Merry Christmas to all of you!
While Christmas is personally about spending time with family and friends for me, I'll admit I certainly like the giving and receiving of gifts. It adds a little something to an already great day. Throw in an unusually big breakfest and a big dinner and there's not much to complain about.
My girlfriend knows me well, her gifts this year were perfect. She picked me up a Buck 371 stockman with wood scales and the book already mentioned by camo kid, "The Dangerous Book for Boys". I'm 29 years old, but after skimming the book a little, I'm pretty excited to have received it. Lots of cool bits of knowledge to pass on.
The Buck stockman is suprisingly nice. I EDC an amber bone case stockman with CV blades, I also own a number of other cases, queens, S&Ms, Bokers, Schrades, and a few others. This Buck holds it's own against all of them. While I can't yet comment on edge holding ability of the 420 blades, the walk and talk and fit and finish are just about perfect. Not that I won't put my own edge on it myself, but the blades came as sharp as any Spyderco I've ever owned (and you know that's dang sharp). I'm a big slip joint guy, but I've never really considered Bucks for my carrying rotation. That's all changing now. I think it was because I've always been a fan of carbon blades, but for some reason I just really like this knife, 420 blades and all. It just feels like a big tool, ready to be used up, scuffed, and scrached. I'm getting all excited just thinking about it. Wish I could think of some stuff that needed cutting.
Among other things, and against her wishes, I got her a LM squirt with scissors. I think she's converted, she must of used it last night for various tasks at least 7-8 times, and then kept pulling it out to play with it at least 10more. Oh, and I learned a little something too, no matter how nice and expensive an iron may be, it apparently doesn't make a good gift, thank God she liked the camera...
Anyway, take care all, and enjoy the day!
-Dan
