Design proposals for the IFG members knife.

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Post by Mack The Knife » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:49 am

Thanks, Grumpy.

Must drop him an e-mail.

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Post by eljefe » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:22 pm

I thought i was the only one.Thanks Grumpy,
I have mentioned it earlier-Leatherman has a very sharp and strong blade but the grip is positively painful-cant use a lot of force-good for delicate use like nose/needle pliers-try cutting or crushing and palms hurt.How did you manage on the latest deer shot?

Mack The Knife, rechecked on my design and-its definitely not graceful or utilitarian.guess we'll leave it to individual sensibilities and not have something which looks 'offensive' for IFG.Will post after I finish with it...
Going by the current requirements and political correctness, there's very little to add to your design.Why dont we go for it by common consensus?
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Re: Design proposals for the IFG members knife.

Post by eljefe » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:38 pm

Ok Mack The Knife,
There I go, no clip points, all blades 100-110mm, no graph paper.
All full tang, easy on the bladesmith!!
Prefer a little fuller belly on the knife.Hopefully teak handles-nothing exotic.Only tang depicted without slabs...Didnt smoke anything but the post dinner ciggie-hope you dont find them too bizarre?
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Re: Design proposals for the IFG members knife.

Post by Grumpy » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:52 am

???? That final design is an axe Asif ! Looks like a series of developmental pictures from the Charles Atlas school of body-building. "Are you a 6oz weakling ? Get sand kicked in your face ? Subscribe to my body building course and in 6 weeks you can look like this !"
The alternative is that the knife is over-indulging on poppadoms and is getting progressively obese !
Let me guess - you call that final design the `Fat Boy`!
( You`ll notice that I haven`t provided any drawings - I`m not stupid, some so-and-so would only mock my designs .............................. ! )

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Post by Mack The Knife » Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:39 am

Nice going, Asif!

I would go for the first one but with one minor change - increase the length of the tang.

Grumpy, that Charles Atlas bit was a blast from the past. :mrgreen:

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Re: Design proposals for the IFG members knife.

Post by Grumpy » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:28 am

Showing my age eh ?
Oh well. Nothing wrong with the occasional rave from the grave.
Even when I was a kid Charles Atlas looked somewhat past it - I hear that he was Sampsons personal coach..............
I quite like Asifs` first design as well......but he must have dinky little hands - either that or the knife is 15" long !

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Post by eljefe » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:50 pm

HO Grumpy, rave from the grave-worth the time in 'designing' my knives to hear something as juicy as that. :P Just to hear more, will add on more designs...
No dinky fingers,more like a lost sense of perspective :oops:
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Re: Design proposals for the IFG members knife.

Post by Mack The Knife » Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:38 pm

No dinky fingers,more like a lost sense of perspective.
Not to be pedantic but I think you meant to say proportion. :wink:

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Post by Grumpy » Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:01 am

Speaking as the arch-pedant I think `Perspective` also works......and could be a clever pun.

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Post by eljefe » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:54 am

semantics, semantics...
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Post by Grumpy » Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:30 am

Or:
`Pedantics, pedantics`; Or.
`You say tomato and I say..................`; Or
`Semantics ? Schlemantics`; Or, going back to the second,
`Let`s call the whole thing off`.

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Post by dev » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:44 pm

Grumpy";p="6447 wrote: Or:
`Pedantics, pedantics`; Or.
`You say tomato and I say..................`; Or
`Semantics ? Schlemantics`; Or, going back to the second,
`Let`s call the whole thing off`.
Hey Grumpy get to work and please build me a Colt single action .22 revolver out of our Indian Ordinance factory .22 . Huh could u please I 've just been robbed and all...huh...huh...please. ;-).

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Re: Design proposals for the IFG members knife.

Post by Grumpy » Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:33 pm

You can`t make a silk purse out of a pigs ear Dev.
I don`t think I`ve ever had a .22 lr revolver. I quite fancied getting a S&W `Kit` gun several years ago but never found one.....and had a hankering for an H&R for some reason......mostly because of the 9-round cylinder I suspect.
What am I talking about - I had a S&W K22 Target - nice gun.
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Post by eljefe » Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:24 am

Grumpy,
you'll have to knit him one out of steel wool and send it by post-Dev's used to getting good news from the postie! ;)
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Post by dev » Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:19 pm

Your real friends will know you better than family...that has just been proven by the good Doc. Thanks Grumpy I know what you are saying...I was just trying to be funny. A .22 revolver I really adored was the Ruger single six...it came with an extra magunum cylinder and was really nice to shoot. Man I could hear the tune from 'the good, the bad and the ugly' while shooting it.

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eljefe";p="6484 wrote: Grumpy,
you'll have to knit him one out of steel wool and send it by post-Dev's used to getting good news from the postie! ;)
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