Surviors! Off Topic & Nonsense talk thread!

grogimus said:
'Good man' is arguable :p I want to find a way to put my niece and nephews into the name because they're right up there with my dog as the most important beings on the planet for me but that just doesn't work with a name!

Losing people is a strange thing. I had a crazy knife nut uncle who loved me very much and a crazy leatherworker uncle who loved me very much. They tried hard to get me to appreciate what they were doing and I didn't get on board. I can't even imagine how much I lost by not sitting at their feet and learning everything I could. I retained enough to want to get back at it when they were gone though and I feel like every time I turn out a piece of leather or a knife I'm connecting with them. I don't think I'll ever make what they wanted to make or anything but it is a tether to people gone too soon. For me. When you think about it, thinking is stupid sometimes.

Oh, Casino.. it's weird if you aren't sharking something from underneath my feet, quit being nice, I don't know how to reciprocate :p.

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I agree! WTF was I thinking?! Sometimes I become hormonal in my old age though! Ooooh, look at that lil fluff ball :p
 
Hard Knocks said:
Lol. It's much better than just 'not sucking' bud :) Just keep your eye on Casino, sounds like he's up to something to me ;) :D
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That MoFo! Let me go to check on him. Kids these days! Can't leave 'em unsupervised without them peeing into something where they ought not! :D
 
They were good and I was hungry. ....Or maybe they were good because I was hungry...lol
 
Son of a Bisquik! It's sunlight, time to sleep. I still want to hear about cooking those trout whole.

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My killer Pit Bull Lucas taking a load off after his walk this morning with my daughter's 12 y.o. rescued mutt.
 
McVeyMac said:
My killer Pit Bull Lucas taking a load off after his walk this morning with my daughter's 12 y.o. rescued mutt.
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Looks like Lucas is fitting right in :thumbup:

grogimus said:
I still want to hear about cooking those trout whole.
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Lol. I do it that way because, well, that's the only way I know how to do it! They don't have big scales like perch or bass, and those pan-fryers are so small you can't really fillet them off. So I just gut them, cut their heads off and fry them rolled in corn meal. After they're cooked, the meat falls away from the bone, and you can choose to crunch up the tails or not! :D
 
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My first time using a Texas rig on a plastic and I'm doing something wrong. I was able to cruise it through the weeds easy enough but had several hard hits where they just seemed to let go. One was on for a couple minutes and turned the kayak around. Nothing was getting brought in though.

Good way to spend a Monday regardless. Back to the Mepps spinners next time!

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Have you ever tried a weedless hook for that? We used to fish Lake Coeur d' Alene that way for largemouth in the toolies with a blue rubber worm and it was pretty effective. I always had trouble getting the hook set through the rubber with the Texas rig.
 
The ones we used looked like this (sorry for the gigantic picture, just pulled it off the web):

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This kind pictured below was still prone to snag:

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It takes quite a bit to get the hook set with the hook imbedded in a worm as in a Texas rig. Take the slack out as you lower the rod to the water, and give her hell. Don't tip the Kayak though. My worst day of fishing was better...
 
I posted a while back that I was a traitorous sumbitch and bought an Ambush Tundra. The handle is comfortable, I like the blade shape, it seemed a good play. I could kinda saw/shave hair on a spot on the belly but not the best edge.

I decided to put a usable edge on it with the KME at 20 degrees. I wish I'd measured the blade behind the edge before I started working it down, holy crap. 3 hours last night and one hour so far tonight with the 100 grit stone.

Collateral damage. Losing a lot of primo steel here.

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Threw an angle gauge on the KME rod. It's set at 20 but it all depends on where the blade is set.

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22 degrees is being generous. And an even reprofiling is showing some awfully big grind thickness deviations. The Sharpie doesn't lie.

The handle is still comfortable, I still love the blade shape, can't go wrong with 3V steel, but I've never spent this much money on a knife with such a thick axe-like edge. That's coming from someone with a pile of Busse and kin knives. The more work I do on it the more I think it's going to be horrendously thick behind the new edge.

More to come hopefully. I wish chiral had gotten one of these to do his awesome work on. I'd send it to him but with what I've already done it'd ruin any review 'from the box'.

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Silly question perhaps, but how do you absolutely trust whatever steel that states CPM-3V to be actually CPM-3V steel?!
 
Casinostocks said:
Silly question perhaps, but how do you absolutely trust whatever steel that states CPM-3V to be actually CPM-3V steel?!
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I don't trust anyone about anything, but considering what a m$@$f#$$8er it has been to reprofile this it sure as hell isn't AUS-8. [emoji12]

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More seriously though, Ambush is made by Bark River. They've had a lot of complaints but I think they're a reliable, reputable company.

Just a reliable, reputable company that made some fat assed knives in this case.

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Casinostocks said:
Silly question perhaps, but how do you absolutely trust whatever steel that states CPM-3V to be actually CPM-3V steel?!
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Hey now, I was just thinking, this is as weird a thought as you asking people to be nice and only buy one of a hotly pursued CPK model. You crazy guy. [emoji2]

Totally agree with that proposal over there btw.
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