What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[RLB0414]

This one again...
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What is the black object behind the knife?

 

[Tyson A Wright]

When life (and your neighbors) gives you several bags of lemons, right after you bought out all the lemons from one of the stands at the local farmers market, make lemoncello. My wife and I spent a couple of hours peeling about half of our stock of lemons today, swapping knives as they got too dull.

Right after this picture I cleaned and oiled the knives; I hope to find time to sharpen them tomorrow, but we may just grab a different pile of knives to go through the rest of the lemons, and sharpen everything later in the week.

 

[birdsbeaks]

What is the black object behind the knife?

I was wondering that myself.

Looks like a carving of a horrific reanimated baleen whale.

creepy...

 

[321Bandaid]

What is the black object behind the knife?

Great question! I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. Hmm.. If you're seeing what I'm seeing... It appears to be one of two things. 1. a one-eyed alien voodoo doll head of some sort, or 2. a squirrel turd.

 

[Crappie71]

Great question! I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. Hmm.. If you're seeing what I'm seeing... It appears to be one of two things. 1. a one-eyed alien voodoo doll head of some sort, or 2. a squirrel turd.

Looks like a piece of charcoal to me.

 

[Old Engineer]

Nice pic, Harry. You’ve got a lot more snow than we have!







Hope you had a good time!



Good looking pair. I particularly like the one on the left with the SCOUT shield.



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!



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.



Love those!

Got these two with me today.

Two beauties with you today Barrett !!!!! Thanks for the comment on the Snow . That photo was taken when we had about 8 inches . We ended up getting about 4 " more . And then my snow blower that I use on the patio would not run and I finally got it running today . We have a Service for doing the driveway .
Stay warm up there my friend .

Harry

 

[321Bandaid]

Looks like a piece of charcoal to me.

I think you're correct! Or, a random piece of mulch. It does look weird though..

 

[Chief]

PSA for micarta Monday. If you live in the artic blast region of the country and are concerned about your pipes freezing, drip both hot and cold faucets. Your hot water heater is probably located in an area of your home that is not temperature controlled, like your garage or an outside closet. Last time it got this cold my neighbor had the input side to his hot water heater break. Located in the garage, not dripping warm faucet. Frostbite is real, cover up, stay safe.

 

[mbkr]

Shoot, that's almost better than the Lions winning a playoff game!

- GT

Not losing at poker:

Lions winning a playoff game:

 

[afishhunter]

What is the black object behind the knife?

could be left over charcoaled maple or ??? from the smoker?

looks like it is from a smoker ....

 

[majorpain1]

 

[321Bandaid]

When life (and your neighbors) gives you several bags of lemons, right after you bought out all the lemons from one of the stands at the local farmers market, make lemoncello. My wife and I spent a couple of hours peeling about half of our stock of lemons today, swapping knives as they got too dull.

Right after this picture I cleaned and oiled the knives; I hope to find time to sharpen them tomorrow, but we may just grab a different pile of knives to go through the rest of the lemons, and sharpen everything later in the week.

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Great collection!! Those GEC "kitchen" knives are sweet!

 

[Tyson A Wright]

Great collection!! Those GEC "kitchen" knives are sweet!

Thanks! Yeah, I am a fan of those - we have one more that's not in this picture, and I wouldn't mind getting a couple more eventually. They see daily use in our kitchen.

 

[wickettedge]

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[Jack Black]

Some light duty for the fruit knife today.

Nice Isk

Some Mammoth and Micarta for Monday. Picture taken last night. 11 degrees, feels like 1.

Two handsome knives Gary

Great rich color of that lamb Jack.

Thanks buddy

Thank you Steve !

A pair of Catts for Monday.

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Beautiful Mr P

What great character

SAK of the Week is a Victorinox Pocket Pal. (I currently have 3 of this model, and I call this one Pocket Pal A, since it's the first one I ever had.)
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Stockman fo the Week is really a Kingston cattle knife, but it's kind of a misshaped punch stockman with spearpoint main blade, so that's the category it landed in on my rotation schedule.
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- GT

That's pretty cool Gary

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Gorgeous Bob

Thanks Jack!

Hope you have a good week also.
Charlie Lamb looking good

Thank you my friend

That top knife is SO pointy, and your stag HHB looks better than ever, Jack!

Thanks pal, I think that's the pointiest knife I own, any pointier, and it'd be a punch!

 

[Jack Black]

Ed, they predicted 13+” of snow ~ we only got 9”. They predicted an overnight low of -13f, it was -16 when we got up at 5:30. I guess they’d say that their Oija board and Magic Eight Ball were spot on. On average.View attachment 2458548
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

Same here Jeff, I worked as a mechanic in the late 70's, but wouldn't have a clue these days The guys that service my boiler just connect an iPad and run a programme. They haven't a clue otherwise. Hope you're sorted out soon buddy Nice gift from Paul

William Rodgers Lambsfoot and a Horsewright Cowboy

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A fine pair

Your spot on Jack Back when I worked out in this weather, it was a T-shirt, sweatshirt, Hoodie, freezer jacket and a heavy Carhartt Jacket, then below the belt, boxers, long underwear, two pairs of shocks with a pair of insulated snow bibs to top off my entire ND cold weather ensemble

LOL! I bet you needed it too Paul. I must have told half a dozen complete strangers about your weather yesterday, when they were complaining about the cold!

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I always enjoy seeing that one

 

[Jack Black]

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.

Same when I got back from my recent hols, boiler cut out at 1am, and there I was watching YT videos!

Pair of aces Barrett I had to write a letter to Stan Shaw's missus yesterday, must have taken me an hour!

For today.
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Nice photo Mitch

I’ve never watched it.

+1

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[Jack Black]

When life (and your neighbors) gives you several bags of lemons, right after you bought out all the lemons from one of the stands at the local farmers market, make lemoncello. My wife and I spent a couple of hours peeling about half of our stock of lemons today, swapping knives as they got too dull.

Right after this picture I cleaned and oiled the knives; I hope to find time to sharpen them tomorrow, but we may just grab a different pile of knives to go through the rest of the lemons, and sharpen everything later in the week.

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I'm sure it was hard work Tyson, but it also sounds like fun!

Keep warm Porchsters!

 

[RLB0414]

Great question! I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. Hmm.. If you're seeing what I'm seeing... It appears to be one of two things. 1. a one-eyed alien voodoo doll head of some sort, or 2. a squirrel turd.

I see a one eyed animal head. No charcoal at all.
When I was a child, I had a Tarzan paperback book with various "adventures" of Tarzan. One creature he battled had a human body with a raven head with raptor beak. That is what came to mind when I saw the object