#knife nerd

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Telekinesis

[tubbytarchia]

Pearl doodles sitting on my hard drive

[screwpinecaprice]

When your boyrfren is a morning person.

(Idk if Connie's not a morning person, but it'd be funny if she isn't.)

Connie doodles (and a Steven!)

[robotsandramblings]

here's a trailer throwback for the 5 Year Anniversary of Clone Force 99 !

they made their onscreen debut in The Clone Wars Season 7 on this date five years ago! (February 21st, 2020)

and WHAT a debut it was!!!!

[boiledegghole]

compilation of my act 5 thoughts

[theoutcastrogue]

8 Fancy Pocket Knives

Etched pocket knife from Eskilstuna, Sweden

Silver / mother of pearl Victorian fruit knife, England

Damascene Toledo knife, Spain

Inlaid Toledo knife, Germany

Silver-plated fruit knife, USA

Damascene Toledo knife, Spain

Etched pocket knife from Eskilstuna, Sweden

Mother of pearl pocket knife from Eskilstuna, Sweden

@victoriansword [details after the cut]

1) Swedish pocket knife by EKA (Eskilstuna Kniffabriks AB), c. 1980-2000. Model 6 GS (1967-2010), with main blade, bottle opener/screwdriver, pen blade, and nail file. Tang stamp "EKA / SWEDEN" (from 1967), etched handle, 7 cm closed.

These were very popular in the 2nd half of the 20th century as gift knives or advertising knives. They were manufactured by many cutlers in Eskilstuna, and widely exported. The decorative pattern appears, with variations, on Swedish knives from at least the 19th century, and is inspired by Norse / Viking art, which often features twisted serpents/dragons. The interlacing perhaps also borrows from Celtic knots.

2) English fruit knife by Martin Bros & Co, 1848. Silver blade with 4 hallmarks (for Queen Victoria, the year, sterling silver, and Sheffield) and maker's mark, mother of pearl scales, 9.5 cm closed.

This is the posh version of what used to be an incredibly useful tool, a knife (and sometimes a multi-tool knife and fork) for eating on the road. The fancier ones were also status symbols, and very popular gifts – millions of silver fruit knives were manufactured in Britain from the 18th to the 20th century, mostly in Sheffield, Birmingham, and Edinburgh.

3) Spanish Toledo knife, as it's sometimes called, a damascened penknife of recent manufacture. Two pen blades, tang stamp "TOLEDO", 6.7 cm closed.

Not to be confused with Damascus blades! The handle is damascened – decorated with gold inlaid into oxidized steel (see here for details). Reminder that gold is a highly ductile metal (you can stretch it real thin before it breaks), so that impressive aesthetic result comes from a tiny amount of gold. It's a cheap knife, is what I'm saying, for tourists basically.

4) German pocket knife, confusingly also called Toledo, by Hartkopf. With main blade, pen blade and nail file. Brass handle inlaid with oxidised steel. Tang stamp "Hartkopf&Co / Solingen", 8cm closed.

It's "damascened" in the broad sense of inlaying, hence the name "Toledo": it supposedly emulates the Spanish style, and perhaps pretends to be Spanish, but both the metals and the geometric patterns are different. Knives of this type were popular in Germany all through the 20th century as gifts and advertising knives.

5) American fruit knife by William Rogers Mfg, made in Hartford, Connecticut c.1865-1898. Main blade, seedpick [also called nut-pick or nut-picker *snickers*], silver-plated nickel silver, decorated with flowers and apples. Tang stamp: an anchor logo and "Wm ROGERS & SON AA", 8.2 cm closed.

Sometimes fruit knives like this were bought by fruit shops/groceries (relatively fancy ones, presumably) in bulk, and sold or given to customers as gifts.

6) Spanish Toledo penknife (another one). With pen blade and damascened handle, different pattern, probably a bit older. Tang stamp again "TOLEDO", 6.8 cm closed.

7) Swedish pocket knife by Emil Olsson, c. 1920-1950. Blade, pen blade and corkscrew. Tang stamp "EMIL OLSSON / [star logo] / ESKILSTUNA", 9.2 cm closed.

Another etched serpent pattern on the handle, though by now you have to squint to see it. This knife has seen some shit. Until ~1940, pocket knives were widely sold and used in Sweden because they came with corkscrews, and all the bottles had corks, and everyone needed to open bottles. After the war, bottle caps replaced corks for everything except wine, and the pocket knife's utility plummeted, and cutleries started closing. There used to be hundreds, and by now only EKA's left. So statistically, if it's from before ~1950 it saw a lot of use, and if it's after ~1950 it did not, it was a gift or something.

8) Swedish pocket knife by EKA, c.1935-1965. Model 38 PB, with blade, pen blade, flat screwdriver, and corkscrew. Handle with mother of pearl scales and nickel silver bolsters, tang stamp "E.K.A. / ESKILSTUNA / SWEDEN", 8.3 cm closed.

The corkscrew is a quirky one, known as Gottlieb Hammesfahr patent: it pivots on the pin and opens perpendicular to the handle, not pulled downwards as in most pocket knives.

[lyfrasilly-edda]

since brian found me. hi to the rest of you lot. hope lyfs doing okay today? i.

theyre arriving in a few days for a planned "rendezvous for ship repair materials". they dont know im on board. they might not even come on board, theyve got crew members, but. any advice would be appreciated.

-- @doctorbarontsct (apparently not the only marius on that account, which is weird) (the one who sent those cookies that one time and is definitely not in your walls)

Hello, alternate Marius. Brian mentioned you. Lyfrassir is… not getting any better, but they are stable, for now. We have not much experience with things from the Bifrost, so it is currently a bit of a scramble for a solution. We hope it will resolve itself, but until then, we are trying everything we can.

I am not much for romantic advice, unfortunately. However, I would recommend making yourself somewhat scarce until they come forward and are ready to talk. Try to avoid hovering, even if it does go against your nature.

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Urm Actually!

Nerd Pillow Stimboard

Made for myself (Requests Open)

[blumineck]

Nothing wrong with a stabby boi, but let us have our polearm archers and shield archers too!

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[see-arcane]

Queer Dream ghost (???): You should have brought with you the most important thing of all

Jonathan: I know but she wouldn't be able to come we're not married yet and also-

Queer Dream ghost: I mean your huge knife...

Jonathan: Instructions unclear, I will be spending the next two months wishing I was with Mina and also that I had a rifle to take shots at Dracula's lizard fashioning ass

[bellepeppergirl]

everytime i watch a YT video and someone refers to the Black Knife Assassins as a "he" when the game makes it very clear they're all women, i die a little inside

[mariocki]

Final Exam (1981)

"Why are you so apprehensive? When are you going to realise that the whole world isn't made of psychopaths skulking about?"

"But they are out there. They do exist. People are killed every day for no reason at all. Perfect strangers wake up in the morning and decide, 'Hmm, I think it's a good day to snuff somebody". And these are people who eat at our restaurants with us, use our highways and vote for the President, which probably explains something about him, too. I'm not paranoid. I'm just facing unhappy facts."

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ty for the tag @snowflakenali i love new and exciting variations of song-based tumblr tag games :D

tagging @polychromeedge @dayabot @that-art-hoe so basically everyone i know in the world !!!

[daincrediblegg]

It’s like… the thing that I think kindof bothers me about rings of power is that it’s being a little weird with like. Trying to be tolkien but also trying to be it’s own thing and when they mess with it a little it kindof does it in very nondescript high fantasy ways without really trying to do things in a way that honors the canon.

[cherrirui-official]

!! Cw // blood + knife ... Yeah that's pretty much it ahaha !!

Waltz

[knifemartin]

i want to be better at replying to ao3 comments