Who Knew?! An introduction, in appreciation

[pertinux]

wow...just awesome ~P.:thumbup:

~P
I like your writing style

Great to have you around! I love your taste in knives, your Esquire is something special.

Thanks.

And FeralGentleman, thank you especially for all your help and encouragement. I really appreciate it! And, yeaaaaaah, this Esquire.

Great post, pertinux. Cheers!

I'm doubling back to you because I forgot to mention this earlier: having read through the Collections thread a couple of times, I have not yet determined if you are an inspiration, or a cautionary tale!

I only have one, and I love it. I intend to get a second one really soon!

A few months ago I only had one Fiddleback (not a collection). Now, I have 4.

I posted a pic of my collection in this thread last year (I think), and it is amazing how much it has changed since then. At its peak, my collection consisted of over 15 Fiddlebacks. Now, I have eight (including one WA Surls knife). ....

Here is my current collection:

...I had to tell myself to not miss out on this truly awesome moment in time, in the here and now, by looking ahead. For now I'm just going to live and enjoy these days, and worry about the next ones a bit later

:thumbup:

After today's mail call, Right Now (Fiddleback-style) looks like this:

(Thanks again, Heespharm!)

The Stubby Muk with "Weird Little Stubby Things (a description someone deridingly gave to GEC's #25 knives a few years back. I love the #25s, and so adopted WLST® as an endearing moniker):

... This Stubby Muk is capital T TROUBLE already, because... I'm going to want more'n one. I can tell. Lay's Potato Chips gots nothing on the Stubby Muk. This is problems. My nascent resolve to stick to one knife per pattern, under attack (if not already shot to hell) within an hour of handling a Stubby Muk. Go figure!

In other notions of Next:

the EDCII and the Lonestar share the same handle

The Minimuk & Sylvrfalcen are very similar if not the same

Hey HEY-- that's the conclusion I'd come to, all on my onesies. I think that makes me roughly 2-for-427 when it comes to identifying FF patterns/sizes/families, but it's a start!

(I brought your post here because the Sylverfalcen is high on my short list, with the Mini Muk also in the running. But, I'm having a harder time finding a lot of pictures of either by which to gauge size and relative attributes-- compared to one another, and to other patterns.)

Onward.

~ P.

 

[Nbrackett]

I highly recommend the Sylverfalcen. It's a great size for edc. It's definitely a model I'll have multiples of.
I have several pics of it with other knives but this is maybe the one with the most popular or well known. Hiking Buddy on top, Runt on bottom.

 

[pertinux]

But, if I am to add more, I think I'd like a Sylverfalcen in the mix (a more central point than on the Patch, and implied mischief in the design). A Hiking Buddy would maybe be more practical(?), but doesn't compel me the way others do.

I can't imagine a more effective real-life test of the above than THIS, from 11/18/2016:

The blue is perfect, I love maple, and... here I am, passing on it.* Illuminating and helpful, all at once!

I highly recommend the Sylverfalcen. It's a great size for edc. It's definitely a model I'll have multiples of.
I have several pics of it with other knives but this is maybe the one with the most popular or well known. Hiking Buddy on top, Runt on bottom.

Thanks-- that does help. I'm interested in seeing Sylverfalcens with other patterns as well, but 1) that perhaps warrants a new thread and 2) I think I've made up my mind.

[I like the Stubby Muk so well that I'm now considering Nessmuks proper, but probably not more than the evocation of swashbuckle in the Sylverfalcen and others. Yet.]

~ P.



* So far.