Christmas Knives? At work?

[stabman]

Worked Christmas midnight shift. Back in tonight...yay!

The rush of hours was late in the year, so no new knives for Christmas; but Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without knives.
Besides, you might need one...never know.

Christmas was stupid warm this year.
Needed Spyderco Military to fend off a Christmas slug:

But wait, I fended it off! Perhaps I will now starve...
Need "Survival Knife"!
This TOPS Tom Brown Tracker 4 will help me harvest the Christmas protein I need...

Of course you need a knife with a cross on it, because Jesus.

And must check how the Tracker is doing after all that slug combat:

So there you have it, a night/morning filled with Slugtastic Christmas Knives and cheer.

Feel free to post any of your Christmas knives, new, sluggy, worky or quirky.

 

[PenisMightier]

Worked Christmas midnight shift. Back in tonight...yay!

The rush of hours was late in the year, so no new knives for Christmas; but Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without knives.
Besides, you might need one...never know.

Christmas was stupid warm this year.
Needed Spyderco Military to fend off a Christmas slug:

But wait, I fended it off! Perhaps I will now starve...
Need "Survival Knife"!
This TOPS Tom Brown Tracker 4 will help me harvest the Christmas protein I need...

Of course you need a knife with a cross on it, because Jesus.

And must check how the Tracker is doing after all that slug combat:

So there you have it, a night/morning filled with Slugtastic Christmas Knives and cheer.

Feel free to post any of your Christmas knives, new, sluggy, worky or quirky.

I hope your work is an easy one tonight!

How do you like that Le Select? I love the bolsters and handles on it and almost bought one for Christmas, but there aren't a lot of reviews on them out there, so I did not.

Also do not get in an altercation with a man with that knife. I have a feeling that STABMAN might not go over well lol.

 

[scorpnsnake]

Also do not get in an altercation with a man with that knife. I have a feeling that STABMAN might not go over well lol.

Nombre.. My barber, a combat vet, had to pull his Infidel on a sketchy crackhead that assaulted him. No knife to flesh contact occurred. Cops took it and told him he could pick it up in two years, if said crackhead didn't file assault charges meantime. The profiling of knife folks is real.

 

[PenisMightier]

Nombre.. My barber, a combat vet, had to pull his Infidel on a sketchy crackhead that assaulted him. No knife to flesh contact occurred. Cops took it and told him he could pick it up in two years, if said crackhead didn't file assault charges meantime. The profiling of knife folks is real.

That's rough!

I was at my department work Christmas and we had a White Elephant gifting with it. When it was a coworkers turn to open their gift they asked if anyone had a knife to open the box, so I was trying to be nice and offer mine up to use. While they did use it, other people in the room joked oh no he could kill us, and one person asked if it was even ok to carry one. One person did pipe up that they thought it was ok as long as it was below four inches. Thankfully I did not get reported to HR, but it was kind of eye opening when I was just trying to be nice.

Also carry for today was the same knife as the story in question, a Case medium Texas toothpick made with jade bone and kinfolk jigged.

 

[norcalAF]

That's rough!

I was at my department work Christmas and we had a White Elephant gifting with it. When it was a coworkers turn to open their gift they asked if anyone had a knife to open the box, so I was trying to be nice and offer mine up to use. While they did use it, other people in the room joked oh no he could kill us, and one person asked if it was even ok to carry one. One person did pipe up that they thought it was ok as long as it was below four inches. Thankfully I did not get reported to HR, but it was kind of eye opening when I was just trying to be nice.

Also carry for today was the same knife as the story in question, a Case medium Texas toothpick made with jade bone and kinfolk jigged.

I work in construction management, and for some weird reason am the only one in the office that carries a knife. Makes me shake my head when all the dudes ask me to open boxes for them. Just want to add that every time I see your screen name, I get a chuckle

 

[steelhead seeker]

We had a very knife'y Christmas this year. My wife's son is home on leave from Germany and after leave is going to Ft.Lewis (closer to home finally). Anyways he wanted a good knife he could beat on so we got him an esee 4 for that and also a digi cam pm3. I commented to my wife I liked that pm3 more than my LW one so she secretly picked me one up to. My wife also got me a buck 113 from the custom shop with the silver bolster and blue handle. We also picked up her other son a g10 manix. I had also ordered a bradford guardian 3 from blade hq for myself but after a week of it not shipping it out I tried to cancel the order and just snagged one off the exchange here. Well blade hq "shipped" it the day after I tried to cancel it even though tracking showed it didn't ship for an additional 3 days after that. So now I got 2 guardian 3's. Ones going to my wife for Xmas lol. There were also a couple Kershaws gotten and a few other cheaper knives. Overall a very blade'y Xmas.

 

[PenisMightier]

I work in construction management, and for some weird reason am the only one in the office that carries a knife. Makes me shake my head when all the dudes ask me to open boxes for them. Just want to add that every time I see your screen name, I get a chuckle

That is odd, anyone I have met that is in construction tends to carry a knife. With more people buying stuff increasingly online, it really does surprise me more people don't carry a knife or some kind of SAK just for opening boxes.

Lol, I am glad my name can make people chuckle. The world always needs more humor.

 

[jmh33]

So glad I am retired!!
John

 

[stabman]

I hope your work is an easy one tonight!

How do you like that Le Select? I love the bolsters and handles on it and almost bought one for Christmas, but there aren't a lot of reviews on them out there, so I did not.

Also do not get in an altercation with a man with that knife. I have a feeling that STABMAN might not go over well lol.

Work was very easy.

I like Le Select. Have another one with Buffalo horn scales that I bought from a dealer here. The stag handle one I ordered direct from the company that makes it, so was able to chose everything I wanted, from filework, to blade finish, handle material, etc.

Here is the buffalo horn one, which has been used at times:

Had to work the horn with some sanding and oil when I got it, and the backspring was WAY too strong on it.
Like most traditional French Folders, if you let it close on its own, the blade bashes into the backspring. The tension was so strong that even when holding it tightly to close it, sometimes it would slip out, and bash away about 3/8" of edge. This got tiring (lots of sharpening practice though), So I reduced spring tension by overextending it the other direction. Now it has great tension, and an easily maintained semi-mirror finish due to the hand sanding I did on it while getting it the way I like.

The one I got direct from France is nicer, but both fit the hand very nicely. Quite comfortable to use.

And yes, I think the cops might not like the STABMAN engraving the most.

 

[HwangJino]

Man, I need a job!

 

[PenisMightier]

Work was very easy.

I like Le Select. Have another one with Buffalo horn scales that I bought from a dealer here. The stag handle one I ordered direct from the company that makes it, so was able to chose everything I wanted, from filework, to blade finish, handle material, etc.

Here is the buffalo horn one, which has been used at times:

Had to work the horn with some sanding and oil when I got it, and the backspring was WAY too strong on it.
Like most traditional French Folders, if you let it close on its own, the blade bashes into the backspring. The tension was so strong that even when holding it tightly to close it, sometimes it would slip out, and bash away about 3/8" of edge. This got tiring (lots of sharpening practice though), So I reduced spring tension by overextending it the other direction. Now it has great tension, and an easily maintained semi-mirror finish due to the hand sanding I did on it while getting it the way I like.

The one I got direct from France is nicer, but both fit the hand very nicely. Quite comfortable to use.

And yes, I think the cops might not like the STABMAN engraving the most.

Glad to hear it was an easy one for you.

Thanks for the reply and all the info, I really appreciate it! Also that buffalo horn Le Select is a handsome one.

 

[stabman]

Keeping with the theme...for Boxing Day, I ended up in a boxing match with a deadly Boxing Day snail (it is getting way too warm around here...)
Luckily, I had my Ti-EDC "self-defense" ring:

You can see that it knew it was outmatched, and forfeited.

Just so everyone knows, all those "self-defense rings" are useless as weapons...they are just rings.
Whatever finger you wear it on, all it will do is help you sprain your finger more efficiently.

 

[stabman]

Now for New Year's...
On the 29th, I went to my father's place, and after dinner traded him an old Monarch slip-joint (a big one) for a knife he had designed.
I took pictures of it at work as I worked my midnight shift for New Year's.

This was the first one made to his design, back in about 1992. Made by a knifemaker by the name of George Dmowski, who was big in the gun show circuit here around then. He was 66 years old when he made this.

You can see that the sheath has the strap come around the rear guard, so you don't cut it upon the draw:

Belt clip:

There are some leather bits on the blade as I forgot to wipe it off. Sheath is getting a bit dry (conditioned it when I got home after work):

Handle shots showing antler:

as he was 66 at the time and had never seen a tanto before, the tip was...interesting:

Very stabby though.

My dad had more made.
George always did struggle a bit at getting that tanto tip exact, but on the final one he did get it pretty much exact. My dad still has that one.

 

[stabman]

The stock started as 0.187" thick, but George wanted it to cut, so he surface ground the middle down to 0.157" thick.
You can see the cool groove it makes, leaving the guard thicker and standing proud:

More close-ups:

And it fits in your hand.

Reverse grip edge in:

Reverse grip edge out:

Forward grip edge up/in:

Forward grip edge out:

Knife!!!

 

[stabman]

Tanto ended up with 3.5 inch blade, with 3 inch cutting edge.
Dad had wanted a 3 inch blade, but I believe initially George thought of blade length defined as the section that will cut things.
Some of the later iterations did end up at 3 inch length, and were primary carry knives for my dad for quite some time.