This Will Be Really Cool

Mistwalker

Mistwalker

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Soon I'll be able to carry the machete in style, not my machete pictured, mine has the natural canvas handle. Really looking forward to next week :)

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Brian, thanks for posting those pictures. I'll mail it out Monday.

Those tubes were hard to do. Glad you like them. Can't wait to see your pictures of the sheath.
 
wildmanh said:
Brian, thanks for posting those pictures. I'll mail it out Monday.

Those tubes were hard to do. Glad you like them. Can't wait to see your pictures of the sheath.
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Thanks for making the sheath I needed :) I hope you didn't hate doing them, I can think of a couple more sheaths I will want them on, and a couple more per sheath :)
 
It looks fantastic Heber! The only thing I can say right now, is man I am so glad it's Monday :)

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Brian, I don't hate making them. Just got Frustrated a little Saturday, that's all. I'll make more, no problem. A Gent wants tubes on his pouch sheath, guess I need to get more supplies. :)
 
wildmanh said:
Brian, I don't hate making them. Just got Frustrated a little Saturday, that's all. I'll make more, no problem. A Gent wants tubes on his pouch sheath, guess I need to get more supplies. :)
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Cool. I have to configure my gear based on the environments I'm in. I see times in the future when this machete and a thin stainless neck knife...and a multi-tool will be all I have on me at work. Sometimes it will be on my belt, sometimes rigged baldric, sometimes slung over my shoulder, and sometimes tied to a pack. I needed to be able to configure it different ways, and the machete stay retained even when it was in a place I couldn't see it. It looks perfect Heber, but there may be an order for another one later with a pouch on it, and more eyelets :)
 
Just checked the tracking, and it's arriving a day sooner than I thought. It was a pleasant surprise to see that it is out for delivery :)
 
mistwalker said:
Just checked the tracking, and it's arriving a day sooner than I thought. It was a pleasant surprise to see that it is out for delivery :)
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After all the hype I hope you post some pics when you receive it! How long is you machete?
 
Pants are handle scales? Or the sheath? Thanks in advance ;)

Context indicates the sheath I guess- derppp
 
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SA Condor said:
After all the hype I hope you post some pics when you receive it! How long is you machete?
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Pictures?! Me? Well...not my usual thing, but if you insist :D


pjackst said:
Pants are handle scales? Or the sheath? Thanks in advance ;)

Context indicates the sheath I guess- derppp
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Yes, pants are sheaths. Conjured an interesting series of images in my mind the first time I read it too :)


Joe Duder said:
"Out for delivery" every shark's favorite three words.
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Indubitably my friend :)
 
Ok, well...these are just a couple of quick phone pics...better ones soon, but yeah I'm really digging this sheath.

I guess Heber didn't initial this one because I had him out of his element a bit doing the eyelets for me :) BUT he did a great job with it, so I wish he had initialed it.

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Sorry, would have taken more pics but I am at a critical phase of turning the kitchen back into a kitchen. Today I was drill holes to bolt the ends of the down stairs ceiling joists / upstairs floor joists together prior to putting in a temporary brace...which will support the ceiling while I remove a structural wall and replace it with posts and beams. I learned today yet another reason why hex shaft quick release boring bits are awesome. That way when you get them wedged in a bad bind in a tight space... in old hard wood with nails in it, they can be backed back out with a ratchet. That happened about 8 times out of the thirty some odd holes I drilled :)

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I'll be glad, as will my wife...( and I suppose Duder since he seems to like my food prep pics :) ) when I get this turned back into a kitchen again...

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Eh, it's complex, and challenging, but not bad really. I actually went to school for this and spent most of my 25 years as a carpenter working on these old houses here on Signal Mountain and on Lookout Mountain. I've done a lot of complex remodels. About 18 years ago the crew I worked with expanded the side of a 100 year old mansion by four feet so the music professor who owned it could get his grand Piano on the upstairs landing outside his bedroom so it would be close by if he woke up in the middle of the night and felt like playing... The most un-fun part of it was the night I pulled into the driveway at 2am after driving from Michigan, and looked in that back door. My father-in-law was in the middle of a huge remodel, and had just ripped out a structural wall thinking it was a partition wall, and then had a heart attack that night and passed away.. The top plates of a 14 foot wall had sagged more than their own thickness in the middle of the sag, and the upstairs, as well as the roof was soon going to be downstairs. And my daughter was asleep directly above the kitchen, There is also an all tile bathroom being supported by that wall, and the attic above that. I was exhausted, but in a panic I ran to the workshop and dug out the two house jacks we had used on an earlier project and some 2x8s and started shoring up the wall temporarily. Then went to Home Depot first thing in the morning to get a few more. It took days to work that back up to level. Now I am going to be putting in the post and beams to make it the open room my mother-in-law wanted. It's a huge house, and we have a kitchen of sorts in our part of it, but not a real kitchen, just a fridge, microwave, hot plate, and crock pot with a small table. Looking forward to getting this finished up!
 
i feel for ya Brian, Im in the middle of the same right now, washing dishes in the bathroom sink sucks.
when its over it will be worth it though : )
 
That is a nightmare of a story. Good gosh what a tragedy.

Good luck with the remodel Brian. Be safe brother.
 
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