All About Pocket Knives

tongueriver wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 12:12 am I pulled a big toolbox out of the back of my pickup (which has a topper), only to find that the topper had leaked right onto the toolbox and down inside, where quite a lot of tools had been safe and sound. I managed to save a few things; the tool box was not one of them. I didn't catch the problem for several months, as I rarely used the truck. Now even the truck is gone. Yes; some storage protocols may be better than others.

robpa wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:40 pm looks like a lot of old collectibles at some auctions Ive been to. hope ya didnt get too ddep on em!

dsutton24 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:27 pm The saw survived. We cleaned it up, and it spent several hours in a barely warm oven. We swore each other to secrecy and never volunteered any information on the subject.

dsutton24 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:27 pm A coworker and I were given a carpentry job. The company did not own a circular saw, and I wanted to go buy one for the job. We had a boss who was a tremendous pain in the neck, and he had a circular saw. It wasn't just any saw, it was the best saw in the galaxy. We'd just use his saw for the job, and we had to promise faithfully that we wouldn't destroy his saw.

I had a really bad feeling about this.

We were presented with the saw without equal. To me it looked like a run of the mill Craftsman saw, but what the heck do I know? We got the job done, and the guy I was working with tossed the highly prized saw into a bucket and we moved on to whatever was next.

It started raining. No big deal, but the guy had parked his truck under the eave of a building in such a way that the roof drained right into the bucket holding the sacred saw. The bucket filled up in a hurry...

The saw survived. We cleaned it up, and it spent several hours in a barely warm oven. We swore each other to secrecy and never volunteered any information on the subject.

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 3:59 am

dsutton24 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:27 pm The saw survived. We cleaned it up, and it spent several hours in a barely warm oven. We swore each other to secrecy and never volunteered any information on the subject.

Three rules of borrowing tools:

1) Never admit to anything when something goes wrong with the tool
2) When something goes wrong with the tool, blame your co-worker, friend, son, brother, etc.
3) Slap a coating of grease and grime over affected/broken area, then get someone else, co-worker, friend, son, brother, etc. to return the broken tool

Tasky wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:42 am I didn't spot that there were other tools in that.
I honestly thought you'd dug the knife out of a bucket of KFC Barbecue Sauce and old chicken bones!!

Madmarco wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 1:56 am I admire your determination, Dog.
I'll bet you bring it right back to life.
When it's finished, it definitely would be interesting to list it on ebay, just to see who would notice any differences between it and any regular used bowie for sale.

Madmarco wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:15 pm That's what I'm saying, Dog!
List it as "Near-mint" and see who knows the difference!
Be good for some laughs anyway!

SwedgeHead wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 3:20 pm "for parts or rustoration"

catspa wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 2:48 pm You going to sell this one Rich, or keep it? I’d like to buy it, if the cost of resurrection doesn’t exceed my budget.

Parker