Recent content by mrpinter

Allen Elishewitz is a custom knife maker who has done collaborations with other knife companies. Recently some of Hogue's models are his designs - like the Deka models I posted above, and he has also worked with Benchmade. You can see the family resemblance between the Hogue Deka and this...

Knife fever strikes again! KnifeCenter has an exclusive on a version of the Deka that's different from the one I just bought, and not found anywhere else - with red and black "G-Mascus*" handles and CPM MagnaCut blade steel instead of CPM-20CV, which is a better steel normally only found on more...

That's an elegant little fixed blade @Scott, I'm impressed.

I got a nice addition to my small folder collection in the mail yesterday: a Hogue Deka; with machined G10 handles and a 3.25" modified wharncliffe blade made of CPM-20CV steel. It has a cross-bar locking system, pretty much identical to the Benchmade Axis Lock, since the patent has expired...

Here are my latest Apollo Picks acquisitions - maybe my last for a while. I now have a pretty full selection of hand made Casein and high end thermoplastic picks to choose from: from about 1mm thick to a little over 2mm in Apollo picks. So I'm looking good for acoustic and electric guitars...

Here is how you know you are a certified pick geek: I bought one of these a few days ago to check the measurements of my picks. Sure enough, most of them vary from what they're listed at - some more than others.

I don't consider the watches I wear now to be jewelry (maybe one dress watch, but it's stainless steel and doesn't really call attention to itself). But I used to have a couple of vintage pieces that were jewelry; strictly dress watches for special occasions, like this 18carat Jurgensen. I miss...

I gave up on the G-Shock. You have to push buttons for setting after setting after setting just to put correct information on the dial, and I got lost trying to do it. So I sent it back... it wasn't meant to be. I'll take my simple, old school mechanicals any day. Speaking of which: here is what...

Apollo pick number five: old stock "Canyon-Stone" Casein, Shape K, RH bevel, 2mm, 28mm H x 23mm W. Another great pick from Nik at Apollo. Another two are still on the way. Here is the new one; it's a very attractive pick as well as being great feeling and sounding:

Looks like I have a new source for picks. Someone on The Gear Page was talking up Apollo Picks, so I ordered some. Apollo is a one man shop (Nik Monnin) that does a lot of custom work, and mostly Casein as the material, although he does have two types of high performance thermoplastics (like...

All-maple is going to be really heavy unless it's chambered; and it would probably be a VERY bright sounding guitar (depending on your pickups, of course). Any of the bindings or dots or whatever will look OK on birdseye maple, and should be fine with a tortoise pickguard as well. Just a...

Yes, body weight is part of the equation, which is why I said I'd go with a solid body rather than chambered.