Yikes!! It's a land Snark!!

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Chameleonbear said:
Honestly, I wouldn't think that would be THAT hard of a shape. It wouldn't be perfectly clear WHAT it was until they actually looked at it hard, however when they did it would be pretty cool. I would think it would just have to be two ellipsis overlapped. I know when making a sign using ASCII (?) it's pretty easy to do the middle finger which is just _,|,, and it is one of my favorites.

If one of the local geeks will correct me please, would that be considered ASCII? Or something else completely?
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That would simply be the use of standard characters to generate a "simple" character graphic display.

The same in ASCII would be - 137 054 174 054 054 or in character identification language, underscore comma pipe comma comma :D
 
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Is it just me, or does this fish have a penis coming out of his mouth?!
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That looks like a Black Grouper aka Black Rockfish (Family Serranidae, Genus Mycteroperca Species bonaci )that was pulled up from depth faster than it could pass air out of its air bladder (used for bouyancy control). That would be part of the fish's guts bulging out its mouth. Generally the bulge retracts back in when the fish is returned to the ocean and it equalizes the bladder issue. Not always though.
 
I got about an hour of sleep this morning, but i was online till 5am.. Just didnt know how to respond to ZZs messages LMAO

Got interested in Criminal minds and was watching that all night, started to alternate between NCIS-LA but even though criminal minds has slow parts the cases are really interesting so far so i didnt get far with NCIS-LA.

Between watching the show and drooling over knives in the custom maker sections i didnt post a bunch.
 
Happy Thirstday and Happy Spring, everyone!

worldwood said:
So your saying we wont be seeing a Terrio knife with half-vast "stabilized" wood bolsters with homemade micarta scales attached with homemade pins and complete jimping around the entire knife??
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Nope.

Well, maybe the jimping... but that costs extra.

DerekH said:
You know what would be cool? Differently shaped pins. Like hexagonal or stars or something. There's you a trademark thing Terrio. If only someone could playdoh squish out pins shaped like a hand giving the middle finger...
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I'll get right on that :D

There's actually a couple ways to accomplish that sort of thing but I don't feel like going into it in detail right now... so there :p
 
I would think (even though I know you guys are just snarking) that the hardest part about differentially shaped mosaic pins would be making the differentially shaped holes. I could see it as an inlay, just not all the way through the tang, at least for something like the "up yours" salute...
 
granitestateofmind said:
I would think (even though I know you guys are just snarking) that the hardest part about differentially shaped mosaic pins would be making the differentially shaped holes. I could see it as an inlay, just not all the way through the tang, at least for something like the "up yours" salute...
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Actually, the holes are the (relatively) easy part. How do you think they inlaid all those cool escutcheons on pocketknives and stuff back in the day? ;) This would be the same thing, only deeper.

It would be stoopidly expensive to make pins like that, though. The right way to do it would be to hide normal pins or bolts under escutcheons.

Dangit, I said I wasn't gonna tell... oh well, the cat's out of the bag now.
 
got myself a set of TKC handles for all the Beckers.. tweener should be available next week some time.
 
granitestateofmind said:
with files, I'd guess....it just seems very labor intensive is all.
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The shields were usually punched out, and the pockets cut with a two-pronged tool that rattles around in a template... the name of the tool escapes me. It actually works pretty fast. Remember, those old-time cutlers were specialists paid on piecework, not hourly wages... so they were very much into cranking out a lot of good work in a short time. Can you imagine sitting around all day doing nothing but inlays for a penny/half dozen or whatever it was? Blech.

If you ever go to SMKW, make sure you go upstairs and check out the museum; they have a bunch of old cutler's tools on display. :thumbup:

Nowadays they generally just cast, waterjet or laser the shields/escutcheons and mill the pockets.
 
Tomorrow I have to go to an Interpreter's conference. Last time I went I ended up having to interpret Bill Cosby's skit of the "Dad is great" which while fun also caused severe trepidation because I'm a relative noob to the profession and this was in front of about 1,500 professionals.

JT, it sounds like the "mass produced" of yesteryear is the same quality as the customs of current times. People now who make customs don't get paid an hourly. But the work seems to be of such higher quality and held to similar if not higher standards.
 
Meh.
I think there's a lot of romanticizing of the factory work of 'yesteryear', and suspect that generalizations are difficult.
Yes, there are some convincing instances, but at the same time there was a lot of junk of which people are very fond for merely nostalgia's sake.
 
What Daizee said. I'll put what us goofy handmade guys are making now against any knife made 100-200-1000 years ago, any day, simply based on the materials and HT we have available to us. As for the craftsmanship... again like he said, that's pretty hard to generalize. They were pumping out a lot of shoddy junk back then too, it just didn't last long enough for us to know about it. ;)
 
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