What did the Post bring today ?
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Templogin
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Solder paste
200 small switches - I only needed one!
4 Box opening tools
Private Eye magazine/newspaper
I looked at the Lionsteel knives but the blade looked a bit thin to me. I wouldn't necessarily rule them out though.
200 small switches - I only needed one!
4 Box opening tools
Private Eye magazine/newspaper
I looked at the Lionsteel knives but the blade looked a bit thin to me. I wouldn't necessarily rule them out though.
By miles, my favourite actual user is a Brisa flat ground Trapper in O1. There are others close to my heart, of course, but this affordable little blank is just great once you have the edge the way you like it. You can buy it made up already, or as a kit, or buy just some pre-milled scales from Brisa, or totally DIY it.
They never made their Elver in flat O1, which is damnable, really. The flat D2 version is very good, though.
They never made their Elver in flat O1, which is damnable, really. The flat D2 version is very good, though.
They are handy. I have a couple and one of the bigger sizes.You know what has proved to be the most useful tool of all for opening everything, cutting cordage in the garden, etc. ?
The tiniest wee Spyderco. The ones that's not much more than an inch long.
The bug....which I know I bought for a fiver, because I bought multiples of it so everyone has one on their keyring.
I have one of the small ones in pieces in a box.
No surprise.
Hah! I wish I had your problemsNew mini curling tongs.....I cut my hair, it's gone from being waist length to just above my shoulders. It's driving me nuts, I can't tie it back, and the hairdresser left it a neat bob, but my hair waves and curls in the damp, so I'm trying to make it deliberate. Sort of
I thought I was getting too old to have long hair, but I'm going to grow it out again I think, maybe not waist length, but long enough to pin up out of my way.
ooh I have a Brisa/Enzo Trapper in S30V bought it as a blank and handled it myself. lovely knife.
At least you don't get charged an arm and leg for haircuts.Hah! I wish I had your problems
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Beachlover
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I like everything about it apart from the crowbar look to the thickness of the blade. Sadly, instead of just acknowledging that and moving on, it got me thinking about what I most often use a fixed blade for and I realised it’s not for batoning fallen trees or levering open car doors, but cutting and slicing cordage, foodstuff and of course the endless parade of Amazon boxes that threaten to overwhelm me on a daily basis. This epiphany had me looking at the Lionsteel range beginning with the M4 and after umpteen hours on YouTube reviews of Lionsteel models, eventually noticing on the little B35.
Apparently it’s going to fall through my letterbox between 1130 and 1530 today.
FFS I thought I was over this nonsense!
Just an update. Despite staying in (no loss as the weather was crap), No sign of a postie, but got a message to say it had been delivered. Sure enough, despite 24 hour tracked, needing a signature and age verification, it had been popped outside on the bench next to the front door and under the kitchen window. He or she must also have walked across next door's front garden to us as the camera failed to pic him/her up either.
Anyway, big thanks to @Templogin for setting me off on this trail. I love the thing. It's all that the good reviews say, is the perfect size (for me) and so comfortable to hold, use and even with the sheath (I'd considered getting a slimmer pouch or Kydex jobbie made) it's pocketable and discreet. It's also as non-tactical as a fixed blade gets.
And after oiling the sheath and the walnut scales it's even more appealing - to me anyhow.
I think I'm smitten.
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Beachlover
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MaC
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It cost me £35 to get my hair cut. It wasn't even complicated.
How come Himself and Son2 get their's done every six weeks and it only costs them 8 ?
Just an update. Despite staying in (no loss as the weather was crap), No sign of a postie, but got a message to say it had been delivered. Sure enough, despite 24 hour tracked, needing a signature and age verification, it had been popped outside on the bench next to the front door and under the kitchen window. He or she must also have walked across next door's front garden to us as the camera failed to pic him up too.
Anyway, big thanks to @Templogin for setting me off on this trail. I love the thing. It's all that the good reviews say, is the perfect size (for me) and so comfortable to hold, use and even with the sheath (I'd considered getting a more slimming pouch or Kydex jobbie made) it's pocketable and discrete. It's also as non-tactical as a fixed blade gets.
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And after oiling the sheath and the walnut scales it's even more appealing - to me anyhow.
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I think I'm smitten.
What are the dimensions? Looks fairly similar to the PITS fixed blade I have sat in a drawer somewhere. I should really bring that out here as I used it a lot.
Saint-Just
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Since lockdown I have cut my own, clipper with comb 5 plus the sides.
About twice a year I’ll splash out a tenner to get it done correctly
About twice a year I’ll splash out a tenner to get it done correctly
Beachlover
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Here you go.
LionSteel B35 Walnut Handle Bushcraft Knife
LionSteel B35 Walnut Handle Bushcraft Knife, best fixed blade survival knife, Sleipner steel satin blade with a length of 90mm / 3.54". Designed by Molletta, quality leather sheath, survival knife, best fixed blade survival knife, good camping knife
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You'll have a Lionel Blair haircut then.Since lockdown I have cut my own, clipper with comb 5 plus the sides.
About twice a year I’ll splash out a tenner to get it done correctly
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MaC
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Do you go to the same place?
No, but they're in the same building in the same village Main Street !
The ladies is up a flight of stone steps round the back, while the barber has main door right on the pavement.
MaC
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I know a woman who tried that.....she came out looking like she was headed to marine boot camp
Templogin
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Do you go to the same place?
Head down to their barber and ask for a short back and sides
My old barber, who has since left here, refused to cut my partner's hair as he felt that male customers would not like a female in the shop. This is the same man who once said "Christ*, who cut your hair last", to which I was able to reply "you did." The rest of the haircut took place in silence!
Back in the days of the green suit the female barber at one camp used to press her boobs against you at every opportuniy. If you got really lucky she rubbed her foo-foo against your knee. Apparently she was well tipped by the squaddies. Such a harlot!!
* Just to clear up any confusion, my name is not Christ.
Quarterstaff
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When I was a nipper my old man used to take me to a retired barber he knew, worked out of his house. No choice in style, boot neck every time, he used to work at the Marine camp!
I grew my hair long later into my teens, when I eventually decided to get it loped off the hairdresser asked if I was sure? ‘Why’, I asked, the reply was ‘you won’t want it long again’. She was right, just too much faff.
Im the same as Marc, pay for a couple of cuts a year, otherwise I just run the extension lead outside with the clippers and use the back window of the truck as a mirror
I grew my hair long later into my teens, when I eventually decided to get it loped off the hairdresser asked if I was sure? ‘Why’, I asked, the reply was ‘you won’t want it long again’. She was right, just too much faff.
Im the same as Marc, pay for a couple of cuts a year, otherwise I just run the extension lead outside with the clippers and use the back window of the truck as a mirror
Oldtimer
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I've cut my own hair for the last 50 years or more. Fortunately I'm not vain. Thank you, Mary; you've made me realise how much money I've saved.
CaptainBeaky
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Clippers with a 9mm comb has done me for the last 20-odd years - occasionally swap haircuts with the eldest when I want a tidier cut or they want their undercut tidying up.
MaC
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You are not joking about how much it costs. My neighbour has hers washed, cut and coloured every six weeks....it's eighty quid every time. I reckon that she's spending around £700 a year just to keep her hair cut and darker......she thinks I'm lazy because I just let mine grow.
I don't tell her how much I spend on fancy hair pins though
bushwacker
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9mm? fukin hippy