Here's some old quotes I saved up from early last week, and then didn't make time to comment on them. Maybe today I can remember what I was going to say. (If not, I'll go shovel snow for a while.
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Hey! Speaking of rigorous schedules, you’re working an awful lotta hours for a prof. who’s already retired!
I'm really working at most 10 hours a week: 4 hrs/wk in class and 4-6 hrs/wk planning, prepping, meeting with students, and grading/administrative stuff. But walking to and from work (6 mi round trip) takes me about 100 minutes per day, 500 min/wk, so an additional 8+ hours of "work-related travel" that probably also counts as healthy exercise and entertainment.
Agreed. I get some analysis paralysis choosing knives. Plus trying to make sure I carry/ use knives that haven't been recently.
That's a VERY accurate description of me before I started choosing knives for the entire week, and then set up a schedule in advance so I spend almost no time deciding what to carry.
Thanks, Gary! Yes it has the tail-lock, or tab-lock. It's a really well made and finished collaboration. It would cost me a couple thousand to have a Lake made Lake.
I set a couple of mine before I hit the sack last night. The ones I'd open my eyes to. I just did a quick count and found 15, including appliances, that needed setting. Oh, and 2 in the vehicles! Ridiculous! I say spilit the difference and settle on a half hour and stop the nonsense! Too bad if the rest of the world doesn't like it!
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Thanks for the confirmation, Gary.
If I tried buy a Lake-made Lake for that price, I think my wife would push me into the Lake on our next vacation!
That's a LOT of clocks to have to reset!!
It is that same weathered oak board I used to use GT. It was a farm fence plank at one time. During the COVID shutdown during 2020, I sawed it up and made a wren house out of it, but, it was so heavy, it kept breaking the hanger wire. I finally dis-assembled it last fall, but, it is not long enough for anything other than small knife pictures now.
I don't know what I was thinking when I sawed it up !
Thanks for the story of your old oak board, Rob.
I enjoy theo photos that some guys take in which they often use the same background; it makes The Porch feel like home!
As far as I can tell Gary, they are identical to the Rough Ryder knives. That means excellent QC and bang for your buck. I'd give it 2
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Thanks for your feedback, Alan.
I should probably include a Chinese Queen abalone canoe in my next knife order (maybe around Memorial Day).
Thanks GT. Its my most prized knife. Carry it all the time.
I can certainly see why, Paul!
It really makes them feel great in hand.
I used 240 to round the edges of the bone. Then 400 after that to get any scratches out from the 240. Tape the bolsters so you don't scratch them up in the process.
For the bolsters, I just lightly rounded the sharp edges with a small, fine stone on my watchmaker lathe. Almost like a Dremel tip. I'd like to round them more but need to figure out a better way to go about doing it evenly so it looks good.
On the inside I used some needle files to round the sharp edges of the center brass piece, and then got in there with some folded up 400 grit and knocked down all of the sharp edges of the brass liners
400 was also used on the back for the springs and the brass spacers/liners to get them even. You could run a fingernail over the whole thing and not catch. Needle files and 400 on the sharp ends of the springs where they meet the blades.
After I was happy with everything, I put red rouge on a small firm wheel and went to town on the knife paying special attention to all of the areas that were sanded and trying to get down inside everything. After that looked good, a final hit with a soft wheel and white rouge.
Mirror polished blades are not my thing so I have been knocking it off with 3in1 and 400 grit to give it a brushed look. Less fingerprints and more attractive in my opinion. In the photos above, that hadn't been done yet.
Then a good bath in hot water with dawn and a toothbrush. Dry well and oil the joints.
One tip is to keep all of your sanding in one direction so it looks intentional and it will buff out easily.
It sounds like a lot, but fooling around with stuff like this keeps my brain occupied and it's enjoyable. Have fun!
Thanks for the detailed description of some of the ways you "tune up" your Rough Ryders, Rick!
Yes, Jack is The Man. As the public health emergency slowly winds down, I hope you keep walking. And thanks for thr well wishes!
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I also hope I keep walking. My goal recently has been at least 50 miles/week, so an average of just over 7 miles a day if I walk every day. But the past 2 weeks were the first weeks in 2023 in which I met my goal, since for a variety of reasons I had only been walking 6 days a week.
I think that’s what bugs me the most. I enjoy seeing the wildlife but I look at the amount of goose poop in the field and I feel like they must be wasting about 99% of what they eat. Hopefully it’s good fertilizer.
I admire that you're a glass-half-full kind of guy, Bart!
Good morning Gary,
I'm sorry I missed your post last night. You obviously know your Case knives. This indeed has MUSKRAT in place of a number.
Thanks for the confirmation, Bob.
I know some things about current Case knives, but not very much at all about Case knives from the 70s and earlier.
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It was hidden in a shoebox under my spare bed Gary!
Thanks mate
Very true!
Have a good week everyone
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I currently keep my knives in some clear plastic Plano boxes with adjustable compartments, but I may have to find some shoeboxes and get a spare bed to emulate experienced, legendary collectors like you, Jack!
Your stag HHB is looking better than ever, and I like the looks of that all-metal Marbles that I don't remember seeing before!
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Remember the rubber bands to keep from spilling your punchcards while re-programming your rotation! There’s nothing worse than dropping them!
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Maybe you could make it a class project?
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Somehow I got this quote from Jeff all messed up and everything below here was swallowed into Jeff's quote!
And even when I toggled everything into BB mode, I couldn't figure out how to match up all the "quotes on" and "quotes off" commands. So obviously I'm not a computer technology expert, but I DO remember using those decks of punched cards to submit programs and data to the Purdue University mainframe in the 1970s. My first experience (with BASIC programming in 1970 as a college freshman) involved typing info on a teletype machine that produced a long paper tape filled with holes that we rolled up and dropped in a box to be sent that night via telephone to a computer in Cleveland OH, I think, and we'd get our results the next day.
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Wharncliffe trapper today. The rain and wind knocked a couple flowers off the camellias.
Marvelous photo of your superb knife, Bart!
Small knife, big name. Rough Ryder brown burlap “tater skin” work knife.
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Splendid photo, Alan!
The knife like that you sent to me has been riding in my backpack for several months now, even though I haven't yet named it as an official addition to my quartet of literal EDC knives.
Walnut and Walnut on Walnut for Wooden Wednesday.
Way past due for some Ovis Aries totin’.
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Wondrous walnut examples, guys!
(I just discovered a random "unquote" at the bottom of my multi quote that was probably the reason I had to "butcher" Jeff's quote above in an effort to get everything formatted properly.
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- GT
....but quickly turned and ran.
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