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What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:31 pm
by XX Case XX
I can't seem to figure out what this round indentation on the handle is for. Does anyone have any ideas? (Photo taken from Internet)
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Mike
Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:44 pm
by Doc B
One video review, says it can be used for "bow-drill fire making". Also; one Amazon ad calls it a "bow drill divot".
IMHO...I'm not sure micarta (resin / cloth) would be a great material, for it's intended use. Maybe it's a "badge on honor" to have a melted / burned divot, in the handle of your knife

Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:50 pm
by Steve Warden
That's plausible.
Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:11 pm
by TwoFlowersLuggage
Snuff spoon...

Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:51 pm
by Steve Warden
I tried snorting coke - ONCE!
Man, the carbonation, the bubbles!!! I almost drowned!!!

Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:56 pm
by Old Folder
Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 7:46 pm
by samb1955
Steve Warden wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:51 pm
I tried snorting coke - ONCE!
Man, the carbonation, the bubbles!!! I almost drowned!!!
Did it clear your sinuses?
Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 7:49 pm
by Steve Warden
samb1955 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 7:46 pm
Steve Warden wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:51 pm
I tried snorting coke - ONCE!
Man, the carbonation, the bubbles!!! I almost drowned!!!
Did it clear your sinuses?
I passed out. Still no clue about what happened.
Just glad it wasn't Dr. Pepper.
(And for the record, I have never snorted, popped, or shot up any drug)
Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:42 pm
by geocash
Steve Warden wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 7:49 pm
samb1955 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 7:46 pm
Steve Warden wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:51 pm
I tried snorting coke - ONCE!
Man, the carbonation, the bubbles!!! I almost drowned!!!
Did it clear your sinuses?
I passed out. Still no clue about what happened.
Just glad it wasn't Dr. Pepper.
(And for the record, I have never snorted, popped, or shot up any drug)
I don't care for the way it makes me feel, I just think it smells really good.
Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:59 pm
by zoogirl
I hope you didn’t use aspirin with it. I’ve heard you can end up high and pregnant that way.

Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:21 pm
by samb1955
zoogirl wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:59 pm
I hope you didn’t use aspirin with it. I’ve heard you can end up high and pregnant that way.
Good to know, thanks!
Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 11:40 pm
by Steve Warden
Sorry, Mike.
Guess I sorta got us on a rabbit trail.
We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.
Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Re: What is this for?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 11:54 pm
by XX Case XX
Steve Warden wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 11:40 pm
Sorry, Mike.
Guess I sorta got us on a rabbit trail.
No worries. We're all just a bunch of good 'ol boys having some fun from time to time.

No harm-No foul.
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Mike
Re: What is this for?
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:24 am
by bighomer
What I want to know is why there's 2 of'em.

I've got tickled a couple of times and had some coke-a-cola come out my nose , no fun.

Re: What is this for?
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:09 am
by 1967redrider
Make sure you keep the sheath on if you're using it for bow drilling.

Re: What is this for?
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:46 pm
by Hoho
It’s where you put friction stick for primitive fire starting with a bow
