Our "Front Porch" ....

Speaking of Lanyard making Fool........then you have a fool making a lanyard (I use the word "making" in a figurative sense, somewhat like a special needs attempt) - what can I say, I was bored (I mean feeling creative):D
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I really like the way that one looks! Take a pics after some carry time, I'd like to see how well that loose knot holds up.
 
franzdom said:
Whoa that looks cool!
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Yeah ...... I saw yours.

Mine is going to be on Oprah next week, I'm already getting people wanting to adopt me.
They think I'm probably a cute boy that was dropped on my head during an unfortunate "visiting Uncle mishap".

Seriously though, thank you. Your work is impressive. It is relaxing and produces a nice reward for the effort.
I will be getting some Hinderer Lanyard beads next and give that a go. :thumbup:
 
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*sigh* Day two with no internet or tv, cable is still out. Don't really care about the tv part, but replying to posts on my phone, even though it is a Galaxy S3, can be a pain.

Good news, finally got my first Gen4 spanto! I missed the sig confirmation Sat, and the online request for redelivery didn't go through (even though I got a confirmation #!). The ti is sand blasted, though it has some marks around the pivot, so I might tumble it, in hopes of it turning out looking like a "working finish".
 
Cool lanyard, and yes, a Hinderer bead would look sweet on it! I don't like putting on a lanyard that I can't easily take off, cause I usually think of some other design.
 
BikerTrash said:
Cool lanyard, and yes, a Hinderer bead would look sweet on it! I don't like putting on a lanyard that I can't easily take off, cause I usually think of some other design.
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I had an already made one, I just looped it around a standoff. That'll be easy to take off when I want to.
 
Lone_Wolfe said:
Thanks Maprik! Got the B/B scale today and it looks nice. The colors are exact opposite of the B/B scale on my 3.5". Double thanks for the paracord you threw in, that color is so perfect.

<<< Is going to be a lanyard making fool tonight. :D
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;) My mom taught me how to match.... :thumbup:
 
Hey all,

Checking in from Helsinki. Even though I'm half frozen out here in the frozen wilds (actually Helsinki is much like Jersey City but with lots of snow) I'm still hangin' on the porch and I wanted to bring up flashlights. And since it's not some other knife and I know that some of you are also into flashlights, and BladeHQ is a BF approved seller I think it's fine for the porch. I wanted to bring attention to a really nice sale they are having right now on the Fenix PD32 Ultimate Edition Flashlight Cree XM-L (T6) LED MAX 740 Lumens!!!!! Just picked it up for $62 (Registered member price) thanks to a heads-up from Portlandreign81.

I have a Fenix LD20 and its great at 180 lumens and 2AAs. I figure you can always dig up AAs no matter where you are...But the UE PD32 at 740 lumens? Worth the 2 CR123As to me! Put this baby in strobe mode and I think you'll pretty much blind your attacker or at least make them go into convulsions....
 
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In the Front Porch Thread....... I'm going to post a pic of my back yard growing up in the country of N/E Pa.
Wasn't a bad version of Mayberry.........:)
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Spent many (countless) Warm Summer days, Full moon nights, Partying weekends, Camping, sleeping, thinking....
Went back for a visit during some challenging times recently...... very Peaceful.
 
I dove in there one early April day on a bet or a dare (probably to try and impress a young Lady)
Wow! Big mistake. Those "Polar Bear Clubs" that break ice and dive in water - I don't believe it because I dove into this fresh water mountain stream, I have no idea the temp. moving water so who knows.
Could inhale but ..... exhale? Not possible.
That is the Top of a seven (7) Water Fall series from the top of the mountain to the river below surrounded by Cliffs 400-500 ft. High (those were climbed many times) stories to be told from those exploits.
Great childhood (up to age 18, Left home and went to work on the docks in Canada)
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Wow!!! Lucky boy!!! I myself grew up with about 200 acres of forest behind me along with an area we called 20 ponds. We made rafts out of pallets jammed with styrofoam chunks nicked from the garbage bins of construction sites, captured snapping turtles, crayfish, caught sunfish, etc. Wish I had some pics but about 20 years ago it all became a huge subdivision. Somebody may live in a haunted house because we also had an animal graveyard with hundreds of tiny crosses. Don't know who started it but the kids in the neighborhood would take the plentiful squirrel roadkill, dead pet or goldfish and and with solemn seriousness parade into the woods about 1/4 mile to the graveyard and bury the dead. Now someone's cat is stuck in the TV!
 
RubiconSS said:
I dove in there one early April day on a bet or a dare (probably to try and impress a young Lady)
Wow! Big mistake. Those "Polar Bear Clubs" that break ice and dive in water - I don't believe it because I dove into this fresh water mountain stream, I have no idea the temp. moving water so who knows.
Could inhale but ..... exhale? Not possible.
That is the Top of a seven (7) Water Fall series from the top of the mountain to the river below surrounded by Cliffs 400-500 ft. High (those were climbed many times) stories to be told from those exploits.
Great childhood (up to age 18, Left home and went to work on the docks in Canada)
Life in the Woods.
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Man! - That brings back some stuff for me too R.
I worked in Calgary Canada in the late '60s/early '70s & we used to back pack in the mountains (switchback trails etc.) & do some trout fishing in Banff & Jasper National Parks on long weekends. Here's a pic of coming into the town of Banff just west of Calgary in about 1969. That VW looks pretty small on the hwy.
The mountain runoff streams were cold as ice. Nice to have some reminders of the "innocent years". :D
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That is a "Mountain" Wow! Beautiful pic W&S, and yes those were the "days" a different time in many ways.
Cars ran on Leaded Gas and could turn the rear tires into smoking melted rings of liquid rubber after a trip to the grocery store. The internet, computers, face book, twitter, cell phones, fax machines, air bags, and video games were yet to be contemplated (Hmmmm, nevermind)
Glad to have lived through those days and for the most part remember some of them ;)
 
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