The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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You did a great job on the edge. I agree about the angles. I too put 20° edges on most knives. Any thinner and they require more care. At 20° a good stropping brings them back.
Jack Black
on your new WaBOOM K’roo! Bob
Rufus1949
what a special gift! Too cool!
Fodderwing
generously gifted me during our recent visit. Thank you my friend. 
Pete, that is a treasure in so many ways. A beautiful coat and kudos to Dwight's generosity.Happy Forth of July everyone!
Congratulations to
Today, the wife and I have one of her friends here for a visit. I plan to make them breakfast for lunch and then it will be hotdogs for supper.
Not sure what we will get into other than that but I suspect we will run down the highway and have a swim in the San Marcos river.
Today I’m carrying this lambfoot which Dwight
I hope everyone has a great day and enjoys some time with friends and family.
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Good news and bad news.
Good news is I landed a dream knife of mine. A stag HHB!!!!! I loved this knife before I ever had the pleasure of getting to know Jack or all of you fine Guardians. Now that I have, it makes this knife ever more special to me. I held Barrett's HHB at the Badger Show and it was lamb perfection. I pretty much told myself that I would probably never own one. I recently was given the opportunity to get one and I pounced. What a great example of a lambsfoot.
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Bad news. My dad is fighting a pretty severe case of pneumonia. I am staying with him at the hospital tonight. He is doing better and the doctor informed us that he is on his way to recovery. Hard to believe that we almost lost him. I am grateful and relieved that he is on the mend and didn't wait another day to come in.
...don't make a wrong.
Thanks Todd, I'm sure some of my neighbours think I'm the street caretakerYou’re a good neighbor Jack.Have a great time on your crawl!
Can't beat Vince's response! Classic!
Two TEWs and a Wright.
Thanks Rachel, good job I'm not ill?Once again, I am outraged on your behalf, Jack.
I will never again complain about my doctor's clinic, which sends me texts asking me to confirm my appointment, then a few days before, sends an email asking me to go online to fill out the same darned medical history questions that they already have on record, then the night before, another text reminder of when to show up...
Perhaps you need to call your clinic every day of the week leading up to confirm. Annoy them so much, they'll remember you.
You have a beauty there my friend
Most of mine are 20 degrees. I put 15 on Big Rose, and have gone back to 20, but she has one heck of an edge
Thanks a lot Pete, that is one gorgeous Lambsfoot my friend, one to treasure for sureHappy Forth of July everyone!
Congratulations to
Today, the wife and I have one of her friends here for a visit. I plan to make them breakfast for lunch and then it will be hotdogs for supper.
Not sure what we will get into other than that but I suspect we will run down the highway and have a swim in the San Marcos river.
Today I’m carrying this lambfoot which Dwight
I hope everyone has a great day and enjoys some time with friends and family.
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Cool Baxter Steve
Wishing you, and all our Guardians, a very happy day buddy
Hope you've all had a great day. I've had an enjoyable pub crawl. Nobber Al hss headed off, and I'm just having a last pint, my 9th, before heading home 
Neat picture of Peter Allen on what looks like a Triumph?
I was talking to my mate Tool Man, the other day, about a video I had watched online focussing on the fastest 250cc motorcycles of the 70's. I said I was surprised that the 3 cylinder Kawasaki KH250 hadn't featured, as I remember pushing mine to a Ton. Tool Man told me that I may have got close, but that the Japanese speedometers of the time could be as much as 20MPH out!Cudgee, Yes, the various smells of gas and oils were like fine French perfume to me.
My buddies and I used to ride our motorcycles to the drag strip on Saturdays in the 1970s, race all day, and ride them back home.
Barrett, I'm putting you in that "wild friends" category.
Yes Jack, we need to catch up.
Paul, my best wishes for a speedy recovery for your dad.
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My apologies Neal, I'll try to catch up with you soon Nice TEW there 
They look like a great set-up. And in the scheme of things for what we can spend on knives not expensive. The old " Buy Right Buy Once " saying comes to mind. And you are correct about the stones, Diamond stones are fantastic, but you have to be careful with them, they remove a lot of metal. I have some Arkansaw stones for these systems and they are great on simple steels, you get a really refined edge. I also have a Belgian Blue, it gives hair popping edges. But diamonds can be overkill sometimes when you just want to touch up and edge, especially on Carbon. But glad you like your system.
I am also a 20 degrees on most of my blades. But did do 15 on a couple of my Lambsfoot, boy can they slice, especially if you leave some tooth.
Leon, you are spot on with leaving some teeth. They work great on tomatoes and such.They look like a great set-up. And in the scheme of things for what we can spend on knives not expensive. The old " Buy Right Buy Once " saying comes to mind. And you are correct about the stones, Diamond stones are fantastic, but you have to be careful with them, they remove a lot of metal. I have some Arkansaw stones for these systems and they are great on simple steels, you get a really refined edge. I also have a Belgian Blue, it gives hair popping edges. But diamonds can be overkill sometimes when you just want to touch up and edge, especially on Carbon. But glad you like your system.
I am also a 20 degrees on most of my blades. But did do 15 on a couple of my Lambsfoot, boy can they slice, especially if you leave some tooth.
By the way, I am led to believe that that wood is what wagon wheels were made of.Blimey, I ended up having a really hard and stressful day, and didn't even get to see the docThankfully, it turned out to be one of those Yin-Yang days, where most of the day's misery, was rewarded by some incredible kindness
All was going OK until around 9.30am, when my doctor rang me. I made an appointment to see her several weeks ago, and my appointment was at 3.10pm. For some reason, she was under the impression that I had booked a telephone appointment, which the docs really LOVE here, despite the fact I have never, ever booked one before. When I told her I had booked an appointment for that afternoon, and I still had the appointment card, as I had booked it in person, she said there was no record of it, quickly said she could fit me in at 4.20pm, and then hung up. I was left feeling rather frustrated, particularly as I had a supermarket delivery booked for 4.30pm. I wasn't sure what on earth was happening, so I wrote a letter to the Practice Manager, delivered it in person, cancelled the appointment, and was told I'd now be waiting a couple of months for another appointment, which I'd have to book at a later date...
I had some other frustrating issues to deal with, which I'll not even bother to go into, but after leaving the doctors, I had to walk a couple of miles, in heavy rain, to pick up a parcel, which a courier driver failed to deliver to my house, claiming I wasn't in. He did the same thing with a couple of my neighbours. I reached the shop soaking wet, having phoned ahead, only to be greeted by a 'Back in 5 Minutes' sign on the door!Fortunately, I was only standing in the heavy rain for a few minutes, before the proprietor appeared, and I finally took delivery of a very large parcel
Do any of you remember the hunt for my yuppie neighbours' cat, which started a few weeks ago? Well it seems the hunt extended even further than I thought, as the shop had one of the 'Missing' posters up in the window. I remarked upon this, and the lady said that she'd heard the cat had been spotted on the next street. Apparently there are all sorts of theories and rumours circulating!
The rain began to ease off a little, and I decided to walk back through the park. The first section is downhill, but that means the second half is a steep climb
I noticed a couple of odd-looking birds, Black-Headed Gulls I suspect (No s$%t Sherlock), but I haven't seen any like this here before.
It seemed Kuki wasn't the only lost pet, and I hoped there wasn't a connection!Even if that wasn't the case, since the park already has a few parrots, I suspected the chances of this one going home were minimal. Either way, I wasn't ringing a number in Africa, or wherever 'home' is
I was soaked, but still hadn't had lunch, so I decided to head down to Charlie'sIt was after 2pm, and I was desperately hungry though, so I made do, and sat and recovered a little, before trudging up the hill again
More on the goodie-packed parcel elsewhere, but suffice to say, opening it severely improved my mood!
The second parcel was sent by our friend Bob
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My world has been WABOOMED!What an incredibly generous gift
Well Guardians, it's getting on for 8pm here in Yorkshire, and I still have a heap of stuff to do, otherwise Nobber Al will be celebrating the 4th of July on his own, so I'll love you, and leave you, for tonight, as we say here. With a big thanks to Bob, and wishing everyone a pleasant evening
Best wishes for you and your Dad Paul
