Recent content by Marshwheeling

Yes, it is.

A good seat will be firm enough to keep your butt off the seat pan. Corbin does that for me. The most comfortable seat I own, though, is a Corbin with about half an inch of softer foam over the hard foam and under the seat cover. Sheep skin and wooden beads can improve a stock seat, mostly by...

“one of...”? He is The Limey.

I am not getting about 80% of the photos in this thread. They just show up as large blank spaces, sometimes with an id number, as “10002431webp”. Is there any way I can get these photos to appear?

Until I joined Bladeforums a dozen years ago, a slip joint was the joint in a common pair of pliers that allowed you to open the jaws farther. Oh Bladeforums, there was an ongoing discussion about what to call traditional folding knives, the ones I referred to as "jackknives". That was where I...

Do you have to yell?

“Hold it. Before I can talk to you I need your name, callback number, SSN, and your GPS coordinates.”

Zip ties. A small compressor and a tire-plugging kit have saved my bacon a couple of times. A small shovel/entrenching tool. Remember the rule of karmic prophylaxis: if you bring it, you probably won’t need it. (If you do need it, you’ve got it covered.)

How do you like the CPK Kephart?

Tom Cruise as Longmire? Uh, uh. He did ok as Reacher, but I had read the Reacher books and had certain expectations which Alan Ritchson comes closer to fulfilling. I have read the Longmire books too, and thought he was pretty well portrayed in the serAs an aside, the Longmire books are set in a...

I always liked a slant 6, but my guilty pleasure was Ramblers with the seats that folded down. Your magnet might attract a chick, but then what?

Although I grew up in a Minneapolis Tribune household (my pop worked for them), and delivered it as a kid, I switched to the Pioneer Press from across the river becuse it carried the New York Times crossword. Years later the Tribune picked up the Times puzzle, but it was too late. By then, I had...

Your knife looks like a Benchmade Barrage, indeed an Osborne design. I have had several copies of the Mini Barrage, which for a time was my favorite knife. The retired cops who sell knives at my local Cabela’s, are big fans of this knife. These lower-end Benchmades ( which puts them in my pay...

I grew up listening to Tom Lehrer, along with Stan Freberg, Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Bob Newhart, B.S. Pulley, Slappy White, Roy Aubrey, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, and Bob and Ray. Funny guys, all of them.

Jerry Busse has a couple of subsidiary lines as well, known as “ bussekin”, Scrap Yard Knives (SYKCO), and Swamp Rat knives. I was put off at first until I tried a couple of SYKCO knives. What drew me to SYKCO was the handles made of Reseprine C, a rubber or synthetic material that fully...