All About Pocket Knives

Here's an old postal lock I got years back from an old PO in Worcester. It had no key with it. I actually had two of them, so I did an autopsy on the worst of the two, and ground a key from an old carbon knife blade.



Hope the government doesn't come after me.

Glenn

Iron Hoarder wrote: it was for sharpening their implements in the old days. It's a nice powered chain driven beast with a fine sandstone wheel and a nice slow speed for doing fine edges.

My Grand-Dad had one of those only it was foot operated. Big ole sandstone wheel that must have been (as best memory serves me) about 2 1/2' - 3' in diameter.

Here is some of the Hotwheels ive collected over the years,i mainly only pick up muscle cars these days or ones i think in the future might be worth something, i would like to hand these all down to the kids, there is some rare ones in here, there is more under the bed this pic was taken over a year ago so ive added more to the box

Sweet collection there, Zed!

I wish I had half the stuff my mother tossed when I left the nest years ago...

glennbad wrote:Sweet collection there, Zed!

I wish I had half the stuff my mother tossed when I left the nest years ago...

i gave all my matchbox and hotwheels away to my cousin when i was 12 and was really into knives, wish i still had them as really looked after them, plus my corgi aston martin DB5

Heres some pics I got while on vacation with my family.

We were in Tionesta Pa, not far from GEC.
A beautiful view off of a bridge a few miles from camp.

Another shot up hill from the bridge.

It looks like you could climb the trees right into heaven.


We left Tionesta and headed for Erie Pa.
The lake.




Now here's a pic for Paul.
We rented a bike and went for a 9 mile ride around Presque.

johnny twoshoes wrote:Heres some pics I got while on vacation with my family.

We were in Tionesta Pa, not far from GEC.
A beautiful view off of a bridge a few miles from camp.

Another shot up hill from the bridge.

It looks like you could climb the trees right into heaven.


We left Tionesta and headed for Erie Pa.
The lake.




Now here's a pic for Paul.
We rented a bike and went for a 9 mile ride around Presque.

great pics mate, love the look of those mountains, i could get lost out there

You went NINE MILES in that thing..........without a beer?

Man, that's Squatch country

Paul, it looks good now, but you should see it in it's winter coat.
It makes for a beautiful scene, if you sit quiet enough you can hear the snow pile up.

FRJ, it was only a tough 9 miles because we had to wait for a school tour to pass us, and we had to have the bike back in an hour, so we went like crazy instead of enjoying ourselves on a nice ride.

TJ, it's Squatch country and a half.
Thats our bear huntin' woods, my Dad got one out of there a few years back.

I love it up there.

Beautiful pics....looks like you had a great vacation.

This afternoon's cigar:

FFF - Couple of questions.

Do you like the Rocky Patels?

and

What is the ring on that one?

MORE POWER!!!!

And an old snake hangin out in the basement.

...... Joe

I wanted to show my most beautiful fish hooks.......yes, beautiful.

Personally, I wish this were the only way we could buy fish hooks. No barbs and you would have to learn to tie a snell.
It's easy.

One needen't learn file work on that peskey, hard to work with steel.
Find ya some hardwood and have at it.

Nice miters, Joe. How did you secure the joints? Biscuits, pocket screws, something else??

Thanks, Jerry.
I had to go look at it and see how I did do it. I did that about 6 or 7 years ago.
I think between the inlay and the inside of the frame I put in a biscuit. At the outside of inlay near the corner I pre drilled and put in two finish nails, probably of different length. Nailed at top and bottom, not on side. I glued it of course.

I thought I remembered using pocket screws on this one but after looking at it again, I see I used biscuits.

I used dowels and then pin nailed and filled the holes in this one .

Bob

Good job Bob. That's a nice stain job you put on it.

Though it makes a joint that's hell for stout, working with dowels always seemed rather tedious to me. Was it a PITA doing it that way?

Jerry and Bob,
those are very nice frames.
Bob, did you mill that piece?

The frame was made from scraps. The frame was intended to be rustic and stained to match the frames in the picture.

FRJ wrote:Jerry and Bob,
those are very nice frames.
Bob, did you mill that piece?

My frame was made from cull Phillipine mahogany moulding . All that I had to do was rabbet the back edge then mitre and bore . It wasn't too much of a PITA as long as I remembered to measure twice and cut once . No staining was necessary . I just rubbed it down with 3 coats of linseed oil .

Bob

A frind of mine and two of his buddies. Last weekends grabbling catch.