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Spent several hours preparing for and attending a veterans funeral. Then went by the Harley dealer and was approved for a brand new motorcycle. I was going to ride it home today until the told me the monthly payment. I’m just gonna be happy with my older bike.

I can’t believe it took me so long to figure out the foot peg. #saddlebags #softtail #install

The 5 tornados that came through our area caused a lot of destruction. Killed a couple people and demolished a lot of homes. The closest one was about 1/2 Mike from us.

There were tornados all around us. One touched down south of us and another just to our east by 1/2 mile. We all huddled up in bevs house until it passed. 5 people, 5 dogs.

It was just a bit dry. I probably should have used a bit more oil or butter. 3 cups cooked rice 1 can mixed veggies Half can of spam cubed 4 eggs scrambled Soy sauce/butter/oil to taste

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why my hands are hurting so bad. I’m just gonna take one day at a time.

On my motorcycle headed to a patriot guard mission, old man turned in front me, another old man, in hallsville texas. Some folks act like Hwy 80 is their personal driveway, but it’s a federal hwy. the speed limit at that point was 50,and I was only going 35. Could have been bad for me but I knew there was room in front of the pickup truck beside me to move left if I didn’t slow down.

May take several hours for the video to render. I had to add you tube music to cover up the copyrighted music.

Watch @ 37:00

Got all 7 dwarves heat treated and in the tempering oven. Got a package from a freind and subscriber. He gave me two knives to restore.

Giving my hands a day off. Still no explanation as to why my hands have swelled so badly. I was about ready to cut my wedding band off when I decided to smear some Vaseline on my finger and try pulling it off. Success. Now, I’ll have to stay home until I can get my wedding band on so the single gals don’t throw themselves at me. We all know how irresistible old fat bald guys are to the ladies.

My doctor is a nice guy but, I think he has fallen into the “fat people are lazy” trap. Not to many years ago, I bought two heavily wooded and over grown acres. I cleared it by hand, with machete and chainsaw by myself in the hottest part of the summer. Not many people could have done what I did at my age. Just a couple months ago, I cut some huge trees and hauled them off for a freind, right before I went to the hospital with a terrible infection. I’m always busy doing something. Always. Not all fat folks are lazy.

Worked all day to get the seven to a good stopping point. I really wanted to get the last three done but it was getting late.

(If you know,you know) I’m making seven,3 finger knives. If you want one ($85) let me know.

How to #makeasheath #fromstartotofinish #makeasheathpattern I show how to make a knife sheath pattern, cut the pattern out in leather, tool/stamp it, dye it,sew it together, and finish the sheath.

This knife belongs to a subscriber who had really good memories of time spent in the woods hunting and fishing with her grandfather ,who originally owned the knife. I restored it to near new condition and the next video will be of me making a sheath for it. The old sheath was worn out but completely usable. repairing or restoring it would have ruined it. #restoration #antiqueknife #restore

Finished two sheaths and I’ll ship these three on Friday. That will give the sheaths a couple days to completely dry. Tomorrow, I’ll start the PIC solingen knife restoration.

Man! Order online they said! It will be easy they said!

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I’m very happy with how this turned out. Synthetic is unforgiving and hard to work with, but I’ve found the secret is to sand up to a ridiculous grit (1200) then go low and slow on the buffer using a very light touch.

Got two knives sanded and heat treated. Got the red handled Texas rumble shaped and began the sanding. I sure miss ole shop cat.

Got the handles on the mirror polished Texas rumble today. I’m really looking forward to shaping these handles. They’re gonna polish up real nice. Got another restoration knife that I offered to clean up for free. I’ll do a separate video on that. Happy thanksgiving!