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and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are...
and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of...
So anyway.... I had this one bladed knife. Not nine blades blades did it have, nor seven nor five nor two. It was my EDC, and it looked like this:
But shortly after I took this picture, which was back in August, there arose a great confusion over where it really was, and no one really knew where I had mislaid it.
But lo! On the first day of the new year, while I and Mrs. Texican were enjoying lunch from Johnny's Po-Boys in New Orleans, my mother-in-law, who was housesitting and never passes up an opportunity to work in a garden, found the knife lying in the mud buried under a pile of leaves.
I felt like this guy could have been talking to me:
It was a little gritty and hard to open, but after I loosened a screw, rinsed it out, and applied a little mineral oil, good as new. Or pretty close, anyway. Just a little smudge on the butterfly:
I'm pretty impressed with how little damage three months in the mud did. I'm looking forward to the day when I'll have a chance to see how well a Busse folder would hold up under similar conditions.
and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of...
So anyway.... I had this one bladed knife. Not nine blades blades did it have, nor seven nor five nor two. It was my EDC, and it looked like this:
But shortly after I took this picture, which was back in August, there arose a great confusion over where it really was, and no one really knew where I had mislaid it.
But lo! On the first day of the new year, while I and Mrs. Texican were enjoying lunch from Johnny's Po-Boys in New Orleans, my mother-in-law, who was housesitting and never passes up an opportunity to work in a garden, found the knife lying in the mud buried under a pile of leaves.
I felt like this guy could have been talking to me:
It was a little gritty and hard to open, but after I loosened a screw, rinsed it out, and applied a little mineral oil, good as new. Or pretty close, anyway. Just a little smudge on the butterfly:
I'm pretty impressed with how little damage three months in the mud did. I'm looking forward to the day when I'll have a chance to see how well a Busse folder would hold up under similar conditions.
