Beautiful mood you captured there, Gev - I love that wistful, nostalgic, magic hour light - it complements that Barlow perfectly.
Same here, HST.
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.
Hey Neal! How's things, my friend?
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.
Ha ha, I guess I'm showing my age GT: I think 'O.G.' was a street term, first popularised in Ice T's 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.
) As in:'That GT's the OG of the BF EDC thread!'
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.
Cambertree
, whitetails it is (though am heading to S. Dakota for pheasants in mid-October). OK, back to knives.
Today I'm carrying my, new to me, Schrade U.S.A., 8OT. I picked this up yesterday, at a gun show, for $8.00! This morning I cleaned it up a little, sharpened all 3 blades, and applied a little oil. The blades are all snappy, and without any wobble. Finds like these are what keep me going!
Peregrin , that's a terrific trio, Gary. They look really cool; maybe that will help with the heat.
