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tfields said:
hi fellow becker types. just a small request for my mom shes in the hostpital on a vent with a serious gi bleed they cant find as a medic and since shes 72 I know it aint very good. so any smoke sent up would be great thx!!
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Prayers sent

zzyzzogeton said:
Mr. Hunt - Don't know what it is that you do for these SEOANBMs, or how many other companies in your area have jobs for people who do what you can do, but for my 2 cents worth, I'd be polishing up the old resume and looking for a new home. Leave'm in a lurch and let'm cry a river. Says the guy who was asked to leave w/o letting the door hit his posterior because his job was being sent to China 13 years ago and hasn't worked FOR any one since.
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Thanks for the encouragment, I think mentally I was done working for this place in 2010 when things went bad and never recovered. Where it gets complicated is I have unheard of job security. But I'm finally learning that at this place that really doesn't mean anything either. The plant manager (who is the second coming of Hitler) hires temps to flood the work so he can lay off the full time help to get his expenses down and look good on paper. If that's not enough, he does it in week intervals so those people can't file for unemployment benifits. Did I mention this is a union shop and the Union does NOTHING about this. I can go on all day with examples like this but won't to try to keep my blood pressure in check. Its a real shame what a disgaceful state that not only this place is in but big business and there greed in general. In the 70's these types of managers would of been ran out of town, and rightfully so. I'll get off of my soapbox now. But I'm not going in today, can't belly there crap. I'm going to have a shop day instead!
 
good luck with your mom, tfields.

Yay for a shop day, Todd!
I need a couple of those.

Got Snow here, time for the ol' shovel-press workout. How many BSPs do I get for 5"? Do I have to count the reps?
 
I went to split another stump from my mom's stormfall (a couple years ago now). Found more of this inside, so I cut the rest up on the bandsaw instead. Turns out it's nigh impossible to split curly white oak by hand anyway! Hopefully I'll get a couple good bowie(!) handles out of it.

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daizee said:
I went to split another stump from my mom's stormfall (a couple years ago now). Found more of this inside, so I cut the rest up on the bandsaw instead. Turns out it's nigh impossible to split curly white oak by hand anyway! Hopefully I'll get a couple good bowie(!) handles out of it.

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Sweet!! Your comment about the convertible Blackhawk yesterday has me thinking now. I'm heading out of town Friday and will have to see what I can find.
 
daizee said:
I went to split another stump from my mom's stormfall (a couple years ago now). Found more of this inside, so I cut the rest up on the bandsaw instead. Turns out it's nigh impossible to split curly white oak by hand anyway! Hopefully I'll get a couple good bowie(!) handles out of it.

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Wow, daizee....that looks FULL of potential. Man I love wood.....OK, maybe not like you're thinking ;)

TMHunt said:
I'm going to have a shop day instead!
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That is the most important part of what you said. Enjoy yourself. Hoping to have a little shop time myself today.
 
Guyon said:
Wow. You should write a book. Start a blog. Something. That's cool.
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I have a "work in progress" thread about the W49 and its variations for eventual posting somewhere, but being the A/R, perfectionist type person, everytime I think I'm ready to post it up, I learn something new that I need to research before claiming it to be true.

As an example, just last night, after posting about my W49s, I did a fleabay search on "Texas bowie knife" and 1 of the results was another one of the sesquicentennial Western Bowies. It is also marked 1 of 15000. So now does that mean in a special run of knives, a mistake was made on #1? Or that mine or the other one is a fake? Or did Coleman (which had just bought Western in 1984) decide to do BS marketing ploy and mark ALLL 15000 as being "1 of 15000" because semanticly, each knife was literally "1" of the 15000 made?

Pisses me off big time. After sleeping on it, I'm leaning towards Coleman pulling a fast one due to all the engraving on them being a real pain to fake.
 
nice oak!! speaking about oak I have a ton of the stuff all dried up some with burl in it ready for resin vacuuming, I don't have a vacuum chamber :(
 
710 said:
nice oak!! speaking about oak I have a ton of the stuff all dried up some with burl in it ready for resin vacuuming, I don't have a vacuum chamber :(
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please write up a how-to when you build one yourself. It's not cost-effective to send chunks out. This particular wood is cool because in addition to the neat grain, it came from my mom's 100+y/o oak trees at the house where I grew up.
 
Nothing like going out and shoveling snow, and coming back in and throwing up. Yummy. Snow is deep.
 
daizee said:
I went to split another stump from my mom's stormfall (a couple years ago now). Found more of this inside, so I cut the rest up on the bandsaw instead. Turns out it's nigh impossible to split curly white oak by hand anyway!
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That's gonna look incredible if you quarter-saw it. :thumbup: Let me know if you have too much to use :p

zzyzzogeton said:
Or did Coleman (which had just bought Western in 1984) decide to do BS marketing ploy and mark ALLL 15000 as being "1 of 15000" because semanticly, each knife was literally "1" of the 15000 made?
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That would be my guess. But I'm no expert on collectible stuff. Maybe ask around in Bernard's subforum?

worldwood said:
Im rather fond of you too bud :p
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Get a room, you two :rolleyes:
 
Party hard, Dubz.


So.... Major brownie points this AM. I got to work on time and it was just the CFO and myself here this morning until a few mins ago when another coworker showed up.
 
Now i think Chicago is just messing with me. This is going to be the most processed knife in history. What it doesnt show here but does when you track it on canada post is, in between Jan and Feb it went back to Canada and was processed there again as well then sent back to Chicago...

 
worldwood said:
Now i think Chicago is just messing with me. This is going to be the most processed knife in history. What it doesnt show here but does when you track it on canada post is, in between Jan and Feb it went back to Canada and was processed there again as well then sent back to Chicago...

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The last time I had a problem like this, turns out the sender had transposed 2 of the zip code digits. The PO guy, when I finally asked in person, could pull up the actual label on it. Since human hands never touch the packages until the computer finally determines that package X has a problem, the system just keeps bouncing the package back and forth between the senders PO and the zip on the label. The PO guy put an alert on it to flag it and it arrived 2 days later.
 
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