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Post by howler on Dec 6, 2016 22:09:54 GMT
Descent, and a good combination with a 5 ft. dane axe as an EDC! That's EXACTLY what I told myself when I purchased the CS MAA English Billhook. Ya never know, and how else can you open a beer with such flair. Hey, whatever it takes to make the purchase, am I right.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 22:54:54 GMT
Some of my flotsam and jetsam in this picture. The larger of the stilettos below, an Italian Falcon brand. The smaller vintage German made with a four inch blade. The silver alloy Argentina knives come in all sizes. I particularly like the Al Mar Eagle (talon blade) and a knife I had carried in the past and actually until fairly recently as a larger utility knife. Another shot of the titanium Gilbreath folder closed, with a Vince Evans folder and Puma 941 next to some larger fixed blade. The subhilt Blackjack 1-7 I sold that day. A Randall 2-8. Kevin Cashen bowie, Vince Evans bowie and Ralph Bone bowie. Those three in stag as well. I had posted up a number of slip joints in the past. Really too much more to list as having been carried daily. I had a love hate relationship with a Kershaw Whirlwind and of course missed it after selling it. When I had first bought it, I found really wanted the Random Task instead. Working knives for me were typically less than 4" blades and some quite short. One skinner/caper I had used in warehouses for years had just a 1" blade. A friend had ground that and I mounted it in a heavy carpenter's knife handle. Nice hoard, my friend. Funny how they sneak up on you...like sharp, pointy dust bunnies. You got the "itch", but then SO many, like myself, do on this forum, and (thankfully) there is no cure. Need turns to WANT (or is that the other way around) real fast. Good clean harmless fun, and a bargain vs. a drinking habit, at least that's what I tell myself. For awhile I was justifying the smaller knives as inexpensive and not taking up space. The last open vein was acquiring a flock of the WWII EGW knives and I tried to stop at a bakers dozen. I have sold a couple but that secondary hoard still occupies a fair amount of space along with other multiple fantasy horse head Will&Finck daggers from the 1980s-1990s. After selling one, I bought four more. One I use all the time. I am currently trying not to bid on this one with a brown sheath. These are Cold Steel quality daggers. A bargain under $50 but a really subjective buy. www.ebay.com/itm/152340314704?See my when are too many not enough thread down the list here a bit and the Panga earlier in the year. Don't get me started on vintage Seikos and 1940s-1950s mens watches. The watch I wear most is a Frankenseiko I made of three different watches. A 6119 movement in a 6106 case with 7005 hands. I love my 7002s and then especially some of the older watches. It started with a small watch lot.
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Post by Derzis on Dec 7, 2016 0:13:12 GMT
Nice Seiko collection!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 0:34:40 GMT
I used the 6106 1968 Sealion case as thin and the 6119 movement, a 1969 Seiko 5 that was in a military chunky monkey case. The hands from a 7005 dress watch. It is top center in that photo between the cartoonish Citizen eco drive world timer and the little gold plated Seiko 66. There are a couple of others there I had swapped around like the Arabic face 7005 on a donor case and movement that began as a silver face dress watch. The old small incabloc 17 jewel military and everyday old guys fascinated me and I'd pick them up cheap. I use them often as gifts to youngsters.
My eyes went and I don't have a real work place after the new eye implants. Maybe in another life I'll get back to it, along with other hobbies. Selling off guitars continues to cover some dental work. One guitar had been a much better return than blades so far.
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Post by howler on Dec 7, 2016 2:53:41 GMT
Nice hoard, my friend. Funny how they sneak up on you...like sharp, pointy dust bunnies. You got the "itch", but then SO many, like myself, do on this forum, and (thankfully) there is no cure. Need turns to WANT (or is that the other way around) real fast. Good clean harmless fun, and a bargain vs. a drinking habit, at least that's what I tell myself. For awhile I was justifying the smaller knives as inexpensive and not taking up space. The last open vein was acquiring a flock of the WWII EGW knives and I tried to stop at a bakers dozen. I have sold a couple but that secondary hoard still occupies a fair amount of space along with other multiple fantasy horse head Will&Finck daggers from the 1980s-1990s. After selling one, I bought four more. One I use all the time. I am currently trying not to bid on this one with a brown sheath. These are Cold Steel quality daggers. A bargain under $50 but a really subjective buy. www.ebay.com/itm/152340314704?See my when are too many not enough thread down the list here a bit and the Panga earlier in the year. Don't get me started on vintage Seikos and 1940s-1950s mens watches. The watch I wear most is a Frankenseiko I made of three different watches. A 6119 movement in a 6106 case with 7005 hands. I love my 7002s and then especially some of the older watches. It started with a small watch lot. Wow, Seikos from a particular time line (40's and 50's), that is fascinating. Do you have any Rolex type or super high end (not being a watch expert or knowing that some of those 40's-50's may have been high end)? Always liked all the gears moving in synchronicity (like how the ancients believed the universe to be designed (God a clockmaker), and thought it cool when they sold watches with clear watch faces.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 3:31:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 3:40:50 GMT
The Will&Finck dagger went for $8.50 plus shipping www.ebay.com/itm/152340314704?Those were $40 retail. Excellent sheaths but handles that take getting used to. As mentioned, Cold Steel quality. They wee originally sold through United Cutlery in the 1980s. Atlanta Cutlery had them into the early 1990s.
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Post by howler on Dec 7, 2016 4:00:29 GMT
The 40s and 50s stuff not Seiko. The bulk of the Seiko I have were 60s and early 70s. The small incablocs in the bottom rows were the old stuff, typically Swiss or French. Generic names. No Rolex examples but there is a 1959 Bulova alarm watch on the bottom right {this pic before I fixed the crystal). The three Seiko 7002 were 1990s. The two bracelets and the one with the leather strap actually my first Seiko. I meant to add that there are a number of new Seiko automatics that are basically tribute retro reissue stuff. They look quite nice for the price. here are my 7002 Sport 50s in an earlier shot. There were a lot of diver types with the 7002 movement but i collect these others. The Lumbrite dials are neat. There was an Arabic dial I keep missing and may yet get one. But enough of my toys. I never had kids of my own, so the "stuff" has been my late life. Japanese and medieval swords draw me to the sword niche and I have settled into federal period American swords. Never enough stuff but I am at the reducing the load stage. Recent finance and other projections have me moving to reduction. I am planning on only three guitars in the end. The Hagstrom, Giannini and Harmony H54 Rocket. The Dan Armstrong went this past spring. Really, enough of my toys, lets talk blades (I know it's my fault). That lighted watch looks positively radioactive (or at least trace levels). Can you play any of them guitars? If you can, keep the best sounding.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 5:03:59 GMT
I'm torn on the guitars because they each have good personalities and they'll be hard to let go. I don't currently play out any more but the black Harmony is on the wall a couple of steps away. The rat Hagstrom worthless price wise but a favorite screamer. The Giannini my brother's after he passed at 40. The other three, including the 12 string budget priced to begin with but great sound. The local shop was interested in the Japanese 12, so maybe I can coax some extra out of the other two (Kay and Regal). I am of the rockabilly, bluzak Chico Marx finger picking school and spent time busking after regular work, following an accordion band and blues for a time. I grew up in the seventies with the Beatles, Rolling Stones,Dylan and others from my first teacher. I had gotten some gawking from James Taylor and Arlo Guthrie playing in Harvard Sq. Arlo staring me down two feet away while I was playing an old show tune.
Taylor a few times walking by and trying to figure me out. I had a mandolin partner for these years. Playing all instrumental let others hear what they wanted to hear.
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Post by howler on Dec 7, 2016 8:31:14 GMT
I'm torn on the guitars because they each have good personalities and they'll be hard to let go. I don't currently play out any more but the black Harmony is on the wall a couple of steps away. The rat Hagstrom worthless price wise but a favorite screamer. The Giannini my brother's after he passed at 40. The other three, including the 12 string budget priced to begin with but great sound. The local shop was interested in the Japanese 12, so maybe I can coax some extra out of the other two (Kay and Regal). I am of the rockabilly, bluzak Chico Marx finger picking school and spent time busking after regular work, following an accordion band and blues for a time. I grew up in the seventies with the Beatles, Rolling Stones,Dylan and others from my first teacher. I had gotten some gawking from James Taylor and Arlo Guthrie playing in Harvard Sq. Arlo staring me down two feet away while I was playing an old show tune. Taylor a few times walking by and trying to figure me out. I had a mandolin partner for these years. Playing all instrumental let others hear what they wanted to hear. The Rock & Roll that started in America in the fifties was perfected in the mid sixties to late seventies by (mainly) the British. Beatles, Stones, Who, Zeppelin, Floyd. There is always good stuff when you dig, but the popular stuff today seems to have suffered by comparison. Probably don't help that I don't understand rap, techno, synth, and girly pop. Knives and swords make more sense. So here we are. And Dylan gets the Nobel in Literature, so there ya go.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Dec 7, 2016 9:12:33 GMT
Amen! Knives and swords and rock and roll, is all my brain and body need.
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Post by hawthorn on Aug 12, 2023 3:58:19 GMT
Just a cold steel kudu. It really is the perfect pocket knife for my needs. No worries about rust or wood going bad. Flat ground blade of the right thickness. Light weight. Cheap, so I don't feel bad about wearing it down. The ancient lock design is a cool bonus. Sometimes I wish the steel were harder but whatever. At $5 I had doubts when I ordered the kudu, but after shortening it the thing became my one and only utility EDC blade for almost ten years now. Today I used it to scrape some traces on a circuit board, tighten the screw on my zippo, cut some peppers, and used the mirror polish on the blade to get a bug out of my eye. Best knife ever.
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Post by shinobigatana on Jan 19, 2024 6:21:58 GMT
This week I went all black.
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