Damn Splitcoil!

That puts my rig to shame.

I'm loving it, myself. It's a Spyderco sharpening system that I just picked up, surprisingly cheap ($40 through a buddy with connex). Once you get the hang of it, it's wonderful. Very easy to maintain the proper angle, and easier to use than it looks.

Spyderco makes some very fine things.

In 4 hours, I've got a second interview for a job. I wonder if they'll actually hire me knowing that I'll go on maternity leave around Feb 1st, and working only part time until then.
Doubtful - but who knows?

I've got a chunk of rock embedded in a piece of wood. I use that for sharpening things, when I'm not using my folding diamond hone.

Gimme a slab of aluminium oxide, block o' white Arkansas, and a nice, worn old steel.

Or that Lansky system I'm trying to inherit.

Unfortunately, due to mistreatment by the flatmates, Steve is going to need something more intense I think.

Question: Why are you all armed?
Revelation: I am now armed with my smuggled Chinese butcher knife, too. Mines to cook with, and yours are to ?

Armed? Those are tools.

But if I was armed it would be because Moses told me I should be. I take all my advice from actors with dementia.

Kitchen knives need to be sharp. You know, for the sunday roast.

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Originally posted by Splitcoil:
Armed? Those are tools.

Ok, tools. Five tools for what purposes?

The Buck knife is a friend's. He gave it to his father years ago, and his father recently gave it back because he's convinced he's dying. It's been mistreated, the tip is snapped off, I offered to sharpen it back up for my buddy. It's a general work knife. For cutting rope, opening boxes, etc.

The Case (two blades) was my father's. I gave it to him when I was a stupid kid, and when he died I found it in a tool box, also neglected and dull. Which offended me until I started trying to sharpen the damned thing myself. And now I understand. It would have been used for the same purposes as the Buck, but instead it just sits around in drawers making me feel weird.

The Gerber (black handle, big circular hinge, big curving blade) is my own work knife, which actually gets used to cut rope, open boxes, etc.

The Benchmade and the Spyderco (bottom right) are for what you thought all the others were for. And you can make of that what you will.

Unless I'm mistaken, that hole through the hinge on the gerber is for grip. What I want to know is, does it work? It seems like it would be awkward to hold.

I want a benchmade, but I just can't bring myself to buy what will essentially be a $90 letter opener.

Anabel, wait until split posts one of these before you start to worry about his extracurricular activites:

Just a few things I keep in my shed..

Wuss.

LOL!!!

oh yeah... that made me chortle.
BTW, it's not clear 'cos of the size of the pic, but in my picture... the two red-nose missiles on the ground are actually men with green fatigues and traffic cones on their heads.

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Originally posted by BlueShift:
Unless I'm mistaken, that hole through the hinge on the gerber is for grip. What I want to know is, does it work? It seems like it would be awkward to hold.

I want a benchmade, but I just can't bring myself to buy what will essentially be a $90 letter opener.

Anabel, wait until split posts one of these before you start to worry about his extracurricular activites:

So is this some kinda ninja/navy seal stabbing device? With an open slot so you can hang it in your kitchen with pots and pans? Or is the open slot to lighten the weight? And how big is this little cutting tool?

Oh, and I realize that if Splits is off on his travels doing ninja-knife stuff, it is out of my control, so I am not worried, at all.

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Originally posted by si~:
BTW, it's not clear 'cos of the size of the pic, but in my picture... the two red-nose missiles on the ground are actually men with green fatigues and traffic cones on their heads.

In that case...

He wishes!!!