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That is getting super exciting... Good luck to every one... Especially to me
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Knife build / canoetripping.net fund raiser thread.
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Mem, you been calling the knife "the Ripster" lately and I guess it's got stuck in my head so I'm going with it. The winner can rename it if they so desire. Too bad about your entries getting transferred but at least you won the name game for now.
When is the cutoff date for buying chances? Is there one?
Great looking knife Dave.
Even if there wasn't a raffle I'd be willing to donate 'cause this thread has been most entertaining.
Trying to stay in the background so I can swoop in at the end to win......Jim
Great looking knife Dave.
Even if there wasn't a raffle I'd be willing to donate 'cause this thread has been most entertaining.
Trying to stay in the background so I can swoop in at the end to win......Jim
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Same here. My metal working tools and skills are between abysmal and nonexistent.
Same goes for folks who can build a stripper, do wood/canvas work or vacuum bag carbon fiber.
Just following this thread has been a how-it’s-done knife education.
Good question, thanks for asking. I'm not aware of an official donation cutoff date as of yet. I am expecting it to run the duration of the knife build. So when the knife is nearing completion don't delay. I am thinking of putting the winner's initials on the sheath. So sometime between the completion of the knife and the building of the sheath I will know who the winner is. I am not in a hurry to finish the knife, it will be several weeks away. I have some other projects I am rotating in here and there. Also, I really enjoy sharing this with the site and don't want to rush though this. Dave
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If you decide to go full surname please note that “Memaquay” is not spelled the way it sounds, it’s a mispronunciation of the Highland Scot’s McCrea.
You guys take the cake. What a bunch of characters. It's a good thing too cause it's one place on the web that I fit right in. Such a internet campfire we got going here. I liken this thread to all of us stepping into the woods at once to pick up a little more wood to keep the fire going all night long. And the bullshitters, you know who you are, are the ones that keep me from turning in early. I don't want to miss a thing. Dave
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I'm amazed that you can match the bevels from side to side, by HAND ! I'd have to have a jig of some sort, or mine would be as uneven as a flint knife !
Great craftsmanship !
Oh, and the Initials are JD, just incase you're making the sheath ahead of time ! Boy I'd hate to see that knife leave Iowa !
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I'm amazed that you can match the bevels from side to side, by HAND ! I'd have to have a jig of some sort, or mine would be as uneven as a flint knife !
Great craftsmanship !
Oh, and the Initials are JD, just incase you're making the sheath ahead of time ! Boy I'd hate to see that knife leave Iowa !
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Jim Dodd;n38425 Boy I'd hate to see that knife leave Iowa ! [/QUOTE said:
Memaquay and Ripster, a match made in heaven. Wish I had the Ripster for those Plaid Prancer days, but you know how the circle of life works, you meet special people at particular times of your life for certain reasons. The high quality Ripster would have been embarrassed back in those dark days, hanging off my sash, covering up the bits. Now it will hang proudly from my side, waiting with a happy smile to cut into moose flesh, ropes, branches, fish, perhaps even the occasional zombie if my apocalyptic dreams become reality. I haven't had this kind of anticipation since I was a 13 year old kid looking through the undergarmant section of the Sears catalogue!
Jim, that is the most difficult part of the whole build. I always feel a relief to get the blade to the heat treat phase. As far as side to side I get them as close as I can, but you know, you can't see both sides at the same time. I center the blade edge and measure the height of the bevel with my ruler. Keeping the grind line strait is another chore. In the end if it looks good to the eye it's probably good enough to cut Klick (what ever that is).
You had best have it stitched to yourself in case you get mugged by another cedar tree.
As I lay here, withering away from some despicable disease (my wife says it's man cold, but my internet research has led me to believe that it is EBOLA), the slings and arrows of a million jealous Ripster wearing wanna-be's merely makes my dried up and cracked lips bleed as I smile with compassion, thinking about when the Ebola finally finishes me, and they are lowering me into the ground, the Ripster will be going with me, forever safe from the clutches of the clambering canoetripping crowd. Alas, me and Ripster for eternity!
It's nice to have dreams Mem.
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If only the Ripster had been a mirror finish you probably would have pulled through.
There's not enough topsoil up there to bury you deep enough mem. We'll brine you first, then we'll just prop you up in the smokehouse till you're good and cured (so to speak). Then you'll be good to go. We'll dress you up any way you like. Plaid peekaboo teddybear and satin speedos, with wool work socks. And of course a knife in a dangler sheath dangling right where you liked it best. But I've taken a shine to this here knife you call Ripster. And although I don't mind loaning it to any friend of mine (after I've won it), I'm not sure I want it to dangle from your fancy frilly garter belt...I know, I know. You weren't a stripper, you were an "exotic dancer". Whatever. But a big keen knife would be over kill, and such a waste. Better off hanging a diddly little folder. Right? It'll do the job just fine.(So I've heard.)
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Post of the day so far(in this thread). Alas, I'm afraid Mem is to week for a rebuttal.
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I was kinda thinking with the Ebola and all we should give Mem a Viking funeral. Brad you knew him better than me. You can do the eulogy.
Indeed, too sick to type, but I can post a picture of my re-butt-al and win the internet forever, but would probably be banned and never win the Ripster, so you guys are saved, for now.
