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Yep on all the above. I've often had people in the shop when someone else calls and asks a question either on knifemaking or leatherwork. I'll answer the question of course. I often had people ask: "Aren't you afraid of giving away your secrets?" I' always tell em: "There are no secrets."
 
Horsewright said:
Yep on all the above. I've often had people in the shop when someone else calls and asks a question either on knifemaking or leatherwork. I'll answer the question of course. I often had people ask: "Aren't you afraid of giving away your secrets?" I' always tell em: "There are no secrets."
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on this very forum once about 6-7 years ago a guy jumped right down another posters throat and accuse him of trying to steal secrets because he asked how he made a tomahawk handle..really? they sell drifts and handle blanks everywhere.
 
Geoff Flato said:
Lucky tastes like a mixture of Cheerios and weasel piss, definitely target candidate.
My 270 Winchester with my 90 grain handloads (3800 fps) would work well for that.
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You know about Lucky Lager? We have that up here in Toronto. For a while it enjoyed some popularity here as the cheapest beer commonly available. Always a favourite among the crowd who also EDC a ziplock freezer bag full of bootleg native cigarettes.
 
Lapedog said:
You know about Lucky Lager? We have that up here in Toronto. For a while it enjoyed some popularity here as the cheapest beer commonly available. Always a favourite among the crowd who also EDC a ziplock freezer bag full of bootleg native cigarettes.
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I'm in Victoria BC, sadly Lucky is the local cheap beer....
I absolutely can't drink the stuff. Ironically it's actually one of the more expensive lagers where I am. Rainier is a few bucks less and world's better.
Mind you the other local breweries are much better....
 
Geoff Flato said:
I'm in Victoria BC, sadly Lucky is the local cheap beer....
I absolutely can't drink the stuff. Ironically it's actually one of the more expensive lagers where I am. Rainier is a few bucks less and world's better.
Mind you the other local breweries are much better....
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You've been lucky enough to try lucky lager! I guess the reason it is called Lucky Lager is that they must consider themselves lucky to be able sell any cans of it.

In Toronto and Ontario Laker Lager kind of took over as the most popular "buck a beer." It is also horrible. I wonder how they can make such awful stuff.
 
The only beer other than a pumpkin spice ale someone gave me that I tried one sip and poured it out.

My description didn't do it justice, I'd rather drink Cheerios in weasel piss.
 
Lol. Bootleg cigarettes. Bust inta that bag of all dressed while you're at it. Pitter patter.
 
Geoff Flato said:
If you think any free beer is the best you're lucky enough not to have had "Lucky Lager"
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Jeff, I never thought you were a snob until today. When I lived in San Francisco in the late 1960's my contractor uncle was buds with a Lucky Lager distributor who worked at their plant their near my Uncle's apartments and he gave my uncle a "golden gate tap" for lucky lager beer and a mini truckload of 7.8 gallon kegs. I was 19 at the time and went to the University of San Francisco and my uncle gave me a home bar tapper and several kegs. Believe it or not but I graduated Deans List and honor roll a couple years later. Free beer is the next best thing to "you know what". Don't tell me the answer is inner peace or self awareness or someone should slap the stuff out of you. Larry
 
Sounds like some of y'all have never had lone star light. Or Michelob ultra (cant spell it)
When I was in 5th group at ft Campbell we had a buch of left over Michelob ultra after reunion week. Close to 20 or 30 cases. Worst free beer I've ever had :)
 
When I was at University of Miami and mild to moderate hazing of pledges was still practiced with impunity at frat houses, the brothers would find the absolute worst beer for the pledges to drink during hell week. In the time that I was there, they bought BEER BEER BEER, the generic grocery store beer at least once, but the old fallback was a vile brew called Goebels which was owned by Strohs at the time. It was supposedly unpasteurized and had probably gone bad by the time we bought it on sale. :p Later on, the worst that they could get constantly was Milwaukee's Best, which was cheap and bad, but better than skunky Goebels or the generic stuff. All of these beers were kept at Miami room temperature by dumping the cans into the swimming pool.
 
jdm61 said:
When I was at University of Miami and mild to moderate hazing of pledges was still practiced with impunity at frat houses, the brothers would find the absolute worst beer for the pledges to drink during hell week. In the time that I was there, they bought BEER BEER BEER, the generic grocery store beer at least once, but the old fallback was a vile brew called Goebels which was owned by Strohs at the time. It was supposedly unpasteurized and had probably gone bad by the time we bought it on sale. :p Later on, the worst that they could get constantly was Milwaukee's Best, which was cheap and bad, but better than skunky Goebels or the generic stuff. All of these beers were kept at Miami room temperature by dumping the cans into the swimming pool.
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No wonder hazing is illegal now! :eek::D
 
Yeah. We wouldn't clean the pool for a few weeks before hell week so it was green. But that's okay. Pools get cold in December, even in Miami. LOL
 
I can't believe you people don't like Milwaukee's Beast.

Probably an aquired taste.
 
Related question. For those of you who were in the military, what was the cheap PX/BX/club beer at the posts you were on? For me, I remember a lot of Strohs in cans and on tap and the Bull in tall boy cans. They had Blatz on tap at a couple of places. The clubs apparently had a different supply chain that AAFES because you could get a bunch of exotic imports in some of those places. At Sill, the clubs had everything from Fosters oil cans to the Munich beers.
 
Greenberg Woods said:
Anyone want to put one of those together? Make a sticky of "Warning signs someone doesnt know what they are talking about"

I think the first and biggest one is absolutes.

People say "A2 is better than O1"

Well, at what? At what heat treat? For edge retention? Highest possible edge? easy of heat treat?

I think as a general warning sign, if someone is speaking in absolutes they dont what what in the hell they are doing.
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Every time I see some one say, if you want the toughest steel, or the bestest steel, or the superest steel, get you some carbon steel!!!!! (STRONGEST, SHARPEST, BESTEST AT EVERYTHING).

NO mention of what carbon steel, what hear treat protocol, etc.

Let's forget about tool steels, high speed bearing steels, shock steels, spring steels, laminated steels, crucible steels, and all the new wiz bang PM steels, all sorts of super steels!!!
 
Not to mention that most stainless steels are more wear resistant than all simple carbon steels, most tool steels.
The lowley 440c is about on par with D2 as far as wear resistance goes.
 
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