Robert,

Cool looking cabin for your grand daughter.  Add a rocker on the porch for some whittlin.

Robert,

Congrats on making the featured members page, it is well deserved my friend

Robert, I am truly blessed by the friendship shown to me by the members of this great site. 

It is a good one, thanks for the good times and the great stories. : )

Yea, Ill "play"!!!  What do I have to do? I dont understand what you asking me to fill out? 

Yes sir, I found it. Thank you.. Ill try and get ya something in the next few days.. Were super busy and time is at a premium right now. Seems Im burning the candle at both ends alot lately!  :) Talk to ya later, Thanks for following up on this. 

God Bless

Randy, HHH knives

Hey Robert, sorry about being late in saying this, but happy Thanksgiving.

It's good to be friends, especially when we have so much in common. It's great to share with another hunter, the stories are great.

God Bless buddy

Thanks Robert, Hope you had a great Christmas Too!

EXCELLENT CHOICE

Robert, the handles on the Muskrat is a smooth blue bone on which I assume Case laser etched the desigh and filled with black. Max McGruder posted a pix of a pattern handled this way. I did some research and found that Case released these in the fall of 2011 and one of the patterns was a muskrat. I was able to find one on ebay & add it to my muskrat collection. I have not been able to find out how many of each pattern was handled this way. The design is unique & I hope that a very limited number were produced.

Robert,

Call Chris and have her get the tracking number for the trace.

Christine Tucker – Inside Sales
chris@greateasterncutlery.net
Phone: 814-827-3411 Fax: 814-827-3529

thanks, robert! i'm honored to be your friend.

if i get a chance i'll take some stix pix later today.

rob, here are a few pix of some stix that i have been working on lately...

as you can see they are all in various stages of work. the cane is done and it came from a crepe myrtle tree. the handle fits perfectly in my hand and feels really natural. ergonomically correct i guess you'd say. the one on the far left is also done, and i won't even comment on what it looks like -- it just turned out that way. the one i left the bark on, left of the cane, was a much taller staff at first. i recently chopped it down to feel more like a shillelagh. the one on the far right is a real nice section of eucalyptus and is about 6 feet long. it will be my next project and hopefully a nice staff. the one to the right of the cane is red oak and already has tung oil on it. it feels perfect just as it is. it is quite heavy! the one second from the left is one that i have been working on a lot lately even though it might not look like it. i'm not sure what kind of wood it is because i found it laying nowhere near any trees and was actually from the same large broken branch as the one just left of it. the one i call the phallus erectus stick. (i hope that description falls within our G rating policy?). anyway, it is headed for a life as a shillelagh, also.

here are some different angles of these...

so, that's what i have on hand right now. usually as soon as i finish one of my stix i give it to one of my friends. my enjoyment comes from skinning, carving and sanding the wood. it's therapeutic for me in the evening to plop myself down in front of the boob tube and work on my wood.

i enjoy just sitting and sanding. here is a small piece of very old and extremely hard apricot wood that i was playing with last night. i have sanded it down to 2000 grit and i doubt that it will show in a picture, but it has a mirror-like finish on it. i call items like that worry wood, much like worry stones. they are soothing just to roll around in your hand.

i hope all this gives you some idea of my very simple projects. nothin' fancy. just keeping my hands busy.

cheers!

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very nice work on the canes rob.....

Thanks Robert. I generally like wood scales, but there is something about the texture of this giraffe bone that is unusually pleasant...

Good eye Robert!  Didn't think anyone would be able to see that.

hello rob,  got out of hospital this afternoon and headed straight for the lap top.  The best man for your knife is Eugene Blankenship who lives in Milan ,  Tn.   .  He had a stroke a way back and could have retired.  He's the best in the country.  He did all Boker returns alot from Remington.  His phone # is 731-723-7575.  He did my work and it was the best.

Hope this helps !  "GO REMINGTON"  (  WESTERN TOO!)  lou

Robert,

Let the girls know I want to know your OK just as soon as they can

Robert, it has been a while since I have been on I Knife and I see you are having some major surgery. My prayers will be for you snd look forward to your recovery. May God be with you & your family during this time.

Get them mooses (meeses??) when you are all healed up Robert!

Thanks Rob.  Soon as I can get someone to take it to the Post Office it will be on the way.  Tomorrow or the next day for sure.  I'm glad to have found iKnife and glad to have ou as a friend as well.  Lee

Hi Bob, My Puma skinner was made in 1970 1st quarter.

Hi Bob, I really like  your game photo's. I sure like to squirrel hunt myself.I hope things are OK for you Bob, I heard you recently got out of the hospital. Hang in there and keep workin that wood.

You are so welcome Robert.  I just am praying for your swift recovery.

Thanks for joining the Arsenal Robert, it's great to have you.

If you have some hun related stories, or pics, we would love to see them.

Sorry, I mean't to say hunting related stories. Not "hun" related stories. That totally changes it I guess. Sorry about that Robert.

Thanks again for joining the group, hopefully we will get some interesting things going. 

CLICK ON PICTURE BELOW.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND::::::::

Happy Birthday to a dear and wonderful friend

Happy Birthday to my friend Rob!!!

Hi Robert-thanks for accepting my friendship! take care ,

Glenn

hey Robert-glad to be your buddy too! I need to go fishing and get a good one-then I'll post a pic-thanks for the info! You ever go on the chat? Maybe I'll see you on there sometime

that's ok Robert. I enjoyed your pics-and I'll take some pics the next time I go fishing-How's the weather in Louisiana right now?

James has left iKC.  He has grown his facebook and I believe his private email is JamesIvyKnives@gmail.com

I understand Robert.  They scare me too because even though I know a little and I have books to help me, it would be easy to fool me.

I tend to buy pocketknives in the $50 and under range for that reason, although sometimes I fall in love with a $100 knife.

My switchblades scare me more because they are more expensive.  But I understand the prices.  There are fewer of them (American) because of the ban on making switchblades.  And even fewer still because of the more complicated mechanics of switchblades.  The springs tend to break and we don't seen to have many old-timers that can fix them anymore.

If you want I can send you a list of the books that I use to help me determine if a knife is the real deal and if the value is in the right range.

I think that's the best any of us can do, except the guys on here that are bona-fide experts.

And sometimes I get a real deal.  I was going thru a stack of recent knives (it was a real stack!) to take pics and post here when I realized  I bought a few knives at really good prices:

• Colonial Hawkbill for $8.49 + $3.99 shipping
• Unknown maker Sailors Knife for $11.11 + $free shipping

The rest in the stack are $25 to $50 each, and while I can't afford to lose $25 anymore than the next guy I figure I can always sell them.  If I sell them for less and acknowledge the co ndition is bad, or it's a fake or whatever, then at least i don't chaet a guy and I make some of my money back.

Anyway, if you want to know what I use...let me know.

I am here for you buddy.  Let me see what I can do

You might be the strawberry capitol no Robert.  California used to be the capitol for everything in the Sacramento.San Jaoquin Valley, but now it seems like all we grow is houses and people!

Not like it was when I was a kid.  The valley was all tomatoes, straberries, corn, melons, etc  And off to the east cotton.  People never realized how much cotton we grew.  Heck, we still grow a ton of cotton!  A ton of fruit & vegetables too!

But we may not be the strawberry capitol anymore!!

I don't even think we are the hot rod capitol anymore.

@ Robert .. see my suggestions in the huddle. They're just that .. suggestions !! D ale.

robert i was thinking about doing that.thanks for your input and i will let you know sir .thanks again.i am problaby losing money selling all at one time two...