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This thread is awesome - love cats.
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But most breeders don't let you declaw them. She jumps on my head from the floor. Prepare to frequently get slashed by 20 mini karambit's at once. Multiple times a day if you don't play with them enough.
What is the knife on tfar left?
Looks like a Hinderer XM-18.
Pertinux has some great kitten photos. :thumbup:
Here's mine...
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pertinux said:I remain frustrated with my Peanut experiences, and given the preponderance of the extant literature supporting others' success with this knife, I continue to be reluctantly being pulled toward the conclusion that it really is just me.
For example, for my latest project I determined to carve a kitten. First, I attempted this feat with my White Owl, with the following result:
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I know, I know, the posture is hunched too far forward, the eyes a little buggy, the head out of proportion even for a kitten. Still, you must admit it is a passible rendition. Not only that, but it is posable; here is another angle, with the legs more fully extended:
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I muffed the eyebrow whiskers; making them almost as long as the kitten's ears leads to an unintended Samurai effect.
But, I digress. Here's the point: buoyed by my moderate success I next attempted the same project, same setting and pose, with my Peanut, and ....
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*Sigh.*
Yes, I must be holding it wrong.
Either that, or-- lightbulb!-- the White Owl is carbon steel, the Peanut blue-scaled stainless. Perhaps I just need a CV Peanut, in a more traditional color?
Oh, I hope.
Too funny!
That "kitten" sure has great taste in knives....
Your pictures remind me of a post I made in a tongue-in-cheek thread about Peanuts (the small Case knives, implied in the following pictures):
~ P.