Weapons, warfare and industrial idiocy

The random rantings of an old, 63 years, knifemaker (please don't say "bladesmith") on tools, technology and the world's unfortunate tendency toward overcomplication.

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Happy Armistice Day! "MURICA!" Edition

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All good wishes for the 99th anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in the most devastating war to date - to be later surpassed by cha...

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Monday, October 23, 2017

Free at Last!

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I have just sent away - and received intel upon its receipt - that it is "horrible"- the last Phil Collins Bowie that ever I sha...

Monday, September 18, 2017

History Stix

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Like Pixie Stix - only different. More historical. Instead of Kool-aid powder and sugar, they were filled with dust swept from the back c...

Monday, September 04, 2017

How I Spent Labor Day Weekend

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Pigging out. But I hardly ate anything because it was so hot. Let me back up a bit: Thursday afternoon I e-mailed the company I'd orde...

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Monday, July 31, 2017

Courage

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Meet Siegfried Loraine Sassoon. Taken circa May, 1915 when he was twenty-eight years old and with all of nine months-ish in the army, much...

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Thursday, June 22, 2017

The Katrina Reefers.

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That actually sounds like it'd be a good band name. Like Jimmy Buffet only bleaker. Short version: Al Gore got fat, a hurricane mad...

Sunday, June 04, 2017

It's just a Beau going in...

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Poetry Break! First, some context: Pictured: A Bristol Beaufighter. Originally conceived as a twin engine, two man, heavy fighter , i...

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