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awesome is all i can say! also teach her the solar plexus strike with the blunt end of that and a brachial stun. We were taught many self defense moves at the prison i worked in, a desk top staple gun opened up makes one dandy sap too.

heck yea!!!

Tell your Mum yes we do, my son tans them the old fashioned way, brain tanning, then we will be making them into period style stuff from the mountain man era. i love those old binos even though they are only about 3 power lol i use them with my black powder shooting gear. My favorite restore ever was a sunbeam mixer if i remember right it was the model 10. those old bullet looking ones with a ton of accessories. I have since given it to my daughter and she loves it. At almost 100 years those things will run forever and do anything a new one will.

go back to what works for you! Your just buying names now and spending more money for no real benifit.

what do you make the most of?

Beautiful work as always. your stuff always top notch and unique.

now that is cool!!! i love it!!! i have a very old lead pot stove that is so old the brass pump is separate from the canister, i guess before they figured out the internal type pump lol. i like restoring things so much my son brought me these old binos for my birthday one year. they were found in a lake lol and had to be completely disassembled to get all the dirt out.

Hell yea man!!!!! way to go

you have a good heart friend and they look great too.

very cool!!! Copper pipe?

that's a work of art my friend!!

i would love to see it but i wont open unknown stuff, can you post a picture or two.

the question is can you sell the product made with it in California.

Very cool Fred your last name isnt Kruger is it? lol.

genius! friggin cool too.

yes i/we did we filled our tags, three elk and three nice hides to tan as well !!

That is a nice job !!

beautiful job i too like the look!!

good luck my friend on your build lol getting them off and cleaned up is the hard part, my dad always made me do the gasket removal and clean up lol. I managed to make it back with my old truck in one piece this year. ten days in the mud, snow and muck. We have plenty of meat now for the year having taken two cow elk and one calf. It was cold wet and beautiful out there and yes those first two days without a cloud in the sky or snow were celebrated with a hot fire under the milky way. a couple of pics for your enjoyment, that mud hole is typical of many out there this time of year and its on the main road lol.

still good practice as you said and it is good work imo. You might try smoothing your untooled cuts with a small stylus to make them more fluid and pronounced.

those are great knives and a wonderful story, I'm very sorry of your injury but i can see it hasn't kept you down and out. i have made a few knives from purchased blades as well nothing at all wrong with that. i finished one about a month ago for a guy who brought me an old Indian river blade. When i started as a kid i used only hand tools mainly because they were all i had but you know i think back and making them that way was more relaxing and enjoyable sometimes even though i had to use already tempered steel and not over heat it in the process of shaping a forming the blades.

thank you and I am glad it inspires. I grew up with stacked leather knives also, the Western brand being my favorite knife of all. I carried one in the woods for most of my life. The feel of a good leather handle is hard to beat. and you can use them on other tools as well, here is a combination lifter and stylus i made a while back now i have a set of them, made from stainless all thread.

now that's a compliment! thank you it got its first field test this last ten days spent in the mountains of Wyoming hunting elk.

thank you it did take some planning, the handle makes the knife, it has to fit the hand to do any good. thank you.