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Good weekend! Got off work early on friday to head over to the post office to pick up a package from Busse. A beautiful FBMLE with sterile blade and standard width green linen slabs. The knife looks perfect. Almost a shame that it's a user. Almost.
Head over to the local concrete block factory and pickup about 50 cinder blocks for a pig roasting pit that I'm going to build that night. My buddy is having a big party the next day and we're roasting a 110 lbs. hog and having to complete his new deck before people start arriving at 4:00. I got to his house around 8:30 that night and got right to work on tapping the keg to make sure it worked. After many pulls, we feel confident that it's good to go. Some where between 8:30 pm and 2:30 am, we complete the roasting pit and call it a night.
Saturday starts just two and a half hours later. Roll out of bed at 5:00am and start the fire to get coals going for the roast. We put the pig on at 6:45 and start in on the deck. Down to the wire, but we get that done at 3:30 as guests start to arrive. We clean up and join the fun until 5:00pm when we start to cut up the pig - with the new FBMLE. Very first use of the knife is to cut up a hog. Couldn't have worked out better.
The pig turned out great, the deck didn't collapse with a mob of rowdy firemen and the beer stayed cold all day despite the heat. What a great time!
One interesting thing. I didn't get around to cleaning the knife for a few hours after we used it and the pig juice had stained the blade pretty bad. This morning I took some Mother's Mag Wheel polish to it and the patina came right off. I didn't think it would work at all, but it worked great.
Thanks to the entire Busse crew for another great knife. Now, what to do about a sheath...
(BTW, I'm the one behind the camera. My buddy turned 40 this weekend, so I gave him the honors of first chop!)
Head over to the local concrete block factory and pickup about 50 cinder blocks for a pig roasting pit that I'm going to build that night. My buddy is having a big party the next day and we're roasting a 110 lbs. hog and having to complete his new deck before people start arriving at 4:00. I got to his house around 8:30 that night and got right to work on tapping the keg to make sure it worked. After many pulls, we feel confident that it's good to go. Some where between 8:30 pm and 2:30 am, we complete the roasting pit and call it a night.
Saturday starts just two and a half hours later. Roll out of bed at 5:00am and start the fire to get coals going for the roast. We put the pig on at 6:45 and start in on the deck. Down to the wire, but we get that done at 3:30 as guests start to arrive. We clean up and join the fun until 5:00pm when we start to cut up the pig - with the new FBMLE. Very first use of the knife is to cut up a hog. Couldn't have worked out better.
The pig turned out great, the deck didn't collapse with a mob of rowdy firemen and the beer stayed cold all day despite the heat. What a great time!
One interesting thing. I didn't get around to cleaning the knife for a few hours after we used it and the pig juice had stained the blade pretty bad. This morning I took some Mother's Mag Wheel polish to it and the patina came right off. I didn't think it would work at all, but it worked great.
Thanks to the entire Busse crew for another great knife. Now, what to do about a sheath...
(BTW, I'm the one behind the camera. My buddy turned 40 this weekend, so I gave him the honors of first chop!)
Thanks for sharing the pics.
