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granitestateofmind said:
Finished up the scales for my 5 with a little wax buff. Installed. Ogled. Now I need to take some more flattering pictures and strip the blade and take some more risque pictures.

Oh yeah....and make a sheath. This one has no pants since I sent hers to another member.
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And then mod the heck out of her :D
 
The Warrior said:
Very nice gsom. :thumbup:
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worldwood said:
And then mod the heck out of her :D
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tradewater said:
Those scales will pop on the stripped blade. Very nice work.
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Thanks, gentlemen. I thought about doing a separate thread, but I'm feeling as if I'd rather spend the time getting to some other projects....only 2½ weeks until the Northeast Gathering...which is where I had the scales last year, unfinished until now. I may have some motivational problems.....thank Ethan for the snark thread as the general dump thread.
 
GSO1962 said:
You don't know what you're missing.... :D

And those scales look even better on the knife.
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I truly HOPE I don't know what I'm missing ;). And thank you. They've got a few flaws - namely that they're not flat against the knife - but it was the first pair I've made and I am pretty happy with how they came out.

daizee said:
Lookin' good, Mike!
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Thanks, E. Are we gonna see you the weekend after next at trailbum's? I've got wood for ya. Giggity.
 
1066vik said:
how else would you get the couch hung up properly in a tree?
it's the latest rage in "comfortable hunting" - the barca-lounger tree stand.
add one of Jerry's ragnarok stoves and you can draw bambi in with the smell of fresh popcorn and s'mores, too.
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Nope. Not going to try and make any sense out of that situation. I'm just going to appreciate it for what it was.

:p
 
tradewater said:
I liked both, ate the absolute hell out of both and thank you profucuiousalley for both. That was a generous and much appreciated gesture buddy.
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This! Very much! The meat was amazing! And it was greatly generous!

Murphnuge said:
GSO1962 , the meat snacks were amazing! Everybody enjoyed them. Derek said he's tasted a lot of meat packages from strangers and this was by far the best.
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The meat sticks would have gone fantastically with Biscuits nuts!

cbwoods67 said:
Nope. Not going to try and make any sense out of that situation. I'm just going to appreciate it for what it was.

:p
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That is probably for the best. I have seen some guys dragging a couch behind a pick up truck with two guys sitting on it!
 
worldwood said:
Its uneven and wavy like. Even just trying to clean up a piece of steel and holding it flat on the belt and running it across 1 time leaves some areas ground more than others.

Im guessing i just havent got a feel for it yet, but it feels like im applying the same amount of pressure the entire time. The platen does have gouges in it that you can easily feel with your fingers though. Not sure if thats causing the problem or just adding to it, or if its just me not knowing what im doing LOL
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One of the easiest ways to deal with that is to grind it step by step the way that Salem Straub or Fred Rowe do, IMO. Are you using a centerscribe line for the edge, for instance? Make sure you do that, and grind the bevels by making the angles steeper and steeper as you go. That will help you learn the feel for keeping it straight. I'd be willing to bet that the reason it's wavy has a lot to do with the speed and arm angle you're making your passes with. If you're not making the pass at an even speed, it won't grind evenly. Shift your weight to grind, and try to minimize arm movement. The more consistency you have in posture, speed, and motion (not just pressure), the more consistent the grind will be. Try to avoid the temptation to hog a lot of metal off quickly too. The lighter the pressure you use, the easier it will be to get your grinds more even.

I found Salem's site really useful: https://sites.google.com/site/vorpalcustomknives/shop-techniques-3/grinding-tips
 
Thanks for the info and link Crimson! Looks like some good info there for sure. I am indeed using a center scribe. And i have watched numerous videos by Fred Rowe. I even have his bubble jig. That did help me with the 1 blade i used the grinder to bevel out. But it takes practice. Ill keep practicing for sure, and read all the info in that link as well.



So i went to sleep in my hammock around 1am. At 410am someone had the nerve to come BANG on more door repeatedly until my dog was barking his head off, kids woke up, and i came and opened the door thinking there must be some form of emergency. What was the emergency? My wife's mother's boyfriend was dropping off a couple pieces of junk mail that came to their house for my wife... Yes junk crap mail. Why 4am? He works late shifts and after work wanted to stop by and drop off the mail...... And dropping the junk mail in our mail slot wasnt good enough for him.

I dont care if its my best friend in the world, the police, or the president himself, you come bang on my door at 4am for something stupid and wake my kids up and your going to get an angry earful, just so happens he is deaf. And i dont know enough sign language to express myself the way i wanted except by pointing for him to get the hell off my porch, while mouthing get the "F" off my porch, with a look on my face that made him very aware if he didnt leave my next action was going to be far more dramatic than his mail delivery techniques.

Now neither kid wants to go back to sleep, my dog is wound up, and ill have to deal with the wife being upset at me for being less than hospitable.... When she wakes up of course because she is the only one who slept through everything.


Going to be a rough day and it shouldnt even be starting yet.
 
GSO1962 said:
The thinner ones are "dried sticks" vs the thicker "dried sausage." As I mentioned once in the Snark, this is why I can't abide Slim Jim's anymore...

For those interested, you can get more (in person or phone in an order for shipping) from Green's Sausage House in Zabcikville, Texas. It's a small town with Czech influences about 10 miles east of I-35 at Temple (an hour or so north of Austin).

If you're ever in the area, you owe it to yourself to also stop and eat at the cafe. For an appetizer, the boudin balls are to die for. My brother who used to live in Houston took some of their boudin to work once and a nurse from New Orleans said that it was better than her momma made...not something that folks say lightly around here. For the boudin balls, they put a cube of pepperjack cheese in the middle of an 1.5" ball of boudin, then roll it in bread crumbs and deep fry it. Yum! Another favorite is the sausage burger...a 1/4 pound patty of breakfast sausage on a bun with yellow mustard, diced onions, and hamburger dill slices.

I'll be glad when 7 November gets here and I can go home...
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Ethan walked up and handed me some of the dried sausage as I was leaving the Gathering. It is tempting me as I type. Thank you sincerely.
 
So, you guys wanna hear something strange? This worries me a little. Never had anything like this happen.

Last night I didn't sleep very well, I'd conk out for a hour or so then up. Stomach was upset, so I was between my bed, the couch, and the shitter all night. Had a very labor intensive day working and was just beat tired but couldn't find that deep sleep. Plus, anytime I did sleep, I had this very vivid strange dreams that woke me back up. Anyway, fast forward to morning. I get up, get ready to head to the shop. My wife calls me to see how I feel cause she know I was up a big portion of the night. She asks me. "Where did you go last night?" I ask her what she means by that. She said," you drove my car last night. Where did you go?" I asked, "why would I drive your car when I got my own I wouldn't have to put out of the garage and why do you think I drove it in the first place?" Turns out, her keys where taken out of her purse. And the seat and the radio station both where set to my settings when she got into the car this morning. She also said.she had gotten up to use the rest room during the evening. Noticed I wasn't in bed, looked for me on the couch and noticed I wasnt there but didnt think much of it, just thought I was in the shop....... this is a little unnerving. I swear I havnt touched her car for over a week, I didnt leave the house last night, and it couldn't of been a thief. The doors where all locked from the inside and id never heard of a thief that came in and got the keys and then brought the car back. I've heard of wierd sleep walking stories but I have never experienced them.

What gives?
 
I think there is a perfectly rational and logical explanation for that Todd. We'll just have to wait for Vik to come on here and fill us in.
 
Yea thats crazy Todd!!

Id put up one of those game cameras or any motion sensor camera to see what was going on. You or someone else may be doing all types of stuff when you think your sleeping.

Too bad you cant program yourself to grind knives while your asleep LOL
 
tradewater said:
I think there is a perfectly rational and logical explanation for that Todd. We'll just have to wait for Vik to come on here and fill us in.
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:thumbup: That gave me a good laugh :D

I can see it now, "well you see its a training trick to train your wife to listen to your radio station and always have the settings set for you and um... and um... " LMAO
 
TMHunt said:
So, you guys wanna hear something strange? This worries me a little. Never had anything like this happen.

Last night I didn't sleep very well, I'd conk out for a hour or so then up. Stomach was upset, so I was between my bed, the couch, and the shitter all night. Had a very labor intensive day working and was just beat tired but couldn't find that deep sleep. Plus, anytime I did sleep, I had this very vivid strange dreams that woke me back up. Anyway, fast forward to morning. I get up, get ready to head to the shop. My wife calls me to see how I feel cause she know I was up a big portion of the night. She asks me. "Where did you go last night?" I ask her what she means by that. She said," you drove my car last night. Where did you go?" I asked, "why would I drive your car when I got my own I wouldn't have to put out of the garage and why do you think I drove it in the first place?" Turns out, her keys where taken out of her purse. And the seat and the radio station both where set to my settings when she got into the car this morning. She also said.she had gotten up to use the rest room during the evening. Noticed I wasn't in bed, looked for me on the couch and noticed I wasnt there but didnt think much of it, just thought I was in the shop....... this is a little unnerving. I swear I havnt touched her car for over a week, I didnt leave the house last night, and it couldn't of been a thief. The doors where all locked from the inside and id never heard of a thief that came in and got the keys and then brought the car back. I've heard of wierd sleep walking stories but I have never experienced them.

What gives?
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Magic.

Maybe Murph made a voodoo charm necklace like he did for Derek and is putting spells on you. :eek:
 
Todd: That was you, I'd bet on it. Might not have gone anywhere but the garage, but sure as shit it was you. Something like that happened to me once in college, NOT involving alcohol, mind, but a very stressful week. I was freezing cold in bed trying to pull the covers up and became conscious enough to realize that I was in the shower, with the water running a little tepid...woke up in the morning with a towel on my pillow (I had hair 30 years ago, a little anyways) and vaguely remembered briefly waking up in the shower. Don't have any remembrance of getting in, nor getting out and back into bed. Only time it's ever happened, AFAIK.

Somewhere in between your delirium and worn out stress, you got in your wife's car.....probably didn't drive it anywhere, though. Or there'd be White Castle wrappers on the floor.....
 
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