JohnDF
Gold Member
- Joined
- May 14, 2018
- Messages
- 28,337
"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")
- Thread starter jackknife
- Start date
r8shell
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2010
- Messages
- 23,968
screened porch
Basic Member
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2012
- Messages
- 16,859
I like your sig line.
JTB_5
Gold Member
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2017
- Messages
- 7,813
A few weeks ago, @meako posted a video here of himself, saying he would give a prize to the first one who guessed whom he was imitating. I watched the video, and immediately said "Ali." I was right, because Jon requested my mailing address. I had forgotten all about it, but received this in the mail a couple of days ago:
A handmade frame from recycled Australian hardwood, with a "mystery 'fire' photo"! Jon said I could put whatever picture I wanted in the frame, but he asked if I could guess what the photo was of. I am baffled. I did guess a close-up of a gang-gang cockatoo, because of the colors, but it is probably wrong. What could it be?
Anyway, I thank you for the prize, Jon, and will probably keep the mystery photo in the frame.
Not this, but similar.
5K Qs
Gold Member
- Joined
- Jul 20, 2014
- Messages
- 13,854
Vince, might it be a continuation of the boxing theme represented in @meako's Ali video? If so, I vote for the inimitable Don King running around with his hair on fire!A few weeks ago, @meako posted a video here of himself, saying he would give a prize to the first one who guessed whom he was imitating. I watched the video, and immediately said "Ali." I was right, because Jon requested my mailing address. I had forgotten all about it, but received this in the mail a couple of days ago:
A handmade frame from recycled Australian hardwood, with a "mystery 'fire' photo"! Jon said I could put whatever picture I wanted in the frame, but he asked if I could guess what the photo was of. I am baffled. I did guess a close-up of a gang-gang cockatoo, because of the colors, but it is probably wrong. What could it be?
Anyway, I thank you for the prize, Jon, and will probably keep the mystery photo in the frame.
- GT
Will Power
Gold Member
- Joined
- Jan 18, 2007
- Messages
- 31,484
Just watch out that meako doesn't send you something large in the International Post with conspicuous breathing holes...it could be one of those huge snakes he likes to bond with And it will be likely hungry
And it will be likely hungry 
Prester John
Gold Member
- Joined
- May 20, 2018
- Messages
- 13,552
Just watch out that meako doesn't send you something large in the International Post with conspicuous breathing holes...it could be one of those huge snakes he likes to bond with
screened porch
Basic Member
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2012
- Messages
- 16,859
Half price day. This Hong Kong cleaver might even be worth the whole $2.
An antique mall:
Strange pricing: $3 for the Case, $10 for the Colonial, $5 for the unmarked trapezoidal puukko, $10 for the black Solingen, and $18 for the all-metal Kutmaster.
Last edited:
Prester John
Gold Member
- Joined
- May 20, 2018
- Messages
- 13,552
Maybe I should hit an antique mall myself this week. Or maybe I'll wait till I don't have to wear a mask. Nice finds.
Half price day. This Hong Kong cleaver might even be worth the whole $2.
An antique mall:
Strange pricing: $3 for the Case, $10 for the Colonial, $5 for the unmarked trapezoidal puukko, $10 for the black Solingen, and $18 for the all-metal Kutmaster.
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2006
- Messages
- 38,782
Highly recommended.
We ain't lost nobody yet and we ain't gonna.
dantzk8
Basic Member
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2005
- Messages
- 1,787
The exact word is " rhomboidal cross section". Those puukkot are excellent wood carvers when it comes to make concave cuts. Looks like it's an interesting knife.
Great deal on those finds. Congrats.
Dan.
screened porch
Basic Member
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2012
- Messages
- 16,859
Thanks.
- Joined
- Dec 2, 2005
- Messages
- 65,458
My daughter texted me yesterday PM. Dashboard temperature display in Albuquerque, NM.
JohnDF
Gold Member
- Joined
- May 14, 2018
- Messages
- 28,337
I should have taken a picture of mine yesterday at 109 degrees. Just too dang hot!!!
- Joined
- Sep 2, 2004
- Messages
- 17,469
We hit 100F here in Syracuse on Friday. Too dang hot for me! The Central Air was running all day and night.
I'm going to have to talk with my daughter. I just noticed it appears she was taking a picture and maybe texting while driving, although she was going pretty slow.
JohnDF
Gold Member
- Joined
- May 14, 2018
- Messages
- 28,337
Uh oh...
- Joined
- Dec 2, 2005
- Messages
- 65,458
I'm going to have to talk with my daughter. I just noticed it appears she was taking a picture and maybe texting while driving, although she was going pretty slow.
Chiclets!
Will Power
Gold Member
- Joined
- Jan 18, 2007
- Messages
- 31,484
Looking at that nice dashboard pic for a moment thought it read 108 C Not much car or people left if that were the case
Hottest I've ever been in was 43 C in France and a walk on the street seemed like your lungs were going to melt Heard it can reach 50C in India though....
Conversely, the COLDEST I've ever been in was in the last century in a town in N.Finland called Oulu one morning in January I was walking to work in -42C* that's right MINUS 42C and I wondered if I was going to make it......did
* That's around -44 Fahrenheit/ 76 degrees of frost, in that bizarre temperature system the Americans and some British still cling to
Not much car or people left if that were the case Hottest I've ever been in was 43 C in France and a walk on the street seemed like your lungs were going to melt
Heard it can reach 50C in India though....Conversely, the COLDEST I've ever been in was in the last century in a town in N.Finland called Oulu one morning in January I was walking to work in -42C* that's right MINUS 42C and I wondered if I was going to make it......did
* That's around -44 Fahrenheit/ 76 degrees of frost, in that bizarre temperature system the Americans and some British still cling to