On The Desk Today

I have been watching this thread since it started and feel compelled to make a complimentary comment about it on this beautiful spring morning.

Thanks for all the great photos of my two favorite things...Buck Knives and wildlife. You do both very well!! :thumbup::thumbup:
 
David Martin said:
Oregon, Thanks for the photos. Coyotes are hard to photograph, unlike knives, birds and deer. We are speaking of different levels of Dry. I'm seeing no water in our rivers, not even mud. No grass, just sand. Depressing landscape on the order of Luna landscape. Good work on all. DM
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My pleasure David. A small part of the water you see comes from a spring on my place. It fed three homes for over 100 years until the Columbus Day Storm, many years ago, took out the water tower. There is good water here flowing right out of the ground.

Stumps said:
I have been watching this thread since it started and feel compelled to make a complimentary comment about it on this beautiful spring morning.

Thanks for all the great photos of my two favorite things...Buck Knives and wildlife. You do both very well!! :thumbup::thumbup:
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Don't mention it. You've delivered incredible shots and set a high standard for the amount of footwork you are willing to undertake to get them. In doing so you've carried us right along with you on many adventures that thrill and captivate even the most sedentary armchair adventurers. May you live a thousand years. Thank you kindly.

skyhorse said:
Yes it is,this guy is saying please Lord give us rain.

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You don't put one of those in your pocket comfortably. Horn toad. Rainmaker? Really? How did you get em to heel?
 
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Got this giant Douglas Fir tree out back. It was a substantial tree when the Declaration of Independence was still wet with fresh ink, IMHO. It has a hole. I heard something so put the camera up high and took this shot. I know what it is. I found it eating the bird's sunflower seeds yesterday while the cat slept in a chair one foot away.

OK, here is a good pic for your amusement:

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Finally, the same tree from 20 ft away with light on varmint hole:

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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/humboldt-bay-eagle-cam

Thank you for looking.
 
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Hello Oregon,

I'm curious as to what the model numbers and specs are on those knifes? I also enjoyed the pictures.

Thanks
 
Thank you for the kind words Hypermole.

Looking at the first photo in the first post of this thread and from left to right:

Alpha Dorado 271 with S30V, Bucklite 422 vintage, Spitefire 722, Tarani Strider collaboration 882, Titanium 560 special run, Titanium spook knife by Mickey Finn covert weapons designer only made one year and, finally, Frontiersman 124 fixed blade. I recommend that you buy all of these knives. However, the Frontiersman and Mickey Finn are my favorites.
 
oregon, you mast have a pretty good flash to reach that far! Thanks for the added pic, though I could make out what it was before...
Looking in on the eagle chicks is a real treat! Thank you so much for that link! :)
 
sitflyer said:
oregon, you mast have a pretty good flash to reach that far! Thanks for the added pic, though I could make out what it was before...
Looking in on the eagle chicks is a real treat! Thank you so much for that link! :)
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I built a paper burner HOTWIRE, see the thread over at Candlepower, so I can spot light up stuff at distance even in the daylight. Beats the heck out of any flash attachment I've ever seen in my neck of the woods and puts photographers I've met on tilt with its illumination strength.
link to pics of hotwires, R.O.P. (Roar Of Pelican): http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/545/rophotwire.jpg/ & http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/12/rophotwirea.jpg/ & finally http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/694/rophotwireb.jpg/

The Humbolt live nest cam is the bomb. I was hoping that you would like it. I really prize the Jeckyl and Hyde folder you mad scientist craftsman you. You shouldn't have but I am soooooo happy that you did. May you live a thousand years! :)

I am watching a nest, from afar, every day I walk the Tualatin River National Wildlife Reserve near my homestead, with one fledgling eagle and two proud parents. Really thrilling stuff even at a distance. The Bald Eagles rule the sky in this part of the floodplain.
 
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Red tails and Turkey Vutures rule the sky around here, I really need to get a longer lense for my digital, all my good stuff is for an old FE,










On my desk today, I have this little gem dressed up in Ironwood, the good stuff, with that wondrous Paul Boss Heat treated S30v, magical stuff really, kings of old would be envious of such riches. RIP Mayo Kaala, you may be gone from the current listing, but not ever forgotten!
Maybe from time to time you could tease me with a pic of that abomination that you possess :D
 
sitflyer said:
On my desk today, I have this little gem dressed up in Ironwood, the good stuff, with that wondrous Paul Boss Heat treated S30v, magical stuff really, kings of old would be envious of such riches. RIP Mayo Kaala, you may be gone from the current listing, but not ever forgotten!

Maybe from time to time you could tease me with a pic of that abomination that you possess :D
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The wood looks so comfortable on the metal it appears as if it grew onto it because it wanted to. You must have a good supply of Ironwood because that looks too cool for school. Thick enough to fill the hand and ergonomics to keep it in your hand pushing or pulling a cut. Excellent dark grain looks rich. You put much of a finish on the wood? Looks smooth as polished marble.

The creature from the black lagoon, there is no way that you nailed that kick perfectly and I mean no way, as you wish:

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Cat Carson said:
Nice Pictures. How you get so close to that big ol blue heron?

Usually flys away from me.
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Thank you kindly.

I am the earliest visitor to this place of waterfowl so they are not all stirred up when I arrive, I wear the same subdued clothing every day so I am recognizable, I'm quiet, move slow and keep myself as small as possible with no big arm or leg movements, plus I walk on quiet grass and not gravel as I approach. Still most Herons head off like they are mad but once in a while one will seem to be posing just for me (also, I got lucky :)).
 
Ah, thank you kind sir, she looks right at home:)
Up to 600 grit, then a nice slow ride on a six inch loose wheel with white compound. Not a snag to be found. Danish Watco oil and a hand rub.




A lunchtime companion on a recent trip, ah how the memorie slowly fade...




I should like to visit Caye Caulker again some day...
 
Alchemy, magic, pixie dust, genius must have been employed to make the Kick work as it should on the transformer Hawk's Bill/112. When you close the curved blade the kick strikes the inside of the handle's back and not the tip! Impossible for you to have done this. Let me guess: You threw the folder up onto your roof in frustration and elves fixed it while you slept and the next morning the Kick worked. Am I right here? Seriously now, this stunned me that you could make the Kick perfectly functional in this morphed folder. Stunned. WTG and you never have to prove your skill in any other manner. Outstanding achievement in mangling. :)
 
Ah, the magic of a soft touch on a bench grinder, my dad was a machinist and thought me a trick or three as a youngun'. Patience, patience, and patience. Slowly working away the metal on a bench stone of diamond dust. Test fit...slowly working the metal on the diamond dust, test fit...it is not magic, but patience and perseverance!

There is just enough clearance for the bounce with a full on snap close:D
 
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