"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

[knarfeng]

This is the bird that we hear in all jungle movies right? And I also heard one on an episode of Wagon Train when Flint McCullough was kidnapped and held hostage in a tree fort.

Jon was kind enough to send me a recording Kookaburra birds that he made in his back yard. It sounds like this:

 

[Jolipapa]

Yes @veitsi_poika ..that and the peacock...
Probably the only 2 recordings they had bavk in ye old days of Hollywood.

Bargain bundle with the ring tone.

 

[screened porch]

Very cool. I would be willing to bet it stands for Imperial Knife Company.

I think so, too. I associate it more with the solid handles they made earlier.

 

[Jack Black]

My mother used to quote, "Everyone's crazy but me and thee. And sometimes I worry about thee."

As I grow older, I agree more and more.

Was your mother from Yorkshire Frank?!

 

[knarfeng]

Was your mother from Yorkshire Frank?!

San Francisco, but her father was from Glasgow and had worked in the shipyards as a young man. So, I imagine she grew up familiar with the phrase.

 

[Jack Black]

San Francisco, but her father was from Glasgow and had worked in the shipyards as a young man. So, I imagine she grew up familiar with the phrase.

That's very interesting Frank

 

[screened porch]

My Horsewright wildrag arrived (Thanks Dave and Nichole). It will take me a while to learn how to wear it. Maybe they'll have some ideas at the bank.

 

[jc57]

My Horsewright wildrag arrived (Thanks Dave and Nichole). It will take me a while to learn how to wear it. Maybe they'll have some ideas at the bank.

That will certainly help with social distancing. I know I would give you a wide berth.

 

[screened porch]

That will certainly help with social distancing. I know I would give you a wide berth.

It's really quite a handy thing. It stays where I put it and tightens or loosens quickly and easily.
Not a common sight on my local streets, but I've realized that being old in America is like being a foreigner in small-town Japan forty years ago. You will look strange to the natives no matter how hard you try, so don't worry about it.
And I'm too old to put the aesthetic experience of others before my own comfort.

I think I'll rewatch some Robert Duval movies for pointers.

 

[Horsewright]

It's really quite a handy thing. It stays where I put it and tightens or loosens quickly and easily.
Not a common sight on my local streets, but I've realized that being old in America is like being a foreigner in small-town Japan forty years ago. You will look strange to the natives no matter how hard you try, so don't worry about it.
And I'm too old to put the aesthetic experience of others before my own comfort.

I think I'll rewatch some Robert Duval movies for pointers.

My buddy wrote a little deal on his blog about the same thing, kinda funny. Good read:

http://readjamesonparker.com/archives/4712

This lockdown makes me wonder if we're out of the wildrag and vest business. I really have a hard time seeing those little stores in the LA Garment District making it through all this. The sandwashed silk was becoming extremely rare anyway. They'd stopped making it after that tsunami years ago and never started back up again.

Thanks!

 

[screened porch]

My buddy wrote a little deal on his blog about the same thing, kinda funny. Good read:

http://readjamesonparker.com/archives/4712

This lockdown makes me wonder if we're out of the wildrag and vest business. I really have a hard time seeing those little stores in the LA Garment District making it through all this. The sandwashed silk was becoming extremely rare anyway. They'd stopped making it after that tsunami years ago and never started back up again.

Thanks!

That's terrible news. I don't know what sandwashed means (I'll google it), but it sure feels nice. Maybe I should get a spare before it's too late.

I chickened out on the bank, but wore it to the nature center and an antique mall this morning.

 

[screened porch]

It means to wash with sand, by the way, like cartridge brass or rocks in a tumbler.

 

[jackknife]

It's really quite a handy thing. It stays where I put it and tightens or loosens quickly and easily.
Not a common sight on my local streets, but I've realized that being old in America is like being a foreigner in small-town Japan forty years ago. You will look strange to the natives no matter how hard you try, so don't worry about it.
And I'm too old to put the aesthetic experience of others before my own comfort.

I think I'll rewatch some Robert Duval movies for pointers.

Yes, times have changed. Greatly. We old folks don't really fit in and sometimes stand out. Greatly. I don't understand style these days at all. Most of all poking holes in various parts of ones face to stick studs into.

Duval is good, but I've been working on improving my curmudgeon attitude by rewatching Clint Eastwoods Gran Torino.

 

[screened porch]

Yes, times have changed. Greatly. We old folks don't really fit in and sometimes stand out. Greatly. I don't understand style these days at all. Most of all poking holes in various parts of ones face to stick studs into.

Duval is good, but I've been working on improving my curmudgeon attitude by rewatching Clint Eastwoods Gran Torino.

Unforgiven will work better for my kerchief questions. Or Rawhide.

 

[Prester John]

Duval is good, but I've been working on improving my curmudgeon attitude by rewatching Clint Eastwoods Gran Torino.

Josey Wales is good too.

 

[screened porch]

I don't think he wore a bandana in his poncho days. Hang 'em High, though.

I hope my enthusiasm holds. I just ordered two more wildrags.

 

[Horsewright]

I don't think he wore a bandana in his poncho days. Hang 'em High, though.

I hope my enthusiasm holds. I just ordered two more wildrags.

Wish we had more to offer you like the good ol days. Vests and wildrags were the first things that we ever made to sell.

My wife Nichole shopping for silk at the LA Garment District, or the toilet bowl of America as she calls it.

 

[screened porch]

Wish we had more to offer you like the good ol days. Vests and wildrags were the first things that we ever made to sell.

My wife Nichole shopping for silk at the LA Garment District, or the toilet bowl of America as she calls it.

Fingers crossed for better new days.

 

[WhittlinAway]

My Horsewright wildrag arrived (Thanks Dave and Nichole). It will take me a while to learn how to wear it. Maybe they'll have some ideas at the bank.

It's really quite a handy thing. It stays where I put it and tightens or loosens quickly and easily.

Well, Jer, you convinced me! Placed my order this morning.

This lockdown makes me wonder if we're out of the wildrag and vest business. I really have a hard time seeing those little stores in the LA Garment District making it through all this. The sandwashed silk was becoming extremely rare anyway. They'd stopped making it after that tsunami years ago and never started back up again.

Sorry to hear that, Dave.

Dave, when you write your memoir, I hope that you include a lot of photos. As much as I like seeing your beautifully photographed knives, I enjoy your photos of people at work and at play even more.

 

[Horsewright]

Fingers crossed for better new days.

Me too!!

Well, Jer, you convinced me! Placed my order this morning.



Sorry to hear that, Dave.



Dave, when you write your memoir, I hope that you include a lot of photos. As much as I like seeing your beautifully photographed knives, I enjoy your photos of people at work and at play even more.

Thanks and will do!