I have a pencil sharpener in the shop.  I like the location, as SWMBO and
GIT's all make their way down into the dungeon to sharpen their various
pencils quite frequently.  Actually they come down to nib around, which is
enjoyable and I would actually like them there more rather than less!

I also have a good old Buck folding knife on me at all times.  Small enough
that quick "frisks" usually overlook it, although going through a metal
detector, such as at a court house or airport, will detect it.  I keep it
very scary sharp--usually by giving a quick hone on the unglazed ceramic
located on the bottom of every coffee cup.  Saw this tip a few years back
and saw it a few weeks ago I believe on here!

T.Z.

Anthony M. Zaffuto, President
Metaltech, Inc.
3547 Watson Highway
DuBois, PA  15801
(814) 375-9399 Tel.
(814) 375-4199 Fax
tzmti@c...
(814) 541-5019 Cell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oldtools-bounces@r... [mailto:oldtools-
> bounces@r...] On Behalf Of nicknaylo@a...
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:27 PM
> To: OldTools@r...
> Subject: Re: [OldTools] marking knives
> 
> 
> I keep a Schrade Old Timer in my pocket at all times, though it is
> making modern life more difficult (I head into state buildings pretty
> regularly) and the sheeps foot blade is my go to blade for sharpening
> the kid's pencil at homework time. A dozen or so crappy plastic pencil
> sharpeners have given up the ghost just since the beginning of third
> grade, and the family cannot agree on the correct and proper location
> in the house for the hand cranked Boston pencil sharpener. Don't know
> what the GIT did with the aluminum Lee Valley belt clip sharpener I
> gave her.
> 
> Anyone else have an pencil sharpener in the house? Where did you put
> it? For some reason when I was a kid the thing was hung in the basement
> workshop/laundry room. Personally, the stairwell to the basement calls
> to me as the perfect place to hang the old Boston,  and said
> discussions start with scenarios involving hitting heads, shoulders etc
> on it in the dark stairwell, other locations envision similar household
> injuries and I give up and sharpen my penknife again.
> 
> Sigh......
> 
> Michael-San Francisco, lamenting a democratic (small d) household.
> Dexter #3 Sharpener in the shop, over the bench.
> 
> 
> 
> [mailto:oldtools-bounces@r...] On Behalf Of scott
> grandstaff
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:45 AM
> To: porch
> Subject: Re: [OldTools] marking knives
> 
> 
> > http://rhpwood.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/tools-marking-knives/
> 
>  Hey Bob
>   Nice knife.
>   If you get tired of trying to explain the blade shape in longer words?
> Just
> tell 'em it's a sheepsfoot blade.
>  I use a sheepsfoot roughly 1/2 the time in everything I do.
> 
>    When you can raise up a handle high approaching verticle, a spear
> point or
> diamond point is a good blade, but when you are dealing with a lower
> handle
> angle than that to reach in, sheepsfoot does the trick.
>   If you have to go really low angle, hawksbill. Slight downward curve.
> 
>  They made up names for blade shapes roughly when they invented language
> :-)
>    It's possible to come up with a new blade shape people haven't
> thought of
> yet, but I never have.
>    Whatever I think up, that I think is new?  I can always go back and
> look
> at the old charts and, sure enough, it's close enough to one of the
> established shapes to call it that, everytime.
>  yours, Scott
> 
> 
> *******************************
>    Scott Grandstaff
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