Photos Knives and tea, pix thread

I can't find anymore that Yunnan Tuocha tea (very matured and molded into a bowl form). It smelled and tasted strongly of earth and dead leaves... Call it an autumn experience, it was delicious. And the brew was truely refreshing !
 
Nothing special to see here. Just some Lipton’s black tea and a bit of honey in one of my favorite mugs.
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Lindsay’s Teas / Mountanos Family Coffee & Tea Company Lemon Hibiscus was my favorite when I became a tea drinker in 2003. It’s been discontinued and English Breakfast has been my daily staple for a few years now, but I still have part of a 2 lb bag left so I enjoy it occasionally.

On Monday the mail man brought me a September 2021 Buck of the month, so I dipped into my stash and steeped a cup. It’s a 2 blade version of the Buck 301 Stockman with their first rate heat treated 420HC, long pull, full flat grind, nickel silver bolsters, and black burlap micarta. This tea is as smooth as that steel on my grandfather’s old hard Arkansas stone.

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This Buck 112 Slim Pro in S30V and brown Micarta, and Twinings English Breakfast tea have been part of my everyday routine for over two years now. Without missing a single day. I may carry a second (or third?) knife, and I may have a cup of something different throughout the day or after dinner, but these two are truly part of my EDC for the long haul.

When I began to enjoy tea in 2003, I was the type who would use the string to wring the bag out around a spoon, thinking I was getting all the flavor. In reality, I was getting more of the tannins and making the tea more bitter. But I was new to tea and didn’t know how good and smooth a cup could taste. The tannins were also staining my teeth quite badly to the point where four visits to the dentist per year couldn’t keep them from getting stained between visits. I remember learning that lesson and it’s made a cup of hot tea each morning even more enjoyable.

What are you drinking and carrying today?


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Happy Monday! I found this 1997 Buck 110 Folding Hunter laying open on the side of the road back around 2003 or 2004 while on a bicycle ride. It had road rash on both sides, and the blade tip was snapped off. My guess is a workman left it laying open on top of the tool boxes on a service truck, forgot it and drove off, where it finally bounced off along a country road in the middle of nowhere and then subsequently got ran over.

I mailed it to Buck with a letter telling them how I found it and asked how much it would cost to fix it. I told them I did not want the knife or the scales replaced because they had character and told the knife’s story. Buck re-ground the blade to fix the tip, ground the kick to make the blade sit a little lower to cover the tip when closed, gave the wood and brass some TLC, and shipped it back for free!

It’s been a user for me ever since, and I don’t ever notice how the blade is somewhat shorter than other 110’s.

This knife was given a second chance in life, and since my tea mug is empty, I think I need a second cup this Monday morning, as well.

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BA695948-6B75-4CBC-8748-0D45C5D38221.jpegMicarta Monday! I bought this Script Buck 500 off eBay a few years ago. The tip dragged a little on the liner so I sent it back to BUCK for their SPA treatment (Sharpen, Polish, Adjust) and its as good as new.
 
“Some like it hot, some like it cold…” Iced tea with my only Buck 307 Wrangler. Camillus made between ‘85-‘89. I don’t even remember where I got it. It seems to me a friend found it in a used truck he bought and knew I liked Buck knives and gave it to me. Something like that anyhow. It was definitely a free orphan that found its way to my collection.

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A slow start on a rare Thursday off with English Breakfast tea. I’ve been carrying this MicroTech, my first, for just shy of a month now. It’s been performing well; I like it. So far it’s tasks have included cardboard, tape, paper, banding straps, canvas and PVC firehose, whittling wooden try sticks, butternut squash stems, lemons, fingernails, various plastic bags/packaging, and stripping stranded copper wire, etc.
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Tea and knives are two of my three hobbies/passions (billiards or pool being the third). I favor Chinese smoky teas, straight up Assams, Darjeeling second flush, and certain breakfast blends using Assam and Ceylon varieties. Not a fan of the oolongs I've tried nor greens or white teas. I brew with a proper kettle and pot. Been a tea drinker since my early teens. Love the stuff.
 
Wow - this thread got started right around the time I disappeared; and was pretty dead after I came back, so I just found it. Confessed drinker of "too much" tea, here (seriously, I average 70-80 oz/day). As it happens, I just finished an 18 oz mug; so no pictures right now...but I'll be back.

Fair warning - I usually drink out of an old Hard Rock Cafe mug or one of my beat up Contigos, so nothing fancy.
 
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Perhaps a nit pick BUT...

That is likely not tea, but a herbal "tea" or tisane. If it isn't from the camellia sinensis plant, it is not tea but is a herbal blend of some sort or another. Unfortunately, under US labelling laws producers are permitted to mislead the public, and the public has come to accept this. Thus they openly refer to non-teas as tea. It is what it is.

BTW, I like the looks of that knife.
 
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