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.
The oak handle is superbAlbers Cut. Co. White Oak Burl and Cocobolo for Tuesday. The White Oak Burl is literally infested with critters, to my delight.
You can see my color illustrated perceptions/hallucinations on the Albers thread.
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Yes, the newer tubes do last longer.Our TV repairman ( us kids called him tube man ) lived next door.Do the tubes last longer now ?
I-70 was closed for two hours due to the smoke.
Tubes rule!
Started the day with this in my pocket again .
Then this Weidmannsheil arrived
They used to come with either a Stag or a Boars Head on the pinned shield , depending on the country that it was made in . Stag for Germany , Boars Head for Austria . Have wanted a Weidmannsheil for a while and this one was on our exchange .
I kind of like Stag and this is the real reason I bought it .
Size comparison with the 2019 Forums Knife
Harry
I totally agree!2.6 inches of rain last night and it's still raining
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Too bad it didn't come a couple of days earlier. We've been in a drought. Mild compared to the west, but its been dry. This weekend we had 20+ mph winds. A piece of farm equipment ignited a fire near the tiny town of Woolridge, Missouri. It burned 3500 acres and half the town
Woolridge
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Needs a dusting
I do hope all can recover quickly from that tragedy.
AFAIK, nobody got seriously hurt, so that's good.
I wish I could say I was responsible for that wear. But to my good fortune, hardly anyone else wanted it due to that wear, and my low bid won it.
True. When Dad resigned his commission with the Navy in the late fifties, he began his career with the gas company programming computers. I remember the huge room of big mysterious machines with blinking lights, and stacks of punchcards. When personal computers came around, I remember him marveling that a machine that you could buy for home had more computing power than that room full of computers at work.
I remember how thrilled Mom was when they came home with that first color tv.Your young.
I remember when TV's were black and white, with either a rabbit ears antenna, or an antenna on the roof. To change channels you had to get up, go to the TV, and turn the dial. (and maybe fiddle with the rabbit ears). When the dial knob broke, a pair of pliers was kept on or next to the TV. Some of the console TV's were mighty fancy (and large. I had one after graduating high school, as long as a couch, with a turn table, 8 track, (never had any 8 track tapes tho) AM/FM/FM Stereo/Short Wave radio, and storage for up to 100 LP's.)
It wasn't until 1963 when I was 08 that we got a 3rd channel (ABC). Before that, we had a choice of CBS and NBC. Of course at that age I thought the best shows were on Saturday Morning from 06:00 until 11:59.
Great looking knives, Rob!Albers Cut. Co. White Oak Burl and Cocobolo for Tuesday. The White Oak Burl is literally infested with critters, to my delight.
You can see my color illustrated perceptions/hallucinations on the Albers thread.
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Yep. An Imperial Official Cub Scout Knife with blue scales.I was nine years old in 1963. Yep, we had that same long as a couch TV with turn table, etc. I forgot about the short wave radio. We didn't use it much, as my father would fool around with it some and it was always reporting in some foreign language that we didn't know.
If I could turn back time to even the ‘80s, I’d buy up those tube displays and tube testers that were disappearing from every Mom ‘n Pop drug and hardware store. Now, to keep my guitar amps running the way Leo Fender designed them to, it takes big bucks to get the good NOS tubes. Otherwise, we have to make do with the current production coming out of Russia and China. Some of those NOS Telefunken, Mullard, Amperex Bugle Boys, RCA, etc, now bring hundreds, even thousand$. They’re out there ~ tubes made for medical equipment, radios, military use, even pulled from old organs. But the common ones used in amplifiers are getting hoarded.
No, they don’t. They’re getting better, but are no match for the ones screened and graded for low microphonics, and 10,000 hour life. Tube suppliers often sell tubes salvaged from the cases carried by those repairmen.Our TV repairman ( us kids called him tube man ) lived next door.
I had to type punch cards in college for my Fortran course. Good times
Save the EL34s for me
Very sorry, but they help make great music. I do like the old Mullards.
Very nice patina, it looks like a beautiful sunset.I had to type punch cards in college for my Fortran course. Good times
My Dad was a millwright for Chrysler. Sometime in the 60's he helped install a room sized computer. I never could convince him that the computer I had on my desk at work had more computing power than the room sized one
Save the EL34s for me
Another pic of the copperhead this morning
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Thanks Ruf
I had to type punch cards in college for my Fortran course. Good times
My Dad was a millwright for Chrysler. Sometime in the 60's he helped install a room sized computer. I never could convince him that the computer I had on my desk at work had more computing power than the room sized one
Save the EL34s for me
Another pic of the copperhead this morning
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How did I miss those old timers? Very nice.No, they don’t. They’re getting better, but are no match for the ones screened and graded for low microphonics, and 10,000 hour life. Tube suppliers often sell tubes salvaged from the cases carried by those repairmen.
And some of us luddites like the old knives, too!
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