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[mysterionz]

 

[Mr. Stevens]

 

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I thought @Rodafina might like this:

Would you pay up to $3,000 for a handcrafted knife?

A one-year backlog is common for those ordering custom-made knives as interest in the ancient craft of knifemaking "explodes" in Australia.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Kisa the tea]

 

[VictorR]

 

[Luca]

I got some stuff at the store yesterday
(The hearts are hair clips and the pens are mascara)

And my dogs have a new toy box!

 

[Rodafina]

I got some stuff at the store yesterday
(The hearts are hair clips and the pens are mascara)

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And my dogs have a new toy box!

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Beware where you wear the text me hairclip!

 

[mysterionz]

Beware where you wear the text me hairclip!

my precious.. my precious..

 

[maycontainthunder]

 

[Kisa the tea]

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Photo of an actual subway guideline sign in the Taipei Metro station. And yes that is Ash Ketchum standing in line.

 

[maycontainthunder]

 

[Forest Cat]

I got some stuff at the store yesterday
(The hearts are hair clips and the pens are mascara)

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And my dogs have a new toy box!

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I want hair clips that says Hot Stuff and Cutie Pie. That'll look real good on me.

 

[maycontainthunder]

 

[Nitro]

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That is world class

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I thought @Rodafina might like this:

Would you pay up to $3,000 for a handcrafted knife?

A one-year backlog is common for those ordering custom-made knives as interest in the ancient craft of knifemaking "explodes" in Australia.

www.abc.net.au

I am really into knives, but due to my propensity for losing them, I dont buy expensive ones. I just drool over the catalogs.

I don’t understand the bit about making a knife that can shave off one hair. There must be more to it than that. Almost any knife can be sharpened to shave off one hair.

 

[Kisa the tea]

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I didn't know an image could make me this nervous before now but here we are.

 

[Shevek]

Shaving the forearm is a standard test for a sharpening job. If there's more than one hair, the whole patch goes. However, I once sharpened a very thin blade so that it would shave without any pressure on the skin. In woodworking, truly sharp chisels and planes are a revelation.
After many years of cautiously hollow-grinding blades to restore them, spending more time dipping them in water than grinding, I realized that I can hold a wet sponge or roll of cloth on a little handle against the back of the blade to preserve the temper of the steel.

 

[VictorR]

 

[Shevek]

I have used hundreds of those little cut-off disks, and have a special collection of ones that have survived to small diameter to use in small spaces. I do a lot of general-puprpose work with them, because they are too thin to clog. They cut well enough on brass, but on ferrous metals, the shower of sparks arises because friction heats the iron to the point that it is soft enough to rub away, and hot enough to burn in air. To cut sheet metal, a plain steel disk is used, after a desperate workman tried using a plywood-cutting blade that got even better as it got dull. You can spin a disk of paper and cut through plastic by melting it.