Jack Black = Top Bloke!

mitch13

mitch13

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Received my GAW win from Jack today.
It's a great knife, love it. I don't know the age of it, feels very sturdy & sharp.
This is what came in the package, yep customs had a sticky beak.
Thanks @Jack Black
Jack you are a true gentleman of the forum.
Mitch
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Glad it finally got there Mitch, and I hope you enjoy using the pattern :) That's a contemporary knife, one of the ones sold by Taylor's today. The covers are generally referred to as Bexoid, and the blade and liners are stainless. The slip is made from some vintage Yorkshire tweed, I sacrificed a waistcoat for! :D :thumbsup:
 
Âchillepattada said:
Congratulations !!!!!!! 🥳

From a gentleman to another gentleman 🙏


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Thanks Brother😊
Jack Black said:
Glad it finally got there Mitch, and I hope you enjoy using the pattern :) That's a contemporary knife, one of the ones sold by Taylor's today. The covers are generally referred to as Bexoid, and the blade and liners are stainless. The slip is made from some vintage Yorkshire tweed, I sacrificed a waistcoat for! :D :thumbsup:
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Thanks for the info👍
Sacrificed a waistcoat? 😯 & you weren't run out of town.
Well I appreciate your sacrifice.
 
mitch13 said:
Thanks Brother😊

Thanks for the info👍
Sacrificed a waistcoat? 😯 & you weren't run out of town.
Well I appreciate your sacrifice.
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I bought a couple of lengths of vintage Yorkshire tweed, in grey and brown, probably about a hundred years old, and I thought the grey tweed would make a nice waistcoat. But then I did my Hartshead Barlow, and decided to give everyone a tweed slip. There wasn't enough of the brown cloth, so my waistcoat had to be sacrificed :( I'd probably have outgrown it now in any case! :D ;) :thumbsup:
 
Nice one, a very useful knife use and enjoy it.

I like the key ring just in case you weren't sure where Jack was from,Yorkshire is like the American Texas.

It also says "not a toy "apparently this is only put on the label for the Australian market as we know what you colonials get up to 🤭 😅
 
Jack Black said:
I bought a couple of lengths of vintage Yorkshire tweed, in grey and brown, probably about a hundred years old, and I thought the grey tweed would make a nice waistcoat. But then I did my Hartshead Barlow, and decided to give everyone a tweed slip. There wasn't enough of the brown cloth, so my waistcoat had to be sacrificed :( I'd probably have outgrown it now in any case! :D ;) :thumbsup:
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Congrats to both of you Jack and Mitch! 👍

Johnnythefox said:
I like the key ring just in case you weren't sure where Jack was from,Yorkshire is like the American Texas.
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Still better than Marseilles! 😂😂😂
 
Jolipapa said:
Congrats to both of you Jack and Mitch! 👍


Still better than Marseilles! 😂😂😂
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True the only town in France that I have left early from a planned visit from.

Young lad was mugged and beaten on the beach,horrible atmosphere everywhere and drunken Russians where running around bear chested waving knives around in my accommodation.
The young lady on reception cracked me up, when I pointed it out she shrugged her shoulders and said this is Marseilles.

It was time to get out and fast...I felt less threatened walking though Sarajevo with snipers taking a pop. 😂





Anyway back to Jack well done for another generous gesture.😍
 
'Sticky Beak' : Aus. Slang for overly imquisitive person.
Tweed slips...I love this JB...but we both know ..they need miniature leather elbow patches.
@Johnnythefox ....I'm crossing Marseilles off my holiday destination list...but also sending you 2 of my cute little Aussie pets...Funno and Webbo....completely harmless*...open package in a contained area...


*apart from bites...😉🤣
 
I have friends in Marseilles, and have always wanted to visit. I have got close a few times, but each time, some disturbance has prevented it. The last time, was a dozen years ago, and I was driving south from Lille with some friends, having previously passed through Holland and Belgium. If I remember correctly, we had stayed in Dijon, Montpellier, and were headed for Toulouse, before driving on to Marseilles. Our friends contacted us to say the situation was bad there, so we spent a few days at a chateau in the hills near Montpellier, and then a night at an abandoned village in the mountains, in a very remote part of France (I'd have to get out my notebooks to jog my memory). After that, the situation in Montpellier was still 'unresolved', I think our friends said the police had 'closed' the town', so we drove on to Barcelona. Maybe a bit too old for it now! :D :thumbsup:
 
meako said:
'Sticky Beak' : Aus. Slang for overly imquisitive person.
Tweed slips...I love this JB...but we both know ..they need miniature leather elbow patches.
@Johnnythefox ....I'm crossing Marseilles off my holiday destination list...but also sending you 2 of my cute little Aussie pets...Funno and Webbo....completely harmless*...open package in a contained area...


*apart from bites...😉🤣
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There are lots of nice places to go in France, so do go at some time.

They have trouble enough with English accents so you best smooth out your Aussie accent first though. 🤭
 
Jack Black said:
I have friends in Marseilles, and have always wanted to visit. I have got close a few times, but each time, some disturbance has prevented it. The last time, was a dozen years ago, and I was driving south from Lille with some friends, having previously passed through Holland and Belgium. If I remember correctly, we had stayed in Dijon, Montpellier, and were headed for Toulouse, before driving on to Marseilles. Our friends contacted us to say the situation was bad there, so we spent a few days at a chateau in the hills near Montpellier, and then a night at an abandoned village in the mountains, in a very remote part of France (I'd have to get out my notebooks to jog my memory). After that, the situation in Montpellier was still 'unresolved', I think our friends said the police had 'closed' the town', so we drove on to Barcelona. Maybe a bit too old for it now! :D :thumbsup:
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Dijon, Montpellier,Toulouse those are nice places to visit and good people.

The French police are not good people, very vicious and un controlled.

Last year I was told by locals to be weary of being shot as they where aggressive and untrained in many cases as we saw earlier this year.

In Biarritz I had a policeman who nearly knocked me of my bike while on the mobile phone (in civvies on his way to work)
First pull back on his jacket and put his hand on his gun butt to threaten me then extend his baton and hit me across the chest,my crime? sounding my horn at him and gesticulating.
His car was beat up and he looked like a drug dealer.

Road trips crammed in a car is a young mans game.😁
 
Johnnythefox said:
Dijon, Montpellier,Toulouse those are nice places to visit and good people.

The French police are not good people, very vicious and un controlled.

Last year I was told by locals to be weary of being shot as they where aggressive and untrained in many cases as we saw earlier this year.

In Biarritz I had a policeman who nearly knocked me of my bike while on the mobile phone (in civvies on his way to work)
First pull back on his jacket and put his hand on his gun butt to threaten me then extend his baton and hit me across the chest,my crime? sounding my horn at him and gesticulating.
His car was beat up and he looked like a drug dealer.

Road trips crammed in a car is a young mans game.😁
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T our US friends, remember French bashing is a legal (and oft govt approved) English sport!

Happily for the many pensioneers living in the country we don't burn houses! 🤣🤣🤣
 
Jolipapa said:
T our US friends, remember French bashing is a legal (and oft govt approved) English sport!

Happily for the many pensioneers living in the country we don't burn houses! 🤣🤣🤣
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"Dijon, Montpellier,Toulouse those are nice places to visit and good people."

Is what I said,the police have a reputation all of there own. 🤭
 
Johnnythefox said:
Dijon, Montpellier,Toulouse those are nice places to visit and good people.

The French police are not good people, very vicious and un controlled.

Last year I was told by locals to be weary of being shot as they where aggressive and untrained in many cases as we saw earlier this year.

In Biarritz I had a policeman who nearly knocked me of my bike while on the mobile phone (in civvies on his way to work)
First pull back on his jacket and put his hand on his gun butt to threaten me then extend his baton and hit me across the chest,my crime? sounding my horn at him and gesticulating.
His car was beat up and he looked like a drug dealer.

Road trips crammed in a car is a young mans game.😁
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Yikes! :eek: That's the only time I've been to Toulouse, but Dijon and Montpellier I know better :) Sounds like you've had some adventures John! o_O That car trip wasn't too bad, for most of it there were only 3 of us, and it was a big car. The worst thing was when we met up with a guy from Marseilles we all knew, and he insisted we visit the abandoned village, where he had friends. I was the only one with a torch, (and carrying a heavy rucsac, as I was warned it might get stolen from the car), and we had to go up one wooded mountain in the failing light, back down to a river, and up a bigger mountain, to spend the night with some strangers, who were living in appalling conditions. I spent the night in the ruins of a pig-sty! At first light, we reversed our journey, and fortunately, I managed to spot that the idiot in front was taking us the wrong way! When we got back to the car, 3 of us were seething, and we drove in silence, through spectacular scenery, to the nearest small town, where we deposited the idiot at the train station! :rolleyes: I'd almost forgotten about that until now! :D

Thank you very much for the kind words gents :) :thumbsup:
 
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