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[itisnotlogical]

At work I got invited to a four-day vacation, halfway around the country, all expenses paid. And to think I was inches away from calling out this morning.

[Yoink]

I slept in and had a hectic dream involving sci-fi space ops ninja clan ancient grudge adventures on an alien planet with plenty of bloodshed and gorgeous scenery and faintly ridiculous plot twists and also a sprinkling of romance which may or may not have ended in heartbreak which plunged dream-me further down the path of evil and violence which chance and/or destiny had set him on.

Tight.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go write down the rest before I forget too much more of it.

[Dunamisdeos]

Use the dream thread

[overseer05-15]

I slept in and had a hectic dream involving sci-fi space ops ninja clan ancient grudge adventures on an alien planet with plenty of bloodshed and gorgeous scenery and faintly ridiculous plot twists and also a sprinkling of romance which may or may not have ended in heartbreak which plunged dream-me further down the path of evil and violence which chance and/or destiny had set him on.

Tight.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go write down the rest before I forget too much more of it.

Borp.

[Yoink]

Uhhhhh...

Use the dream thread

That's the plan, Stan.

[Yoink]

Sorry for double-posting, but this book I'm reading is bloody fantastic. Jasper Jones. I would honestly describe it as "gripping", inasmuch as the narrative currently feels like a fist clenched around the core of my being and refusing to let go. It's like the "cold brick" of guilt described at times in the story has been heated up and placed in my heart instead of my gut.
As well as that, it manages to be clever, thoughtful, funny, relatable and devastatingly sad by turns, or sometimes even all of the above at once.

Phwoar. And to think I have a tendency to avoid Australian authors...

[TamerVirus]

That dumb gif I uploaded to the reddit April Fools thing got accepted into the final product.

*Gasp*
That means some people actually find my shitposting...somewhat witty!

[Haspen]

I'm old as of today. Then again, survived another year, that counts!

[LordBaal]

Getting late but kudos on the three beers only hansa! Also kudos to Drag for whatver acid Chihuahua trip you indulged in.

[Max™]

Oh heavens I'm having too much fun working on these, keep getting careless and pinching the shit out of a finger or stabbing my thumb with a reamer file, but man...

Spoiler: One of these has a back from a saw I bought to rehandle, the other two are brass backs I folded, while all are steel plates I cut and toothed, in handles I carved. (click to show/hide)

The top one, in an extreme Smilodon Populator handle--best suited for very large hands--has the folded brass back from the Crown Gents saw I rehandled.


Here's a little Gracilis with a back I folded that best fits smaller hands than mine.

I hurt my damn palm though, was sinking screws into a thick hunk of wood I was using for a metal bending jig and despite drilling out guide holes and countersinks it was still damn near impossible to get the last few turns to sink the heads all the way, ended up with a big fucking blister right across my uh...  mind line I think? Top one should be love, then mind below, and life around the thumb?

Makes it kinda annoying trying to take good pictures of these, razzer frazzer...

Spoiler: Still, here's a Smilodon Fatalis in the prettiest hunk of pine I've ever seen. (click to show/hide)

The little bit of shimmery figure where the growth ring kinks is gorgeous, it's a little pool of honey when you look across towards a light.




Bonus pics of the vise I made to sharpen these with, used some composite board from an old dresser drawer I dismantled.

You smush the wedge up towards the u-bolts and it cinches the jaw faces down around the spine and saw plate wonderfully.

Nice solid and compact vise means I can reposition it easily for comfort but it never screeches and shrieks like some vises do.

Also that pretty piece of wood with the little shimmery puddle on the sides of the grip? It was a fucking decorative paddle from Michael's, I could see three handles in the main paddle section but none of the visible grain I looked at interested me. Then when we were getting ready to leave I asked the missus what she thought about them and after moving a couple founed one with really interesting swirls on the faces that felt like it weighed damn near twice as much as the other paddles which screams to me "dense and sap-soaked chunk of potentially gorgeous handles" so I bought that one.

Got another Fatalis and a Populator handle from the big face section of the paddle, plus another pair of Fatalis handles and a delicate little Gracilis I made from the thinner knotty pine doors I had been working with, on top of the other half of a steel sheet, three quarters of a brass sheet AND A WHOLE OTHER STEEL SHEET I HAVEN'T EVEN TOUCHED YET!

[Doomblade187]

Ooh wood.

[TD1]

I like to *breathes heavily* touch wood *breathes heavily*

[Dunamisdeos]

DIKC JOKE.

[Owlga]

Cut that wood.

[AzyWng]

Creating a eunuch 101