Interesting. I’ll sometimes tune in to a tv show we get over the air in this area called “Forged in Fire” . A contest between several would-be knife makers, whoever makes the best knife wins a prize. They start with a hunk of steel and forge/pound it into a knife shape. The problem with this format imo is that the contestants are only allowed a few hours to do the tasks. Taking a month to do one knife seems more reasonable. Of course I’m the poster here that was awarded the forum’s “taking the longest time to rebuild a carburetor” prize … lol … Generally I don’t watch that show unless they are making a Damascus Steel style. A Damascus Steel carburetor would be a hoot!
$9.95 to put a new blade and refurbish a a really beat broken blade Buck knife, lifetime warranty works!
Well I don’t think I could find the resort where I bought it close to 70 years ago. Sabre model 100-5, j.m. Thompson, Sheffield England. Might be worth a shot if I ever get over there again. I’m sure not legal in all states and not sold to nine year olds anymore.
Well, if you get digital television over the Airwaves, DEFY is offering 14 straight episodes starting at 1:00 PM tomorrow (Dec 8, 2023) and they run continuously until 3:00 AM Saturday…
I can only take so much of Doug Marcaida saying, “This knife will cut… This knife will kill…”
The one aspect of Forged in fire that I do not like is the surprise source of metal… One show the smiths will have to dismantle a '57 Chevy for good steel, the next, scrap pile from the junk yard, and they might have to cut, hack, or burn (torch) the material to just start the job… Or they will have to figure how to forge weld powered steel…
There was one episode that surprised me back in 2017, a knifemaker, Walter Sorrells, I knew from various knife shows had his butt kicked by the surprise nature of this show…
His web site…
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A cup of dish detergent? I find a few drops are enough. I usually use an empty disposable sports water bottle, fill with tap water, add a couple of drops of dish detergent, cap it and shake it and then open the cap and squirt it on the tire. Sometimes if there is an old spray bottle laying around, I use it.
Not me, but a neighbor hooked a chain hoist to a limb on an oak tree to swap engines in his truck.
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Your Buck 110 is the larger version of mine, a Buck 112. I’ve had mine going on 60-years, bought mine as a teenager… It has never failed me and it followed me on 17-military change of assignments and has been on 6-continents… Australians were not too happy with me bringing into the country and this was in the late '80s, after the Crocodile Dundee movie came out and they just looked at me like I was stupid when in my best Aussie accent, I said, “That ain’t a knife…” Perhaps the movie had not yet made a splash down under… Luckily, I was on military orders and I told them. Hey, I left my assault rifle back in my office… They only said, “Oh, a Yank who thinks he’s funny…” They let me through with my Buck…
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When I was a teenager back in the '60s, I swapped out the engine on my '63 VW and I used a ladder to replace an engine jack… Without re-writing this old posting, here is the link…
In as much as part of this thread has become ‘Knife Talk”, I will join in.
I have a Buck knife as pictured above plus a small Buck hunting knife.
Below is a knife given to me by my house boy when I left the Philippines.
As far as I know, the blade was made from truck leaf springs, handle from water buffalo horn. I do not guarantee that is correct.
Picture of the knife:
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Just as a warning, they confiscated our cake spatula at the LA airport. I didn’t try any accent on them. I carry about a two inch pocket knife now but put it in the suitcase.
True as they say a little goes a long way.
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Several years ago, I went to the York County, VA., Court House and I had to empty my pockets and go through the metal detector… I put my key ring in the bin and when the guard inspected the contents, he informed me that I could not take a “weapon” into the courthouse… I asked what weapon and he pointed to that little Swiss Army Knife on my key ring. I had to take it off and put it in the car so I could enter the courthouse…
That guard must have thought that I was some kind of Ninja as that “weapon,” the little Swiss Army Knife, is just loaded with all sorts of death… A pair of tweezers, a toothpick, a nail file, a pair of scissors, and the “coup de grâce” a 1-1/4" blade…
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Yeah that’s what I carry. In fact they were give aways at the college father and son banquet. We all got them. Very handy. I Use the scissors a lot.
Sad part is, that little blade can do some damage to the eye or throat in a pinch, but so could your keys if used properly… 
But yeah, if I am going to be in a knife fight for whatever reason, I had much rather be using a knife like Purebred showed in post 29 then the keychain Swiss Army Knife you had to keep in your car… 
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No, the guard doesn’t know you or most people that enter the courthouse. He is instructed to assume the worst and could lose his job if he isn’t diligent enough. I’m sure that you don’t want anyone in that position to lose his job.
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That’s a big part of what makes it entertaining to watch for me. Who works best under extreme pressure or unusual circumstances? If I want to see the best Damascus blade made, I can watch hours of them on youtube- which btw are fascinating to watch and awesome outcomes after etching brings out the pattern…
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Made a crank pulley wrench out of some 1-1/4" plumbing to change a timing belt on my first OHC engine before commercial versions were available everywhere. Leaving the one arm long let me brace it against the ground, freeing up a hand.
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It’s been over 30 years but when my timing chain went south I had a hard time holding the balancer to get the bolt out. Tried a few things but seems to me I finally stuck a block of wood on the crank to hold it since the oil pan was off anyway. Not really a tool but chunks of wood come in handy.
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I can’t tell you how many times I have as well as a lot of others have just put a socket with a long breaker bar on the crank bolt and bump the starter with the breaker bar up against the frame or floor or whatever to hold it… Just make sure you remember to disable the ignition system or it might start and that can make a mess…
NOT recommended for rookie’s to try it though… NOT OASA approved… 
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The blades used by the terrorists on 9/11 were smaller than that. They used box-cutters.