What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Ironbut said:
Sometimes I wonder how I got everything done while I was working all those years of overtime, because ever since I retired there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day. It couldn't be that I've slowed down.:)
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1) "Fewer outside of work activities" before retirement?

2) What is "overtime"? I was on salary. 0 to 120 hours a week paid the same. (for 7 years I averaged 120 hours a seven day week at our three locations. Friday and Saturday were the worst. worked from 06:00 to 05:00 on Friday, 12:00 to 05:00 on Saturday.
Only 06:30 to 20:00 Sunday to Friday at the convenience store, then 20:30 to 03:30 at the club ither collecting cover or as bar back at the night club.
There were a few 30-45 hour work days in the 35 years I was with that company, as well.

I used to get the opening week of deer season, and Spoonbill Catfish season off when we were in Wichita.
I hunted and fished in Missouri. (I loathed Kansas. Never got a KS. (or Nevada, which I liked almost as much as KS.) driver's license.)
When my TN. license expired after we moved the store to Wichita, I got a MO. license, using my mum's address.
Renewed via postal ("valid without a photo") after we went to the Lost Wages, NV, area, to take over a used car dealership in Henderson.
 
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Ironbut said:
Sometimes I wonder how I got everything done while I was working all those years of overtime, because ever since I retired there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day. It couldn't be that I've slowed down.:)
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Now try to imagine raising a couple or three little Ironbuts at the same time!😳
JW225 said:
One from Chris Sharp today…

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Love the swedge on this one🤙
DaveHS said:
It’s the Jumbo 3299 1/2. Just a touch over 4” closed
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So it's the same size and almost as good lookin as a Camillus 23! 😎
 
Amir Fleschwund said:
One of my #23 Jacks, and Victorinox Pioneer today. Since I store my three 23s on top of a cigar box instead of inside, Ivoroid/French Ivory is celluloid, they are always taunting me when I open the knife drawer ~ "Pick Me!"

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This Telecaster®️Copy body is Western Red Cedar. It used to be our fireplace mantle before Mrs Fleschwund asked me to replace it. I originally wanted it to be Seafoam Green, so had sprayed dozens of coats of nitrocellulose lacquer. Recently got back to working on it, and realized I was unhappy with it. Stripped it off yesterday. I have decided it's going to be a translucent white blond using nothing but shellac. Nitro is a superior guitar finish, but the fumes when spraying are really bad stuff. My cartridge mask doesn't do so well since I have a beard, and my garage lacks a proper spray booth with safe ventilation. Shellac is something I can do at the dining room table. Non toxic. And in my experience, plenty durable as long as you don't spill alcohol on it. I don't drink or perform in bars with sloppy drunks (although that can be fun), and if I dribble coffee on it, it won't hurt it.
So I have a mason jar of shellac flakes dissolved in alcohol ready. Just need to mix in a little white tint.
And I am cussing myself for not taping off those routed cavities before spraying. Live 'n learn.
Vik says it's pretty wood, so she agrees I should let it show. When it was our mantle, it was rough sawn and stained dark, which is why she did not like it.
Now:
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Before stripping:
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I have hobbies and "jobs" to do, which I reccommend for all of my retired friends. Between my hobbies and raising a GSD puppy, the only time I watch tv is old Matlock and Perry Mason reruns while we eat supper (dinner in some parts of the country).
Have a fine fall day.
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That is some seriously beautiful grain in that nekkid cedar. Great call taking the green paint off!
 
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