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Here is to no snakes and green beer and corn beef and cabbage
Today is the day everyone has a little Irish in them.

Yet it is a little known fact that St Patty was not Irish... he was a Scotsman
so in my book its not green beer its to Good SCOTCH!
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kindling chopping is what ill use it for. plus yard work.

joey ]]>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:39:30 GMThttp://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874044/http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874044/
We met lots of great people and even picked up a few knives....well maybe more than a few.

Mike order a custom knife from Marzitelli Custom Knives with some of spalted maple for the handle.

I picked up a pretty little knife with a natural burl handle from Floyd Ternier. We also found a fancy little damascus blade with a crosscut spalted alder handle. And one of the vendors, Ron Nelson, gave me a little swiss army knife. I'll post some pics of the knives soon.

Some of the Knife makers we met at the show were Bob Lay, Floyd Ternier, Peter Marzitelli, Mike Pisio and several others. It was a great time, filled with interesting conversation.
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I will never buy ANYTHING! from this company. ]]>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:22:55 GMThttp://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874032/http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874032/ ]]>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:42:27 GMThttp://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874025/http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874025/Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:53:02 GMThttp://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874014/http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874014/Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:38:55 GMThttp://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874004/http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874004/
First - a photo of the original owner of this butcher's cleaver. These are my paternal grandparents, Otto and Emma, photo taken at their homestead near Cedar Rapids Iowa. According to the notes I have, the photo was taken April, 1913, so my dad was yet to be born. I think this is one of the coolest photos - such a hearty and handsome set of folks...



This next photo is Grand-dad Otto again, in his later years. My dad is holding my oldest sister, I was yet to be born. This photo was taken at the same homestead, near Cedar Rapids.



Enough background... According to my dad, this butcher's cleaver was one of Otto's possessions. Folks back then raised their own livestock for slaughter and did their own butchering.

Growing up, this cleaver always hung on a nail in the shop and was most often used to convert chickens into dinner... My maternal grandmother wielded a mean cleaver - I would snag the chickens (that I raised) and she would stretch them out over a 4 x 6 block and quickly lop their heads off...

I think the handle still has the original black vinyl tape on it that my dad used to repair a split handle. The blade broke somewhere along the journey and was welded back together and the welds were ground smooth.

I can't find any maker's marks on the blade - just a couple of very faint "O"s stamps on one side. The back of the blade shows some serious dings where it was obviously pounded through whatever was being chopped up.

For now, it hangs on the end of my reloading bench, you never know when a chicken might need to meet the frying pan.







Thanks for looking

-joeniv- ]]>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:25:00 GMThttp://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874000/http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/874000/
Here are two quick pics I snapped on my Centro.


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