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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Good grief, that photo literally made my mouth water....Jack Black I'm feasting and toasting in your honor, my friend. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jack, and I hope that you have many, many more happy ones.
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- Stuart
That looks delicious! Might be the best looking steak I’ve ever seen. Mind sharing what cut of meat it is and how you prepared it? I like your choice of “condiments” as wellJack Black I'm feasting and toasting in your honor, my friend. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jack, and I hope that you have many, many more happy ones.
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- Stuart
Thanks very much Jack!!!Fabulous pair JJ![]()
Really liking your triple choices; they're not only mighty handy, they look great in action too!Good morning Guardians, hope everyone is doing OK, and in good shape for another unusual weekI'm carrying these three today, my Hartshead Barlow, Vic Farmer, and a Boker Savannah
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Thanks a bunch, Harvey!!!Many thanks JJ. Such a gorgeous pair of Queens. I especially love the blade on the top one, not to mention the covers on both. Wonderful image.
Outstanding pair of jacks; the "burnt nan" shot looks incredible (love that Indian cuisine!)JB Ebony Bigun SFO Lamb Foot, resting on a burnt Naan. Consarnit
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Lone Star/USS Texas 86, pile side.
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Still don't think this is rotten banana bone. I'm about to eat the lower one.
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Jack Black I'm feasting and toasting in your honor, my friend. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jack, and I hope that you have many, many more happy ones.
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- Stuart
Thanks very much Jack!!!
Really liking your triple choices; they're not only mighty handy, they look great in action too!
Thanks a bunch, Harvey!!!
Outstanding pair of jacks; the "burnt nan" shot looks incredible (love that Indian cuisine!)![]()
Nice Wusthoff. Nice to see somebody carving on wood instead of ceramic.Jack Black I'm feasting and toasting in your honor, my friend. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jack, and I hope that you have many, many more happy ones.
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- Stuart
Coppicing! I was going to do that here.Because schools are closed I have to provide teaching at home for my pupils.
I'm a practical teacher in gardening, so it's quite a challenge to teach this through the screen...
But totday I tought them the theory behind pollarding and coppicing, the comanion for this is an old beat up victorinox Gak, which I put new padauk scales on and changed the knifeblade for an old sentinel blade I had laying around. Had to trim the bladeshape a bit to fit in the 108mm frame so ended up with a lambsfoot-like blade, all in all a nice knife I don't ever baby...
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Nice Wusthoff. Nice to see somebody carving on wood instead of ceramic.
Coppicing! I was going to do that here.
I always thought pollarding was a bizarre aesthetic practice. Is it useful? Duh, heard of google, Jer?
[Looks like I was right for once.]
I should have known I wouldn't be right for a change. But bats- ew.Well pollarding is a cultural thing here in Belgium/Flanders. It's done to create tiny microhabitats for animals Athene noctua or bats. It's also a good way to collect firewood in a sustainable way and it gives the tree, in our cases willow and poplar a greater lifepsan than it would have just growing on its own. Hazel isn't pollarded in our region but coppiced and oak or beech can be pollarded but has a greater cycle in pollarding 10 years in between cutting in stead of 3 to 5 for willow.
Wow Stuart! It’s good to see y’all are managing to eat well while social distancing!Jack Black I'm feasting and toasting in your honor, my friend. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jack, and I hope that you have many, many more happy ones.
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Jack it sounds as if you had a productive shopping trip.Morning everyone, I've been out foraging this morningVery quiet out, even in the well-stocked supermarket. Hope you're all doing OK, and keeping well
Toting these three today, my Hartshead Barlow, a random Boker Copperhead, and my Enzo Elver
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A well armed trip to the Market. All fine choices too.Morning everyone, I've been out foraging this morningVery quiet out, even in the well-stocked supermarket. Hope you're all doing OK, and keeping well
Toting these three today, my Hartshead Barlow, a random Boker Copperhead, and my Enzo Elver
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A beautiful Big Texas Jack.Newly arrived Texas Jack in the pocket today.
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