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Secret Handshake!
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^^^^ I really like that picture.
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Get some patina on those Sodbusters! Cut some apples, oranges, steaks.... do food prep..... stick it in a potato.
Or force it with some hot vinegar!
What he said. A shiny Case Soddie Jr. after ya brought it home is like marrying the farmer's daughter, but having separate bedrooms. It ain't natural.
Nomad, "A deep patina." Yeah, that's what I tell folks about myself. I'm vintage with a deep patina.
Or to steal Uncle Blackjack's line (and I often do) from The Shadow Riders, "You see these grey hairs and wrinkles? Every one of them earned." Man, i miss Ben Johnson as an actor.
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I should have specified, a "yellow handle" Case Soddie Jr. with a patina. Black handled stainless steel is okay, but it's still not the "Sacred Soddie with CV." Even a yellow handled Soddie in SS would be acceptable as a using knife, but it still is THE secret handshake soddie.
It's sort of like passing into a mystery order. There's the outer, visible part where there are certain rituals and regalia associated with the outer "religion/cult" so to speak. But, there's the post initiate, inner realms of deeper meaning and understanding.
I'm reminded of the old Zen joke. "What did the Zen master learn after 20 years of practicing Zen?" "Nothing! Hahahaha" Some will shake there heads and say, "Huh?" While others will smile and say, "Exactly!"
And ya'll though them ol country boys were slow and didn't understand the mysteries of the universe. Y'all just forgot the right questions.
It's sort of like passing into a mystery order. There's the outer, visible part where there are certain rituals and regalia associated with the outer "religion/cult" so to speak. But, there's the post initiate, inner realms of deeper meaning and understanding.
I'm reminded of the old Zen joke. "What did the Zen master learn after 20 years of practicing Zen?" "Nothing! Hahahaha" Some will shake there heads and say, "Huh?" While others will smile and say, "Exactly!"
And ya'll though them ol country boys were slow and didn't understand the mysteries of the universe. Y'all just forgot the right questions.
Hey Dave, it's me, open up, I got the stuff...
(A simple, unpretentious, mechanical device, both the CV Soddie Jr and the all-mechanical, gears-levers-and-springs Pentax K1000, fully mechanical, no batteries needed (a humble LR44 runs the simple analog needle light meter, but is not necessary to actually take pictures)
(A simple, unpretentious, mechanical device, both the CV Soddie Jr and the all-mechanical, gears-levers-and-springs Pentax K1000, fully mechanical, no batteries needed (a humble LR44 runs the simple analog needle light meter, but is not necessary to actually take pictures)
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The wife took this picture the other night with her phone after I wandered off for a minute to speak to a friend of mine, the other teachers didn't believe her when she told them I used a pocket knife to cut my steak at restaurants.
Does this horrible picture of a Soddie earning its patina open the door?
Does this horrible picture of a Soddie earning its patina open the door?
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Well, ya certainly get points for using it to cut your steak, for having a teacher for a wife (I'm guessing you get to hear all about the little darlings when she gets home. I know I do when mine does.), and extra points if ya share some of the next steak. But yeah, a patina'd yaller Soddie Jr. gets ya in the door. You can even use it to cut a chunk of the dried sausage hanging over by the table with the apples and cheese. Dig in.
But I think Bob is the reigning champ for that contextual portrait of his.
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We have had a deal for years, we only tell the funny stories from work, She's a 3rd grade teacher and I am a Paramedic, I have a few stories that nobody really wants to hear...
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Mine's 4th grade. I'm kind of her chance to unload instead of blow a fuse sometimes between admin, "No Child..." junk, and kids that are clueless. But, she only gets so many minutes then it's SHHHH!
One of our favorite sayings is, "I love children. I just can't eat a whole one."
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I wanna be a member!
I'm fresh out of Yellow CV Sodbusters, so I just ordered one!
My wife is a teacher also. She is lucky, because she teaches teachers, and they all really want to be there!! (She misses the little'uns though!)
I'm fresh out of Yellow CV Sodbusters, so I just ordered one!
My wife is a teacher also. She is lucky, because she teaches teachers, and they all really want to be there!! (She misses the little'uns though!)
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I keep telling my wife to do that. Teach the teachers. She knows I'm always right. She even gets frustrated and tell me, "Don't you ever get tired of being right?" Usually after she finally came around and was irritated she had to admit it.
I'm guessing old friend that you have probably had and gifted more than a few Soddies. Of course you can stand in one of those HJ SFOs of yours while out of Soddie Jrs. The fellow who brought the Harness Jack out of relative obscurity and reintroduced a whole bunch of folks to the history of those and the various punch patents get's a little extra respect. (I think I just heard Marlon Brando mumbling mafioso lingo in the background.)
Why is it the knife guys I get associated with have these Italian and Sicilian backgrounds? The guy on another forum who's taken it on to be my sensei in knife polishing is a Harley riding Sicilian from Wisconsin. At least if I wake up with a cheese head beside me I can shave some off for an omelete. Hmmm, might have to rethink this secret meeting stuff.
At least I can say I knew him when he was channeling Harness Jacks. LOL.
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Yeah, we go back a ways, AIW!!
But I was always told, when it comes to marital bliss, I could either be right, or happy - but not both!!
Related to the premise of this thread, I seem to recall there was an association of some kind, in the American South and a long time ago, where owning a Russell Barlow was a requirement of membership!
Can anyone fill in that tale?
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its ironic, i am 1/4 sicilian, my mothers maiden name is Anzalone
so you can add me to that list
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Does it have to be a Case?
GEC Bullnose and a big honking Moore Maker
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its ironic, i am 1/4 sicilian, my mothers maiden name is Anzalone
so you can add me to that list
Oy! What's a poor country boy with Celtic Appalachian ancestors to do when surrounded by all the Sicilians? I'm starting to get flashbacks to the movie "Next of Kin" with Patrick Swayze.
Yup. Those are just upscale and fancy comers on. Very nice and desirable, but something you move out from the center too. The ol Case Soddie Jr. in CV is the real deal. It's sort of a even if ya never use or carry it, ya gotta have one with a patina. Then all those others make sense as homage and moving out to honor the humble Case Soddie Jr.. (A patina'd Case Soddie daddy is of course an acceptable substitute. Like your daddy's, daddy who was a real stone worker who is a member of the Mason so naturally he's covered.)
That's the thing about a secret handshake. Only those inside the circle know it or get it. Yet the door is always open to the initiate who is ready to walk through the door having grasped the beginnings of the old wisdom. Some may study years and not have gnosis. Others may come new to the call of the traditional knife, but quickly intuit and reach for that gnosis. It's sort of like riding a motorcycle to fill something deep inside you. You just know. You and dogs. Similar with knives. There are cults and followings, then there just is.
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Oy! What's a poor country boy with Celtic Appalachian ancestors to do when surrounded by all the Sicilians? I'm starting to get flashbacks to the movie "Next of Kin" with Patrick Swayze.
if it helps ease your mind, my MOTHER's mother's maiden name was Delaney
I am a mutt