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What Two Knives?
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shigawire4sure
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Plants? What kind of plants are you speaking of? Nothing illegal I hope!
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Blood_Grooves,
This is going to sound a bit sappy but please give it a read.
When I was a good deal younger than you, around 8 or 9 I had a few little folding knives, a Swiss Army knife or two and some others that were given to me from my uncles or friends of my father. I liked them a lot and played around with them all the time. One day I found a rusted folding knife by the side of the road. It was missing one of its scales, but still had two working blades in decent shape. I took it home and cleaned and oiled it and polished the rust off. It still had the rivets on the side where the scale was missing so I decided to make a new scale out of wood. I found a piece of scrap wood in the garage and using a Swiss Army knife saw cut it to roughly the right size and using the awl was able to poke holes in it to fit over the rivets. Pressed in place I then whittled it down to match the other scale and sanded it. Then I glued it in place and put some oil on it. It really came out great. My parents were impressed. But the big moment came when one of my father's friends came to visit. He was the REAL outdoorsman, knew everything there was to know about hunting and fishing. When he saw my knife I could tell he was truly impressed and not just trying to humor a young boy.
He treated me differently from that moment forward, not as an adult, because I was still a child, but as someone who could be trusted to do tasks that required responsibility and thought, such as tie the boat down to the top of the car or net the big Bass he had been fighting for 10 minutes.
Now I'm not going to lie and say that the knife I fixed up was my favorite or something I still carry or care about, it was a piece of crap knife that stayed in a drawer. But even years later as a teenager whenever I saw that knife I was proud of the work I had done. So my point is, now is the time in your life to be accumulating skills and knowledge, not objects and expensive items. To be "in" to biking doesn't mean having the most expensive gear, it means challenging your mind and body and focusing on the act of riding. To be in to knives doesn't mean accumulating expensive pieces, that will come later, but to appreciate how they are made, learning to sharpen them, understanding different grinds, learning how to use and maintain them safely. Trust me girls are far more impressed by skills than possessions, at least at your age.
This is going to sound a bit sappy but please give it a read.
When I was a good deal younger than you, around 8 or 9 I had a few little folding knives, a Swiss Army knife or two and some others that were given to me from my uncles or friends of my father. I liked them a lot and played around with them all the time. One day I found a rusted folding knife by the side of the road. It was missing one of its scales, but still had two working blades in decent shape. I took it home and cleaned and oiled it and polished the rust off. It still had the rivets on the side where the scale was missing so I decided to make a new scale out of wood. I found a piece of scrap wood in the garage and using a Swiss Army knife saw cut it to roughly the right size and using the awl was able to poke holes in it to fit over the rivets. Pressed in place I then whittled it down to match the other scale and sanded it. Then I glued it in place and put some oil on it. It really came out great. My parents were impressed. But the big moment came when one of my father's friends came to visit. He was the REAL outdoorsman, knew everything there was to know about hunting and fishing. When he saw my knife I could tell he was truly impressed and not just trying to humor a young boy.
He treated me differently from that moment forward, not as an adult, because I was still a child, but as someone who could be trusted to do tasks that required responsibility and thought, such as tie the boat down to the top of the car or net the big Bass he had been fighting for 10 minutes.
Now I'm not going to lie and say that the knife I fixed up was my favorite or something I still carry or care about, it was a piece of crap knife that stayed in a drawer. But even years later as a teenager whenever I saw that knife I was proud of the work I had done. So my point is, now is the time in your life to be accumulating skills and knowledge, not objects and expensive items. To be "in" to biking doesn't mean having the most expensive gear, it means challenging your mind and body and focusing on the act of riding. To be in to knives doesn't mean accumulating expensive pieces, that will come later, but to appreciate how they are made, learning to sharpen them, understanding different grinds, learning how to use and maintain them safely. Trust me girls are far more impressed by skills than possessions, at least at your age.
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Very good post, and excellant advice.
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yes i love plants and not the type EVRYONE thinks of when i say i love plants. thats what i want to do, work with plants (thats it if knives dont take over) maybe a landscaper...
that was VERY good advice. my grandpa would be the equevelent to your dads freind in a way. but for chrismas i got a robotic arms, but it wasn't built, i had to do it my self. i didn't think i could do it my self.(oh ya this is when i was about 10) so i asked him for help. he said yes, so when he wasn't doing anythig about 2 days later (man it was like waiting for my GW i was looking at the clock 24/7
) he got all tools he thought he would need and a big peice of ply wood to set all the peices (there was about 300 of them so we had to be carful) he didn't want to do all the work, i think he got me this arm as a test. so what he said is "what do we do next" and surprisingly i knew how to do almost everything (somethings i needed help on) and he, like your dads freind never look at me the same. he even tought me how to play chess, which is the best game in the world IMHO. the bad thing is he passed in mid 2007. i still have never betten him at chess...
he was the greatest man ihave ever got the plesure to meet.
but i will most likly get a BM.
that was VERY good advice. my grandpa would be the equevelent to your dads freind in a way. but for chrismas i got a robotic arms, but it wasn't built, i had to do it my self. i didn't think i could do it my self.(oh ya this is when i was about 10) so i asked him for help. he said yes, so when he wasn't doing anythig about 2 days later (man it was like waiting for my GW i was looking at the clock 24/7
) he got all tools he thought he would need and a big peice of ply wood to set all the peices (there was about 300 of them so we had to be carful) he didn't want to do all the work, i think he got me this arm as a test. so what he said is "what do we do next" and surprisingly i knew how to do almost everything (somethings i needed help on) and he, like your dads freind never look at me the same. he even tought me how to play chess, which is the best game in the world IMHO. the bad thing is he passed in mid 2007. i still have never betten him at chess... he was the greatest man ihave ever got the plesure to meet.but i will most likly get a BM.
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My wife's undergraduate was Botany from Miami University. One of my best friends / kayaking buddy is a horticulturist. You plant-geeks are everywhere!
My young children have spent so much time at the St Louis Arboretum that I claim my wife is trying to subvert them!!
Have fun with it, BG.
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Get the battle mistress! If I had one of those back when I was 14, it would have been the coolest thing in the world. Although nowadays, it would be pretty easy to get in trouble with one and have it taken away.
If you live somewhere where you can go off into the woods and not bother anyone, a battle mistress is a lot of fun.
If you live somewhere where you can go off into the woods and not bother anyone, a battle mistress is a lot of fun.
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ya botany is what i want to do in the first part of my life then i want to own a place that sells plants or own my a buisness in plants.
ya i am going to get the mistress, but theres a voice in the bakc of my head that says "thats all my money!" then the busse side says "NO REGRETS!"
I will probably get the mistress and if i do theres going to be a thread titled " I GOT IT, I GOT IT, MY MISTRESS CAME!!!
Ya i cant really take it out sie of my house sorry for my freanch but the cops in my town are A$$ holes, or at least one of them. i asked this one guy if i could carry a knife and he said "NO WAY YOUR WAY TO YOUNG" and he jsut to my age and held it over my head while i tryed to explian to him. (it was the cop that gos to my school so he might of thought i was talking about at school but i dont think so.)
ya i am going to get the mistress, but theres a voice in the bakc of my head that says "thats all my money!" then the busse side says "NO REGRETS!"
I will probably get the mistress and if i do theres going to be a thread titled " I GOT IT, I GOT IT, MY MISTRESS CAME!!!
Ya i cant really take it out sie of my house sorry for my freanch but the cops in my town are A$$ holes, or at least one of them. i asked this one guy if i could carry a knife and he said "NO WAY YOUR WAY TO YOUNG" and he jsut to my age and held it over my head while i tryed to explian to him. (it was the cop that gos to my school so he might of thought i was talking about at school but i dont think so.)