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I love the colors in this!
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Happy Thursday!
I'm enjoying my usual English Breakfast tea with a new knife and a new mug. We stopped at a Buc-ees on vacation a couple weeks ago to introduce the kids.
This Buck 535 BuckLock 2 showed up in the mail yesterday! It's a 2-blade mid-lock-back (BuckLock) that they made from 1991-1994.
I'm enjoying my usual English Breakfast tea with a new knife and a new mug. We stopped at a Buc-ees on vacation a couple weeks ago to introduce the kids.
This Buck 535 BuckLock 2 showed up in the mail yesterday! It's a 2-blade mid-lock-back (BuckLock) that they made from 1991-1994.
not sure if it's beaver or squirrel, but the sticker makes me recall a game when I was in my childhood....I don't know the name in English, a game about 2 squirrels...
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It’s funny you say that because my wife and daughters kept calling it a squirrel, and my son kept correcting them saying it’s a beaver. The other side of my new mug actually says “It’s a beaver!” I’ll try to remember to get a picture of it on Monday.
My son got a picture with Buc-ee, but the girls didn’t want to pose with a “creepy guy in a squirrel suit.” LOL!
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Happy Day Off Friday!
I was recently able to add a second Paul Knife to my collection!! I had seen pictures of the older Gerbers online, but until holding it in my hand, I never realized that Lone Wolf Knives choose to install the lock opposite from the way Gerber did it - at least on these two examples, anyway. Being a lefty, I prefer the way the button is oriented on the Lone Wolf Knives version.
I was recently able to add a second Paul Knife to my collection!! I had seen pictures of the older Gerbers online, but until holding it in my hand, I never realized that Lone Wolf Knives choose to install the lock opposite from the way Gerber did it - at least on these two examples, anyway. Being a lefty, I prefer the way the button is oriented on the Lone Wolf Knives version.
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Happy Lord’s Day!
Here’s another recent addition: a very special Buck 557 Open Season Folding Skinner. This is an early sample - sometimes called a Salesman Sample, or a prototype, or used as an early show sample. The star or asterisk after the steel type indicates that this prototype was made with 420HC instead of the steel indicated on the blade that the production units would later be made with.
I was blessed to find three such Salesman Samples recently in three different models after a Buck Sales Rep sold off his collection.
Here’s another recent addition: a very special Buck 557 Open Season Folding Skinner. This is an early sample - sometimes called a Salesman Sample, or a prototype, or used as an early show sample. The star or asterisk after the steel type indicates that this prototype was made with 420HC instead of the steel indicated on the blade that the production units would later be made with.
I was blessed to find three such Salesman Samples recently in three different models after a Buck Sales Rep sold off his collection.
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Nice!Fresh gingerroot tea
Best when outside
How do you do gingerroot tea - just boil some of the root, or do you boil the water then add the root and let it steep for a while? How long do you boil/steep for? I'll have to try it.
Has anyone here ever tried Sasafrass tea? I'll try to look it up this weekend but from memory I think some folks use the root and some the leaves. I would like to try that, too.
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Happy Saturday!
I had tea this morning with a rare prototype/pre-production sample of a Buck 497 Ergo Hunter with Rosewood handle. While the production knives were made with Sandvik 12C27 Mod steel, the asterisk on this early sample indicates it was made with 420HC as a prototype. What a gorgeous knife!
I had tea this morning with a rare prototype/pre-production sample of a Buck 497 Ergo Hunter with Rosewood handle. While the production knives were made with Sandvik 12C27 Mod steel, the asterisk on this early sample indicates it was made with 420HC as a prototype. What a gorgeous knife!
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Happy Lord’s Day!
I’m enjoying some Fathers’ Day cookies with a new Demko AD20.5. This and a Shark Cub were waiting in the mailbox when I got home Friday afternoon. They’re my first Demkos and I like them. I’m looking forward to using and getting to know them.
This one is carbon fiber and D2. I prefer traditional, non-Vanadium Carbide steels so that makes me very happy. The carbon fiber is fantastic, but I’ve always preferred Micarta so a set of scales is on the way, along with a Lynch lefty deep carry clip.
The Shark Lock is amazing, and the knife was quite sharp out of the box. Two swipes on an ultra fine ceramic rod and I don’t think I could ask for any better.
The cookies have oats, raisins, dried cranberries, dates, dark chocolate chips, and coconut. They’re amazing as well and go great with English Breakfast Tea.
Have a great day, y’all!
I’m enjoying some Fathers’ Day cookies with a new Demko AD20.5. This and a Shark Cub were waiting in the mailbox when I got home Friday afternoon. They’re my first Demkos and I like them. I’m looking forward to using and getting to know them.
This one is carbon fiber and D2. I prefer traditional, non-Vanadium Carbide steels so that makes me very happy. The carbon fiber is fantastic, but I’ve always preferred Micarta so a set of scales is on the way, along with a Lynch lefty deep carry clip.
The Shark Lock is amazing, and the knife was quite sharp out of the box. Two swipes on an ultra fine ceramic rod and I don’t think I could ask for any better.
The cookies have oats, raisins, dried cranberries, dates, dark chocolate chips, and coconut. They’re amazing as well and go great with English Breakfast Tea.
Have a great day, y’all!
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I have to ask as I am naive about block tea. You just shave tea off the block and place it in a diffuser? Or in the tea pot and use a filter when pouring to catch the loose tea? My block tea looks like it has a plastic edge, I thought, don’t scrape that, bur use it to scrape the block. We had tea bags in the household growing up as a kid, specialty tea was not something we did. TEA-se be gentle.