Question for Paddling Man - Frosty SJT Thickness?

Padding_man
Thanks for posting those pics. I scored the frosted SJ at the Ganza even though I hated the picture they had. The red background gave it all a weird look to me. From your pictures I can see that it looks the way I knew hoped it would.. Is the handle G-10 or Micarta. Cannot wait till I get that knife.
 
Methinks they're making more....

mfaster7: The slabs looks like tigerstripe canvas micarta.
 
Definitely micarta. It looks like at least yourself and Raden are getting one too. I bet Garth is happy; it sound like they are a pain to make.
 
Not that it matters, but, do you think that the design of the frosted SJT came from a mistaken ruination of the talonhole. If that was the case, it was a damn fine save. Fantastic idea that; blade catcher/bottle opener. Wish I could still drink. Again, thanks for the photos. The first Busse I ordered was the FBMLE. I assume that the Frosted SJT will arrive at least 8 weeks before the FBM and I love the anticipation. At this point in my life it's half the fun.
 
I think a lot of Busse innovation comes from drunken inspiration as things progress during the grinding stage. ;) The bottle opener / talon hole mod has been around for a while. Spend an afternoon looking at the "Nothing but pics" thread and I bet you'll see some others.

Innovation and inspiration from mistakes? Whatever it is, I love this INFI like an addict needs his fix! :thumbup:
 
I think about this stuff while I wile away my time looking at "nothing but pics." I think that accidental discoveries account for some of the most important innovations in all fields.

I have such an addictive personality that my wife fears the arrival of my first Busse knives almost as much as I long for it. Actually she is very supportive of my interest and helps me choose all that I seek to acquire.
 
I hope you were not offended by my very little joke. I can be somewhat pedantic (I am a teacher) but everyone so abuses the language and you clearly do not. I had never seen the word wile in print and had to look it up.
Anyway, however one may spend/wile away the afternoons, I wish him all the best.
 
mfaster7 said:
I hope you were not offended by my very little joke. I can be somewhat pedantic (I am a teacher) but everyone so abuses the language and you clearly do not. I had never seen the word wile in print and had to look it up.
Anyway, however one may spend/wile away the afternoons, I wish him all the best.
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No way! :D

I've only heard the phrase "to wile away" and assumed it was "while" never quite understanding the origination. After my post, I saw your use of the phrase, though slightly different, and thought "wile," "while?" Heck, I don't know... waste! Then, no. Wait. "Waste" won't work. Drooling over INFI is never a waste. It has to be a word more associated with my INFI experience and "waste" just doesn't cut it.

How about SPEND. :thumbup:
 
Then again, after I responded, I found this...

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-whi3.htm

[Q] From Craig Miller: “Some friends are currently debating whether it should be wile or while in phrases like we whiled (or wiled) away the time. A Google search produces 699 hits for wile and 6,290 for while but no information as to which is correct. Can you help with an answer?”

[A] Historically and formally, while is the right answer. But I must qualify that because wile is not only found today but has been used in the past by some good writers. As a result, some British dictionaries allow wile as a variant, and several American ones I have here offer it as valid without any comment.

I can see why you had trouble looking it up. The construction isn’t mentioned often in style guides: the only one I can find that does so is the Second Edition of Fowler’s Modern English Usage (of 1965), which says that while the time away is now the standard form but that wile was formerly not uncommon.

A little delving into word history might be helpful to make that comment clearer. Writers in the early sixteenth century borrowed the conjunction while and turned it into a verb. The first known user of it in the modern sense of passing time leisurely or idly was Francis Quarles, in a poem of 1635 called Emblems: “Nor do I beg this slender inch, to while The time away, or falsely to beguile My thoughts with joy”.

So far, so good. The problem began at the end of the following century, when writers started to spell it wile instead. The OED’s editors suggested this might have been because people were thinking of beguile the time, a related phrase that goes back to Shakespeare. Users may have been thinking of the sense of wile that means deceit or deception, so that the idea in to wile away time was to steal time illicitly from one's proper duties. Subscriber Steve Doerr wrote in elaboration: “The French expression tromper le temps and the Latin decipere tempus both mean to ‘deceive’ time in the same way”.

The first recorded user of the wile form was Fanny Burney, in her novel Camilla of 1796: “He persuaded his sisters, therefore, to walk out with him, to wile away at once expectation and retrospection”. In the following century, it was used by writers such as Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens and Rider Haggard. Rather later, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had Sherlock Holmes say, in The Adventure of the Second Stain: “Yes; I will wile away the morning at Godolphin Street with our friends of the regular establishment”.

With that phalanx of worthies in the background, it’s hard for modern works on language to assert that wile is absolutely wrong. But my advice would be to stick with while, since you can’t be faulted spelling it that way.
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It's a real pleasure to be corrected by someone so thorough and verbally responsible. I read the passage you cited and I stand most humbly and completely corrected. Thank you. You are obviously a gentleman of taste(love of infi) and superior intellect (love of knowledge). I salute your thoroughness and perseverence.
Thank You
 
You, kind sir, definitely have me confused with someone of greater intellect. I was hoping to find the root of the usage and just got lucky with a google search.

My wife would say the version of Rodin's "The Thinker" that would best illustrate me would be...

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