Purple! Because Ice cream has no bones!

Getting things squared away around the Redmeadow homestead. Looking forward to the leather show in Sheridan next week where I'll be spending your hard earned cash that I've been squirreling away on some tools and leather. Upon return we'll be back in the swing of things. I hope everyone is in good health and enjoying Spring.
 
Redmeadow Knives said:
Getting things squared away around the Redmeadow homestead. Looking forward to the leather show in Sheridan next week where I'll be spending your hard earned cash that I've been squirreling away on some tools and leather. Upon return we'll be back in the swing of things. I hope everyone is in good health and enjoying Spring.
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Good to hear from you, John. Hope you all are keeping well.
 
Pàdruig said:
Good to hear from you, John. Hope you all are keeping well.
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Family is doing good, we had to reorganize our time management to get some things taken care of. I've been working on a lot of projects in and (mostly) out of the shop. One thing that may be of interest here is I picked up a beefy guillotine tool and made a few sets of dies to help with some forging. The portaband has had a workout cutting one inch plate and is still running like a champ. Hope you've been well, we'll need to touch base when I get back from Sheridan.
 
So then there's this.

I traded two knives and a set of reins to a cowpuncher in New Mexico for this set of elk sheds up on my gun safe. We were there at his EXTREMELY remote ranch a couple of years ago picking up a filly we'd bought from him. The wife traded me out of them for a set she had stashed cause this set is perfectly symmetrical and she wants them for the gate. The set she had stashed was larger and so yielded me more knife handles.

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But what is that mechanical device?

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Any guesses?
 
Horsewright said:
So then there's this.

I traded two knives and a set of reins to a cowpuncher in New Mexico for this set of elk sheds up on my gun safe. We were there at his EXTREMELY remote ranch a couple of years ago picking up a filly we'd bought from him. The wife traded me out of them for a set she had stashed cause this set is perfectly symmetrical and she wants them for the gate. The set she had stashed was larger and so yielded me more knife handles.

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But what is that mechanical device?

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Any guesses?
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Might be a lens adjustment piece for an old telescope. Just a guess.
 
I'm with Scott, because I can't make heads or tail of it and that's a great guess. I'd love to see how that operates. All I do know is that it would be fun to play around with!

I found this humorous, I walked into the hotel today and shortly afterwards a man and his wife walked in, he hollered "Hey did you lose a set of Subaru Keys?". His wife smacked him on the arm and said "Does he look like he drives a Subaru?!!". I guess I don't fit the profile.

Had a run in with a nutty lady but I'll spare you from that one.

Saw the entries to the leather competition, some incredible work. There were only 5 entries in the youth 8-13 age group, two of which were siblings. Really is a dying art that I hope makes a comeback someday. I fear some sort of 3D texture printer will be tooling leather one day (though that might just be the John Conner in me, SkyNet is self aware!!!!)
 
Scott Hanson said:
Might be a lens adjustment piece for an old telescope. Just a guess.
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Redmeadow Knives said:
I'm with Scott, because I can't make heads or tail of it and that's a great guess. I'd love to see how that operates. All I do know is that it would be fun to play around with!

I found this humorous, I walked into the hotel today and shortly afterwards a man and his wife walked in, he hollered "Hey did you lose a set of Subaru Keys?". His wife smacked him on the arm and said "Does he look like he drives a Subaru?!!". I guess I don't fit the profile.

Had a run in with a nutty lady but I'll spare you from that one.

Saw the entries to the leather competition, some incredible work. There were only 5 entries in the youth 8-13 age group, two of which were siblings. Really is a dying art that I hope makes a comeback someday. I fear some sort of 3D texture printer will be tooling leather one day (though that might just be the John Conner in me, SkyNet is self aware!!!!)
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A good guess but turn it around 180 degrees.
 
Horsewright said:
No more guesses?

Its a Norton bomb sight from WW2. My dad gave two bucks for it after the war at a pawn shop. It is fun to twirl the dials and watch things go.
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That's cool Dave, mechanisms like that are fascinating.

How's everyone doing? I've been out of the loop for a while and feel out of touch to be honest. I'll be updating the threads throughout the sub over the next coming days and have a Newsletter in the works.
 
Redmeadow Knives said:
I found this humorous, I walked into the hotel today and shortly afterwards a man and his wife walked in, he hollered "Hey did you lose a set of Subaru Keys?". His wife smacked him on the arm and said "Does he look like he drives a Subaru?!!". I guess I don't fit the profile.
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The Subaru is the unofficial car of the PNW - they are all over here. Admittedly, I drive one as it is a most excellent ride. My wife will sometimes comment that I probably turn a few heads getting in and out it - I don't think I fit the profile either.
 
Pàdruig said:
The Subaru is the unofficial car of the PNW - they are all over here. Admittedly, I drive one as it is a most excellent ride. My wife will sometimes comment that I probably turn a few heads getting in and out it - I don't think I fit the profile either.
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They are good cars from what I hear, the ones you see around here have PNW plates 9 out of 10 times.

The nicest looking car was behind me on the road the other day, I thought for sure it was a high end maker like Bentley or some kind of luxurious sports car, really nice lines.

When it passed me it turned out to be a..... Kia 😳
 
Redmeadow Knives said:
They are good cars from what I hear, the ones you see around here have PNW plates 9 out of 10 times.

The nicest looking car was behind me on the road the other day, I thought for sure it was a high end maker like Bentley or some kind of luxurious sports car, really nice lines.

When it passed me it turned out to be a..... Kia 😳
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We had a Kia for several years. The wife called it Foxy. Our daughter was playing basketball in college and we had a lot of driving around to do going to games. We'd already put a couple hundred thousand miles on one of our trucks going to club games and high school games. We'd gone down the hill to buy a BMW but saw these across the street. Went over to have a look see at these and they were way more impressive than the Bmers. Went home with one.

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Only problem we ever had with it? Dang bunnies ate the wiring harness. So $4500 later (insurance paid for most of it), and I lost a third of my shop cause Foxy had to live inside. Gave away two really nice 8" work benches!
 
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