Whats your latest knife purchase?

[CZR38Super]

I normally carry my PM2, but recently just picked up this Spartan Harsey.

[crufflers]

The two 15's on the bottom are new to me

[Tim padilla]

I wish I knew after all these years here how to down load pictures . Full disclosure I’m totally computer Illiterate...

I finally after years of looking finished my set of blades featured in the knife fighting movie “High Art “ Had all the others mentioned for a while , The Randalls model 14 and “classical Randall” model 18 ,The Applegate /Gerber and the Bucks etc..
But I recently found a “Joe Kious .... very rare..” Stormbringer sub hilt fighting dagger.Its a very early one that is the exact same as the movie knife with iron wood panels high polished Stiletto blade nickel silver guard and sub hilt and a flawless tapered tang.The blade is lighting fast in the hands and gorgeous to boot...I wish Joe didn’t pass in a tragic car accident, I would have liked to meet him at a blade show one day .He was very talented, his gentleman knives were amazing as well but five figures for a one in today’s market .. I’m happy with my early sub hilt, I’ll never give it up .

[crufflers]

I use IMGUR and take pics with my phone, so I upload them from the phone app to IMGUR then I copy and paste the BB link from IMGUR on a PC to the forum post.



then the imgur link shows up like this:

[xrMike]

I use IMGUR and take pics with my phone, so I upload them from the phone app to IMGUR then I copy and paste the BB link from IMGUR on a PC to the forum post.

So do you use this method to post pics for 1-time use only, or does IMGUR give you a "home" page that contains links to all of the images you've ever uploaded? (kind of like Photobucket, or other image hosting sites do)

Just trying to figure out if IMGUR is more of a 1-time use pic hosting site, or if it's set up to manage image collections long-term... Thanks.

[crufflers]

So do you use this method to post pics for 1-time use only, or does IMGUR give you a "home" page that contains links to all of the images you've ever uploaded? (kind of like Photobucket, or other image hosting sites do)

Just trying to figure out if IMGUR is more of a 1-time use pic hosting site, or if it's set up to manage image collections long-term... Thanks.

Like Photobucket was when it was good, but about 5x better IMHO. Yeah your library contains the images for one time use and forums can only see the image you posted unless you delete it later. I believe you could go delete all your stuff later and it disappears from posts but I haven't tried this. Looking at the code seems it would have to work this way.

AS the IMGUR user, any image in your account can be looked at by you. I have tons of pages of images I can go through in chronological order, yeah. It is the best I have ever used, and much less glitchy than PB ever was.

[xrMike]

Like Photobucket was when it was good, but about 5x better IMHO. Yeah your library contains the images for one time use and forums can only see the image you posted unless you delete it later. I believe you could go delete all your stuff later and it disappears from posts but I haven't tried this. Looking at the code seems it would have to work this way.

AS the IMGUR user, any image in your account can be looked at by you. I have tons of pages of images I can go through in chronological order, yeah. It is the best I have ever used, and much less glitchy than PB ever was.

Thank you for the info! Been looking for a PB replacement for a while now, I can't even access my pics there anymore unless I sign up/pay for an account, and I have years worth of shooting/reloading/motorcycle pics there. I think I will sign up for 1 month, get all my pics back, and transfer them to IMGUR. Thanks again.

[crufflers]

Thank you for the info! Been looking for a PB replacement for a while now, I can't even access my pics there anymore unless I sign up/pay for an account, and I have years worth of shooting/reloading/motorcycle pics there. I think I will sign up for 1 month, get all my pics back, and transfer them to IMGUR. Thanks again.

No problem. PB had a nice download feature where you can download all your pics as a zip archive, if I recall correctly. I still have all my old PB stuff. I think you will like it.

[crufflers]

My more modern slipjoint of choice, Lionsteel Dom. Awesome sheepsfoot blades, great steel, light weight, nice action... perfect Ti slabs, CF is good for the price, but not perfect. CF weighs 1.3 ounces. If you were looking at ZT or Benchmade "traditional" designs, get one of these instead in my opinion.

[Excitable Boy]

Lionsteel wasn't really on my radar. I'd assumed it was more cheap Chineseium knives and I'm trying to focus on US made productions occasionally, but mostly customs.

Based on your post, I looked at their site and realized that it looks like they are a company out of Italy. Interesting stuff.

Thanks for sharing.

[crufflers]

Lionsteel wasn't really on my radar. I'd assumed it was more cheap Chineseium knives and I'm trying to focus on US made productions occasionally, but mostly customs.

Based on your post, I looked at their site and realized that it looks like they are a company out of Italy. Interesting stuff.

Thanks for sharing.

I only have a few... three traditional models from them all made in Italy, but I haven't tried their modern stuff. I really wanted a fixed blade T5 for a while but they were really hard to find in stock. They make really good "modern" traditional stuff. I'd like to try some locking folders but I have so much ZT already and fell further down the slipjoint rabbit hole lately.

Lionsteel uses great modern steel, so it is a nice change from old 1095 on almost all GEC.

[xrMike]

Those are some good-looking knives. Do the blades lock in position when opened?

[crufflers]

Those are some good-looking knives. Do the blades lock in position when opened?

They are slip joints with half stops. This Lionsteel model called the "Dom" is basically a more modern copy of the GEC model 77 or a slightly larger model 15. The weight of a backspring keeps them open and closed... half stops are are an additional flat spot milled into the blade where it stops with the blade perpendicular to the handle if it starts to close up, then spring tension must be overcome again to get the blade to close the rest of the way... also makes it more fidgety. I wouldn't say traditionals are particularly hard-use knives, but there are some back springs that are hard to open and close enough to call them "nail breakers". Traditionals are perfectly fine for 90% of what most people do with a pocket folder like a ZT or Spyderco.

If you have really never played with a quality slipjoint, closest thing I can suggest is they are kind of like Swiss Army Knives, but with decent spring tension and walk and talk / actions. A lot of SAK are so mushy that they are more like a friction folder.

You could get some models of "traditional" knives with back locks or even liner locks, but I collect mostly slipjoints. If I want a decent back lock I get Spyderco or Buck because they do locks better than GEC - I have no idea about locking Lionsteel models.

Lionsteel Dom and GEC 15.

[Mezcalfud]

I have a DPX Heft 4 that is Lionsteel and it is beautiful. It is one hell of a knife.

[crufflers]

Got another Antique Yellow Jigged Bone 15 to go with a couple other variants