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Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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slippies and hard work
- Thread starter SPC_rex
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I think the oddest thing i ever did was opening cement bags with a trapper(Bear MGC Damascus) kinda abrasive on the edge.. Not to mention being careful not to get the pivot area wet.... 
I;m a worker, do odd jobs, this and that. I do whatever comes along, and so does my knife, they've done everything from sheetrock to opening packages, to cutting sheet metal(OK, so thats kinda abusive..) cutting fuel line, truck gaskets. Would scrape elec. terminals if need be, but never have. I dunno.. whatever comes along.
The most common hard use task I do is push cutting/splitting kindling for fires(wood stove heat for two buildings all winter, and i cook/day camp-outside a lot). Wrist sized wood pieces usually to start with, "shingling" slats off the sides, halfing and and quartering them... Usually dry spruce, or semi dry birch so it ain;t kind to the edge, but I've found that with practice it really doesn't bother the rest of the knife.(avoid knots in the wood, and don't twist that blade..).
G.
I;m a worker, do odd jobs, this and that. I do whatever comes along, and so does my knife, they've done everything from sheetrock to opening packages, to cutting sheet metal(OK, so thats kinda abusive..) cutting fuel line, truck gaskets. Would scrape elec. terminals if need be, but never have. I dunno.. whatever comes along.
The most common hard use task I do is push cutting/splitting kindling for fires(wood stove heat for two buildings all winter, and i cook/day camp-outside a lot). Wrist sized wood pieces usually to start with, "shingling" slats off the sides, halfing and and quartering them... Usually dry spruce, or semi dry birch so it ain;t kind to the edge, but I've found that with practice it really doesn't bother the rest of the knife.(avoid knots in the wood, and don't twist that blade..).
G.
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The "oddest job" I have ever had for a knife presented itself to me just a few days ago. After "conferring with a man concerning an equine" I found that the available new roll of "Industrial Delsey" (not sure of the brand) simply refused to give up any sheets! It took a couple of minutes, in a very awkward position (!), with my Queen "Birdseye Maple" canoe in order for me to access the "necessary stationery".
