The "Whatever" Thread

[cbwoods67]

Welcome, Brett. You have found a great little corner of the interwebs. :thumbup:

 

[JK Knives]

Welcome!

 

[KYenglish]

nice to meet you, Brett, good luck on your first JK knife hunt, chose carefully but don't sweat it to much, there's normally a second o the way very soon after.

 

[jds1]

Good to have you here Brett!

Jeff

 

[B JACKSON]

First: let me say that your posting in this forum before a proper introduction or letter of reference was very rude.
Second: let me tell you that about 75% of what I say is to be ignored,ask anyone.
Thirdly WELCOME!

 

[TPVT]

Hello everyone...I came across JK knives not too long ago. I just started posting away on the forum with no introduction. So I thought now would be as good a time as any.
I"m Brett, 48yrs old general contractor from Williamsport, PA. Living on a couple acres, married to a wonderful wife, having two girls 8 and 10 yrs old. Love everything outdoors. Trying to instill as much of my appreciation for that in my daughters. Knives have always been a big part of my life mainly through hunting, fishing, camping and work. Mainly owning production knives growing up, I decided I wanted some more "meaningful", "custom", "hard-working" knives. Thus, I feel lucky to have discovered John's work. As of yet I don't currently own a JK knife, but have a Tool on order and hopefully I can snag one of John's sale knives before then.

Welcome to the JK forum Brett. hope you stick around. bunch of good dudes around here. thanks for posting.

 

[YoungCurmudgeon]

Welcome Brett. This is a great place to hang out.

First: let me say that your posting in this forum before a proper introduction or letter of reference was very rude.
Second: let me tell you that about 75% of what I say is to be ignored,ask anyone.
Thirdly WELCOME!

I sure wish you hadn't let me skate on the rules by not introducing myself or presenting a letter of reference (by the way, can I get one of you to write me one of those) before posting. I owe alot of penance. So...My name is Chris. I'm a husband and father living in Louisville, KY with my wife and 2 kids. I keep myself busy throughout the week working as an industrial hygiene consultant. My wife and I used to spend every weekend and most vacations hiking. We are looking to get the little ones involved and instill a love of the outdoors that we share.

 

[mqqn]

Welcome Bret and thanks for the intro Chris!

I also love to take the kids out hiking, but now they are my granddaughters.

Just today we had our granddaughters over, they stayed the night.

My youngest, Emily, said she would get up with me and go out for a hike -

My XD XT is almost as tall as Emily!

We set out for a hike at a local park - I live out in the sticks, so we did not see another human being all morning - there were only a couple of cars on the roads as we drove out to the park.

There was steam coming from the frozen sign as the sun warmed it up.

[youtube]J6JiYs4TYFE[/youtube]

We ran across these tracks - I thought it might be Coyote - not sure, may have been dog, but there were no other human tracks in the trails to lead me to believe someone had walked their dog here the day before.

We found this spot where a squirrel or raccoon had clawed through the soft, decaying wood to get to the tasty bugs inside.

Next we ran across this deer rub.

There were, not surprisingly, a ton of deer tracks, and these canine tracks -

The lake is still frozen over - and the lone goose that was there was complaining, echoing across the lake in the small valley.

We left the park, and went to one of my favorite short-line train watching locations, where we found a couple of old F-units resting for the weekend.

And a old Geep with dynamic brakes, painted to match the F-units.

Good looking consist; I always like to see the old streamliners which are regularly used by this local short line company.

I like taking pictures of interesting rolling stock graffiti, which this was although it was obscured by the trees. I think pictures of the railcar graffiti would make a good coffee table book -

I showed Emily how to make a fire using my Scanduckie and JK fire steel and a little dried evergreen.

Then we drove back home and I did some tree trimming while Emily whittled up some notches for trap making practice, and sharpened the point of a piece of lilac trimming.

Thanks again to Knives Ship Free - Emily is using her Buck with her own name on it - she loves it!

It is as much or more fun for me to take the kids out as it is for them. Emily sat and whittled for about an hour.

Take that, Ipad!

best

mqqn

 

[BTW]

Thanks everyone! Hello Chris. Looked like a great day mqqn. Nothing like spending time with family doing things you love. I'm chomping at the bit now for my 1st JK. I'll be patient.....fir now;-)

 

[JK Knives]

Very proud of Connie and her team. Out of 63 Target stores in the greater Chicago area, hers was #1 in customer service.

 

[JK Knives]

Welcome Bret and thanks for the intro Chris!

I also love to take the kids out hiking, but now they are my granddaughters.

Just today we had our granddaughters over, they stayed the night.

My youngest, Emily, said she would get up with me and go out for a hike -

My XD XT is almost as tall as Emily!

We set out for a hike at a local park - I live out in the sticks, so we did not see another human being all morning - there were only a couple of cars on the roads as we drove out to the park.

There was steam coming from the frozen sign as the sun warmed it up.

[youtube]J6JiYs4TYFE[/youtube]

We ran across these tracks - I thought it might be Coyote - not sure, may have been dog, but there were no other human tracks in the trails to lead me to believe someone had walked their dog here the day before.

We found this spot where a squirrel or raccoon had clawed through the soft, decaying wood to get to the tasty bugs inside.

Next we ran across this deer rub.

There were, not surprisingly, a ton of deer tracks, and these canine tracks -

The lake is still frozen over - and the lone goose that was there was complaining, echoing across the lake in the small valley.

We left the park, and went to one of my favorite short-line train watching locations, where we found a couple of old F-units resting for the weekend.

And a old Geep with dynamic brakes, painted to match the F-units.

Good looking consist; I always like to see the old streamliners which are regularly used by this local short line company.

I like taking pictures of interesting rolling stock graffiti, which this was although it was obscured by the trees. I think pictures of the railcar graffiti would make a good coffee table book -

I showed Emily how to make a fire using my Scanduckie and JK fire steel and a little dried evergreen.

Then we drove back home and I did some tree trimming while Emily whittled up some notches for trap making practice, and sharpened the point of a piece of lilac trimming.

Thanks again to Knives Ship Free - Emily is using her Buck with her own name on it - she loves it!

It is as much or more fun for me to take the kids out as it is for them. Emily sat and whittled for about an hour.

Take that, Ipad!

best

mqqn

Emily sure has grown since I saw her!

 

[YoungCurmudgeon]

Congratulations to Connie and her co-workers. Customer service is so important. There are a number of establishments that "we" have boycotted, because my wife didn't like the service.

 

[B JACKSON]

You wrote: I sure wish you hadn't let me skate on the rules by not introducing myself or presenting a letter of reference (by the way, can I get one of you to write me one of those) before posting.

I say: Who says we let you skate? We are patient............. like the vulture!

But.....Welcome Chris!

 

[jds1]

Nice day out with the girls Mr. Moon.

Jeff

 

[TPVT]

Andy, like you said....anytime you get can get a kid in nature, whittling, etc...rather than hitting the electronic stuff, then it's a win. good job sir.

 

[JK Knives]

Cleaned out out the pattern box today, threw out a bunch of "one off patterns" and ones that were not popular.

 

[B JACKSON]

Cleaned out out the pattern box today, threw out a bunch of "one off patterns" and ones that were not popular.

Some day a collector somewhere will read this and weep.

 

[JK Knives]

Some day a collector somewhere will read this and weep.

OK, I`ll make you a special offer, my old patterns for $1000. Had a nice time visiting this morning, it`s good to get a chance to talk with a guy for a change. The ones at work are jerks, and I`ve only got females to talk to here, even my dogs are all girls.

 

[JK Knives]

A guy I went to school with sent me this picture of a one room schoolhouse he found, that was falling apart. He bought it, moved it to his property near Wilmington, and restored it, inside and out, and furnished with old desks, lanterns, and books from the late 1800`s. All I can keep thinking is how sweet a shop it would make! He invited me down to see it, it`s only 35 or so miles away.

 

[B JACKSON]

There used to be so many of these around when I was a kid (in the olden days) . I can recall playing in one old empty school house somewhere when I was a little tyke, maybe back in South Dakota. The coon hunters club building in Fulton County,IL that my Uncle Leo and Grandpa Jackson belonged to was an old school house down the road from uncles farm, near Sepo, IL It burned down when I was in high school ( it wasn't me, i was up in the Chicago area!) and my uncle rescued the school bell which I believe my ex still has.

John, if you go into business in that old school building, or one like it, how about "JK OLD SCHOOL KNIFE WORKS" AS A NAME.