How to Grade Stag

[shane justice]

Gentleman,

The most recent BLADE magazine (that is on my newstand now,could be four months behind everybody else) shaws an elegant hunter with a description of the stag handle as "popcorn stag". It is a lovely knife.

What would it take to add a sticky on this part of the forum to list the entire glossary of textures and colors, including a rating of which are more desirable?

Would it be possible for everybody to throw in their preferences and those that sell better?

And if that isn't a big enough order, it would also be handy if we included the "tricks" of mounting stag handle, like dealing with acute curves and drilling.

Shane

 

[Raymond Richard]

Shane, Here's a tip on stag especially if you go to the Blade Show where the selection is the best. Get to the stag dealer before Karl Andersen gets there. He tends to get all of the better pieces.

 

[shane justice]

Ray,

You know I heard that before somewhere...funny you should mention it.

I was in San Francisco...I used to live there...many years ago.

You see the weirdest stuff. A lot of them guys who missed the sixties sort of congregate there still.

Anyway I was on my break at work and there was this guy with a blanket on the sidewalk...he was burning incense and mumbling...

There was a sign that said..."Tell you future for a dollar"

A got the wallet out and tossed a buck down...

Next thing you know the guys eyes rolled back in his head..he started frothing at the mouth...

He started bouncing around...dang I was ready to call 911.

Next thing you know....he start chanting...

"BUY YOUR STAG BEFORE KARL GETS THERE....BUY YOUR STAG BEFORE KARL GETS THERE...." and after about 5 minutes of chanting he was back to normal...

I wrote it down on a little scrap of paper and kept it in my wallet all these years in case I ever decyphered the meaning of his prophecy....

I will be damned if I had any idea what he was talking about...

...until just now.

Best dollar I ever spent.

Sorry Karl....we all got your number. Now all we gotta do to get the good stag is hire somebody to abduct you, throw you in the trunk of a late model Cadi' and drive you around for a couple of days during the BLADE show.

You know anybody who does that sorta work Ray?

Shane