Show what you did with your EDC today.

[Dcdavis]

 

[Enzo’s Woodshop]

Made a few targets for my brother and I to shoot with BB guns

Used scrap material. The targets are dangling soda cans, suspended inside large plastic detergent containers that have a window cut into them. The cans are attached via a wooden toggle, which slides into the can’s opening. They’re easy to put on and take off, so they can be replaced when needed.

Used my Buck 124 to make them, and the BB gun pictured is a Daisy Powerline 880.

 

[Enzo’s Woodshop]

worked a bit more on the staff I’m making.

and other stuff

 

[killgar]

This isn't a story about my EDC, but rather something I used a knife for recently that further demonstrates the near infinite value and usefulness of a knife, which is something I'm always inclined to celebrate.

So, after 19+ years the fuel pump in one of my bikes went bad. This isn't really a problem, because it's a carbureted bike, and just like with a gas-powered carbureted lawn mover it doesn't really need a fuel pump. This is particularly fortunate because trying to get factory replacement parts these days is not easy, or always possible, due to supply chain issues. So I simply went old-school-chopper and ran a gravity/pressure fuel line from my tank to my carbs, with a fuel filter and shut-off valve, and it worked great. Something I've done before.

Next task was to pull out the bad fuel pump. If I was going to replace it I would have had to disassemble a significant portion of the bike. But since I wasn't going to replace it I was able to take an easier short-cut. Though easier, it still wasn't easy, the pump was up and inside the bike. This required removal of the battery and battery cage to get to it.

I got the pump detached, but when I tried to pull it out it was hung up somewhere. That's when I remembered the fuel filter (the piece at the bottom of the pic) was attached to the bike by a piece of rubber. I had no use for that rubber piece, and it had no value to me, so I tried to yank/tear it free, but was unsuccessful due to the strength of the rubber, and because I couldn't generate enough leverage within the confines of where the filter was located.

So I decided the easiest solution was to cut through the rubber piece. Normally I would use a utility razor, but the blade was much too short to reach the rubber, and because there was no room to maneuver I needed a curved blade that would allow me to make a push-cut through the rubber. So I grabbed my "garage knife", a Gerber Covert (it's my garage knife because I don't care if I bugger it up), I inserted the blade deep into my bike, sliced through the rubber, and the filter was freed, allowing me to pull out the entire fuel pump assembly.

Of all the tools I own, on that day, for that task, a knife was the best tool for the job.

 

[Hammer67]

Cut a bunch of weed guard fabric and bags of pea gravel in the garden today.

 

[campandtravel]

I used my Opinel 8 to even out cuts in a 2x4. (I'm bad at saws. Also I don't know how to make pictures.)

 

[Dcdavis]

 

[Wandering_About]

CPM M4 Native got a little workout trimming back a rose bush and cutting out a couple weeds that are already starting to come in.

 

[Enzo’s Woodshop]

It’s a bit past midnight now, ending the day with some nice whittling. Working on this right-handed spatula at the moment.

 

[Dcdavis]

 

[Enzo’s Woodshop]

 

[bigolegator]

Made a few targets for my brother and I to shoot with BB guns

Used scrap material. The targets are dangling soda cans, suspended inside large plastic detergent containers that have a window cut into them. The cans are attached via a wooden toggle, which slides into the can’s opening. They’re easy to put on and take off, so they can be replaced when needed.

Used my Buck 124 to make them, and the BB gun pictured is a Daisy Powerline 880.

Very cool idea and execution with the targets We use fruits and vegetables in a pinch…quick easy an environmentally friendly

 

[Enzo’s Woodshop]

Needed to stake some netting down along a section of a hilltop net on my property, made five wooden stakes out of a random Black Cherry tree branch. Put a 7-notch in each of them to interface with the net.

Did various yard work afterwards, clearing out some weeds, trimming some plants, etc.

 

[Enzo’s Woodshop]

Also opened a package that came in the mail, a new set of good NIJ-certified Level IV ceramic armor plates! These ones are Chase Tactical 10”x12” 4S17M.

 

[Dcdavis]

 

[Kirk Raptor]

Demko AD20.5 in blackout DLC with red backspacer taken from my red AD20.5.

 

[RLB0414]

Dcdavis , is the second photo down an RV pedestal.

 

[Rufus1949]

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I get tired seeing you work.
Do you need to strop your CRK alot?

 

[Dcdavis]

Dcdavis , is the second photo down an RV pedestal.

Yea. There’s an existing 100amp service on the other side of the pole they’re doing away with. We built a 200amp on the other side. The 200amp panel has feed through lugs to feed the cabin they’re gonna build. The 100amp breaker feeds a new Rv/camper pedestal we put in as well. It’s at a lot at the lake. I didn’t get any pics of the interior of the pedestal panel. It’s all prewired and you just land the feeds. Very hard to find right now also, and prices are sky high. That same Homeline panel was over $100 cheaper last year

I get tired seeing you work.
Do you need to strop your CRK alot?

Couldn’t tell ya the last time I’ve stropped much less sharpened a knife. I know I haven’t done it once this year

 

[Enzo’s Woodshop]

Had a really nice relaxing Saturday. Among other things, I worked a bit more on this walking stick.