Canine Choppers

Any hint on when a chopper will be coming from the dog house? Want something with long fangs! By the way, I thought all the dogs were in Cleveland not Texas.
RATical

RATical - get in line with the rest of us waiting for a chopper !

a loooong blade would be reeeeeal nice.

Well, 9 to 10 inches of SR77 would be a good start !

Cause it just don't look right if a dog doesn't have 'em. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

CHOPPERS CHOPPERS CHOPPERS!!!!!!

Hell yeah, bigger is better!! Scrapper 9 soon! We neeeeedd ittt....

LOL thats great

I suppose its' name is Bubba !

That looks a lot like my dog Sallie. Hmmm...and I have some Billy-Bob Teeth too... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> No, I'm not gonna do it. I don't think she'd hold still for it, and I wouldn't want my teeth back after they've been in her mouth. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I'm afraid that if I did that to one of my dogs it would run away!

If you did that to your dog.....you deserve your hand bitten!....that is just freaky looking!

I probably WOULD get bitten! After all, they have a sense of dignity too.

A chopper for everyday of the week! That MoJo will be an excellent chopper if the catch doesn't get caught on anything....beating the proverbial dead horse here!

Welcome to Mutt-dom GF! Your "dead horse" catch can join my "dead horse" sheath concern. Tom

I just hope it doesn't start to stink with the dead horses between us!...And from 1 mutt to another THANKS!!!

aw, c'mon, you know you want to -- besides, their mouths are cleaner than ours... just give 'em a scope dunk afterwards, and good to go -- plus, don't you ever kiss her? it's the same thing, dude -- get her when she's asleep, and snap the shot quick before she can spit 'em out... does it sound like i've done this before??

uh oh, Andy's a mutt now too... i'm starting to feel inadequite...

YOU CAN DO IT!!!!! One post at a time!!! We can start the Dogg Pound......wait wasn't there a cartoon called Pound Puppies?

Andy - welcome to Mutt-dom!

Thanks. I've got over a hundred posts in about a week. At this rate, I'll quickly reach Junk Yard Dog status and having no title to look forward to. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

How about Don Junk Yard Dog? Only the highest poster gets it! All his lower dogs have to grease his pocket to get some scraps!

GF - I think Dan would be the "Godfather" of the Yard. If it was based on postings, it looks like you are in the race!

What are you talking about, you maintain an average of at least 40 more than me! You are almost a full level above me!

That's because there are so many interesting people here to chat with - like YOU!

Me, you , Andy, and Sr77dogg.....we keep this party going!!

There are several interesting people who have posted, just not as often. Stacey - Paddling_Man, Ian - Trumby, and 360 are just a few. I have surprised myself, as I have posted here in one week what it took me about two years to post at the Swamp. Of course, getting in at the beginning helps, but I hope a lot of our Dog brethren will post more often. Their input is always appreciated.

Oh, I wasn't trying to exclude anyone..I just see these names alot more than most...once everyone starts getting their Dogs I am sure it is going to be a mad house in here!

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> I hope so, as everyone has their own perspective and ideas. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Well maybe exclude one person....but I am not going to say lowlux's name because that would be rude! I can't wait to hear the good and bad....definetly creates interesting and heated debate!

I am waiting on the big choppers myself...The mojo is at the top of my list of "gotta haves"... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Is there going to be a Custom ScrapYard Shop? ...Like to get the catch removed from the MoJo....or serations or bigger Mojos?

Leatherface - I'm with you in wanting the big choppers next! Only in my case it would be the 9" or longer Scrapper. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Thats funny i was just wondering that in another post before i read this one -- i wonder what the wait time would be -- maybe i'll have to shoot Patti an email today...

No doubt -- i have posted more here than anywhere else out of sheer enthusiasm, but it's great to hear from the salty dogs of the blade underground -- hell, i'm just here to learn...

and to break 100 posts by the end of the day....

so close... i just can't go on being a pooch much longer...

i know its not a meaningful distinction, just a title....

part of me knows it's superficial, but...

YES!!! mut-dom here i come!

sr77dogg - Welcome to Mutt-dom! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" /> " The few, the proud, the Mutts". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Danke, dude! heeeeeey, wait a minute.... you're no mutt, you're a... MONGREL! dammit... do you know how hard it was for me to get to 100? now i have to get 150 more... this is like, uh, hard work or something...

Welcome fellow MUTT....later on we should go piss on some trees!

dogg - Just remember what Bill Murray said in the movie "Stripes" - there's nothing more humble or lovable than a Mutt". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Tom

I haven't seen that one in years...I am gonna net flix it tonight!

GF - it's still funny after all these years! Of course, I never saw any M.P.'s like P.J.Soles or Sean Young for that matter. They sure made the Military look like fun! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Thats where the military gets their recruitment videos now!...They showed scouts riding motorcycles and all sorts of good stufff!....yeah right!

I would say that I hope you're kidding, but have no doubt it's possible. I hear stories about the Boot Camps now, and they sound more like a recreational club than a training facility for hard-chargers (at least the Army camps). My Marine Drill Instructors would fall on the floor laughing!

My dad went through Marine basic in the mid 70s and from his time to mine ...are great changes..Thats why they call Ft. Jackson...Relaxin Jackson..>!

I was told the exact same thing by an Army Drill Instructor! Scary thought when you realize these same recruits may end up fighting for our freedoms in some dangerous and stress-filled combat conditions. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

By the way, are you trying to make me feel OLD ?!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Old...no....Old School yes!....No school like the old school! Yeah I blame recruiters for pushing numbers through the system, rather than finding quality soldiers.....where are our Yorks....and Shrivers?

Thanks GF ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Actually, I think there are some Yorks and Shrivers out there, the right conditions just haven't revealed them yet. In the meantime, I have great appreciation and respect for any of our folks serving in the military. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

We Old Dogs Salute you!

I'm happy and proud to share that title with you GF ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Now, about those big choppers...........

Oh.....I got my Rat Daddy today....Now THAT is a chopper! Scarp Yard needs something of this magnitude ....a special release...a full time blade...I don't care!

Folks are gonna start calling us the Grumpy ole Dogs now!

Congratulations on the RatDaddy - a truly awesome blade!

Grumpy ole Dogs ------- I like it!

Some pics of the new girl!
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=424907

The RatDaddy is one awesome knife! I couldn't swing the money at the time, plus the sheath was a big issue for me. Glad you got one!

Yeah the sheath thing is limiting.....I am gonna go the Andy route and manufactor one of my own design. But, It is a wonderful blade....it sure would be great to get some S7 like this....hin, hint....

GF - hint a little louder, like: "WE NEED A PIECE OF S-7 STEEL FROM THE YARD, SIMILAR TO THE RAT DADDY !!!". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" />

WE NEED A PIECE OF S-7 STEEL FROM THE YARD THAT IS 16"+ !!!!!

That's better! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Well, if you want to make one like mine, I'll put the link below to my how-to if you want to reference it. I'm working on a new size one for a M6/Scrapper 6. I'll post pics of it on Rat Chat when I'm done.

The new & improved $2 camo duct tape/cardboard RM sheath with step-by-step pics

Andy - You are a genius. Sure you don't want to switch to leather ?

Thanks. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I hope to eventually. I still need to learn how to do that saddle stitch.

Practice...do you have a Feed and Seed store near you?

You can pick up sheets or leather from the one by my place.

But GF - Andy doesn't live by your place!

The saddle stitch is not that hard. Try a Tandy leather working book. All the basics. My problem is breaking needles.

Wise-rear-end! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Ok, I see I have to type reeeal slow for you Tom..... M O S T F e e d S t o r e s h a v e l e a t h e r <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

GF - I certainly appreciate your slow spelling for me! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> However, we have several feed and seed stores around here, and they don't sell much in the way of leather. However, the Tandy store in Springfield does! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Well slap my momma! A feed store without leather.....both my towns and its sister town's Feed stores stock it.

Go easy on your momma! The only kind of animals that would feed on leather, that I know of, are leather sewers. Moo!

Hmm…I’ve never heard of a feed store selling leather. Why would a feedstore sell leather? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />



Well, I have the info, I just haven’t set down and tried it yet. I posted some good links of how-to, along with some other sheathmaking info at Rat Chat: Leather Sheathmaking Question

I was planning on using a drill or punch to make the holes, to make it a little easier sewing-wise.


We have one of those in Indy, but I’ve never been there. Once I try my Shaker sheath, if it turns out well, I might have to make a trip and get some stuff. I haven’t looked yet, but thought I might get cheaper leather on eBay. I find about everything else there cheaper. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Good luck Andy!

Thanks. I have the pieces all cut out, I just need to punch and sew 'em. It probably won't take that long to do, I've just been putting it off. It's been like 4 months since I started on it...guess I better finish it soon. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I think I'm going to try one myself, and plan on using a tiny drill bit for the holes in the leather. I'm shooting for "plain but functional" for my first attempt.

4 months...sounds like some professionals!.....

GF - that's just "two weeks" in Swamp time!

If thats the case I am not even old enough to buy these knives!!

Don't worry about it GF - I'll write a note for you if needed! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Appreciated.....as long as I don't have to send them to you first for inspection to make sure I can have it!.....By the way BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE BOWIE!!!!!

Great idea on both counts GF! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> By the way, do you think we should vote on the BOWIE, BOWIE, or BOWIE ?!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You know Tom, I was thinking the same thing!

GF - does that mean you want the BOWIE ?!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> What a GREAT idea! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

2 weeks? February? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

You got it Andy!

Thoses are dangerous time frames! Best not to even mention them!

I guess you're right GF. After all, that was a different company! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

New company, new timelines.....new chances!

New models?!?

And quite a selection of them....and lettting the customer choose the next model....Scrap Yard has really got my attention!

Your's and everyone elses' !

Now I just need more products/reasons to send them my hard earned money!

Patience, GF. They should have those nice BOWIES in production before you know it !

I know I would like to see them soon.....I just can see it now the Bowie, crash axe, and FBM will all hit my CC at the same time!!! Poor house here I come, and I will be armed to the teeth!!

Well, Heaven help the poor dumb soul that tries to break into your poor-house ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Only thing that can save them is a body suits made of those impenetrable phone books that everyone always attacks!

Yep - you always have to watch out for those phone book armour suits!

It seems to be a trend these days!

I wonder if they would work for the kids in the schools of Colorado !?! There must be something in the air that brings out the kooks!

Really, are children going to have to start wearing levelIIIa trama vest to school now?

Unfortunately, schools are going to look more and more like POW camps now. Fences and armed guards, etc.

I like the latest I heard about the kid blaming the video game for the murders he commited!.....the news was talking about head shots are completely unheard of and some video game is the only place he could have learnd it!

Yes, there's an excuse for everything now. Look at Kennedy's nephew, crashing through a parking gate while drunk. He blamed it on a medication, and got away with it. Nobody is responsible for their misdeeds anymore.

I will tell them the knives made me do it!

There you go !

GF we'll all come visit you in the pen' if the story doesn't work! I think saying the knives told you to do it will get you a long term stay in the rubber wall hotel!

It would REALLY drive him crazy if we kept his knives for safe-keeping !

I am begining to twitch just at the thought of that!!!

Err would it drive him crazier rather than crazy? You're right though I'm sure we could babysit his fine collection while GF was on 'holiday'...

You may be right - CRAZIER !!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Yep, 'barking mad' which is appropriate in the yard!

I think GF would be more like "rabid". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

If the next batch of Scrappers are really sharp, I might use it to shave my chin mullet!

Yeah, lets see ya do it with the bowie. And don't forget pics. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Good idea Andy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> GF - sounds like the gauntlet has been tossed! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Well as long as Dan ensures at least mine is razor sharp I will be more than happy to do it! It had better be sharp...or my sharpening skills had better be up to par. I will take pictures and video.

Alright! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />Besides, as I always tell my son and nephews, you don't want to cover up such a pretty face with hair. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

If it's not sharp enough, maybe Warren or Thom could put a straight razor edge on it for ya. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Good idea Andy - no doubt either one could do it! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I hope GF has plenty of Band-aids a 10" razor bowie could get iffy around the jugular... Sneeze, slip, squirt, squirt, squirt...

I think it'd take more than a band-aid. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> But he might have some battle dressings from "back in the day". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I have all sorts of dressings....I keep a SF tourniquet in my Booksack and 1 in my truck. Many pressure bandages and all sorts of first aid gear...that was the problem with Scouts....we "acquired" anything not bolted down...then we would pry everything else up! I still kind of feel bad about it, but we stole the heater from the Chaplins Humvee.

No, you liberated. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

So THAT'S why you have been damned to live in Louisiana!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/paperbag.gif" alt="" />

Score one for the Klink!

[censored]!, you got me there......my punishment eternal damnation to the confines of Louisiana!!!! NNOOOOOOOO!!!

Well, at least you have a sharpening care package on its way as of 12:30EST today so maybe you can't leave Louisiana, but at least your Scrapper 6 LE will stay; and your pink-handled H Razor will be; hair-splitting sharp.

ARRGGHH!!!! That's it....I selling it...I am not going to be the only metroknife guy on the block!!!! Thanks for pressuring me into it! I am going to list it on ebay...the Frooo Frooos will love it!

Are you calling me a froo froo?!?! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

I almost threw my appletini at the computer screen I was so ticked!

Seriously, that's a darned sweet blade.

HAHHA, your appletini!!!! Thom....please don't put the mental image of you sipping an appletini and watching the knife forums...all my wife's friends order those things!!!!

Truth be told, I prefer Budweiser, King Cobra, Long Island iced teas, SoCo Ritas, margaritas, Alabama Slammers, and Cuervo. Okay, for my house, we have a lower-quality/barely lower-priced tequila, but the bottle was wearing a sombrero and that's too cool to pass up.

On occasion, whiskey, bourbon, Scotch, or Canadian whisky is enjoyed.

I guess it's a good thing that you never saw me with my pitcher of iced tea, consumed just about every day of the year! Well, truth be told, a little beer or hootch on occasion.

Hey now ...nothing wrong wrong with ice tea!.....I have that flowing in my veins...not hot tea....thats just communist!

Oi, ya bugger, what's wrong with hot tea???? Commie my capitalist [censored]...

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Hot tea contains strained plants steeped in hot water. Cold tea contains rum, whiskey, tequila, vodka, triple sec, sour mix, and a splash of cola. Then folks from Georgia (USA, not former USSR) drink sweet tea which is the chilled version of hot tea with lemon and honey and/or sugar added.

My new favorite tea I've been drinking is "Hudson's Famous Brew". The flavor I like best is the green tea with honey, lemon, and ginsing. And I know a thing or two about how the Brits fix their tea too. A trick I learned from them is this: If you make tea and it's too bitter, add a bit of cream or milk. It cancels out the bitterness caused by the tannic acid.

In all seriousness, though, don't sell that red-handled HR. It's way too sweet and rare.

Wasn't going to.....maybe a trade for something I would normally have no hope of getting , but definitly not selling it!

Thom I like my tea hot and strong or cold and alcoholic... both fortify the soul nicely...

A collector needs dozens of knives (examples of whole company productions even...), does a user really need more than a great small (EDC?), medium (general outdoor carry) and large (chopper) knife? (Plus spares of favorites for when they go out of production or break!). Any thoughts?

I believe that a true collector buys but never sells, as compared to a trader who buys and sells occasionally.

And I drink both hot and cold tea!!! Tom

Hot tea! Blah....you Northern folks are a strange breed...No self respecting Southerner would every be caught with hot tea...if it is going to be hot, it hass to be coffe or hot chocolate....or Keeley!

I don't really like hot tea either. But I love it cold!

I'm British, hot tea runs in our blood over here! I kinda agree with most of what GF said though...

GF - I sure can't argue with you concerning Keeley !!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />