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On a new knife I know I would go with Rosewood!!Wright's also still use it Ron, producing several Lambsfoot knives with Bexoid scales. Their Rosewood models are only a bit more expensive though, and I think most of their customers go for that option. It's pretty tough stuff though, the Sheldon Knife (which includes a Lambsfoot pattern) uses it without liners
On a new knife I know I would go with Rosewood!!
That was a Gouda one, Dave
Lovely picture, Jack.Kicking off another week with my Ashley's Choice
Great coffee mug
That was a Gouda one, Dave
Lovely picture, Jack.
Great coffee mug
I received it 25 years ago as a prize for getting a letter published
That's great! Was the letter connected to Dredd comics somehow or was it purely coincidence that it was a Dredd cup?I thought you might like that one
Great news and very excited! Can't wait for a "pile" pic.Yes, it's the photo on the front of the Royal Armouries guide book I purchased yesterday
Good news this morning Guardians, check your emails!
Great news and very excited! Can't wait for a "pile" pic.
I enjoyed your pics from the museum, as well. Hope you have a great week, Jack.
Though I think my life is probably going to be on-hold for a few weeks! I'll try and get a pile pic up tomorrow night Thank you very much my friend, you too
My least focussed snow pic from yesterday:
We're having a serious blizzard today, though I sometimes think that weather-persons today are bigger sissies than kids today.
Not like the old days, when we never got a snow day. When we got twelve feet of snow overnight, as so often happened, we just had to cut steps in the near side of the drifts and roll down the far side till we got to school. (A few pioneering kids suffocated trying to tunnel to school, so that method was dispreferred). And it was so cold that the primers in our .22s wouldn't ignite, so we had to chase down the squirrels on snowshoes improvised from barrel-staves and bite their heads off. Quickly, so our faces wouldn't freeze. (A few pioneering kids beat the squirrels to death with their pencil boxes, but if you lost your pencils, you had to write in your blood with your scout knife until the next issue of pencils.) This of course was before we had lambsfoots.
And bring home the barrel-staves to reassemble into barrels around tho solid-frozen herrings!
And if you tell young people that today, they won't believe you.
I'd better post another pic.
It sounds like one I would have enjoyed as a kid.The magazine was 2000AD, whose main character is Judge Dredd, but it contains a number of other rotating strips, one of which was Rogue Trooper (called 'Friday' in one incarnation), and that's the main character who appears on the cup (it used to have a heat sensitive panel, which read, "Dispensing coffee now Friday!")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Trooper
Great story, much better than walking uphill both ways.My least focussed snow pic from yesterday:
We're having a serious blizzard today, though I sometimes think that weather-persons today are bigger sissies than kids today.
Not like the old days, when we never got a snow day. When we got twelve feet of snow overnight, as so often happened, we just had to cut steps in the near side of the drifts and roll down the far side till we got to school. (A few pioneering kids suffocated trying to tunnel to school, so that method was dispreferred). And it was so cold that the primers in our .22s wouldn't ignite, so we had to chase down the squirrels on snowshoes improvised from barrel-staves and bite their heads off. Quickly, so our faces wouldn't freeze. (A few pioneering kids beat the squirrels to death with their pencil boxes, but if you lost your pencils, you had to write in your blood with your scout knife until the next issue of pencils.) This of course was before we had lambsfoots.
And bring home the barrel-staves to reassemble into barrels around the solid-frozen herrings!
And if you tell young people that today, they won't believe you.
I'd better post another pic.
screened porch
- EXACTLY - we as kids (here in Maine) often had to jump out 2nd floor windows to the high snow below because we couldn't wait for my dad to tunnel out the back door (usually required 1st removing the door(s) from the hinges - very tedious 
) and then we could start our 3 hour walk to school. 
If you sent your kids out in shorts in winter these days, they'd get taken into 'care'! 
I'd better post another pic.
Everybody here in California wears shorts, all year long. I get teased all the time because I NEVER EVER wear shorts.
