[modeleng] Re: Filing, now O/T--Daggers & stuff
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:44:28 -0700 (PDT)
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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