Neal, have you tried the Photo & Image Resizer app? Load on your phone, then use it to reduce your image file size last thing before uploading. It's a snap. I use it so the time.I had a lovely shot of these three together on a piece of walnut, but the file size was too big to load, and when I tried to crop on my phone, it started cutting out parts of the knives. Frustrating. Finally get a decent shot, and I can't post itoh well.
Thanks, Neal
Memorable micarta, Dee!What's the background??
Terrific twosome, Dee!
This was my second week of a new category added to my weekly carries: my K.N.I.F.E. (Knife's New - I'm Feeling Exuberant) Knife for this week is a navy blue bone SS Case mini copperhead:
In the kitchen this week (stop me if you've heard this before
Both winners, FLymon, but that White Owl is REALLY special!!
Totin this 77 Wharncliffe Barlow that I got from @Old Engineer! A little trading was taking place on the Porch at Great Eastern!
Morning campers
Piano keys seem to be in play today!
Great photo, Barrett; sweet ebony on your Stallion!
You shoot sporting clays? That's an important plot device in Stephen Hunter's Black Light, another Swagger novel set mostly in Arkansas (but starts in Arizona).
(That's also another interesting coincidence with Hunter's character, although I can assure you that I'm not a retired Marine sniper, and I wasn't even alive during the Vietnam War!)09-20-17 - Bret Dowell Native in Barbed Wire Micarta + a Reese Bose Gent no.9
Travman
, I know I had something complimentary to say about both of your photos, but this is all I see while I'm composing this post...
Travman
, nice shot of your #25! How do you like the Burlap Micarta? I have the same knife, and was pleasantly surprised by the look and texture of mine, and I like it more than I expected to!) 
Looking good Tom.New phone so new camera, can’t tell if it is better or worse
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Gorgeous, Tim. The prototype seems perfect!
Today's carry.
That jigged bone is wearing in real nice!...
That Reese Bose Gent is a stunning knife, Tim! (Also wanted to say that I miss seeing your great photos around here as much as we used to. Good to see you!)
Today I carried my Nifebrite #71 Bull Nose. It'll probably be with me tomorrow, too.
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My thoughts mirror yours. I didn't expect to, but I like it a lot. I received a Northwoods burlap Micarta Little Bay before this Collector Knives #25 which I thought would be my favorite, however I was a little disappointed. I was hoping it would be more like some custom knives with Burlap Micarta that I have seen. I wanted it to have a clear finish so that you can see deep into the material and see the Burlap texture underneath. Instead it had a scuffed surface which obscured the Burlap underneath. If I wet the surface it would be more translucent and give it more depth, but it still wasn't quite as nice as burlap Micarta that we have seen elsewhere. So when the CK version of the Burlap Micarta arrived with the dark brown color I didn't know what to think. It is obviously much darker and you definitely can not see into the material so it does that have any depth. But in the end I like it much better than what was used on the Northwoods version. I like that at first glance you can't tell what it is. It looks like some kind of natural material like wood.
I really think this one is good looking, may be the bolster stamp. May not see much use as I am off loading corn today but I am proud to have it in my pocket
Oh love (cover )
tell me
whisper your tales
to me
shivers
never ending moments
don't want to know how it feels without you
spend another minute passing by you
tell me
tell me your tales
I wanna believe
that we're already here
Even when I carry and post pics of different knives, I'll still always have one of my favourite users on me. That small group of three or four stalwarts rarely changes, but I guess posting pics of the same knives all the time would get boring for you all! My Pioneer's definitely a core permanent.
I'm glad to see that Tom did his usual superb work, regrinding your Queen. I remember back when we were chatting about that, before you sent it off. How do you like it, compared to how it was? I've thinned out the blades, behind the edge on my Queens as well - they don't look as nice as that, but boy are they fantastic cutters! You've inspired me to carry my beat up No. 9 Stockman tomorrow, which is another core favourite of mine.Well, if O.G. means Old Guy, you've got quite an accurate mental picture, Chin!
Interesting photos of the grenade launchers. My ability to read German has all but disappeared from disuse over the past 50 years, but it looks like the "plumb bob" SAK is used to measure angle of inclination??
) As in:'That GT's the OG of the BF EDC thread!'
Beautiful drop point Parker, Cambertree. Our deer season starts next month and sharpening is on my list.Beautiful mood you captured there, Gev - I love that wistful, nostalgic, magic hour light - it complements that Barlow perfectly.
Same here, HST.
Hey Neal! How's things, my friend?
Ha ha, I guess I'm showing my age GT: I think 'O.G.' was a street term, first popularised in Ice T's eponymous 1991 album, Original Gangster, which was very popular here in Melbourne. The kids these days seem to use it much more loosely, as a general term of approval for someone who epitomises a particular ideal "behavior, looks, or both, as well as a connection to the past or being older: commonly used as a sign of respect." (From that fount of authoritative definitions, Wikipedia.
Ah, I knew you had a bit of German, and I was hoping you might be able to read some of that manual. Yes, that seems to be how it was used. I think Swissbianco said, that when he did his Swiss Army service, the SAK Soldier was supposed to be carried in the left breast pocket. Apparently it fell out of use as an angle guide, when modular grenade launcher attachments were phased in. But, I guess what we can take from this, is an Alox SAK makes a decent plumb bob, in addition to all its other virtues!
Well, I wasn't strictly totin' this today, but I decided to bring it out for a bit of a sharpen, as we get near the end of another years deer hunting in which it's served well.
It was Stagurday for yesterday!
