[modeleng] Re: Filing, now O/T--Daggers & stuff

No, Jesse, it is not Stainless Steel.  It is good old
fashioned high Carbon Solingen Steel.

Al Messer

--- Jesse Livingston <Fern1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Al,
> 
> You ever heard of "thinking ahead"?  Just think of
> all the love that you are 
> putting into that nice soldier's knife so keep on
> filing.  Is the blade 
> stainless?  Needs to be so it won't be sullied by
> any Muslim blood.
> 
> At one time about 35 years ago I thought of selling
> knife making parts.  I 
> wrote to several knife making firms in Germany and
> England and inquired 
> about obtaining forged and tempered blades to go
> with an assortment of brass 
> guards I had made match plates for.  Decided not to
> do it and talked Turner 
> Kirkland into selling blades and other parts.  For
> years I supplied him with 
> various authentic guards I copied from historic
> Bowie knives.  It got to be 
> a bother so I finally quit supplying the guard
> parts.
> 
> What was interesting to me were the letterheads of
> the firms I was writing 
> to. Stuff like " founded in 1600" or "250 years in
> business".  Heck all of 
> these places were in business before our revolution!
> 
> REDNECK Tennessean 
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