What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

A generous gift which arrived yesterday. Thank you good sir!

I’ve been interested in this 29 pattern and this is a great knife!

My first impressions is that it has a perfect action. I really like how the coping blade and punch snuggle low in the frame while gripping the knife with the clip open. Also, Osage is one of my favorite covers all topped off with hotdog! 3 5/8” frame glory.

🔥🔥🔥

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Weird Wednesday with an old Pabu leverlock gravity knife😎
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Amir Fleschwund said:
Hey, Jim~ thanks for telling that bit of autobiography!
Unfortunately, you left this part out ~

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HA !!! ... I grew up in a rural part of Dallas County Alabama ... on a gravel road.
We did have black 'n white TV but only received two(2) stations ... three(3) on most good days.
Thing is, all three stations were in different directions and my dad had installed a directional antenna.
It was on a metal pole mast that extended from a couple of feet in the ground (braced to edge of roof) and up to about 20ft above the roof line.
Dad even put a motor up on the mast just below the antenna with wires going down to a remote on top of the TV, to turn the antenna.
Well, some kids burned the motor up fiddling with the direction all the time when dad wasn't around.
After that, we had to go outside with a big honkin' pipe wrench and turn the whole dang pipe mast when we changed the channel.
Dad would want to switch channels and he'd send one of us out to turn the antenna ... yelling STOP from the living room sofa when we got it just right LOL.
Aunt and uncle were the first in the family to own a color TV and a treat we looked forward to was Sunday nights after church and visiting them in town.
 
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BrotherJim said:
HA !!! ... I grew up in a rural part of Dallas County Alabama ... on a gravel road.
We did have black 'n white TV but only received two(2) stations ... three(3) on most good days.
Thing is, all three stations were in different directions and my dad had installed a directional antenna.
It was on a metal pole mast that extended from a couple of feet in the ground (braced to edge of roof) and up to about 20ft above the roof line.
Dad even put a motor up on the mast just below the antenna with wires going down to a remote on top of the TV, to turn the antenna.
Well, some kids burned the motor up fiddling with the direction all the time when dad wasn't around.
After that, we had to go outside with a big honkin' pipe wrench and turn the whole dang pipe mast when we changed the channel.
Dad would want to switch channels and he'd send one of us out to turn the antenna ... yelling STOP from the living room sofa when we got it just right LOL.
Aunt and uncle were the first in the family to own a color TV and a treat we looked forward to was Sunday nights after church and visiting them in town.
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My Grandparents did almost the same thing. They received three stations: two with the antenna one way; and one with it oriented another direction. The TV was by a window and the antenna mast was just outside the window, so they left the pipe wrench clamped to the mast. Open window, twist pole, close window :thumbsup:
 
BrotherJim said:
HA !!! ... I grew up in a rural part of Dallas County Alabama ... on a gravel road.
We did have black 'n white TV but only received two(2) stations ... three(3) on most good days.
Thing is, all three stations were in different directions and my dad had installed a directional antenna.
It was on a metal pole mast that extended from a couple of feet in the ground (braced to edge of roof) and up to about 20ft above the roof line.
Dad even put a motor up on the mast just below the antenna with wires going down to a remote on top of the TV, to turn the antenna.
Well, some kids burned the motor up fiddling with the direction all the time when dad wasn't around.
After that, we had to go outside with a big honkin' pipe wrench and turn the whole dang pipe mast when we changed the channel.
Dad would want to switch channels and he'd send one of us out to turn the antenna ... yelling STOP from the living room sofa when we got it just right LOL.
Aunt and uncle were the first in the family to own a color TV and a treat we looked forward to was Sunday nights after church and visiting them in town.
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Wow, you guys lived in the dark ages. We had rabbit ears with “tin foil extenders”. We had access to twice as many channels too.
 
JOELSM said:
Wow, you guys lived in the dark ages. We had rabbit ears with “tin foil extenders”. We had access to twice as many channels too.
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WHOA !!! My first apartment ... tried rabbit ears with tin foil extenders ... even tried potatoes on the ends of the rabbit ears LOL ...
Not sure that helped anything at all, but didn't work well. UHF antenna? ... coat hanger bent into a circle.
Worked best when the coating on the wire was sanded off. Well, worked on some/most good days.
 
... going to college I had a part time job 4hrs each night showing Christian Broadcasting Network shows (think Jim and Tammy Faye etc) on the local cable company channel.
This was well before satellite TV signals and line of sight towers were used to relay TV signals. The cable co. tower was 525ft tall.
I'd pick up tapes in the afternoon from the cable office and play them on a reel to reel deck from a windowless climate controlled concrete block building at the foot of the tower.
I only had to change a tape every half hour or on the hour depending on the show at the time and spent most of the time talking to my girlfriend on the phone.
I did climb the tower one very calm night after work but made it only just over half way up before the wind and tower swaying freaked me out.
Then there was the night a HUGE electrical storm smacked the tower, got into the phone line and instantly knocked me out. Never felt nothing until I awoke 10min later.
In those 10min, I had a VERY weird dream about going toward a bright light and having a wordless conversation with a robed, bearded fella.
Well, what I experienced was beyond human comprehension and my mind tried to put what was happening into a context my brain could try to understand.
... but that's a whole 'nother off topic thing not appropriate to this thread's discussion.
 
Angry Waiter said:
A generous gift which arrived yesterday. Thank you good sir!

I’ve been interested in this 29 pattern and this is a great knife!

My first impressions is that it has a perfect action. I really like how the coping blade and punch snuggle low in the frame while gripping the knife with the clip open. Also, Osage is one of my favorite covers all topped off with hotdog! 3 5/8” frame glory.

🔥🔥🔥

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That's a beauty -- great looking Osage on that one. Love the 29! 👍
 
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