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[JohnDF]

Good lookin' dog.

 

[Bloefield]

Good lookin' dog.

Thanks JohnDF. He is a great dog.

 

[r redden]

 

[JohnDF]

Good thing you have the Albuterol handy, that pile may make me short of breath

 

[5K Qs]

I don't have the "Choose me! Choose me!" piles that apparently many of you make each day to decide what you'll carry. Instead I have my weekly schedule that I can just mindlessly follow once I've set it up (currently it's a 39-week cycle).

But I do have a pile of knives on the kitchen counter. I used to rotate those as part of my weekly schedule, but I've moved to sticking with the same few knives all the time, with many new knives getting a try-out period in the kitchen when they first arrive. Here are the 5 knives that are always (unless the rotation schedule says one of them is supposed to be in my pocket for a week) on the kitchen counter helping me with food prep. I was surprised at the variety of blade shapes I have (and I often have some size of trapper in the kitchen, which adds a spey to the mix - I really like spey blades for food prep).


- GT

 

[veitsi_poika]

How come my piles look different than your guy's piles?

I'm drawing a "blank"...

 

[veitsi_poika]

I guess this qualifies as a pile...

Wow... a pile of keepers! If my entire collection could only have 13 knives, that pile of barlows would suit me just fine... very nice

 

[willard0341]

Fondling, sharpening, devaluating... like to say thanks to gungraber for the trade of the beautiful eureka jack

 

[JohnDF]

like to say thanks to gungraber for the trade of the beautiful eureka jack

Wow, that is a beautiful Eureka Jack.

 

[tmd_87]

The whole group

 

[edbeau]

My collection of Imperial Schrade Frontiers.

 

[5K Qs]

WW! I'm impressed, E edbeau !! That's a phenomenal pile!

- GT

 

[edbeau]

Thank You

 

[chuko]

A pile of some of my NYK's

 

[willard0341]

A pile of some of my NYK's

Beautiful, I’d like to have a cup of coffee and go through those.

 

[JohnDF]

A pile of some of my NYK's

That brown (swayback?) pen knife is very unique and interesting.

 

[Bugdoc]

No piles for me, knives or otherwise  I'm still punching the clock so weekdays I open a drawer, peruse the contents and pick one as the spirit moves. On my days off I go for a bigger folder or fixed blade for the belt, but the general process is the same.

Cheers!

 

[redsparrow]

Today's Pile - Similar but Oh So Different

Northfield EE Cigar, Pal Cutlery Co. Cattleman, Tidioute Churchill, Victorinox Hiker, GEC Mustang

 

[JohnDF]

Today's Pile - Similar but Oh So Different

Northfield EE Cigar, Pal Cutlery Co. Cattleman, Tidioute Churchill, Victorinox Hiker, GEC Mustang

That Mustang is a Pretty Pony.

 

[redsparrow]

That Mustang is a Pretty Pony.

Thanks John. That 74's pin striping comes from an American Chestnut and it started a whole big thing for me and GEC 74s. It is put together with as close to the perfect build as I've ever seen. Virtually flawless in any way that can be measured, with one and only one exception... pin depth. That one exception keeps it believable, who ever heard of a perfect production knife? It is without a doubt one knife (barring any unforeseen circumstance like a Kurgan ) I'll be keeping for as long as I'm around.