New EDC 110 for Me...

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Got a mint 110 "Special Run" 110 from 2001. Serrated 420 blade, nickel bolsters, and a greyish kine wood. Bummer is that the serrated is not something for the quick draw sheath so maybe I'll throw a Bandit on it if I order one...then find a leather sheath for it...don't like the nylon one it came with.

Question, does anyone know what kine wood would be grey w/ black grain? Or, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood, Chuck?

Kind Regards,
Me.
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mfinden said:
...and a greyish kine wood...
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What is "kine"???


Or, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood, Chuck?
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How much round ground could a hound dog hound if a hound dog hounded some round ground??? [size=-2](with apologies to Walt Kelly)[/size]
 
mfinden said:
Got a mint 110 "Special Run" 110 from 2001. Serrated 420 blade, nickel bolsters, and a greyish kine wood. Bummer is that the serrated is not something for the quick draw sheath so maybe I'll throw a Bandit on it if I order one...then find a leather sheath for it...don't like the nylon one it came with.

Question, does anyone know what kine wood would be grey w/ black grain? Or, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood, Chuck?

Kind Regards,
Me.
BC 1190
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Me,,, if that nylon sheath is one of the horizontal carry ones, I'll trade you a new leather sheath for it.

You know you are gonna have to put up a pic of that knife,,,,so get to it.. :)
 
Could "kine" be translated to 'kinda?' It would fit, in both instances.

mfinden said:
Got a mint 110 "Special Run" 110 from 2001. Serrated 420 blade, nickel bolsters, and a greyish kine wood.

Question, does anyone know what kine wood would be grey w/ black grain?
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GeoThorn
 
geothorn said:
Could "kine" be translated to 'kinda?' It would fit, in both instances.
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Oh. I thought it was a kind of wood I never heard of...like African Blackwood, or Tulipwood...or Osage... :)
 
"Da kine"...it's a hawaiian thing meaning "it", "that", "like", "kind of". I lived there as kid...my dad was Navy.
 
LFH said:
Me,,, if that nylon sheath is one of the horizontal carry ones, I'll trade you a new leather sheath for it.

You know you are gonna have to put up a pic of that knife,,,,so get to it.. :)
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Hey LFH...
No, it's not a horizontal carry...but would trade with you if it was. Don't have a spare leather one.

Pics posted.

Hope you have a great weekend!
Me. (aka: Marvin or Goose...if your name was "Marvin" :barf: you'd probably go by something else too :D
 
It could be ebony. A lot of ebony around these days isn't pure black. A lot of it has grey or even brown streaks in it.

In high school one of my hobbies was violin making, and even then it was getting harder find high quality ebony. A lot of the Chinese mass producers had switched to some other wood and dyed it black. I gave up on ebony for the fittings and went with rosewood (and spent way too much on a quality ebony fingerboard).

My early 1920s handmade violin has some of the nicest ebony fittings I've ever seen. Too bad you don't see that anymore.
 
mfinden said:
BtW, how long did it take to make a violin? Just curious.
Thanks Again...
Me.
BC 1190
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The first one was for my high school senior project. It took a few months. I think I had more fun with that than anything I've ever done in my life. The first one was from a kit, so all I did was putting it together and doing the finish work. It sounded pretty good.

There were lots of spiffy knives involved with the process and I even got to take them to school! Fortunately I did my project the first semester, as Columbine happened the second semester of my senior year... so I probably woudln't have been able to take my knives.

The second one took a little more time because I did more work. It wasn't from a kit. And like I said, it was hard to find a good quality ebony finger board. This was 1999 and I think I paid close to $75 just for the fingerboard, nut and end pin. But it was from older, higher quality stock. The rosewood fittings (with 24k gold ringed mother of people inlays) were only around $40.

It's been a long time so I don't know if these prices have gone up or down. A lot of it depends on the international market and import restrictions. Some of the woods used in violin making, especially bow making, are getting harder to get a hold of. Pernambuco is a good example. I made a bow from pernam and the blank for it was in the $30 range. The other Brazilwood blank was something like $15. The handmade pernambuco bow that I use was $600 when I bought it new in 1997. I had it appraised in 2003 for over $2500 based almost entirely on the difficulty to get straight, knot free blanks of the wood. Incidentally, the same maker now charges in the neighborhood of $1500 for what I paid $600 for less than 10 years ago.

Carbon fiber has become the material of choice for bows these days... so I guess us knife people would consider them tactical violin bows :rolleyes:

It's a weird market.
 
mfinden said:
Thought a pic or two (or three) would help...curious about the wood on the bottom knife.

http://www.mongoosemarv.com/buck.html

My rotation of EDC is shown for contrast comparison...
Thank you.
Me.
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My guess is that's it's the same hardwood (birch?) used on the standard 110, only dyed differently. My betting $ says it's not ebony. Nice knives BTW.
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Psychopomp said:
. A lot of it depends on the international market and import restrictions. Some of the woods used in violin making, especially bow making, are getting harder to get a hold of. Pernambuco is a good example. .
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Have never heard of pernambuco...but I don't know much of anything. Understand about the import restrictions. Hawaiian koa is not allowed off the Hawaiian islands unless it has been made into something...so no raw wood. That's what I read somewhere anyway. That is why I'd like to get the custom shop to make one out of koa. Guessing they're tooled in Hawaii, or it's koa from somewhere else...I dunno.

You still have that violin u made in school?
 
Mick57 said:
My guess is that's it's the same hardwood (birch?) used on the standard 110, only dyed differently. My betting $ says it's not ebony. Nice knives BTW.
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Thanks. I have never had a 110 serrated so it will be interesting to see how I like it. Have also never owned a 110 FG. Maybe I'll get one of those and see if I like that too.
 
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