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- Thu May 09, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: WSJ - Best Chef's Knives
- Replies: 6
- Views: 73
Re: WSJ - Best Chef's Knives
This is my current go-to, a bit of a splurge knife. I didn't really need something this fancy, but I really appreciate American hand made knives, so I had this made custom. I like custom knives so much I plan on getting more in the future, but that will have to wait until I work up the budget for it...
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: C223PYL Sharp Scale Edges?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 100
Re: C223PYL Sharp Scale Edges?
If you can just sandpaper it, I'd just do that and call it good. Probably easier than bothering to mail it out. I took apart my Endura, cut down the first finger bump, and chamfered the inside edges of the handle scales. Now it feels exactly how I want and I didn't have to send it anywhere and wonde...
- Thu May 09, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: WSJ - Best Chef's Knives
- Replies: 6
- Views: 73
Re: WSJ - Best Chef's Knives
Skimming this I am surprised that it seems well informed. None of the info is new to me after having done a deep dive into culinary cutlery about two years ago, but it is quite nice to see an article that is much more educated than what you usually see. All of the knives mentioned are ones that are ...
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Social networks vs. forums - possible return of content to the forums?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 499
Re: Social networks vs. forums - possible return of content to the forums?
Well, I have no problem if that's your opinion, I just can't pretend something that happened, didn't happen after all because "youtube wouldn't do it."
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Social networks vs. forums - possible return of content to the forums?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 499
Re: Social networks vs. forums - possible return of content to the forums?
OK, in simplest terms my instructors got banned for posting gunsmithing videos. This was either intentional or totally arbitrary. Either way it happened, and I'm sure anyone here can infer what they will from that. Or you can assume I'm making it up, which is up to each person's discretion of course.
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Social networks vs. forums - possible return of content to the forums?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 499
Re: Social networks vs. forums - possible return of content to the forums?
And that doesn't mean my instructors didn't get banned.
Watching tanks blow stuff up doesn't teach people how to maintain the tools that we use for defence. Being able to do your own work on firearms to keep them in working order does. They don't care if you are watching useless content.
Watching tanks blow stuff up doesn't teach people how to maintain the tools that we use for defence. Being able to do your own work on firearms to keep them in working order does. They don't care if you are watching useless content.
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Endura w/armorer tool (Not Lone Wolf?)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 339
Re: Endura w/armorer tool (Not Lone Wolf?)
Maybe it just wasn't a Spyderco? That could make sense of it.
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:10 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Social networks vs. forums - possible return of content to the forums?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 499
Re: Social networks vs. forums - possible return of content to the forums?
My gunsmithing instructors had their content banned from youtube, so stuff like this is nothing new to me. And no it is not because they were promoting violent or stupid behavior, they are some of the best instructors in the world. It is really just a continued effort at an anti-weapon agenda, that ...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Victorinox going bladeless
- Replies: 14
- Views: 280
Re: Victorinox going bladeless
You both may be right. I see it as an indicator of the insanity in which we are forced to live. Here, knives are verboten. Yeah, knife laws, obviously bad, but this decision makes sense as far as Victorinox is concerned. I imagine even if the U.S. was the last customer standing for bladed models, t...
- Tue May 07, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Generational Classifications: Do You Identify?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 472
Re: Generational Classifications: Do You Identify?
I guess I'm gen X, but I seem to only get along with people who are 45 years of age or older, so no, I don't seem to fit into the stereotype of my generation. Gen X is approx. 44+, so that sounds quite right. I never think of generational stereotypes in my own relations. There are people who impres...
- Mon May 06, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Manbug doesn‘t safely lock anymore
- Replies: 10
- Views: 531
Re: Manbug doesn‘t safely lock anymore
If you have a few simple tools, taking it apart for farther inspection should be fairly easy for you and might save a you a lot of hassle if you can fix it yourself. Just be reasonably careful about how you position the knife as you disassemble and reassemble, especially when working with the lock s...
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: A New Thread For Axes, Hatchets, Hawks & Other Striking Tools
- Replies: 124
- Views: 29228
Re: A New Thread For Axes, Hatchets, Hawks & Other Striking Tools
I've looked at that Nata before, seems like a pretty cool tool. Your evaluation in actual use is pretty much what I supposed it might be from reading specs. It seems like it could do a pretty good job at multi-tasking if the amount of work you have to do with it isn't excessive. Well, as for me, I g...
- Sun May 05, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Generational Classifications: Do You Identify?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 472
Re: Generational Classifications: Do You Identify?
It's been my personal experience that most of the people born after the year 2000 have a lot to be desired. It seems like that entire generation are nothing but cell phone addicts, computer game addicts along with being extremely lazy for the most part. When you've got people so lazy that when they...
- Sun May 05, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Social networks vs. forums - possible return of content to the forums?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 499
Re: Social networks vs. forums - possible return of content to the forums?
It doesn't surprise me that there are more and more restrictions on what can be discussed on social media platforms like Facebook. I'm talking restrictions on basic interests, like knives, for example. A lot of content creators on YouTube are having to go to other platforms to freely discuss certai...
- Sun May 05, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Generational Classifications: Do You Identify?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 472
Re: Generational Classifications: Do You Identify?
I guess I'm gen X, but I seem to only get along with people who are 45 years of age or older, so no, I don't seem to fit into the stereotype of my generation. I was born a couple generations late it seems. I take people as they are on an individual basis, everyone is different. This is undoubtedly t...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Flattening Whestones
- Replies: 17
- Views: 808
Re: Flattening Whestones
This is what I'd recommend buying from Lee Valley with some loose abrasive if you go that route. It may help to know what make/model of stones you are planning to flatten also. Waterstones, oilstones, Spyderco ceramics, etc... https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/sharpening/100086-glass-lappi...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Community Sharpening Journal
- Replies: 2337
- Views: 380619
Re: Community Sharpening Journal
Maybe your not actually hitting the very edge? Have you tried putting permanent marker on the edge bevel to see where the sharpeners are removing material? That might help if you haven't tried it. Super Blue isn't special in any way, so unless you have a bad heat treat, you should be able to solve t...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:21 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Wanting Some Good Cargo Work Pants
- Replies: 6
- Views: 274
Re: Wanting Some Good Cargo Work Pants
Never heard of them before, I'll have to check them out.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Wanting Some Good Cargo Work Pants
- Replies: 6
- Views: 274
Wanting Some Good Cargo Work Pants
Wondering if anyone has suggestions for some good cargo work pants. There are a lot of good looking "tactical" pants out there these days and I'm not really sure what to think of one brand next to the other. (By the way there is a serious overuse of the word tactical as an adjective for pr...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: The Days of the Milkman May Be Numbered!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 790
Re: The Days of the Milkman May Be Numbered!
Not that I expect the milk I can get from Walmart to be very nutritious anyway, but does powdering reduce the nutritional value of the milk in the process?