The " Roosters " are crowing for the " Farmers"

Thanks and humbled Will . It is something that has helped me down this road.
 
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steel liners, rat tail bolsters!!!
To me Steel liners are the classiest, and I have always wanted a knife with rat tail bolsters, perhps I will be lucky enough toget one of these.
 
I sure hope you do too,I'd like all who want one to get one,especially if you are from Rio Grande ,O. :)
 
Lyle, your history just adds to the pleasure of admiring your beautiful farmer jacks. I'm still thinking about that DE, and the grafting blade on the Peter Hendersen--it has all the right curves. I don't know that I've ever seen a more shapely blade.

There's something about the farmer jacks: they are masterpieces of simplicity. Each part is designed precisely to do its function, nothing is wasted, everything is essential, and somehow all those aspects fit together into an amazingly stunning whole. Grace and beauty.
 
One of the main things I do with my slipjoints is suckering tomatoes. We do a little bit of grafting, but have 3 greenhouses full of tomatoes for about 7-8 months out of the year and they put out a lot of shoots. What I am trying to say here is great thread! Another one for the "need" list.
 
RobbW said:
Lyle, your history just adds to the pleasure of admiring your beautiful farmer jacks. I'm still thinking about that DE, and the grafting blade on the Peter Hendersen--it has all the right curves. I don't know that I've ever seen a more shapely blade.

There's something about the farmer jacks: they are masterpieces of simplicity. Each part is designed precisely to do its function, nothing is wasted, everything is essential, and somehow all those aspects fit together into an amazingly stunning whole. Grace and beauty.
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Eloquently put Robb,I have always viewed this pattern that way. If ever there was a more simply elegant working knife,my eyes have not see it,but I am a little prejudiced.

Tribial said:
One of the main things I do with my slipjoints is suckering tomatoes. We do a little bit of grafting, but have 3 greenhouses full of tomatoes for about 7-8 months out of the year and they put out a lot of shoots. What I am trying to say here is great thread! Another one for the "need" list.
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Sounds if you may need more than one.:) I watched a video on a commercial tomato grower and grafter ,it was very interesting, made me want to try. He used a very hardy (disease resistant) root stock called Maxifort, and grafted the desired tomato on it. His main tool was 1/2 of a double edged razor blade,as it was very thin. If I can find it again ,I'll try to post it.

Will,this might also interest you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSwTCwlhFgo
 
wlfryjr said:
RobbW said:
There's something about the farmer jacks: they are masterpieces of simplicity. Each part is designed precisely to do its function, nothing is wasted, everything is essential, and somehow all those aspects fit together into an amazingly stunning whole. Grace and beauty.
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Eloquently put Robb,I have always viewed this pattern that way. If ever there was a more simply elegant working knife,my eyes have not see it,but I am a little prejudiced.
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Absolutely! Robb's words resonate strongly with your own, when viewing and sharing your thoughts on this pattern.

(Well-said, Robb.)

~ P.
 
Robb,
Sarah helped this non-English major edit my back label of the farmers jack. Public thank you Sarah.

We thought you were an email spy,internet techie ??,considering you almost plagiarized some of the back label.:) You get it.



Will Power here is a link where you can view and research those old horticultural catalogs. Some others are H A Dreer,Michells,Gilbert,many,many others.

There is a mind boggling amount of horticultural books,catalogs,authors,quite an amazing site. You can get lost in here.The Biodiversity Heritage Library.

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=seed+and+implement+catalogs#/titles
 
Lyle, that is actually the video we watched before trying it last year. We decided the extra time wasn't worth it for our greenhouse tomatoes because we don't have any disease issues (knock on wood) with the plants. We also did not see any increased yields from the grafts on the stock we used. I do most of my suckering with a slip joint. Often the pen blade on a cherry soda pemberton, or whatever the smallest blade i have on me is. I did use the half razor blade trick for grafting.

Interesting thing was that I put the wrong top on one of the plants and we learned why they only sell those seeds for the root stock. It was a variety called Estamino, and it had very jagged looking leafs and pale yellow cherry tomato type fruit thattasted horrible.
 
wlfryjr said:
Robb,
Sarah helped this non-English major edit my back label of the farmers jack. Public thank you Sarah.

We thought you were an email spy,internet techie ??,considering you almost plagiarized some of the back label.:) You get it.
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Lyle: Haha, no I don't have those kind of powers over space and time. Only the NSA can do that and they're quite a few levels above my pay grade. :) Sarah's a great editor. I've really enjoyed how she edited the back labels of Charlie's TC Barlows yet kept them true to his spirit.

I've signed up for a bone Farmer's Jack and a Rosewood Grinling. Are any of those yours? I'd love to get one with your label!!
 
Some absorbing stuff on the links you posted Lyle, many thanks for that:thumbup:

I see other potential for this frame perhaps: it could house a nice long Wharncliffe and a modified Pen on a single-spring. Always vital to have something to mull over:D

Regards, Will
 
You are right Will,I've thought of a few. So did Maher and Grosh! Here's one of their options.I was thinking of a little more exaggerated,taller sheepfoot,maybe a curve in the spline.

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wlfryjr said:
You are right Will,I've thought of a few. So did Maher and Grosh! Here's one of their options.I was thinking of a little more exaggerated,taller sheepfoot,maybe a curve in the spline.

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I like how the fold in the paper lends the fleeting impression that the main blade is a rooster comb. :)

~ P.
 
That Maher&Grosh is a very handsome item - most of their knives were! The catalogue gives us a lot to day-dream over for sure.

Thanks, Will
 
I have been fortunate to have been given the opportunity to purchase one variation of the "Orchard Gem" and one variation of the "Lick Creek". Should I choose to employ one of these beaut ' s as intended. How best can I touch up the edge, or actually re-sharpen the main? The sharp, internal radius seems to remove fixed strops from the mix, and I'm not sure a stone will make that bend either. Your thoughts?
 
I just plan on using the corners of my Sharpmaker for sharpening and then strop with a piece of leather on the edge of a table if you can picture that.
 
I just saw Mikes YouTube of the micarta version. They look fantastic. I had no intention of getting one of these initially, but I find myself drawn to them somehow...

Edit; here y'are.
http://youtu.be/2YNuO4jIpL8
 
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