Proper use of Pegboard Hooks / The HIKV Contagion in the NW

It is my sincere hope that if anyone breaks in I'm home.

I have a pretty low view of burglars and criminals in general. Very little experience but I'm pretty sure I do not suffer hardly at all in the remorse department too.
 
I agree wholeheartedly Bawanna, Since I have no interest in finding out what laws I would be breaking hunting down the perpetrators and eliminating them once they have left. I hope I am at home should someone be so silly. My only question would be which weapon is closest to hand at the time. I always have my carry pistol, but I read recently of a woman who used a machete to smack the heck out of the guy's head when he stuck it through the window. Maybe a Khuk would be more effective chopping skulls that a machete. Only problem would be surrenduring an HI Khuk to the cops afterwards :( .
 
That's the saddest part, the good guy does the right thing yet they have to take the weapons involved and lock it up for minimum a year and sometimes forever. Who's the victim here ya know.

Part of my duties involves property and evidence and I've been known to allow visitation to guns. We're not allowed to clean or do much of anything but in some cases I can allow the owner to do so. I also strive to get them back asap defense lawyers and legal beagles be danged.

l'm hyperventilating just thinking about it. Don't make no sense at all. Take a picture, give the toys back.
 
Shavru said:
.... Only problem would be surrenduring an HI Khuk to the cops afterwards :( .
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Use a KLVUK and surrender it without regret. Or a chunk of wood, which would be less messy. Tools of opportunity are often the best.
 
yeah totally in agreement here, I kinda feel like someone is willing to violate your house: they are willing to do more, so you should kill them. though I kinda feel like they would probably charge you with something if you went and got a knife when you have the time, just using what is at hand or a gun is probably best bet!

though I know members here have lost knives to theft, I have never lost one in this way, I might be willing to do crazy things in anger if someone took one of my knives. -- but anger is madness!!!
 
Bawanna said:
That's the saddest part, the good guy does the right thing yet they have to take the weapons involved and lock it up for minimum a year and sometimes forever. Who's the victim here ya know.
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Thats what Glocks are for man! No biggie if it gets confiscated. Your out a couple hundered bucks and I dont think id care about visitation rights...well...unless it was a G18;)
My neighbor got his whole safe full of guns stolen. They drove up to the road cut next to his house and dropped the whole thing in their truck. That way they didnt have to pick it up. They later recovered a few of his guns and its about two years now and they still have em locked up. Sad indeed! There still in prison tho. Probably a good thing because we know where they live.
 
wow what a bummer, I hear about these nightmare stories all the time, don't know how I would handle somebody pilfering my armory
 
Here's some pictures of the knife Shavru asked about. I know it's of Swedish decent and pretty old. The sheath of wood and leather fit's perfectly and actually locks the blade in. The handle is also wood, same as the sheath I think and I believe ivory and well done. The blade is not finely finished and is rat tail, it's all thru the handle and peened on the end. Solid little knife.





Hope nobody tells me it's worth a mint, as much as I could sorely use the money it's kind of a heirloom, father in law who liked me gave it to me, unlike mother in law who hated me with a passion. Probably couldn't part with it.
 
Also long as we got show and tell going I have an old Estwing hatchet that I've had I think from the boat trip with Columbus. I don't recollect if I bought it or found it someplace.
As you can see it's a bit abused and used up but I always liked it for kindling, just the right size and weight, fairly bomb proof but sadly I didn't take care of it.




It's a solid metal, very rusty and the leather donuts on the handle just sort of got used up and like my teeth started going away. Even then it wasn't bad wearing a leather glove but alas finally too many were gone and the rusty joints in the hands didn't like it.

Soooooooo, it was time for a makeover.

I knocked most of the rust off and was gonna polish it pretty but decided it's a user so tried a vinegar patina, didn't really blow my dress up but it's fine, I might just blue it or just leave it. I just won't leave it outside for years and years, probably was my kids anyhow, I usually take care of stuff.

Oh and then I added a little Tiger Maple for a handle. Mr. Bookie sent me some pieces awhile back and one piece was prit near perfect for this application so there she be. Got the second coat of tru oil on it just prior to the pics. I'll put a few more on and then go to chopping again.


 
Awesome job on the hatchet! That looks like an older one before they started welding pipes on the end. To bad cause the shape of them are pretty ergonomic and feel great. When they went to the pipe moisture would get inside the pipe from an open hole at the end of the handle and collect at the weld and rust away. They would eventually bend on you while chopping. You got a nice one and did a great job on it! I got two of them but no handle. Ive been wanting to redo them but id have to weld a new handle on them.
 
Very nice job on the handle, Joe. Looks "professional" if anything ever did!
 
Really nice job on the Axe, Bawanna! I've always loved that particular Estwing model with the stacked leather handle - I had one for a long time until it got left at a deer camp many years ago. I went back to the camp site the next spring (in the forest, not in a campground), but it was long gone. I finally found another a few years later, and I've managed to keep from losing that one.
 
Estwing makes some great prospecting tools as well. I have some rock hammers, a gad bar and such. I also have a framing hammer but it didnt have the leather option. The blue urethane stuff is pretty durable but leather and wood is just plain classy.
That had to be two pieces. Did you route out the middle and glue it all together? Must have. I cant see any other way to do that. Thats a hell of a job the more I look at it the harder it looks but so perfectly done:thumbup:

My wife says she loves the shell stitch on that blanket (whatever that is). Crochet talk i guess? She's looking at the blanket and im looking at the hatchet:D
 
Our wives are probably sisters and if mine would have caught that rusty hatchet on the blanket she would have pushed me off the front steps.
 
Nice job. That maple handle is pretty enough that you really should polish the blade, even if it is a user. There's a lot of metal on the haft and axe head, and most of it would probably keep its polish or need only minor touchup now and then.
 
Yeah, I think your right. I might try my hand at polishing some this weekend. Certainly not a forte for me but I'll give it a shot, seems half finished as is.
 
Nice little Puukko exactly as it should be. A great example. Problably worth a little money because of the ivory but not life changing amounts. So you can keep it without feeling guilty about it. Great little user, looks like it would fit the hand well and be comfortable to use.

I gotta agree that handle on the hatchet is in desperate need of polish next to it :D
Another beautiful job of woodworking. It came together so well. Gorgeous.
 
So I had a Puukko all this time and didn't even know it? I better dig around in my drawers and boxes, maybe I got more good stuff.
 
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