The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Fantastic Bob, they're great knives
Another spectacular pic Steve, well done
I can see these being as popular round here as those Knipex water-pump pliers were a few years back!
That's amazing Leon, I'd love to see itI don't think I ever watched an episode of Foyle's War
Cool pic of Violet Mitch
what have I done 
I found the small Knipex pliers less useful than I anticipated, and they're currently lost somewhere in the depths of the clutter of Grumble Towers. I did get some decent Knipex wire-cutters thoughI think I'll be safe, but then I guess I never bought the knipexes either. I did look for something smaller and cheaper, without success. So maybe I'll get them yet.
I have a couple extra days off this week. I must get my new glasses, and some new c-pap harness. Today I'll order the glasses and fill my yard waste dumpster, and keep working on my tai chi. I'm almost 2/3 into the 108 moves. I should be able to make a bit of a jump when I've got the current complicated bit down. Thank the good Lord for you-tube.
It looks like next month the class I haven't been going to will be moving to my own church, five minutes' walk from home, on a day I have to be at church later anyway. Then I'll see if I feel I get anything out of being bossed around en masse.
[I went back and took two better pictures in better light, but I'll save them for tomorrow and tomorrow.]
While I was in town, I was going to make an appointment at the opticians, but there were about 10 people waiting, so I kept on walking. Went to get some cash out of the bank, and they said I could only withdraw £50 because they hadn't had any cash delivered! 
Glad to hear it, Bob! I’m catching up after the wedding week madness. Son in law gave me a beautiful knife as a thank you gift. Not aso I’ll post this pic instead:View attachment 2913728
Yes sir. Thanks for asking. I have a fun little story to tell with it but have been too busy this week to write it up. I’ll post soon!
The bank hadn't had any cash delivered?! That's pretty scary.I found the small Knipex pliers less useful than I anticipated, and they're currently lost somewhere in the depths of the clutter of Grumble Towers. I did get some decent Knipex wire-cutters though
You lead a busy life my friend
Great catch Tyson.Emergency repost because we were off the front page!
I can see these being as popular round here as those Knipex water-pump pliers were a few years back!
I remember that. Another path they are trying to force us down.Went to get some cash out of the bank, and they said I could only withdraw £50 because they hadn't had any cash delivered!
Another spectacular pic Steve, well done
Good morning Guardians, I hope everyone's week got off to a flying start. Still hot here, nice to get a summer!I definitely need to go into town today, and so far I don't have any work, so I think I'll head out early
Have a great day Guardians
Saynor Lambsfoot, I haven't carried in a while
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Yeah, that's them.Evening Guardians! Not much going on around here. Watching NCIS reruns. Hope y'all had a good day. Happy trails
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You getting the heavy rain ????Afternoon all
We have it's eased off in the past couple of hours.
Very nice DaveIn the meantime, I’m delighted to have the new TU magazine in for reading and Charlie’s
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I imagine you get TU on subscription, but I miss going into a great magazine shop, we just don't have them anymore here Crazy eh? Not as crazy as a documentary I watched about banking in Lebanon, where they stopped allowing people to withdraw money at all, and customers were having to go in, in groups, brandishing guns, to withdraw money from their own accounts!
Very interesting Jer, I don't recall the word 'cartomancy' being used in this thread beforeI'm about over a flirtation with tarot enthusiasm.
I haven't unwrapped these cards, but if we can believe the author of this little book, our four-suit playing cards are older than the major trumps, which first (as far as we know) appear in the Visconti-Sforza deck of ca 1440, which deck became the Marseilles deck (minus V-S's ladies and damsels of the minor trump suits), so called because somebody popularized it there in 1760.
Then in the early 1900s the Marseilles deck was revised into the most popular deck today, the Rider Waite (Coleman) Smith deck. It took me a while to track down Rider, who, if I remember correctly, was the publisher/printer of the Waite-Coleman Smith deck. Waite was a professor of something, and Coleman Smith was the illustrator. They were both members of the Golden Dawn, and, I think, the Builders of the Adytum, which I think of as early New Agers.
So if one were serious about cartomancy, one might skip the modern archetypal images and go back to the poker deck. It would still be a lot of work, and life is short.
But, whatever floats one's boat.
I've read that the earliest use of 'face card' is attributed to Joseph Mather, the Sheffield cutlers' favourite poet Well done TysonEmergency repost because we were off the front page!
Cool pic
Another path they are trying to force us down.
Thanks Steve
Quality IXL buddy
Probably more useful than the tiny ones I haveEvening Guardians! Not much going on around here. Watching NCIS reruns. Hope y'all had a good day. Happy trails
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Nice shot David Looking good MitchViolet
Violet is very photogenic my friendAfternoon all
