Recent content by mrpinter

@DaveT, If you can live without the day feature, there are a lot of automatic watches that are in the traditional "sweet spot" of 35mm to 38mm diameter. My Stowa Marine I showed earlier in the thread measures a very wearable 36mm, and my RGM model 107 Pilot watch (which I posted on the first...

^^^ Now that's a proper professional/first responder knife @rockandroller; strap cutter and glass breaker and everything!

Gotta show off my wife's new watch. I got her a nice Christophet Ward quartz watch ten or twelve years ago, and she's worn it every day since. A few days ago it went cuckoo; so she needed a replacement. I persuaded her to join the mechanical club, and spent some time online picking out a...

California-legal (under 2") auto. Sharp and snappy!

Very nice @mayfly. I l really like the rosewood handle and the engraving.

Many moons ago, I used to do advertising and artist relations for Thomastik-Infeld, and i can tell you that almost all of the top jazz guitarists used T-I Jazz Swings. Herb Ellis was one of my "client" artists, for example. That said; I've found a flatwound string I like better than the...

KnifeCenter got some more of my money a week or so ago, and now I'm the happy owner of a Demko model AD20.5 folding knife. it's a medium size knife, what is sometimes called a "goldilocks" size, because it is small enough for comfortable pocket carry, but big enough for using on relatively hard...

The word "Tactical" used in conjunction with "knives" usually refers to design and durability suitable for law enforcement and military applications. They tend to be on the large side, and heavy for their size, with little or no ornamentation. Of the knives I've posted so far in this thread...

My latest: a Zero Tolerance model 0235 Jens Anso design slipjoint folder. It has carbon fiber handles, and a 2.6" CPM-20CV blade. It doesn't have a lock, but has a ball assisted detention system, putting more resistance on the blade in the half open/closed position, making it more secure and...

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...