ARmy Rumour SErvice

Originally Posted by Boumer

Awesome! Made by the Sami people? Beautiful wood and bone handle.

Indeed.
My pal saw me coveting it and bought it for me to return a favour, it is from the Martinii specials line, made in Rovenemi, Finland.

Originally Posted by Alsacien

Some Gerbers:

Must be gettin' old. I heard:


. . . some BURGERS

Originally Posted by Alsacien

I nice gift from a friend in Finland:



Handle has a bone bead it in to keep the contact with the spirit of the animal.

Shame blood runs into the hilt and causes rust (the one time I used it for a gralloch).

I am disturbed that you still have your old army bedspread.

Originally Posted by bokkatankie

I am disturbed that you still have your old army bedspread.

Ha!
Actually it is the girls fancy roll up place settings - but I'll never see them in the same light now!

Originally Posted by bokkatankie

I am disturbed that you still have your old army bedspread.

I thought it was his bell bottoms for the disco.

Originally Posted by jumpinjarhead

I thought it was his bell bottoms for the disco.

The British Army went through a very strange phase in the 70's, at least that was when the order was put in, thus in the punk rock era of the early 80's we had bedspreads as above and psychedelic furniture (I kid you not). Something to do with making 8 man rooms more homely?????

Originally Posted by ugly

Locking is safer for the user but thats never stopped the law makers and enforcers being stoopid. I often have a knife but if its a belt knife I keep it in the car if I'm not working with it, a folding lock knife left in your pocket when being slapped by a big rugby playing psycho can be too tempting for some (ask Biped when he gets out!). My mate is a district commissioner for the scouts and the H&S for their knives is almost beyond sense. I wonder what we are breeding if at all!

I was planning to assemble all my blades at the W/E, and post the whole lot in a one-er. However, this is an appropriate moment to introduce this li'l beauty, which occupies pride of place in the random jumble of cheapies that passes for my collection.

I got this dainty little thing when I was in my early teens (it even fitted my hand, back then - yes that's a Stonkermitt in the photo).

It had lain, unused for years, in an old toolbox in the garage, and had acquired the colour and patina of a dark nubuck leather, it was so rusty. It was also so blunt you could've ridden it bareback on a round trip to Jericho, and gotten nothing worse than bruised.

I took it to our local hardware store, and they sent it off to get sharpened. It got sharpened, all right: if I had a steady hand and enough nerve, you could get a decent shave with it today, although (partly for that reason) it hasn't been used (or needed further sharpening) since the day it came back.

It is my (late) father's Scout knife. He was born in 1928, so I guess it was bought just before/just after the start of WW2.

Imagine the coniptions (BTW - I'm looking to JJH now, for the correct spelling of this old Southern term ), if an entire Troop of 21st Century Boy Scouts were allowed to run around in En-ger-lund today, with such things hanging casually from their Scout belts . . . .

Originally Posted by bokkatankie

The British Army went through a very strange phase in the 70's, at least that was when the order was put in, thus in the punk rock era of the early 80's we had bedspreads as above and psychedelic furniture (I kid you not). Something to do with making 8 man rooms more homely?????

Old people discussing decoration is quaint, shows that the military furniture and soft furnishing dept should have allowed gay guys much earlier.....