Trying to catch up a little bit on some of the 2 weeks when I was unresponsive.
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(I wonder if GT
5K Qs
still wears the honorary mantle of Official Guardians Food Correspondent?
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If I wear that mantle, Chin, I do so very reluctantly.
I usually try to ignore most of the food posts, in the hope that this thread won't turn into the BF Food Channel. But sometimes I can't help myself!
I really enjoy this game! After we get this one mostly filled in, maybe we should go back do it with 2018’s Ebony knives!
GT Black Jack is a handsome lambsfoot. I know you are proud.
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Nice pic GT
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If the resolution is high enough, I think I'd be able to quite easily ID mine, Barrett, since it has a distinctive pin crack at the butt end.
Thanks, Dwight & Jack.
Getting back to food, crabmeat pasties!
I was watching Dame Penelope Keith's
Coastal Villages last night.
Cool photo, Jer.
(What's the source of the "lion quote" currently in your sig?)
... So Cherri (my wife) goes into town this morning to run errands (one of which is the post office to get mail). I am in the recliner minding my own business when she texts me a photo of a package. It's just one corner of the box and it says...from... "J BACK". I rise... I am YeeeeHawwwInggg!!! and dancing a jig (carefully).
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But it was too late. I was all in. Ticket purchased. Train boarded. Holding the USPS flat rate priority box I remained convinced it was from Leeds. My steeled will would make it so...
Cool story, Dwight, even though you must have been quite disappointed when harsh reality intruded.
Holy Cow, Dave, you live in a fairy tale???
"Once upon a time, ..."
I have a few (okay, I have a large number of) knives that—while they aren’t exactly “safe queens”—get carried very rarely. I’ll fondle them periodically to admire their beauty, and I’ll pocket them on special occasions, but they aren’t really “users.”
I fully expected the 2019 Guardians knife to join this group, but I was mistaken.
As I was handling this knife last night, cleaning out leftover polishing compound, doing a bit of tweaking to limber up its admittedly stiff action, and sharpening it up a bit it became clear to me that this was a knife designed to do real work in the hands of people who actually *worked* for a living. I experienced some childhood nostalgia as I thought about working alongside my father. His primary knife was a Peanut with a broken main blade and a pen blade that had been oversharpened into a tiny Wharncliffe, but when we were working on the farm he frequently had in his capacious pocket an ancient knife of unknown manufacture with a swayback frame and a hawksbill blade. That knife would slash open feed sacks, cut out grass that had wrapped around the drive shaft of a bush hog, etc. it was used and abused, but it never quit.
To my mind, folding pocket knives represent compromise—tools that are useful because they can always be close-at-hand and can be called upon to do a “good enough” job when a more appropriate tool isn’t readily available. The Swiss Army Knife is the ultimate expression of this ideology. I’ve had one in my pocket for about 35 years, and I plan to have one with me for the remainder of my days. These little marvels of Swiss engineering have saved my bacon on more than one occasion, but when the time comes to do *real* work on a big job the SAK stays in my pocket while I take a walk to the tool box.
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I am going to use the heck out of this knife.
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I'm buying what you're selling,
@Frailer!
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... I might have to learn how to draw a circle or an x on the picture like I see others doing. I'm sure I can learn. "I'm smart! I'm not dumb, like people say!" ...
I knew you could do it, Vince; I've seen your mug!
(The part I can't figure out is copying the entire picture.
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This place was way too busy to comment on everything,
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I've decided that this is true for me, too, John.
I can no longer comment on everything I think is noteworthy, so I guess I'll try some occasional "thematic posts" or maybe compile the "best post from each page" or something like that.
Sorry Greg, I hadn't realised
When you eventually get some free time, I would be more than happy to do what I can to help out, and I dare say we can raise one or two other volunteers
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Since I'll be spending less time composing posts for this thread, perhaps I'll have more time to help with the index (after suitable retraining).
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I carry a lambsfoot...
... because ripping open bags of ice is
so uncivilized!
How 'bout you?
Greg, this concept you originated has lived on in your absence!
Important aspect of your legacy!
That looks good, Jack.
I didn't take a photo of my breakfast today, but it started quite similar to yours. Grape Nuts, Cheerios, Shredded Wheat, Multigrain Squares, flax seeds, peanuts, diced apple, diced grapes, raisin bran, granola, Honey Nut Cheerios, sliced banana, all soaking in warm orange juice!
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...a lamb... sunbathing...
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Beautiful pic of a gorgeous lambsfoot, Dwight!
... I told him he should build a model of Barad-dur. ...
That's my idea of a school project, John, and at least as high quality as many I helped my daughter with.
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Thank you for your review of the Guardians knives that have arrived so far GT, I hope your own arrives soon
The poster with the most experience of wood, I think, is the very knowledgeable
@lambertiana, who told me (quoted with his permission):
"I have bought enough ironwood over the years to know that when someone orders a large lot of blocks or scales, some will be spectacular, some will be bland, and most will be somewhere in between. I expect to see that range with this issue of the Guardian's knife, and what I get is pretty much the luck of the draw. But we can hope."
I think we beat the odds!
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Thanks for passing on
@lambertiana's ironwood opinions, Jack!
Your Black Jack is pretty exquisite, Gary. Guess we'll find out the name for your ironwood knife soon.
Thanks, Vince.
I've been considering many possibilities, but the name might actually be influenced by the specific characteristics of the knife I get. What a concept, eh?
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Great way to start my day - a cup of coffee, a cigar, goin' through this thread (more like a rope) and a great song that I hadn't heard in a while. Thanks, again.
OG
You're welcome, OG.
Well observed, GT! They do have a similar motif. Pile sides as well.
Thanks for the comparison shots, Rachel!
That GT is a very observant fellow!
He really is! I can hardly keep track of my own knives, much less remember all the ones posted here by others.
Not bad for a half-blind guy.
My observations tend to be almost random, though, in terms of what I actually remember.
Out for a hike in the newly fallen snow today. Fortunately, I am just able to hold my Ashley's above the snow as I pass through.
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I carry a lambsfoot...
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...because a gentleman eats his liquorice in bite-sized pieces.
How 'bout you?
She is a miniature Dachshund. ... Bred to hunt down and flush out badgers. And she's very capable because you will not find a single badger here on our property. Being secure in that fact she now has turned her attention to the elusive North American biscuit.
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Sounds like your dog is constantly evolving for survival!
- GT
Fodderwing Thank you for the kind words. My predilection for these tasty things makes it imperative that I not only check both, but medicate as well. Both, so far read normal.
