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Post by howler on Feb 9, 2018 21:28:57 GMT
Cream puffs are usually the ones to pull the big knives. They feel better about themselves that way. But nah, I got lucky in my few cases. I'm a bit of a cream puff, myself. "Far scarier than a big man with a small knife scowling is the small man with the large knife smiling."
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Post by howler on Feb 9, 2018 21:33:03 GMT
Big Bowies have just always been a thing in Texas. We're not trying to prove anything....We already have. Boo-yah! Wait, in Texas, big Bowies ARE small knives.
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Post by howler on Feb 9, 2018 21:41:34 GMT
The Black Bear is still good though imo (and has a guard), but the Bowie Machete is far quicker and has a better handle imo. As you said, it's just less bulky, too. You might want to check out a FANTASTIC bowie for the price. On Midway USA they are offering the Ontario SP5, featuring 1/4" thick by 10" long 1095 steel, and it weighs under a pound...for $39. Or maybe you would like the Marine Raider SP10, though it is beefy. I have both.
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Post by randomnobody on Feb 9, 2018 21:46:23 GMT
Cream puffs are usually the ones to pull the big knives. They feel better about themselves that way. But nah, I got lucky in my few cases. I'm a bit of a cream puff, myself. "Far scarier than a big man with a small knife scowling is the small man with the large knife smiling." I'm a pretty big guy with a medium-sized knife and a bored expression, where's that put me?
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Post by legacyofthesword on Feb 9, 2018 22:03:28 GMT
"Far scarier than a big man with a small knife scowling is the small man with the large knife smiling." I'm a pretty big guy with a medium-sized knife and a bored expression, where's that put me? I'm a big guy with a big knife and a big smile... so where does that put me?
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Post by randomnobody on Feb 9, 2018 22:31:25 GMT
I'm a pretty big guy with a medium-sized knife and a bored expression, where's that put me? I'm a big guy with a big knife and a big smile... so where does that put me? Well, ya made me smile.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Feb 9, 2018 22:38:00 GMT
I'm a big guy with a big knife and a big smile... so where does that put me? Well, ya made me smile. Haha
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 23:26:14 GMT
"including over twice the tip speed" No, it doesn't. Twice the tip speed exactly on a fixed pivot at any equal rate of rotation. The 12" blade tip has traveled twice as far as the 6" blade tip did, both in the same amount of time. More mass and terminal momentum, yes. More energy expended, bigger engine, more torque. Otoh Stand a 12" long 2" diameter on end. Stand a 6" long 2" diameter on end. Upest/tipped over at exactly the same time, with the same effort; the shorter one has laid down first because the tip of the 6" did not have to travel as far. Oh yes, both dropped off a rooftop or tower at the same time will travel at the same speed, landing together.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 23:50:05 GMT
1/4" plywood is cheap and I believe most lumber yards (including Home Depot) will cut them for you. There is also often scrap around for the hauling. It used to be a fairly nominal medium for judging standards.
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Post by howler on Feb 10, 2018 3:44:30 GMT
"Far scarier than a big man with a small knife scowling is the small man with the large knife smiling." I'm a pretty big guy with a medium-sized knife and a bored expression, where's that put me? Your the referee.
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Post by howler on Feb 10, 2018 3:49:08 GMT
You might want to check out a FANTASTIC bowie for the price. On Midway USA they are offering the Ontario SP5, featuring 1/4" thick by 10" long 1095 steel, and it weighs under a pound...for $39. Or maybe you would like the Marine Raider SP10, though it is beefy. I have both. Wow, these are very good offers for such nice knives! Which one do you like better? …I wished they’d still make the Bagwell-styled-ones… AFAIK, they had a black one, too, with an all-synthetic handle… At under $40, you really should get both, but that weight really makes them different. I suppose the best pure fighter, however, is the lighter SP5. For just great knives doing different functions, check out the Gen ll SP53 (best chopper and 5160 in the business, $45...WOW), the RD6 and RDTanto (full tang, micarta scales, $55 each)...the low saber grind Tanto (at 18 1/2oz is probably the strongest sub 12" OA knife I've ever seen). All honking slabs of 5160.
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Post by howler on Feb 10, 2018 3:59:25 GMT
I'm a pretty big guy with a medium-sized knife and a bored expression, where's that put me? I'm a big guy with a big knife and a big smile... so where does that put me? As far away from me as possible if you have bad intentions, and as close as possible if good.
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Post by howler on Feb 10, 2018 4:11:37 GMT
"including over twice the tip speed" No, it doesn't. Twice the tip speed exactly on a fixed pivot at any equal rate of rotation. The 12" blade tip has traveled twice as far as the 6" blade tip did, both in the same amount of time. More mass and terminal momentum, yes. More energy expended, bigger engine, more torque. Otoh Stand a 12" long 2" diameter on end. Stand a 6" long 2" diameter on end. Upest/tipped over at exactly the same time, with the same effort; the shorter one has laid down first because the tip of the 6" did not have to travel as far. Oh yes, both dropped off a rooftop or tower at the same time will travel at the same speed, landing together. The speed is the same but the distance traveled (arc) has more than doubled, hence, over twice the tip speed, as speed and distance are related. Look at Pgandy graph again. If you wave a (lets say) flyswatter in front of your face, you will notice that your hand isn't really traveling any faster than the business end of that flyswatter...but look at how much more distance that business end of the fly swatter traveled over your hand. Can't fully mathematically describe the principle, but I know what I see, and the flies can feel it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 5:03:47 GMT
Only ever had a knife pulled on me a handful of times, and managed to have it out of the other person's hands within a second or two each time. Without using a knife, myself. Granted, those were a long time ago... Maybe the chef knife wasn't big enough. One late Winter night, at a gas station, a punk tried to rob me at knife point.... It was cold so I put my jacket on before getting out of car to pump the gas. Car rolls up and a punk gets out at 20 feet away and starts walking toward me. My hand goes into my pocket. At 15 feet he pulls out a knife and points it at me, as he continues toward me and shouts, "What you gonna give me?" Instinctively, I reached in my jacket pocket and pull out a loaded .380 auto with Winchester Silver Tips and pointed it at him and shouted, "I'll give you this if you don't freak'in stop!". The knife point was about 6 or 7 feet from me by this time. He stopped, backed up, turned, got in his car and drove off. I reported his car tag numbers. Very glad I put my jacket on before getting out of vehicle! .....if my hand was not already gripping a loaded gun in my pocket, he could have stabbed/cut me before I could have pulled the trigger.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 6:37:10 GMT
"but the distance traveled (arc) has more than doubled, hence, over twice the tip speed"
Nope sharing the same pivot, half the radius (6") is half the arc of the full radius (12"). The tip speed will be exactly double. Momentum is what increases exponentially, but a radius and arc do not change and the relative velocities remain the same. Time and distance. Both completed the arc at the same time but the longer blade tip was traveling faster to reach the end of the arc at the same time as your knuckles completed the pivot. Half the length of the object being rotated would have half the speed through a given number of degrees of the circle.
Again, momentum, mass and energy are in your favor as the arc/movement continues but the relative speed (distance and time to complete their arcs) exactly double if it relates a fixed pivot.
Doesn't really matter. I know what you are trying to say. I'm just post whoring anyway.
So anyway. Nelson Dearce fathered four children with a great-niece. Separated (never married) but still living in the same house. My great-niece had a suitor at the house when Nelson arrived, produced a folding knife, proceeded to stab the suitor who didn't make it. The night of Jan 28, 2018. Made the national news. I doubt Nelson was wondering about tip speed, or just getting his business done. Fortunately the kids (my gg-nieces&their brother) were asleep upstairs. Being held without bond, no plea yet. I doubt they'll let it go as manslaughter. Arrested and booked for first degree murder. Trial still to be set.
These things weigh on my mind and the events now will only alienate me and my blades just a bit further apart.
I stabbed someone decades ago. I have talked down guns three times and a 12" butcher knife at my abdomen (started in a friends family kitchen. moms was not amused). Turned around from the sink and this 7'er (big guy) had a butcher knife right there "I'll bet this would go right through you" "Tommy, ya know what? You're probably right" I think it was the general decorum, and the moms, and us finishing bickerin at someone else's house. Tommy finished seething and went back to his soup.
Tommy did serve and was then locked up, for first degree murder. Home in Boston on leave from Vietnam. A friend loaned him a gun. Got jacked up, unloaded the clip at the assailant. Before the gavel fell during sentencing, the judge had to remark "if you only hadn't emptied the clip"
I've seen a lot of passionate and potentially quite violent events close enough to touch. Some talked down, a couple taken down by me. Blindingly taken down once at a judo match, quicker than a blink. Never under estimate the smaller ones. An immortal big guy myself back then, I was more than willing to just do it. Let's get it on. A majority let it be.
So, the quick and the dead. I think I'll just stick to other types of threads.
I have posted some of my stuff in the past.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 6:46:07 GMT
Wow, we can say whore but not cock. Cocks are ok. Asinine or what?
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Post by howler on Feb 10, 2018 9:34:47 GMT
"but the distance traveled (arc) has more than doubled, hence, over twice the tip speed" Nope sharing the same pivot, half the radius (6") is half the arc of the full radius (12"). The tip speed will be exactly double. Momentum is what increases exponentially, but a radius and arc do not change and the relative velocities remain the same. Time and distance. Both completed the arc at the same time but the longer blade tip was traveling faster to reach the end of the arc at the same time as your knuckles completed the pivot. Half the length of the object being rotated would have half the speed through a given number of degrees of the circle. Again, momentum, mass and energy are in your favor as the arc/movement continues but the relative speed (distance and time to complete their arcs) exactly double if it relates a fixed pivot. Doesn't really matter. I know what you are trying to say. I'm just post whoring anyway. So anyway. Nelson Dearce fathered four children with a great-niece. Separated (never married) but still living in the same house. My great-niece had a suitor at the house when Nelson arrived, produced a folding knife, proceeded to stab the suitor who didn't make it. The night of Jan 28, 2018. Made the national news. I doubt Nelson was wondering about tip speed, or just getting his business done. Fortunately the kids (my gg-nieces&their brother) were asleep upstairs. Being held without bond, no plea yet. I doubt they'll let it go as manslaughter. Arrested and booked for first degree murder. Trial still to be set. These things weigh on my mind and the events now will only alienate me and my blades just a bit further apart. I stabbed someone decades ago. I have talked down guns three times and a 12" butcher knife at my abdomen (started in a friends family kitchen. moms was not amused). Turned around from the sink and this 7'er (big guy) had a butcher knife right there "I'll bet this would go right through you" "Tommy, ya know what? You're probably right" I think it was the general decorum, and the moms, and us finishing bickerin at someone else's house. Tommy finished seething and went back to his soup. Tommy did serve and was then locked up, for first degree murder. Home in Boston on leave from Vietnam. A friend loaned him a gun. Got jacked up, unloaded the clip at the assailant. Before the gavel fell during sentencing, the judge had to remark "if you only hadn't emptied the clip" I've seen a lot of passionate and potentially quite violent events close enough to touch. Some talked down, a couple taken down by me. Blindingly taken down once at a judo match, quicker than a blink. Never under estimate the smaller ones. An immortal big guy myself back then, I was more than willing to just do it. Let's get it on. A majority let it be. So, the quick and the dead. I think I'll just stick to other types of threads. I have posted some of my stuff in the past. If you say you know what I'm saying regarding the "flyswatter effect", then I'm good with that, as I already mentioned my Fine Arts majoring arse wasn't too good with math. Those are some hellish stories but you shouldn't feel alienated from your blades, as you sound good at heart, and it is that heart that wields the tool, so the label of good or evil shall be stamped on that heart and not the steel blade (whether a short one or long with flyswatter ability ).
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Post by howler on Feb 10, 2018 10:02:15 GMT
Wow, we can say whore but not rooster. Cocks are ok. Asinine or what? There's a joke in there somewhere, "a whore, two cocks and a rooster walk into a bar...".
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Post by randomnobody on Feb 13, 2018 20:22:42 GMT
I'll admit, the Black Bear (Classic?) is one of few Cold Steel products I wouldn't mind having. I was never gonna put out what they wanted for it, though, so unless I can get a great deal on the secondary market, I'll just live without. Thought about their OSS or OSA, too, but eh...I have other knives I want more.
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Post by howler on Feb 13, 2018 20:44:45 GMT
I'll admit, the Black Bear (Classic?) is one of few Cold Steel products I wouldn't mind having. I was never gonna put out what they wanted for it, though, so unless I can get a great deal on the secondary market, I'll just live without. Thought about their OSS or OSA, too, but eh...I have other knives I want more. Trust me, there's a lot of CS products you wouldn't mind having, as they feature a rather large constellation of folders and fixed knives, machete, sword, spear, tomahawk, etc... Now, how much of it is worth forking over the cash is quite another matter, but I still wouldn't mind having much of it.
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