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Naperville wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:56 am

Hoppes # 9 may not be digestible but it sure smells good.

well said buddy!

For work where I have to use a declared food safe option I use Frog Lube and it’s ok. Interesting to see how it outperforms Tuf-Glide on that chart as I’d always assumed Tuf was better but stinkier.

@sal email to Wendy sent 👍🏻

Please feel free to stick in a list of any specific information or feedback you’d like me to provide.



Hi Al,

Beat the **** out of it and use it for anything you can think it might work for, and let us know your thoughts.

Funny, I spent my 7th birthday with a ...

JoviAl,

Whew, so glad to hear he is okay. Hoping for a quick and less painful heal up.


Cheers buddy 👍🏻 it’ll be a few months for the ligaments and tendons to bond back together before he can re-learn to walk, but it’s the best outcome we could have hoped for.


man, that's really tough. i ...

Red Leader wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 24, 2025 11:58 pm

JoviAl,

Whew, so glad to hear he is okay. Hoping for a quick and less painful heal up.

Cheers buddy it’ll be a few months for the ligaments and tendons to bond back together before he can re-learn to walk, but it’s the best outcome we could have hoped for.

Thanks @cabfrank and @sal, I appreciate the kind sentiments

Wonderful news! Thanks Sal. Sorry for the delayed response - I’ve been off grid for a while dealing with my youngest son being badly injured in an accident. Really looking forward to running this through its paces!

Sorry to hear about your son, hopefully he heals up quickly and is doing ...

Mike Janich. Is that Fiskars Hawkbill the K62 ?

If that’s the one, I’m buying two — just out of curiosity.

Been thinking about the easiest way to keep it Spyderco :bug-red-white :
1) Delica Wharncliffe with a two-euro-cent coin welded inside the Spydie hole (how symbolic) — for Germany, where ...

Hey Al,

I know we had a discussion on this forum about a 6" blade Mule Team. I'm guessing that one of the "locals" will know the thread? As I remember the thread, we discussed the possibility of a 6" blade Mule team being used in some "ag" function. As I remember, you offered to test it for ...

@sal email to Wendy sent

Please feel free to stick in a list of any specific information or feedback you’d like me to provide.

Hey Al,

I know we had a discussion on this forum about a 6" blade Mule Team. I'm guessing that one of the "locals" will know the thread? As I remember the thread, we discussed the possibility of a 6" blade Mule team being used in some "ag" function. As I remember, you offered to test it for us ...

I can’t wait to see what comes out of this! So excited to finally return to work next week and finish off the SE test machete I’m working on before I begin running it through its paces. I’ve had to put everything on the back burner for a while after my 6 year old son had a terrible accident last ...

I’m on holiday this week and was sick as a dog last week with influenza then tonsillitis, but am really looking forward to finally testing the SE and PE machetes back to back next week once I’m back at work. I have a 20 tonne order of woodchip, topsoil, chicken manure and blood and bone being ...

I try to buy ethically made products irrespective of where they are manufactured. China is a big and diverse place with as broad a spectrum of manufacturing ethics as the rest of the world, so for me I just do a bit of background digging on the specific place or factory that made the item and decide ...

I think you and I both know this was a thinly veiled excuse to justify buying him some nice knives



Well... maybe. I'm just looking at it from my perspective. Some of my favorite garage tools and kitchen tools are the old ones. If you get the kid a "nice" knife, there's a better chance that ...

I think it’s a misconception that smaller people need shorter blades. I would just start the kid on your regular chef knife.


He currently uses all of our various chef’s knives on our magnetic rack, I’m just treating him to his own personal set that are his to look after and cherish 👍🏻 the only ...

I use a green waxed canvas knife roll

https://files.catbox.moe/d924ec.jpg

I don't remember the exact one I ordered but these two are close:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/167836773015?_skw=green+canvas+chef+knife+roll&itmmeta=01K7G5ADDQYZYEDQSBHH1G7A0A&hash=item2713d9ea97%3Ag%3ALYoAAeSwc81o4SkK ...

My youngest son loves cooking and making dishes in the kitchen. As his 8th birthday is in a few weeks my wife and I have decided to put him a chef’s kit together



Get him "adult grade" tools that he won't outgrow. Get high quality stuff. The hope is that he'll continue to use it, and as his ...

some others tools you may want:

microplane
metal tongs
cooking thermometer
food processor
measuring cups & spoons
aprons
manual egg blender (kids always think they're cool)
sharpening supplies
band-aids ;)


Super helpful, cheers Vivi 👍🏻

A manual egg blender especially is right up his alley ...

my daughter loves this, she's been using one for a few years. VG10 with a quality heat treat

https://knifewear.com/en-us/products/tojiro-child-knife-santoku-115mm

https://files.catbox.moe/7c2vl9.jpg

kiwi 172 is another good, safe option

https://down-vn.img.susercontent.com/file/vn-11134207 ...

My youngest son loves cooking and making dishes in the kitchen. As his 8th birthday is in a few weeks my wife and I have decided to put him a chef’s kit together - a 4-5 inch petty knife, a smaller paring knife, spatula, spoon, sharpening kit, etc.

We’re looking for recommendations for the knives ...