templehound Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 ....using very old stock green canvas micarta....well, it is so dense pigmented that it appears practically black and it misses the white fibers which I never appreciated in recent micarta qualities....if I had more of the stuff I would use more micarta. The blade sports the German Aogami version 1.2419 (105WCr6) and the liners are milled 6Al4V Titanium with separated spring. Spring and clip both made from high carbon spring steel 1.1274 (Ck101) with its own heat treatment. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Beautiful work as always. Nice touch with the scroll design on the clip. Always love seeing your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Beautiful, I would love to own it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Great combination of your naturalistic aesthetic with a slightly more modern feel. Impressive and inspirational, as always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
templehound Posted October 27, 2022 Author Share Posted October 27, 2022 Daswulf, Les L and JHCC, Thanks a lot for the beautiful comments! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaperPatched Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Elegant ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M3F Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
templehound Posted April 9, 2023 Author Share Posted April 9, 2023 PaperPatched and M3F, thanks a lot, Guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Templehound, as usual, very nice. I don't think I have ever seen one of your blades that had any room for improvement in it. You, like Alexandr, are an inspiration. IIRC, English is not your first language (I have a sense that you may be a German expat living in Thailand). So, I am not sure if you mean "tactically" meaning low to medium level decisions, often about warfare, e.g. tactical versus strategic objectives. Or "tactfully" meaning doing something as "nicely" as possible, using "tact." Yours, G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
templehound Posted April 13, 2023 Author Share Posted April 13, 2023 George, thanks for the kind words on the knife!....yes, I am a German expat living in Thailand and the knife was ordered by an English expat (living in my neighbourhood) he is an retired marine who served in Afghanistan....so in his taste he is emotionally bound to some tactical military look on knives like micarta, G10, carbon, blade grinds that pry well but won't cut and he became a good friend. I am not into that kind of tactical knives at all, which is obvious when you look at my style of knife making, but for a friend of course I will do as " tactically as I could represent for my taste".....using "tact" nicely to a low level decision.... Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Aha, a good pun there but you have to know the circumstances to get it. In the military I sometimes had to make tactical decisions as tactfully as I could. GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 When I was fresh out of Engineman School USCG and stationed at New London Conn. My Masterchief gave me this advice on decision making, which has stuck with me all these years. Rules we were required to know. "Before you get the keys to the boat rule # 1: 90% of the decisions you make don't matter so just make one. You are bound to be right 90% of the time, and a fair decision today is better than a perfect one tomorrow. Rule number 2: 10% of the decisions you make do matter, and that is why we trained you, to know the difference. Delaying a decision needlessly can often turn what was a 90% decision into a 10% decision, so just make a decision". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 Irondragon, I got a bit lost in that. I agree that most things work out for the best, so 90% of decisions will be OK. And I definitely agree that an OK decision now is better thana perfect decision tommorrow or next week. "The prefect is the enemy of the good." But I am not sure I quite get your last sentence, turning a 90% decision into a 10% decision. Do you mean that delaying the decision changes it from one that doesn't really matter into one that does matter? That said, Master Chiefs and Master SERgents have a lot of good wisdom to dispense but, often, they are not known to be the most articulate folk around. Thx. GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 I think what he meant is delaying a decision turns it into a critical emergency decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 I have to go along with George. 90% of decisions aren't very important unless you let them slide in which case their importance increases, sometimes to critical failures. For example many years ago we were working just north of Seward and a local stopped to shoot the breeze. Turned out he was auctioning his shop and was getting the word out to non-locals. I went by after work to see what he had and ended up buying quite a bit pre-auction. One of the things on the block was a 1,200 lb. Fisher anvil. I told him I'd have to think about it (mostly about getting it the 600 miles home) but it was gone the next day. It's not so much I've ever needed a ship wrights anvil but everything was going crazy cheap. His sons weren't interested in taking over a business that'd been running strong for better than 100 years and were just going to sell it all. So the old man decided to sell it himself and spend as much as possible before he died. I heard it went for around $500. Indecision can really bite you. I could've rented a Uhaul trailer and towed it behind the work truck. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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