including me, and for his generosity throughout.
To engage this process with Charlie in that setting...?
More than I could have known to ask for; timeless good.
Thank you, Charlie.
~ P.
Here in this video, at approximately 6 mins in, while Apostle P is talking to me, you can see ~P. actually putting the final draft together! On a hard metal folding chair, with knife-nuts scurrying all around her, she is completely focused to the task at hand.
I wasn't aware if anyone else observed ~P. in the background or what was actually transpiring, but I thought it was pretty cool to have it recorded!
Now for the Crow eating part!!
Friday nite after most folks had gone to bed a few of us got together in my room and shared knives and stories.
Duncan, Paul arrived first with Augie and Apostle P a little later. Duncan brought out this little Schrade Cut Co. Pearl Beauty and gifted it to me! I was floored! He had just gifted me that Beautiful little D-E and then this!! All in a matter of minutes!
I remember thinking I had better put this little pearl beauty someplace safe so she don't get all banged up, it was early in the weekend and I knew there going to be some knives jostled around, so I slipped her into a cushioned knife roll I had.........and by the end of the weekend forgotten all about her! Well a couple of days ago I found so time to start photographing the Schatt and Morgan knives I acquired at the Rendezvous and in that roll out pops this Sweet little Cut Co.!!
Now it's panic time!!!!
I know someone gifted me this Beauty but I'll be d@mned if I can remember exactly WHO!!! At 1st I was pretty sure it was Paul and I wrote him a groveling email asking if it was him that gave it to me or if he could remember who did? Paul set me straight and as soon as he said Duncan all the pieces fell back into place! So here she is!!!!! Thank You Duncan My Friend! It is a Beautiful Schrade and even though I completely lost track of her I have found her again and I feel MUCH better!!
Now I just need something to get this fowl taste out of my mouth!!
Dave
Great totin' knife!!
