zzyzzogeton
Member
Retired USN LCDR, 1110
Admiral in the Texas Navy
Refugee from the high tech corporate rat race
Collector/Accumulator/Packrat of sharp and/or pointy things since 1975
97% of my edged instruments are fixed blades
Volunteer Fireman/EMT-B since 1989
Hobbies include -
Gardening (Texas Master Gardener certified)
Fishing
Throwing Knives and Tomahawks
Wood/Metal/Acrylic working
Designing throwing knives
Starting to dabble with Aluminum/Brass/Bronze casting
Former hobbies -
SCUBA diving - made over 6000 logged dives before being diagnosed with a Patent Foramen Ovale (hole in my heart) which should have precluded SCUBA Certification - ooops -
Archery, Competitive - used to shoot 300 to 500 arrows a day until I damaged my shooting shoulder playing racket ball. That's when I took up knife and hawk throwing.
My main areas of knife knowledge are Western fixed blades, Kabar fixed blades, USMC 1219C2s/USN-MK2s/USN-MK1s and bayonets.
My first knife was a small, single blade peanut from my grandfather in 1961 given to me upon starting first grade with the words
"Now that you're starting school, you need your own knife. We can't have you borrowing everyone else's."
The same grandfather gifted me my first fixed blade, a Western L46-5, when I was 10 years old.
"If you're smart enough to come up with that question, you're old enough to have a fixed blade."
which is a tale for a later post.
Admiral in the Texas Navy
Refugee from the high tech corporate rat race
Collector/Accumulator/Packrat of sharp and/or pointy things since 1975
97% of my edged instruments are fixed blades
Volunteer Fireman/EMT-B since 1989
Hobbies include -
Gardening (Texas Master Gardener certified)
Fishing
Throwing Knives and Tomahawks
Wood/Metal/Acrylic working
Designing throwing knives
Starting to dabble with Aluminum/Brass/Bronze casting
Former hobbies -
SCUBA diving - made over 6000 logged dives before being diagnosed with a Patent Foramen Ovale (hole in my heart) which should have precluded SCUBA Certification - ooops -
Archery, Competitive - used to shoot 300 to 500 arrows a day until I damaged my shooting shoulder playing racket ball. That's when I took up knife and hawk throwing.
My main areas of knife knowledge are Western fixed blades, Kabar fixed blades, USMC 1219C2s/USN-MK2s/USN-MK1s and bayonets.
My first knife was a small, single blade peanut from my grandfather in 1961 given to me upon starting first grade with the words
"Now that you're starting school, you need your own knife. We can't have you borrowing everyone else's."
The same grandfather gifted me my first fixed blade, a Western L46-5, when I was 10 years old.
"If you're smart enough to come up with that question, you're old enough to have a fixed blade."
which is a tale for a later post.