All About Pocket Knives

muskrat man wrote:After seeing Dale's take tray full of schrade blades I couldn't get it out of my head. It looked so clean and tidy.

Should keep things in order and easier to find when needed. Thanks for the boot Dale, this being organized stuff really is cool. Better than having crap piled everywhere in no particular order LOL

Glad to be of service!

muskrat man wrote:

whitebuffalo58 wrote:By golly MM, you can teach an old dog new tricks! Lookin' good!
But how can you stand to let those autos be unrepaired long enough to need storage for 'em?
WB

Buddy, if I had all the proper parts to fix those knives they would all be done within 24 hrs. Just gotta sit on them sometimes and wait for the right parts to come along. Some are too far gone and only good for cannibalizing to fix other knives that are better off.

Oh the agony of it all!
Naw, I know whatcha mean MM, I got a few like that too. Love to get 'em going, but just have to be patient. (and get better at mechanic'n)

WB

Ya'all know how to make a feller feel bad. My shop is more like "Pile Management".

I have known mechanics that excelled at “pile management.”
I started working in a service station the summer I turned 12 years old.
This was in the days when service stations actually provided service, gas was 19.9 cents per gallon. When a car pulled in the attendants trotted out there, greeted the customer, found out who much gas they wanted and started the gas. This long before pumps you could preset to the amount they wanted. While the gas was pumping I washed the windshield and rear window, checked the oil, & tires. When I wasn’t pumping gas my job was to clean up the shop, wipe down the displays in the show room, clean the restrooms and the shop.

The lower bay belonged to the mechanic named Jimmy. I had very strict orders NOT to clean Jimmy’s area; Jimmy used the pile management system. If you asked Jimmy if you could borrow a 9/16” gooseneck box end wrench, Jimmy would say, “Sure.” Then Jimmy would walk over to his bench, which was about 2 feet deep in parts of cars he was working on. He would lift up the bell housing of a ‘53 Ford, the clutch plate of a ‘54 De Soto and there in a pile of parts from a ’63 Chevy carburetor would be the 9/16” gooseneck box end wrench. He would hand me the wrench and carefully put the parts back as he had them.

Jimmy knew where every part was to every car he was working on. If I moved anything it would totally mess up his system.

My point is, there are rare people for whom “pile management” works well. If it works for you, it is a good system. For me; I would spend all my time looking for parts and very little time fixing things!

Elvis wrote:Ya'all know how to make a feller feel bad. My shop is more like "Pile Management".

I've seen the inside of your shop Bob, and it's the most organized disorganized shop i've seen. It looks like you know exactly where everything is....seriously. If it works for you, then

The upside to pile management is if a stranger comes into your shop he will have no idea where to look for the part or tool he needs, quickly becomes frustrated and leaves. For you, you know that the case 3254 blade is on the middle shelf on the left side in the back behind the pile of kabar backsprings but in front of the superglue

Now ya'll got me feelin' anal-compulsive! Maybe I shoulda givin' pile management a bit more runtime.
Just kiddin' guys! For me it was out of neccesity to be able to clear away and stow the mechanic'n stuff. Just no room to leave it all out, all the time. Hopin' when I retire, I can dedicate more shop space to making and/or rebuilding knives.

WB