What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Crappie71 said:
#86 and #21LB today

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It’s been a busy weekend! We’ve been running back and forth across the mountain to the hospital anxiously awaiting the birth of our first grandbaby. Thursday was a false alarm, but Friday night we were back again. Then very late last night we were blessed with a beautiful granddaughter. Both Momma and Baby are doing well; Son-In-Law is a little worse for wear, but nothing that a good night’s sleep won’t fix. Incidentally, he probably won’t get that for awhile.😂
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Love that natural linen!

Grandchildren are our reward for not killing our children😄
 
Old Engineer said:
It is a White and Grey World out today .
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Nice pic, Harry. You’ve got a lot more snow than we have! :thumbsup:

Amir Fleschwund said:
“Best fast food chicken chain”?

I’ve never seen those words combined in one sentence before.

Anyway, whoever first thought of sticking the “s” in fastfood was a marketing genius.
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🤣🤣

Sacto said:
I carried my 14 today. We headed to the mountains this evening to ski and hang out with friends. There’s supposed to be a decent storm coming in tomorrow so the skiing should be good on Sunday.
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Hope you had a good time! :thumbsup:

Jiki said:
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Good looking pair. I particularly like the one on the left with the SCOUT shield. :thumbsup:

paulhilborn said:
Due to warm up tomorrow, so that's good news🤞 :)

This combo today...
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Brrrr… 🥶 Paul, have I told you before that I have Valley City saved on the weather app on my phone, so when it gets really cold here I can look at it and remember it could be worse? 😉😁

Fantastic pair of GECs! :thumbsup:

Amir Fleschwund said:
Got a furnace service guy out. It’s only a year old, but it keeps shutting off after less than a minute. I left him on the phone with tech support trying to decipher the cut out codes to run to the Post Office, and Menards to buy a couple back-up furnace filters.
It’s kind of ironic. I used to haul propane in Missouri’s Lake Of The Ozarks area back in the ‘80s. And I serviced gas furnaces, water heaters, and stoves, too. Nine time out of ten, when a customer called about something not working, a little strip of emery cloth I carried in my shirt pocket was all I needed, because the thermocouple had some soot on it, did not get hot enough from the pilot light, so it wouldn’t allow the gas valve to open. The one in ten was because they ran out of gas.🫢

Same with cars back then. Running rough? Scrape the points clean with your pocket knife, and good to go.

Now, when I look at the guts of a modern furnace, or under the hood of my car, I have no clue.

Totin a 111mm Victorinox, which really fits my hand perfectly, and this sweet little Country Cousin in silky smooth delein that Paul @Jakeywax31 kindly gave me.View attachment 2458549View attachment 2458550
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Hope you get your furnace sorted out, Jeff. Hell of a week to have it go out. 🙄

Our first or second winter here in Minnesota, I was sitting in our basement bonus room watching TV on a sub-zero night, after everyone else had gone to bed, when the furnace kicked on then quickly shut off again. It did that a couple times, then silence. Thankfully a bit of frantic 1 AM googling taught me all about flame sensors and I was able to get it working again without too much trouble.

conrad gutierrez said:
Some micarta carryView attachment 2458630 for today😎
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Love those! :thumbsup:

Got these two with me today.

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birdsbeaks said:
I believe you have mistaken Kylo Ren for Darth Vader. Different mask and Darth Vader's lightsaber doesn't have the weird light-crossguard thingies.

And yes, I have watched far too much Star Wars. 🤓
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I am confused about that last sentence. What does that even mean "far to much Star Wars"?

Also if lightsabers are from a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, does that mean they count as "traditional"?
 
Amir Fleschwund said:
Help me out. In what way is the punch misshapen? Looks good from over here.
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Sorry for my lack of clarity, Jeff. When I wrote "misshaped punch stockman", I was trying to say that the Kingston cattle knife was a misshaped stockman, since it isn't serpentine, and was also noting that it wasn't like a true All-American stockman since it had a punch instead of a sheepsfoot and a spear instead of a clip. I suppose I was trying to show that even though I was posting the knife as "Stockman of the Week", I actually knew that it wasn't REALLY a stockman.

- GT
 
bigfish64 said:
…and it drove me crazy! 😄

😳 I teach social studies Gary…you lost me at “4 knives to choose from”
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Todd, your life could be so much more full and complete if you embraced the magic of mathematics! 🤓

bigfish64 said:
Going with the Owl today. One of these days when I’m at the cigar shop I’m going to grab a White Owl cigar like 5K Qs 5K Qs suggested…just haven’t been able to bring myself to do it yet. 😄View attachment 2458278
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When I was in college, over 50 years ago, I think I could buy a pack of 5 White Owls for a quarter. I'm guessing you'll have to shell out more cash than that nowadays to get a cigar/knife match! 😲

- GT
 
Modoc ED said:
I don't know GT 5K Qs 5K Qs except sometimes, a dealer will place a big order with Case and sell the knives at nearly cost as a "Loss Leader" to draw in customers hoping to increase sales across the board of their items.
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Thanks for that interesting conjecture, ED. :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:
I'd heard of "loss leaders" from retailers before, but didn't realize knife dealers sometimes do it.

- GT
 
paulhilborn said:
Sure Gary, they're very nice knives. Warming up here Gary, todays low was only -13, compared to yesterday's -20 :)
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Man, that seems awfully cold! :eek: 🥶
We're only about 30 miles from Lake Michigan, which hasn't frozen yet, so that has a moderating effect on our temps: only -1˚ this morning, and we made it up to 11 in the afternoon. On the other hand, being relatively close to a Great Lake gets us plenty of lake effect snow. From last Tuesday through Sunday, we got a total of 25". I'm running out of places to throw it already!

- GT
 
bigfish64 said:
Going with the Owl today. One of these days when I’m at the cigar shop I’m going to grab a White Owl cigar like 5K Qs 5K Qs suggested…just haven’t been able to bring myself to do it yet. 😄View attachment 2458278
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Mmm… lots of primo choices, Todd. King Edward Imperials, Dutch Masters Presidents, or El Producto Queens.D13BD987-B87C-4159-B3A7-A0E93BF0F2AA.jpegI have an old LaPalina box around here somewhere that I got from Grandpa, but he was not much of a tobacco user.

As long as you don’t mind smoking “predominantly tobacco and other ingrediemts” wrapped in brown paper, these are great.😆
btb01 said:
Hope you get your furnace sorted out, Jeff. Hell of a week to have it go out. 🙄

Our first or second winter here in Minnesota, I was sitting in our basement bonus room watching TV on a sub-zero night, after everyone else had gone to bed, when the furnace kicked on then quickly shut off again. It did that a couple times, then silence. Thankfully a bit of frantic 1 AM googling taught me all about flame sensors and I was able to get it working again without too much trouble.



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Yes, we did, Barrett! It was an airflow problem which was causing it to overheat and shut down.
It did not get this cold last winter, so it never reared it’s ugly little head.

And I love the old Royal typewriter, my friend. From back before “keyboarding” was even a word.
 
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