Sir Snark-A-Lot

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Guyon said:
New pipe arrived and is better than I'd hoped. Been wanting a fat bulldog ever since I saw Gus's.

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Man, that looks gorgeous! Can't wait to see it at the Gathering.

tradewater said:
Pipe envy. I thought you were checking out Gus's "fat bulldog" pretty close.
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What happens at the Gathering, stays at the Gathering.

Guyon said:
Well, he just whipped it out next to the pavilion, and it was hard not to lust after his fat pipe.
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Ok, I can't keep up! :D
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mountainmist said:
Ugh, Just spent the last 3 hours working on English homework. It sucks. This is just the regular Honors class, I cannot wait to take AP literature next year! :rolleyes:
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THIS is why I hated school. If my homework wasn't done during class (or study hall... or detention) then it wasn't done. I didn't believe that schools had the right to dictate that I spend eight and a half hours there, and then another three to five hours doing work FOR there. So, I didn't do it. I still managed to graduate, not with honors or anything but still graduated.

mountainmist said:
Also, Geez! You guys are tough. But thanks. I have some of the best spelling and grammar in my class. Does anyone else think that it is kinda sad that the dudes on an internet forum have tighter tolerances for grammatical errors than my English teacher? :(
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Nope, that sounds about right. I've found those that can't do, teach. Those that can't teach, become professors. :D
 
worldwood said:
snip... I just figured out last night a scribe would be great to get perfect center lines... snip
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Check with some dentist offices. When they dull dental picks, they either trash them or send them out to be "resharpened". If you can find one that will "loose" one for you, you can sand/sharpen the point to your desired pointyness.
 
Howdy fellas. Looks like you have been busy snarking lately!! I've been busy as heck working for a farmer I'm friends with. Its been a nice change of pace and it has been great to be on a normal sleep schedule even ifnits only for a while. I haven't worked this hard in quite a while, but I'm loving it. Just figured I would check in and read a bit to see what's been going on.
 
ac700wildcat said:
Howdy fellas. Looks like you have been busy snarking lately!! I've been busy as heck working for a farmer I'm friends with. Its been a nice change of pace and it has been great to be on a normal sleep schedule even ifnits only for a while. I haven't worked this hard in quite a while, but I'm loving it. Just figured I would check in and read a bit to see what's been going on.
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You guys getting the crops out? They've been trying around here, but the rain has been putting a damper on it.
 
The Warrior said:
You guys getting the crops out? They've been trying around here, but the rain has been putting a damper on it.
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It has been going pretty good here and there hasn't been much rain to speak of. We have a few small patches of wheat that were seeded really late that still need to dry out a bit more, but other than that all the wheat is off. Next should be pinto beans and then soybeans. We got a frost a few nights ago and it did some pretty bad damage to some beans and corn that were still growing. The beans were getting somewhat close to ready, but the corn had a long ways to go.
 
I think the local farmers will get great yields this year. The old saying about corn, "Knee high by the 4th of July" is kinda funny these days. Over my head easily by the 4th these days. I'll bet some of the corn got close to 12' high this year. No joke. Not saying tall corn results in high yields, just sayin', she was tall.
 
The Warrior said:
I think the local farmers will get great yields this year. The old saying about corn, "Knee high by the 4th of July" is kinda funny these days. Over my head easily by the 4th these days. I'll bet some of the corn got close to 12' high this year. No joke. Not saying tall corn results in high yields, just sayin', she was tall.
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That saying went the way of the dodo bird when they started GMOing the crap outta stuff. Down here in central Texas, they also started planting corn earlier. It used to be that corn was planted around the end of february. W/ the new stuff, if you don't get it in by mid Feb, you're late. Field corn ears used to be ready for eating-picking right around Juneteenth. Now it's usually past it's prime by the 1st of June. 90% of the corn around me was harvested 2-3 weeks ago. Some got delayed because we had more corn, maize and wheat than storage capacity. Just the late stuff and some fields that got late rains and needed to dry out were combined this past week.
 
zuluninja said:
will go hunting for the stuff tomorrow, the chart and dies. I threaded it while still annealed, then did the HT. Does this still means it can break? I want to do a leather/wood/stag stack, tap a piece of steel then cap with a spike.
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That's impossible for me to tell by the pic. Basically if it was twisted to the point to where its strength was compromised, then heat treating it isn't going to fix it. Its just going to make the problem area hard and more brittle. If it wasn't, twisted that much you might be o.k. something else you might think about is this. A stacked leather handle (while very beautiful) is not a solid material. It will allow flex in the handle. That flex can possibly seek out any weak links in the tang and break over time. I had this happen to me once. I learned it the hard way. I welded all thread into a tang before and put a stacked leather handle on it. Even after proper heat treat the weld was still brittle. The knife came apart when finished. Broke at the weld under the stacked leather washers. Fortunately, it was before I sent it to the customer, but I had to start over on it. Thus changing the way I do threaded tangs forever.
 
Good way to end a night of work, flat front tire on the bike. At least I noticed before I got moving down the road. It sure would've been nice if it happened before work, it would have kept me from riding in the rain.
 
Chameleonbear said:
Ayup... I'm still trying to figure out everything with my new tablet. So far all I've been able to do is get bewbies on it... I'm still not sure how it happened but yeah... I'm not mad at it!
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Sounds like it's working properly.


I always hated riding in the rain :( I remember the very first time I got stuck riding in the rain for like an hour and a half lol... When I got home, I took my boots off and proceeded to empty the water out of them. They were filled to the brim lol nothing like dumping a good few liters out of your boots. Fun times :(
 
Internet sucked last night. Was off most the night.

But it did give me some time to play around with a new design.

After drawing it all up it reminded me of 100 different knives.... So i decided to call it the "Average Woody" LMAO :D.... Soon there will be a "Woody Pecker", an "Average Woody" A "Crooked Woody" with a slanted handle, And a "Big Wood" :eek: Ya see where im going with this?? HAHA :D

Sorry for the crappy picture. Didnt feel like going down stairs and turning everything on quite yet.

Its a hair under 10" with a generous amount of handle.

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The sharpening notch choil area will probably be difficult to get cleanly profiled out.... But i like it like that, so ill attempt it.
 
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