Poor old thing....

[nuphoria]

I refer to both the knife, and the old man who owns it 

I found this extremely well used knife lying around at my parents house. Apparently my step dad uses it to dig out dandylion roots 



I think I'll make sure it gets buried with him! Is it a Soldier?

[nuphoria]

Oh, I think I just found it - 1897 style Officer's Knife?

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Officers+Knife

[AimlessWanderer]

WOW! Don't let Tony see that ... 

That certainly looks like it's had a hard life, but great to see it still being used in some form of service  Does anything still move on it? Impressive to see so much blade left on an old thing like that 

[Frankctz]

I believe was more than extremely used,
Its deserve a retirements with honors 

[enki_ck]

WOW! Don't let Tony see that ... 

Why was that the first thing that I thought of too.    

Nice to find something like that in the family. Do you know where he got it?

[Farmman]

Project for the weekend then?

[nuphoria]

No idea where or when he had it from - he hoards things that occasionally surface. He's also mad as a brush and is likely to tell me the king of Persia gave it to him after losing a bar fight on one of Saturn's moons.

I had a brief go at getting the tools to move, but they certainly weren't going to without a fight, so I left the poor thing in peace

I'm glad it's still being used though; that is what they were made for!

[ICanFixThat]

Wow!! I'd like to crystalize it and put it behind glass. 

Good thing you didn't get it to move because 98% chance that would have broken a spring.  It's better fused like this.

Love it!


ps... I heard about that famous fight before... but it was a Prince ... not the King.

[Lynn LeFey]

I think this is a better fate than 'dropped in a lake'.

Some day, the lady of the lake, clad in shimmering mail, will arise... with a handful of rusty pocket knives and MTs, and hurl them angrily at the nearest fisherman.

"Keep your crap out of my lake! And I'll be keeping this Charge TTi!"

[bushidomosquito]

Psshh, she'll be keeping the scales from the TTI. Now a Swiss tool on the other hand...

[nuphoria]

LOL.... oh if lakes could talk!

[Sparky415]

   


Chrissy,

Say to your Step Dad 'I will swap a nice shiny new tool for that old rusty thing'



Then send it off to visit Russel White on British Blade forum 

[nuphoria]

You tell him!

[J Mackrel Jones]

The old guy may be "mad as a brush" (?) but kudoes to him for digging dandelions rather than poisoning them:  I sprayed ours one time and the poor things desperately put out as many flower-heads as they could before dying.  Very sad.  Quick and clean (dirt-y) is better.

[nuphoria]

He's an old fashioned and very experienced gardener. Sadly he had a stroke some years ago, so now shuffles around and can only use one arm, so what he grows and looks after is more limited.

[J-sews]

I refer to both the knife, and the old man who owns it 

I found this extremely well used knife lying around at my parents house. Apparently my step dad uses it to dig out dandylion roots 

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I think I'll make sure it gets buried with him! Is it a Soldier?

That is a fantastic picture Chrissy, thanks for sharing it

[Steinar]

I think this is a better fate than 'dropped in a lake'.

Some day, the lady of the lake, clad in shimmering mail, will arise... with a handful of rusty pocket knives and MTs, and hurl them angrily at the nearest fisherman.

"Keep your crap out of my lake! And I'll be keeping this Charge TTi!"

 

Mandatory quote: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

[Lynn LeFey]

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!

[Neil]

LoL

If I'm honest my first reaction was ... that'd be a fun project.  But sometimes you have to realise you can't save them all   Best to leave it to its retirement task of murdering flowers

Thanks for the pic Chris

[J Mackrel Jones]

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!

Ah but where is your sense of romance?  The masses will reflect their subconscious mythos - and the Sword in the Stone can choose a king.

[Lynn LeFey]

My response was a followup to Steiner's quote, the next line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[J Mackrel Jones]

Please forgive my lack of Monty Python awareness.  What little I have seen is very funny.
For some reason I have always loved the image of the lady's hand rising out the the lake holding a sword...

[Lynn LeFey]

Oh... THIS (skip to the 4 minute mark) ... scene from 'Excalibur', the sword being returned to the Lady.
King Arthur's last moments.

[J Mackrel Jones]

And the sun sets on Camelot...

"Anecdotes, legends, myths, first-person accounts -- people love a
good story. Every story, even a true one, tells as much about Us as about
the person and the events in question. Legendary blades include Excalibur,
which made Arthur King; Occam’s Razor, which divides the essential from
the extraneous; Alexander’s xiphos or kopis, with which he solved the puzzle
of the Gordian Knot; the sword of Damocles, which hung by a thread
over the one-time ruler’s head. As personal, useful, dangerous, and ubiquitous
a tool as The Knife will always have a place in Man’s collective consciousness."
The Swiss Army Knife Owner's Manual

[Sidhartha]

LoL

If I'm honest my first reaction was ... that'd be a fun project.  But sometimes you have to realise you can't save them all   Best to leave it to its retirement task of murdering flowers

Thanks for the pic Chris

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