What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[BrotherJim]

Pulling this Plow for Thrifty Thursday ...

 

[W.M.B.]

Really had a good day at the knife show yesterday. Instead of buying more knives, I resolved to focus more on what I already have. I bought this HSB Jack at the show two years ago, and when I found myself looking at knives just like it, it made me back off, and realize I should use the ones I already have. The closest I came to buying was when I found five decent Camillus 23 Big Jacks for dirt cheap. But I already have three at home that I will never wear out.
Best part of the show? Hanging out with some great BF friends ~ getting caught up, and passing around knives to admire.

You are a wise man. I’m trying to do the same. It’s not hard, just hard to remember.

 

[5K Qs]

Locking Knife of the Week is a Portuguese MAM Iberica linerlock:

International Knife of the Week is an inexpensive Spanish JJ Martinez marinera with ABS covers, bail, and an anchor "shield" (one of my favorite knives):

- GT

 

[5K Qs]

Here's the book cover, Gary.
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Thanks for the additional photo, Gary.
I thought I had a copy on my shelf at home, but can't find it in the obvious spot. I don't remember what edition I used but I'd have said the cover was more green, rather than brown like yours.

Duncan's ears are now standing up like a big boy's should. But he's still a puppy even though he's 71/2 months old and 72lbs, and he still pees like a girl. Once in awhile he tentatively and partially hoists a hind leg like some deeply buried ancestral trait that he half heartedly does without knowing why. I keep telling him it's so he doesn't hit his forelegs.

About your hymn singing ~ are you going by memory, or can you read music?
I'm the only guitar player in the band who can read standard notation, thanks to four years of piano lessons starting at age 7.
Thanks to my annoying habit of explaining things to the other guys, they started calling me Professor. Which I think is their way of saying "I don't need to know that".

Our dog Gandalf is very old, and when I take him out first thing in the morning or after supper to do his business in the back yard, his leg lift in the middle of the lawn is very minimal. But on walks, he shifts to a "mark every vertical object" philosophy, and hikes his leg really high, especially for large diameter old oaks and maples. I think his bladder is empty after a half mile, but he'll go through the motions for the rest of a 3-mile walk, even if his "marks" are totally dry.

For singing, I'd say it's mostly memory; I'm kind of surprised how many songs I can remember since many of them I haven't sung for 50 years. I'm just working through the hymnal one page at a time, and if the next song is one that I can't remember, I skip it. When I find one that I do "know", I usually just start on a random note that seems comfortable for me but probably is NOT the actual first note of the song written in the book; if my choice of starting note turns out to require me to hit notes outside my range, I'll start the next verse on a different note. I had a few years of piano lessons when I was a kid, and I can read notes and know about quarter notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, etc. So once I've chosen a starting note I can "read music" enough to know the next note is a half-step higher or two steps lower, or whatever, and I can count the time accurately. Sometimes I'll find a song that I know the melody of the chorus but can't remember exactly how the verses go, so I'll pull up an online keyboard and pick out the melody. And I never was in any choirs or bands so I really can't sing parts - I'm a straight melody guy, no "Daddy sang bass" (or tenor) for me.

- GT

 

[echoscout]

 

[majorpain1]

Got out for a bike ride this afternoon. It's been so windy lately with chances for rain that never materialize.

 

[Corto_Malt]

 

[Corto_Malt]

𝙿𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚜!! Hello from Barcelona.

My Ismael Laguna from Santa Cruz de Mudela

I love this simple knife; the wood on the handle is beautiful

 

[Falcata]

I love this simple knife; the wood on the handle is beautiful

It's NOS from the 70's

 

[screened porch]

This old Colonial, as an exercise in perspective.

 

[Will Power]

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CASE Amber Bone, very nice indeed. It takes some beating, both metaphorically & literally

 

[Travman]

 

[JW225]

Large spear for today's hike with the pups. Buffalo bone covers on a Mountain Man frame...

 

[5K Qs]

Miscellaneous Knife of the Week is a black micarta Rough Ryder bow trapper with saber-ground blade:

Lambsfoot of the Week is Man Jack, an A.Wright stag senator with lambsfoot blade that I won in a GAW here over 10 years ago (thanks, Richard):

- GT

 

[Scubaroo]

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

You are a wise man. I’m trying to do the same. It’s not hard, just hard to remember.

I noticed your location. My late brother in law bought acreage and cabins on a lake a few miles out of Hesperia many years ago. Our family has a lot of memories of good times up there.

 

[Peregrin]

TGIF!
French for Friday.

 

[Railsplitter]

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Ran into an old friend the other day. I caught myself repeating the same stories (biographical not fictional) that I'd told him the last time we ran into each other
Either he was being kind, or since he's a couple of years older than me didn't remember the first telling, he listened politely.
Same with this photo. Same knives as yesterday, same coffee mug, same iron plant stand out on the deck. But it IS a fresh photo.
Trust me.

Here's a different picture~

All my years growing up, I knew the ebony scaled Camillus EO Jack was Grandpa's "Good Knife". His has a lot of sharpening blade loss, and the secondary spring is broken, so I retired it and found this one to carry. Not as close to NOS as the one that Travman has, but still feels great in my hand.

 

[SteveC]