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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
I think we should all use our bottle openers/beerlows/top poppers etc and down a few rounds of tasty alcoholic beverage. It's Friday fer Pete's sake.
I'm going to see if I can make the news with my Victorinox black Alox Pioneer. Surely it can't be considered a tactical knife, most of the black coating has worn off.
We both know Bill Howard did that as a joke Phil - in my opinion it was a stupid joke, but there you go
A Peanut is simply a name for a small Serpentine Jack, Serpentine Jacks are of many forms - all of them being Serpentine of course!
Sorry if you feel that my comments went too far Phil, they weren't directed at any one individual, but there does seem to have been some agreement with my expressed view. I don't recall you being so sensitive about other people's feelings when it comes to your innumerable "beerlow" posts, many of which may be meant light-heartedly with a spirit of good-hearted mischief, but which you know relate to an issue which has certainly caused upset here, and which some of us have strong feelings about, as well as misleading newcomers into thinking that it is a genuine pattern. Some other posters have been even less sensitive, and I can if necessary point you in the direction of a thread where a number of us were roundly abused and directly insulted by a passing, but vocal advocate of what I'm afraid I honestly regard as little short of an abomination, simply for answering his questions about traditional patterns. I'm sorry if you take offence with my posts, but in my opinion, it's a shame this subject has to come up again and again, and 'People who throw stones...' and all that :thumbup:
Cheers!:thumbup:
No urban camo in stock?![]()
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Different strokes for different folks, as they say. No hard feelings on my end.
How did that one go again? People who throw stones, should enter the Highland Games?
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I appreciate your response. Cheers, Jack!
Different strokes for different folks, as they say. No hard feelings on my end.
How did that one go again? People who throw stones, should enter the Highland Games?
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I appreciate your response. Cheers, Jack!
I was trying to fall asleep last night, and was watching the Duck Dynasty episode when they went to Scotland. They participated in the Highland Games.
Just my mind wired differently, remembered camo, in town, during the games.
I need to top one off when I get home...
The urban camo would probably blend right in!
I have no need for a cap lifter at all and i'm not wild about using the screw driver, don't like twisting against the bolster.
Best regards
Robin
Here's an old Robeson to ponder...
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I really liked the Beer Scout until I got it.. John![]()
I carry a traditional pattern knife because it gives me a choice of several cutting blades, each optimally shaped for a different cutting chore.
I carry a mini-pry bar on my key chain that I bought for $6 at a big box hardware store. It has a bottle opener on it and several screwdriver-surfaces.
So for me a screwdriver blade or screwdriver/bottle opener blade would not be desirable and would be something to be eschewed.
synonyms: abstain from, refrain from, forgo, shun, renounce, steer clear of, have nothing to do with
In a word, "NO."
I carry a traditional pattern knife because it gives me a choice of several cutting blades, each optimally shaped for a different cutting chore.
I carry a mini-pry bar on my key chain that I bought for $6 at a big box hardware store. It has a bottle opener on it and several screwdriver-surfaces.
So for me a screwdriver blade or screwdriver/bottle opener blade would not be desirable and would be something to be eschewed.
synonyms: abstain from, refrain from, forgo, shun, renounce, steer clear of, have nothing to do with
In a word, "NO."
Rather than carry a "mini pry bar-combination bottle opener-combination several screwdriver surfaces /anchor" on my keychain, I would rather have one small tool that will do all those things tucked in alongside my favorite blade profile in a nice little pocketknife.
Maybe I'm just a knife nut. lol...To each his own.:thumbup:
In a word- "Handy"
I remember an old story that may be germane to this kind of a discussion:
It seems there was an order of monks, that had all taken a vow of utter silence. None of them ever, upon entering the monastery, nor ever after, uttered a single word. It was determined at some point by the hierarchy, (how they determined this if none of them spoke is another question), that possibly it would be a good idea to allow one monk to speak one sentence every year.
The first year, a monk was chosen, and he mounted a raised platform to bring forth what everyone assumed would be a profound statement. He said, "why must we have cabbage at every meal?" There was, of course, no verbal response, though all of the monks thought about what had been said.
The second year, the monk chosen said. "I like cabbage." Doubtless there were those who agreed, and those who did not, but nothing more was, or could be, said.
The third year, the statement was, "If this bickering does not cease, I will be forced to leave the monastery!"
I guess it doesn't take much to get an argument going.