Kevin's Watch

Only if I keep up my current posting rate. And that's not a foregone conclusion.

balon! wrote:

lucimay wrote:omg yer so handy. you should go on survivor balon!

haha..i actually applied for Season 2, but I was under the age limit at the time...

Hahah, that is awesome!

well, except for the whole thing where if you did go on there, the people who do the show are out to horribly mess with your mind and everyone else's...

Linna Heartlistener wrote: Hahah, that is awesome!

well, except for the whole thing where if you did go on there, the people who do the show are out to horribly mess with your mind and everyone else's...

heh...

yeah that's the one aspect I didn't get into. My favorite season was the Pirate one with Rupert. Oh man, was he my hero for a long time. And he didn't "play the game." Just made himself invaluable for survival...which is why he didn't win. But he was a crow pleaser. Plus, now I have an equally awesome beard...


For those who don't know: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Boneham

MsMary wrote:At least six hours farther south!

I'm in the southeast part of the state.



ETA: This was my 4300th post.

Heh... Unless you are in Key West, I can make it in 4

Congrats on 4300!!

TerisasMirror wrote:

MsMary wrote:At least six hours farther south!

I'm in the southeast part of the state.



ETA: This was my 4300th post.

Heh... Unless you are in Key West, I can make it in 4

Congrats on 4300!!

You must have a very heavy foot.

I can get to Daytona in a little over 4, Jax in close to 6.

aliantha wrote:Congrats, MsMary! At this rate, you'll hit 5000 by...uh...2020!

I passed 4400 posts without even noticing.

Maybe I'll get to 5000 faster than you think.

I've been teaching little kids for years. Next year I may actually teach teenagers!! That will be a whole new skill. Or maybe not. Maybe they're just like Kindergarteners, only not cute anymore?

deer of the dawn wrote:I've been teaching little kids for years. Next year I may actually teach teenagers!! That will be a whole new skill. Or maybe not. Maybe they're just like Kindergarteners, only not cute anymore?

Hee hee...have fun with that! I found teaching the wee and teaching high-schoolers different skill sets, yet somehow the switch fairly intuitive, not a shock to my system. The tweeners though, those middle-schoolers...I honestly never figured it out, some part of connection/communication I could never quite get a grip on.

I am about to start learning mandarin. I've flirted with it before, but now it's an actual thing I have to show up for.

One of my new skills for 2012: restoring a knife and a hatchet for the upcoming camping season. Just started last night, prying the handle off of an old fixed-blade knife I've used fora few years.

Next I'll take the rust and grime off with sandpaper and steel wool, and find a chunk of hardwood for the handle. More photos pending!

I've decided to become a cooler, more fashionable female version of MacGyver. I have begun playing with my new lock picking sets and I actually think I may have an affinity for it although there is A LOT to learn.

Jenn, have you found a way to merge your interest in lock picking with that of bee keeping?

Ummm... no. Totally different highs. In the bees I am like, AHHH AHHH with angels singing and I cry at how beautiful they are when I see them or touch them or photograph them. With lock picking it's more like, WATCH ME SUCKER, IN YOUR FACE MR. TRY TO LOCK ME OUT! TAKE THAT!

It's a difference between zen beauty to ego enhancement..hard to put into words... the bees are a calm spiritual experience that makes me believe in a higher power and it moves me in ways of love and appreciation. Lock picking is like winning a tough competition and feeds my fiercely competitive ego. Both positive highs but in very different ways.

But if you lock the hives and lose your key... Hey, I'm just trying to help here.

Nice one Balon. Post a pic of how it looks when you're done. Full tang is good. Make sure you counter-sink the bolts flush to hold the new haft on, and sand it smooth afterwards.

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Cameraman Jenn wrote:I've decided to become a cooler, more fashionable female version of MacGyver. I have begun playing with my new lock picking sets and I actually think I may have an affinity for it although there is A LOT to learn.

That is a GREAT idea. I love Mac...he's so dreamy...
I have books for you. PM sent.

Avatar wrote:Nice one Balon. Post a pic of how it looks when you're done. Full tang is good. Make sure you counter-sink the bolts flush to hold the new haft on, and sand it smooth afterwards.

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Thanks Av! It's a perfect size to fit between my SAK and the hatchet I'll restore too..

Can you explain about counter-sink for me? There are a ton of down limbs from the ice-storm we had so I should be able to get a good piece of hardwood for the new handle.

Damelon wrote:Jenn, have you found a way to merge your interest in lock picking with that of bee keeping?

I think you need to train bees to pick locks for you. Then you get zen bliss+I'm a bad mofo in one.

balon! wrote:Can you explain about counter-sink for me?

What you want to do is make sure that no part of the bolt you secure the handle on sticks out above the surface of the wood.

It's a conical hole that the screw head (on one side) and the bolt on the other (for that side a flat hole is better, the bolt being flat) will fit into.

Best bet is probably to fit the bolt into the hole you make for it, then screw in from the other side, (use a countersunk screw with the conical head) until the head is flush too.

Countersink.

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Avatar wrote:

balon! wrote:Can you explain about counter-sink for me?

What you want to do is make sure that no part of the bolt you secure the handle on sticks out above the surface of the wood.

It's a conical hole that the screw head (on one side) and the bolt on the other (for that side a flat hole is better, the bolt being flat) will fit into.

Best bet is probably to fit the bolt into the hole you make for it, then screw in from the other side, (use a countersunk screw with the conical head) until the head is flush too.

Countersink.

--A

yea, you can actually see basically a countersink on your original handle...the fat shallow hole that the rivet top is sitting in [at least it looks like a rivet in your photo]...and speaking of that, it might be simpler/make more sense to rivet on the new one like the original was...if there's a home depot near you, I'm pretty sure you can rent the rivet hand tool for cheap

I'd prefer bolts myself...more solid. But looking at the holes in the tang, it might be meant for rivets. (Dunno how thick your rivets get...I think of fairly thin things when I think of rivets.

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Avatar wrote:I'd prefer bolts myself...more solid. But looking at the holes in the tang, it might be meant for rivets. (Dunno how thick your rivets get...I think of fairly thin things when I think of rivets.

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They expand [there's a male and female part]. OTOH, I just looked for cutler's rivets [obviously specifically made for knives] and the recommendations there were for "cutler's bolts," which i had never heard of, and makes you more right...and they're made to look like rivets when finished.