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Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge

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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5430 on: July 31, 2019, 05:44:59 AM
Barry and Ray, :hatsoff: I'm glad you both liked my pipe. It is my favorite.  It is Bacchus, the Roman god of drunken revelry and a favored subject of the artists that carve meerschaum pipes. He is always depicted with a crown of grape vines, the most striking thing about this pipe is the face looks like Jack Elam, an actor that appeared mostly in westerns.  He died in 2003. I always liked him.
Jack was great,,,played a bad man great and was even funny in a comedy!  :cheers:


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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5431 on: July 31, 2019, 05:46:42 AM


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Reply #5432 on: July 31, 2019, 05:48:01 AM
:like: :like: Love the 110!!!

 :iagree:  The 110 was a home run that left the yard and still hasn't landed.   :tu:


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Reply #5433 on: July 31, 2019, 05:48:51 AM
Bonus: Still trying to show these wonderful scales and their luminosity.
It is a nice one. Nice duck calls...never had an opportunity to try it out.  :like: :cheers:


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Reply #5434 on: July 31, 2019, 05:50:14 AM
One more:
Thats an interesting cowboy theme you have there!  :like: :cheers:


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Reply #5435 on: July 31, 2019, 05:52:49 AM
Day 30. Final Day.

 I stuck with the 110 that started my obsession with the pattern. It's seen skinning deer, and who knows what with my great-uncle. With me, everything from hard farm work, to kitchen work, to just general wandering around the Back 40-something, to ceremonial use as my primary family reunion carry when I'm at the old home place (which remains in the family; currently with a nephew); the trailer my great-uncle formerly resided in is on property right next to it; so I'm carrying the knife where it spent most of its life. Once I straightened out the edge on the heavily abused blade, it's held its edge really well.  The 110 is mostly a work carry for me. I do carry the Shield quite often, seeing as it's pretty much the lightest big blade I have.  Can't wait to get my existing 112 fixed, and maybe pickup a LT version. January's gonna be fun! The 112 I can pocket carry in the front pocket without a problem. It's just the blade on mine is a lost cause seeing as not only is it 50-60% worn, there's also a huge chip in it towards the tip.

So, financial issues may have kept me from buying a GEC and thus switching over to the Buck challenge; but I've become even more a fan of a pattern I already like.   Didn't carry the Selector once, which I'd planned to, but I will be picking up some blades. I do like that it is lightweight, better made than the LT, and has finger groves. I know Buck made a Bucklite version of the 110FG, but it is expensive.
A knife with some great history! That is awesome  :tu: :cheers:


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Reply #5436 on: July 31, 2019, 05:56:48 AM
Day: 30 (bonus material)


Before dinner, the Opinel had a chance to develop a bit more patina:

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And after, the Sodbuster got busy with some farm fresh produce:

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Oh boy! There is no white rind there! I think only you could grow one like that.  :hatsoff:


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Reply #5437 on: July 31, 2019, 06:03:25 AM
Feeling "Scouty" bonus:

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That is a nice selection of Scouting equipment! I like that sharping stone and BSA leather case for it.  And a harmonica! Very nice and I wont mention anything about that Camillus  :dd:
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5438 on: July 31, 2019, 06:53:05 AM
Day 30
This challenge was fun and entertaining.
Thanks Jack and Barry and also David  :cheers:

I've learned to appreciate different blade shapes for different tasks  :tu:

Also, I love the more solid feel of my trads compared to my celidor SAKs.
There's something to it.

Today I've carried the Case Barlow around Sheep's Head at the west coast. I've used it for an apple and to punch a hole for a straw of Matt Junior's apple juice pack.

I so need to get back to Ireland. Lovely scenery and the friendliest people I've ever met.
"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser." - Robert Louis Stevenson


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Reply #5439 on: July 31, 2019, 08:12:10 AM
One thing I definitely took from this Challenge is the need for a Case Barlow with scales just like Nix's knife has! :drool: :drool:
Barry


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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5440 on: July 31, 2019, 09:23:11 AM
Day 30 mushrooms  :like:


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Reply #5441 on: July 31, 2019, 09:38:39 AM
I wish , in these challenge threads especially, there was a way to view ALL of the pictures in one  gallery. You know, without having to scroll thru 5000 posts!!




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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5442 on: July 31, 2019, 10:56:20 AM
Vintage Fuzz Day 30 (Final)

Ting ting ting ting...

Where do I begin, I'm not as articulate as I'd like to be tonight, so bear with me...

My relationship with traditional pocket knives is deeply personal and important to me and among other things goes back to my earliest memories growing up in Scotland and my relationship with my father... I won't go into it at the moment, but I imagine there's probably quite a few of you with similar feelings. It's also, in my opinion, an ageless symbol and token of what I believe it is to be a man and indeed a gentleman as unfashionable as that may now sound in this day and age.

Anyway... this has been an excellent challenge, in fact I'd go as far as to say that this has been rather remarkably. Not only have I learnt so much more about traditional knives, but I've also learnt so much more about all of you here on this forum - I've reaffirmed existing friendships and made a lot of new ones too.

So, with that in mind, I'd like to thank Nix and Barry for this immensely enjoyable challenge, Stevey and Poncho for policing it and keeping us all in order and out of mischief... well, sort of... and finally David and Dean for their incredible, if not rather freakish, depth of knowledge. There's loads of others worthy of mention too, but I'll look like an even bigger smurf if I keep naming people, so that will have to do.

However, I would like to thank the rest of you for putting up with me and my sometimes bizarre sense of humour and for making this a most friendly and congenial community.  :cheers:

Love n kisses,
Fuzzy
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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5443 on: July 31, 2019, 11:09:36 AM
Day 30

I started this challenge out with just two knives - the Girl Scout knife that was my first knife and a Rough Rider Muskrat that was given to me by a ship’s wardroom.

Now my collection is even bigger.  Thanks to Barry who passed on the Utica Trapper that he couldn’t bond with that ended up being the exact knife I had been considering buying.  Then Nix’s comments and pictures about his Soddie and how he could open it one-handed, led me to another to great knives in the junior version.  I was also lucky enough to win a nice little Craftsman as part of the giveaway.  All different knives that I see playing a different role.

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Although, the Sodbuster Jrs  will see the most pocket time with frequently being the carry partner with a SAK.

That escalated quickly  :like:


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Reply #5444 on: July 31, 2019, 11:13:15 AM
What a great bunch of Trads on this sad last day of the challenge!  :cheers: :cheers:

Tom's Choice for day 30.
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Thanks to everyone who made this little get together possible and thank you guys for the warm welcome back!! :hatsoff:

Sweet Barlow SAK Guy  :tu:


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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5445 on: July 31, 2019, 11:13:38 AM
Congrats all on finishing the challenge and with the badges!  :cheers:

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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5446 on: July 31, 2019, 11:15:23 AM
Day 30

GEC 15 Huckelberry and 66 Calf Roper

It has been a great challenge everyone. I appreciate all of you and thank you for sharing all your knives, pics, comments and food.    :tu:

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Reply #5447 on: July 31, 2019, 11:17:20 AM
Day 30

That looks like the Zippo I've lost '95 in El Paso  :pok:


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Reply #5448 on: July 31, 2019, 11:19:13 AM

Love and kisses cuz   :D

Cheers Steve  ...chucking away awkwardly


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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5449 on: July 31, 2019, 11:27:29 AM
While I'm chatting about fire....

In my post yesterday, I noted that I needed to make some more char-cloth. This evening, while the grill was hot, I made a replacement batch.

This is a pretty easy process; I imagine most of you know this already, but if anybody doesn't here is what I do:

Take some scrap cotton cloth and cut it into small squares. It has to be 100% cotton. Thin cloth works best, but an old t-shirt can work, too.

I put these in my char-cloth 'cooker', a little can, and close it up. You can see in the pic below there is a small hole in the lid of the can--this lets out smoke, but prevents actual combustion.  Then the can gets place in or on a fire. The cloth turns into a charcoal fabric. (Charcoal is wood that has been cooked in the absence of oxygen until it gets carbonized.)

After the can stops smoking, I let it cool. You can se the results in the photo below. I had this fail once when I got greedy and over packed the can. Now I fill the can halfway full and then cook it. This seems to work consistently--and I get a dozen or more pieces of char-cloth out of the deal. More than enough for a season of campfires.

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Char-cloth is good stuff. It catches a spark from any source easily and becomes a hot ember. With some tinder and a little blowing, you get fire. So even with a ferro rod, this stuff can be useful in damp conditions.  :tu: 

And it's an old tradition.....  ;)

Always wanted to try that out. I'll start collecting old cotton cloth  :like:


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Reply #5450 on: July 31, 2019, 11:27:42 AM
 :rofl:  :tu:
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Reply #5451 on: July 31, 2019, 11:29:30 AM
My son Noah makes char cloth.  It really does work, even in damp weather. 
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Reply #5452 on: July 31, 2019, 11:30:56 AM
I so need to get back to Ireland. Lovely scenery and the friendliest people I've ever met.

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Gimme a shout if you do  :cheers:


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Reply #5453 on: July 31, 2019, 11:32:36 AM
One thing I definitely took from this Challenge is the need for a Case Barlow with scales just like Nix's knife has! :drool: :drool:

Well then...  :pok:  :o


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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5455 on: July 31, 2019, 01:05:30 PM
Day 31

Used the promithi folder to cut a piece of wood from
my gate as it stopped the gate shutting properly
As it was rubbing against the other side of the gate
fail to prepare prepare to fail


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Reply #5456 on: July 31, 2019, 01:08:22 PM
Congratulations everyone!  :cheers:
There were so many great looking knives this challenge. Keeping up with this one was the hardest but well worth it! A couple of them have made my want list.
One of the three has made it into my EDC...the Ka-Bar-Lo will be riding in my pocket. I usually carry 3 on me. Hip, pocket and cargo pocket.
Thank you all for a very enjoyable month on this challenge.  :woohoo:


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Reply #5457 on: July 31, 2019, 01:25:57 PM
While the challenge is officially over, it seems a shame to waste the last day of the month.  "TRIED" to keep my focus on the Geppetto Whittler, for the most part, but I'm kinda glad to go back to the larger frames.

Really enjoyable seeing what everyone else focused on this month, and look forward to doing one of these again.
Addicted to sharp pointy things.


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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5458 on: July 31, 2019, 01:55:06 PM
One thing I definitely took from this Challenge is the need for a Case Barlow with scales just like Nix's knife has! :drool: :drool:
I think I found one!


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Re: Bustin' out the traditionals, a 30-day challenge
Reply #5459 on: July 31, 2019, 01:59:50 PM
While the challenge is officially over, it seems a shame to waste the last day of the month.  "TRIED" to keep my focus on the Geppetto Whittler, for the most part, but I'm kinda glad to go back to the larger frames.

Really enjoyable seeing what everyone else focused on this month, and look forward to doing one of these again.

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