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flashharry that is amazing knapping work and the handle furnishings are very good! Thanks.. the antler was a found cast, no deer were harmed in the making.. The knapped blade took about 5 years to accomplish (5 years of learning, and then about a week of making - I lost count of the failures and ba...

Well.. Lets see.. I started out on motorcycles in the late 60's.. Yamaha 100cc twin, Yamaha 350 twin, couple BSA and Triumphs, a Royal Enfield Meteor, and a '36 HD UlH, and a junkyard HD KH - mates and I used top buy old bikes to fix up, sell, and then buy more old bikes... First car was a Datsun 12...

Many years ago, I made this...




Ended up trading it for a nice vintage Omega watch..

Thanks for the pics.. these will really help me decide..

Thanks all.. Will probably decide tomorrow... (a few wee drams of good Scotch can not be good for a rational decision) will let you know what the deal is..

My online supplier has just got in a shipment of the Dragonfly Wharncliffe.. I was thinking of a L'il Native, but the DF has me thinking... any thoughts on those who own either.. both look like a nice small EDC which is exactly what I'm in the market for.. and no, sadly funds for both is not an opti...

on another note... just read an article out of CERN on the hunt for magnetic monopoles..

https://atlas.cern/updates/physics-brie ... -monopoles

Superstring theory is based on supersymmetry. Supersymmetry is a theory that proposes a relationship between the two basic classes of particles: bosons,and fermions. ie.a superstring would include both fermions and bosons in its spectrum. Supersymetry can be seen as a way to allow for ajnd explain t...

Now that's clever! Thanks!

Interesting speculation on gravitons.. indeed, no proof for there existence, but theorists suggest that the would be a massless boson similar in function to the Higgs, and act as the mediator for the force that is gravity. That would pretty much rule out their use in material sciences, but imagine i...

Hmm. Like all these types of topics- There's several leaps required in capabilities needed to go from "I've proved the possibility on my white board" to "I've done this on my lab bench in a petri-dish" to "I'm able to make enough of this for low scale testing" to "...

I don't have one either, I have a flip phone and it's good enough, I don't bother texting etc so it's not a big deal to me. But then I am also older like some of you others at 54 so. yeah.. we have a flip phone that is basically a "take it in the car in case there's an emergency" And yeah...

soc_monki wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:11 am

A pencil can be used for self defense. Tactical pencil!

One can get titanium Chopsticks! Tactical Chopsticks!!

Awarded "Most Innovative American Design" for the Spyderco Para 3 Lightweight..
Well deserved!

I have heard it said that some mountainous areas are among the most stable of areas in the world to live in, especially places like West Virginia, and the Ozarks of Missouri, and the Rocky Mountains of the Northwest USA and Canada, and various alpine mountains in Europe. Is that true? stable? perha...

Lovely pics, flasharry! I’m envious. I “climbed” Mt Cascade above Banff with my late Uncle when I was 17; a treasured memory. Cascade Mountain... http://www.mcbroom.biz/Public/flasharry/scenics/mtn_9.jpg http://www.mcbroom.biz/Public/flasharry/scenics/mtn_10.jpg Its a good scramble to the summit fr...

The Meat man wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:35 pm

Victorinox Swiss Army knives.

gets my vote!

Couple photos to get you started..

Well, its about an hours drive west for us to be in the mountains.. will pots some pics later..

pretty much all of mine are Case... will have to troll the 'Bay for vintage, I guess