All About Pocket Knives

Yesterday was the weekly get together for lunch with my buddies day and one of them came in packing this. He said it was an impromptu eBay buy. You have to understand, his wife just died a couple of months ago so he has no regulator. I haven't seen one of 'em for years so I asked him, "whatcha gonna do with that?". He said, "measure my feet". So I asked him what he was gonna do with it once he had measured his feet. He said, "measure your feet".

jerryd6818 wrote:Yesterday was the weekly get together for lunch with my buddies day and one of them came in packing this. He said it was an impromptu eBay buy. You have to understand, his wife just died a couple of months ago so he has no regulator. I haven't seen one of 'em for years so I asked him, "whatcha gonna do with that?". He said, "measure my feet". So I asked him what he was gonna do with it once he had measured his feet. He said, "measure your feet".

My first job, after my enlisted days, in the Air Force, was selling shoes at JC Penny’s...I don’t ever want to use one of those again!

I never see those in the department store shoe departments anymore.

Charlie Noyes

RobesonsRme.com wrote:I never see those in the department store shoe departments anymore.

Charlie Noyes

And you hardly ever see any shoe sales clerks either. All the shoes are out on the sales floor. Try 'em on. Get a pair that fits, take it to the front register like in a grocery store. In my neck of the woods there are very few dedicated shoe stores.

We have a couple of fully staffed Red Wing boots stores here, but I cannot afford to shop there.

Charlie

My grandfather's testimony of his success at the end of his regular military service in the 1940s.
9th Plovdiv Infantry Regiment of her Royal Highness Princess Clementine.

Very special old document Eustace. Gives you a little better tie to the past.

How are you enjoying your new shop?

Received today from Olde Cutler. I found the clean simplicity of lines of this Pintail very appealing.

Quick Steel wrote:Received today from Olde Cutler. I found the clean simplicity of lines of this Pintail very appealing.

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Those are cool!!!

Quick Steel wrote:Received today from Olde Cutler. I found the clean simplicity of lines of this Pintail very appealing.

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QS that is a great little carving. He does exceptional work.

Thank you Doc and Doglegg.

Stuart engine made from a kit from England. carry case not shown.

MRWatch, you sure have fun toys.

When I was a boy, Roger's Toy Shoppe carried miniature steam engines, but they were from pressed sheet metal and painted designs. Not as well machined as that one.

I really wanted one of those.

Do you ever fire that one up and if so, does it require periodic safety inspections and a permit to operate?

In Alabama, live steam scale model engines are regulated like that. I do not know at what scale those regs kick in.

Charlie

I love steam engines, but I'm not sure I would ever have the cajones to actually fire an old one to a working pressure. It's sort of like playing with a live grenade. It's perfectly safe - until it's not...

Quick Steel wrote:Received today from Olde Cutler. I found the clean simplicity of lines of this Pintail very appealing.

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Glad you like it!!

I bought the Stewart engine at a tractor show. You will need a lathe and mill etc. to make the pre-made casting and buy and make many more items. some time I may run it on air. We used set up at many tractor old engine shows where we could get electric for my pumps. Michigan say's if a boiler runs under 100 lbs. you do not need permits. A club person may inspect and okay they boiler. I have one with 12 flues but need a new Gage for it. Would be best to both dry test and wet hydro test it.
I bought this one off the eBay.

That one is mint, MrW. Interesting interest .

Got this a couple of years ago, off "the bay".. It is two cylinder and can be run off compressed gas. Hand machined by a guy out of the Chech Republic. Just thought it looked cool and appreciated the workmanship.

i see that you folks like the pintail duck. so here is from my collection of things. Green Heron and frog. Duck in Choke Cherry. not my work.

See.. All them knives in my pockets really don't make ya shrink!!!
John

mrwatch wrote:i see that you folks like the pintail duck. so here is from my collection of things. Green Heron and frog. Duck in Choke Cherry. not my work.

Cool stuff MrW. I think the duck is my favorite but both awfully knice.

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See.. All them knives in my pockets really don't make ya shrink!!!
John

jmh, some of us sure take pictures of strange things.

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John