u/Karl_Chillers

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He is in Fannin County, Texas, bordering Oklahoma, in what may be the heart of the Osage orange native range. Seems to revere the trees, harvesting only dead or downed wood, and must have an enormous collection.

Some cool axes, too.

Kinda fun seeing a Cedar actually getting used as a go-to, working tool and on what may be the third-hardest native wood (after Texas ebony and live oak and ) in Texas.

(Note: he does not include the money shot—the opening of the log—in this clip, unfortunately.)

Tilly Lawless (2016) from an episode of You Can't Ask That.

Stamp is beaten to oblivion since someone used this little 1.25 lb head as a mini anvil. Not sure if the last two letters on line two might be AF or M= which might indicate Ames or Vaughan & Bushnell as manufacturer.

Very skinny bit with a long, slender taper. Wonder if it might make a stealth hewer.

The mulberry is 14 inches—skinnier than it looks, and it feels good—with a wedge of post oak.

Challenges included tearout, the Leaning Tower of Tongue, and a head that seemed to insist on its particular orientation to the handle. (Maybe most of all that is operator error.)

Just used the little Big-C to shell some pecans. It's very good in that role: though I'm accustomed to the shorter handle on a 700 g Swede, this lighter head and slender bit may be better.

Floris 1962

Since many of us may never smell 1962 at this rate, anyone here who owns or has owned it, worn it, or at least sampled it at a scent counter back in the day and who will talk about the scent?

What's it like?

What kinds of environments, scenes, and seasons might it evoke?

What might be the three most comparable fragrances?

Maybe we could hear about it and at least know what we're missing.

Thank you.

Handle: honey mesquite, heart and sapwood, 18" / 46 cm. Does have a bit of a bow up and away from the head.

Head: 2.5 lb / 1135 g and 5 3/8" / 13.65 cm bit. It's 67% heavier than what I've been using, and it was noticeably more fatiguing in testing in one-handed use.

Stamp: Took five days to notice the faint remnants.

Steel: Showed up sharp, and boy, does it ever crisp up! I just tried to knock the crust off the uneven bevel rather than file away a bunch of steel just for aesthetics.

Wedge: Post oak (which quickly shattered in the tight kerf), plus a couple of random, off-cut shards to fill most of it out, since there was no extraction possible without more mayhem. Surprised it looks that OK; maybe it'll even hold. (Actually test-chopped sans wedge; the fit was tight.)

Eve Plumb addresses the quote among other things.

Her voice sounds different than it did a half century ago, but her manner of speaking is still familiar, isn't it.

If we were polling who is the most intellectual of the Brady kids actors, do you think Eve Plumb would be at the top?