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Snark till the cows come home
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OK, I'm gonna post this again, 'cause I expected to get way more grief from you folks. Or at least some grief; this is the snark thread, fer cryin' out loud!
OK, flickr keeps failing to upload these 2 pics, specifically. Maybe it's afraid. This one is for all y'all's inner mall ninja. I don't know why, but I've been looking at this particular blade for more than a year, before I found the BK9 and this community. I'll most likely never use it for it's intended purpose, but at least I know I could if I had to.....that is of course if I had the sack to carry it around. 'Course if I did, it'd be like a challenge to every punk spoiling for a fight, I think. But I bought it anyway, even if I decide to pass it on:
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Never heard of Okuma - I don't think they make it up here. Jealous that you're fishing and there's no ice!
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If it wasnt serrated I would be ok with calling that a knife....lol for some reason I cant stand serrated fixed blades unless its a bread knife or a steak knife.
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One of my buddies is damn near a tournament fisher. In his spare time when he goes fishing he bank fishes for cats that is what he uses.
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Ditto
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Interesting looking blade. This IS the Becker forum... so do it like a Becker! Strip it, polish it, give it a nice set of wooden scales
that will detract from its "Mall Ninja" goodness. If you wanted to go even further... you could "de-ramp" it and add some gimping. Then throw some leather pants on it...ta-da non-mall ninja
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Looks like a Chris Reeve Pacific copy.
-edit- Actually, upon reflection, that probably IS a Pacific. I don't see anything wrong with getting a CRK.
They are expensive, and I didn't really find that particular model all that comfortable in hand (they have one in one of my LGS), but hey.
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I may have to copy and adapt that for striper fishing this summer....I've got a similar setup (Okuma 65 Baitfeeder/Ugly Stik) only with braided line for salt water....although usually I'm more of a cast and retrieve guy...especially with the way the tides run in and out here; this was the incoming tide into our pond yesterday, before we got pounded with snow:Here kitty, kitty.
Usually I fish on the other side of the culvert on the outgoing tide; stripers like to hang out there and wait for dinner to come pouring out. Not that I have ever caught one, but I've seen others do it. Maybe this'll be my year.
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That's because Chris Reeve (and William Harsey and Matt Larsen) designed it. It feels great in hand.Looks like a Chris Reeve Pacific copy.
And thanks for the compliments from everyone else...I was just figuring on grief for the "tactical"-ness...I guess I'm not around other knife people much (OK, never) and so would feel a little shy about carrying it in public. Friends and acquaintances know me to be pretty non-threatening. But I do love how wicked it looks. Go figure.
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WW - make the belly curve a little more subtle/blend it in better and ditch the convex spine on the handle - straighten it out a little or add a bump, like on a Swamp Rat M9.
to help balance things, 7" handle with a brass pommel and use some of the S. Am super dense exotic woods for the scales. Something that doesn't float, like Cumaru.
to help balance things, 7" handle with a brass pommel and use some of the S. Am super dense exotic woods for the scales. Something that doesn't float, like Cumaru.
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Heh, I've been known to practice sword forms on the top of a mountain pass (got bored while waiting for my then-girlfriend (now wife) to show up). That drew a fairly large audience...
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I just LoL'd
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/04/giant-wooden-cock-car-katya-romanovskaya_n_4725490.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Thanks awesome....I wonder who carved it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/04/giant-wooden-cock-car-katya-romanovskaya_n_4725490.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Thanks awesome....I wonder who carved it.
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Beardlove.
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This makes me chuckle e'ertime I see it.
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I was working some years ago at a house in central NH, and one of the doors to their (100+ year old) barn had an exquisitely (and accurately) relief carved, (meaning it was projecting from a flat door) slightly larger than life-sized sculpture of female genitalia....as a lock "cylinder". Can you guess what the key was?
james terrio
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I'm not crazy about serrations in general, and the choil should either be bigger or not there at all. But honestly the handle, guard and blade design overall look pretty decent to me.
Forget that noise. I've never done it and I never will. Where I come from those same areas sometimes have snapping turtles in 'em... you might just pull back a stump.
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A diamond ring? Bottle of Tequila?
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