Did Someone Say Blades??
 

This is the knife I'm carrying right now. I tried searching the manufacturer's website for one of their beauty shots, but the design appears to have been discontinued. At one time, Spyderco would custom make knives in this style. The customer's company logo would replace theirs on the blade. Blade length is 6cm

http://eva.alexandersguns.com/images/blade004.jpg

Detail of just the blade:

http://eva.alexandersguns.com/images/blade005.jpg

Again, no manufacturer's beauty shot available of a discontinued Gerber Mark I Tactical. It's usually regarded as a "boot knife" because of the relatively short blade. Blade length is 12cm, 21.5cm overall. The "tactical" aspect is that it has serrations on either side of the blade. The standard Mark I is a straight-bladed knife.

http://eva.alexandersguns.com/images/blade006.jpg

I had to change my carry at work to cut drawstrings out of pants knife because my boss thought this one was too intimidating. It's actually just a standard folder, a Gerber E-Z Out, but I have this habit of flicking it open by holding the blade and shaking it and *snick*, I'm holding a knife. It's a nice bit of slight of hand, but scary to some people, I guess.
http://eva.alexandersguns.com/images/blade007.jpg

This last knife is technically more of a doodad, but it looks neat. You'll see why I ended up with it.
http://eva.alexandersguns.com/images/blade008.jpg

Nice collection there, Wolf.

Damn! This is the man thread and my knife collection is bested by a GIRL! :)

Shaving: triple blade

Tractors: Farmall H, 460, New Holland 29 4wd

Car? pickup: Nissan

Knife: Helle

Digi Cam: We'll talk after Christmas

Dye: dye what?

Chainsaw: Husqvarna 51

Oh yeah, on the shaving thing... I must be one of the wierdos. I enjoy shaving. I used an electric for a the first couple years, but then switched to a blade and never went back. I currently use a Mach 3, which works well.

I like the smells involved with shaving, and I like the feel of it. It probably helps that I don't have sensitive skin, and I've never had razorburn.

Some say that I am unusual.

Well here's some of them. 5 autos, a CIA letter opener, a Blackie Collins "Strut 'N Cut" ('cause I liked the name), a Boker slider and 2 silver leafs open/closed.:)

Fish. Barrel. Blam.

Yea. I think most of the folks around here have said it once or twice.


a day. :D

I'm a rather exceptional girl ...

Funny work story ... we confiscate various weapons, mostly knives, scizzors and box cutters off patients coming in all the time. They are pretty much without fail totally cheap pakistani crap as sold by HSN, but there are occasional gems.

One day I was working with a part-timer who didn't know of some of my more unusual interest areas and she said, "what's this?" holding up a cheap flea-market butterfly knife in a manner that appeared to indicate she was fearful that it would attack her of it's own volition.

"Hmm, lemme see," I said, and took the offered blade from her and started flipping it around in a manner that would have made Bruce Lee proud. She made a little squeaking noise for some reason ... come to think of it, she doesn't work for us anymore ... I wonder why?

Wow. Doesn't it seem statistically anomalous that we have this many knife nuts on cellar? I wonder what it means?

The silver leaves are very classy. I like those a lot. Blackie Collins was a designer for Gerber for a while. I have one of his knives in a box somewhere ... haven't seen it since I moved the last time (which was about 8 or so years ago). It's probably with my kubaton and some other goodies.

I have a bunch of other knives around here ... and some swords.

This one is very strange. Purported to be a Chinese Police Knife, it hangs from the belt by a bracket. You grab the handle and push the button while yanking it down. 2" of the blade comes out of the sheath/hanger but 3'' comes up out of the handle. Very strange.

Heres another bunch of miscellanies. One even has a folding 6" steel rule, accurate too. I'll have to dig out the fixed blade knives but I have not one sword in the house. None, zip, zero. I did throw in a half dozen tire spikes. ;)

I have a pair of scissors and a box of steak knives. I will go now.

If this is the Man Talk thread, we should all be taking the man's oath.

"I am a Man, but I can change. If I have to. I guess."

I like the Milwaukee Sawz All.

http://store4.yimg.com/I/tylertool_1771_3637248

I had to cut apart a gnarly rusty old big-ass roof antenna. All metal - a chain saw is useless there. The Sawz All cut thru that thing like butter. It made quick work of that beast. And I didn't even break a nail.

Vrooooooom !!!!

http://tragickingdom.net/gwennie/gwen-emoticon.jpg

Reciprocating saws.
 

OK< Now I'm getting a woody.

Re: Reciprocating saws.
 

Well, you know, that's what saws are for, to saw off... well. Anyway.

Wuss. I would've clapped. :thumb:

Okay. Let's talk drills.
 

:joylove: HB tested and approved:

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I figured I'd get some shit for the hair-dyeing, but it's all good. You can all go fuck yourselves. :)

I have a basic toolkit, but I'm not mechanically inclined.

I love fast cars, but I have a grocery-getter.

No tractor, no digicam, a couple of knives that I can't find...and I use a Mach 3.

All righty then , I was just ragging on SYC , but hell this MANLY thread is going in the right direction now !!!!:D

Pistol : Glock 23 , it fit my hand better that the G22 and it is more concealable , also when i bought it the mag ban was just fixing to hit , 10 round mags were CHEAP !!! I have 5 . Fobis slide holster .

Tractor : the sun shade was on the tractor when i bought it , and it does get in the way some time , but it is so nich to stand on when i have to like clean out the gutters , or climb on the roof of the shed , or just need a mobile work platform about 6-7 feet off the ground . Kuboto B7100hst 4wd 16 HP .

Knifes : I ALL ways have a Spyderco dragonfly in my pocket , i also have an enduro ( plastic handle ) and one with a stainless handle ( for dress ocations ) , various swiss army knifes (victorenox ONLY !!!) , a gerber multi tool ( you can unscrew the tools and rearange them ) , a Spyderco multi tool ( FUCKING useless thing !!!) , 2 different columbia river folders , and a large assortment of various pocket knifes i have stumbled on to over the years ,
oh and wolf if you want to impress me with butterfly knifes , try working 2 at the same time , i can flip 1 up as i flip 1 down at the same time , that freaked out a would be mugger once .

Fixed blades , a kabar ( of corse ) , a cheap ass tanto point ( that will punch a hole in a wall locker ) a german baonette from WW1, and my fav is a Bianchi knight hawk ( exelent ballance , HARD ass steel , DAMN fine blade )

Recip saws : HELL YES !!!!

Big ass drill : i was useing one just like the pic once with a 1 1/2 auger bit on a ladder once , i found a nail and went flying .


Oh and HP are you fucking stupid working on a LIVE circut with an uninsulated tool ?????? You DESERVE to get shocked .

Some would call me stupid. I am one such person.

I used to a lot of work on low-voltage circuits, and when there was a problem, I was too lazy to go grab my toolbox when I had my leatherman on me. It wasn't enough voltage to hurt anybody, just enough to cause a short spurt of spontaneous profanity. And I was practiced enough that I 95% of the time, I didn't get shocked. No biggie.

I work on mostly 12v dc circuts and have worked on up to 440vac . It is BAD practis to use un insulated tools for ANY live circut . I know phone lines are only 52 vdc but you can short out other stuff when you get shocked and you jump and drop your leatherman and start the pissed off dance ( cussing and kicking ) .
besides leatherman tools are soft compaired to a good hardened tip pocket screwdriver. I carry a flat head , phillips , a small pair of dykes ( diaganal cutters for you non-tech folks) , a small set of channel locks ,and a small roll of electrical tape in my pockets at work ALL the time . Some times ( most of the time ) i can fix whats wrong with just these few tools.

I put a live phone wire in my mouth once.

I touched an electrical fence once.

I used to touch the ends of 9V batteries to my tongue.

And I've shocked myself on a couple of outlets...bad grounding perhaps...*shrugs*

If it had rang at that instance you would have done the pissed off dance in time with the ringer !!!
I used to put alarms in . One day i was working with this butthead , just a total asshole !! He had this bad habbit of putting the end of wires in his maoth when he was wireing up panels . I just happen to be hooking up the end of one of these wires one day ( dedacated phone line ), i could see him thru the window , he put the wire in his mouth and i hooked it up to the phone block .
BOY did he do the pissed off dance :rar: :rar:

I was working at a power plant in East Texas when it came time to pack up the work trailer. About 8 ft up on the side of the trailer was an access door about 18" square. Through this door went the 440 volt ac feed and the phone wire.
I would disconnect the phone lead and after we left, the plant electrician would disconnect the 440 volt line. It was well insulated but on an aluminum ladder, against an aluminum trailer with an earth ground, I would reach in gingerly the pull the phone line. Really not a biggy since phones are low voltage. Well, in East Texas the phones were using 110 volt dc. I thought I was a dead man. :eek:

I have only gotten two bad shocks in my life. As a young aspiring guitar player, I learned early on that bare feet on a dampish concrete floor is all wrong for playing the electric guitar.

As a somewhat older aspiring electrician's slave, I cut into a 220 volt line with a pair of sidecutters on order from the "journeyman" union electrician I was slaving for. "Oh, yeah, you can just cut that, the whole circuit is dead. Turned it off myself!"

Asshole.

When i was young(14?), my mom borrowed a friends rototiller to till her veg. garden.....she calls me over...tiller still running......and shouts over the din," how do you turn it off?!"

i inspected it, saw no kill switch of any kind, so i simply yanked the spark plug wire off. my hand bounced off that thing so hard, it swung around and slapped me in the back of the head. i still glow in the dark.

I had an experence with a TIG welder that left me 20 feet from where i started picking my smokeing ass up off the floor .

I snagged one of these bad boys a while back , Marlin .44mag .

WELL DAMN THAT EXPLAINS ALOT !!!!!!!

Hey LJ come piss on this wire :rolleyes:

hey! that's not a wire!

Thank you. :)

Looks like bruce has managed to save the day and reclaim your collective manly honor. Go bruce!!

(you know this just may spur me into getting something cooler than cool at the gun show this weekend ... if you're in the area, just in time for Christmas and Chanukah and Kwanzaa and Solistice giving ... Valley Forge Convention Center, 12/20-21/2003. Friend of a friend runs the show. Great quality stuff, good deals, no crappy flea market vendors.)

I fried an earlier version of this drill doing the peg holes in my timber frame. It had done a lot of hammer drill work in concrete previously though so lets not blame Milwaukee. musical interlude- "what made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me."

Never believe journeyman electricians, its their job to kill off any apprentices who show any ahem potential.

I drained a 330V capcitor, that I thought was dead, into my arm while attempting to pull a bulb out of a strobe. I don't think the capcitor was "full", so there's no telling how much I took, but there was a momentary thought of "why won't my hand let go?" followed by a jump backwards and lots of screaming as the pain found its way up my arm and nearly into my shoulder.

Anyone know if there is any truth to the old wive's tale (old man's tale?) of touching potentially live wires with the back of your hand? The idea, from what I've heard, is that if there is current flowing your muscles will jump and pull your arm away from it instead of grabbing the wire.

Personally, I prefer a multi-meter to that method or touching your tongue to it. :p

Hey, I thought this was the MAN thread, what's with all this sissy talk?

My worst shocking was when I was working maintenance in a department store many years ago... it was my first week. There was a flourescent panel that was out, so I figured that it was a burned-out tube. Using my aluminum ladder, I removed the tube without incident, and went and got a new one. It turns out that the tube was fine, what had happened was the hot wire had come out of it's wirenut inside the fixture, and was grounding to the metal. I discovered this when I went to put the new tube in, and my finger grazed the fixture.

There was a guy buffing the floor not too far away, and I can imagine the scene from his perspective... out of nowhere, he hears a loud "Whaaaah!," followed immediately by the loud popping of a flourescent tube, and the sound of shattered glass raining to the floor. As this happens, the lights all go dark in that little corner of the store. He came running around the corner to see me in the dim light, standing on my ladder, covered in white phosphorus dust and surrounded by shards of broken glass.

"Are you ok?" has asked after staring for a moment.

"Oh, I'm fine," I said. "How are you?"

I was always a little carefuler after that. Amazingly, for all the times I was shocked on that 16-foot ladder, I never once fell to a bloody, broken death on the tiles below. I teetered a few times, but never fell. When standing on a ladder I always used insulated tools, but I always had to work on hot circuits because we couldn't have lights off while there were people in the store, and that resulted in brushes with electricity from time to time. The doctors say I might have brain damage, and that I may start using non-words like "carefuler" and "non-word."

Dude...your handle is Hot Pastrami, you just got married, and you live somewhere in the barren West, if my memory serves me correctly.

What do you mean the doctors say you *might* be brain damaged? :D

Well, the doctors also say that I *might* be the sexiest creature ever to live. They must have an uncanny gift for understatement.

Cough.

Here's the deal... the reason you are supposed to use the back of your hand is not so much that you'll be repelled, that's a 50:50 thing<G>, but if your muscles do contract, at least you won't be grabbing the live wire.

I know that most sane people don't work on live circuits by choice, but consider this, if you work on a live circuit, and you do something stupid, you'll know instantly from the loud crack the subsequent loss of potential when the breaker trips. I almost always work on household circuits live for just that reason.

As far as telephone stuff goes, plain old telephone service is -48Vdc to -52Vdc, but can only deliver a few milliamps before various protective devices fire. ISDN, T1, and the like however run at -130Vdc, and can deliver quite a bit more current. I learned this when a telco guy mismarked a demarc point<G>!

As far as really high voltage stuff goes... the coolest thing I ever saw was a chain dropped across two phases of a 500KV circuit. I worked for the power company at the time, and we were testing our own protective systems. Two bucket trucks, one on either side of the line, and each guy holding one end of this big assed chain (I missed the part where they got the chain from one bucket to the other... I'd have really liked to see that!!!) On the count of three they drop the chain, and if causes a fault... but it also mysteriously disappears.

At the time we witnesses were all standing on rubber mats with out feet touching... anyone want to explain why?

Yes, yes, yes to the sideburns and ALWAYS, ALWAYS a hell yes for the goatee baby! :D

Damn! High voltage is cool.

But how is that possible? I thought that high voltage lines could only be worked on when shut down or, if left live, by helicopter. The helicopter gets close, becomes part of the circuit, and then is able to work on the line. If two guys were on bucket trucks and were holding a chain, I'd think they'd be too close and in the field. Wouldn't the bucket trucks then ground the field, cooking the guys, the chain, and all?

Just being in the field doesn't get you lethal shocks. You can feel it and it makes fluorescent tubes light, though.

i feel like that all the time.....call me uncle fester

keep it in the girlie thread!

Has anyone been electrocuted while shaving? Not that your pain would be cool or anything...

Electrocuted, no. Sliced open by a damaged foil on an electric razor, yes. I don't know how it got damaged and the time I shave is far too early to be thinking about things like checking the foil for damage.

I use a rotary now.

Watching men shave or be shaved with blades or the dreaded straight razor, like say in the movies, is very uncomfortable for me...makes my butt pucker.

do you have any pictures of that?

wst3 - did it look like this?

http://cellar.org/2003/LugoSWR.mpg

(9 sec video, 1.5MB)

Holy shit! :eek: What's going on there? A massive circuit breaker?

I dunno! Found on another forum and the guy who put it up just said "my dad sent this to me".

More! More! Bravo! Bravo! Author! Pfffweeeeetttt!!!!

I have a load of these stupid videoclips.

http://cellar.org/2003/mbike1.mpg

(Watch the bike continue on its way. Watch the people bail out!)

suggestion
 

put up a video clip thread......safe for work, please

http://cellar.org/2003/branded.mpg

This is safe for work, as long as it's safe in your workplace for everyone to hear you scream "ow" at the top of your lungs.

OK, video clip thread coming along... in quality imgs

OHGODDAMN!

that one is great!

go horsey, go horsey!

fucker deserves it....hope he punctured a lung

When the switch is opened, the arc will continue as long as there's sufficient amperage to jump the gap.
The arc was drawn upward by the field of the high tension line above.
A 500kv line will arc about 11 or 12 feet.

Likewise.

My hair is almost to my knees.

Quzah.

Tears of laughter. That's a great clip. Thanks for the post UT. I had to watch that three of four times. It's a riot.

Quzah.

We were living in the Seattle area in January of 1993 when there was a tremendous wind storm - 70 mph winds. Well, those evergreens don't do very well in high winds and they were knocking down power lines like nobody's business.

I guess that did something bad to some of the power stations. That night, you could see these things going off miles away. Huge ball of light, then fade to black.

I tell you, it looked like a scene from War of the Worlds.