Handwriting Challenge Plus Imperial Knife Rescue

[@richardross7219]

Our Dads grew up when the teachers made them practice writing. I got into draftsman printing in 1966 and don't write much anymore. I've still got one of those Imperial Knives. I carried the electricians knife for many years. The screw driver blade worked well for adjusting carburetors. Zagray is May 1 & 2. Good Luck, Rick

[@autwuneur5399]

Absolutely great knife find as if the same one from Jack Town. 1950 Vintage Imperial same dimensions and exact reassemblance...wanting to know approximately what collection value you would put on here for the knife?

[@autwuneur5399]

Please reply asap

[@billseward2274]

My Dad had wonderful handwriting. Part of that was, as has been noted elsewhere, growing up when pensmanship was enforced. But the big thing is that he was, among many things, a draftsman. They had lettering sets (Leroy sets), but he could do nearly as well freehand. I’ve kept some of his handwritten items just to remember that handwriting.

[@krishoogstraat6866]

Good idea to practice our hand writing. I could use some practice. It would almost be worth the long drive to try and win that knife. What a beauty! That big folder … Wow !!!! Cool !

[@nicknicoletti9778]

I’ve been told most of my life that I have nice penmanship. It’s a thing to be proud of. My mother also has very beautiful artistic writing. Easy to read and nice to look at. And what an awesome knife. Nice save!!

[@seejanedrill]

Us lefties really struggle with our handwriting because we can't see what we're writing.

[@kadmaster]

As a good soldier of Scoutcrafter, subscribed to Gunter Garage and I loved that knife...

[@ScoutCrafter]

Thanks Kadir!!!! 😃👍

[@cheekymonkey444]

My father had so-so handwriting. He never signed my brothers and my report card. My mother always did. She had beautiful handwriting that couldn't be duplicated by my brother or me. So there was no forging a signature on a bad report card.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

I always tell people if they want to read it, get my wife to write it.

[@TheLoxxxton]

I call clickbait! Tuned in to see a knife restoration and now I'm digging out a notebook and nice pen to practice!!! Bless you Scout your definitely an original.🙂

[@saigaking]

When you opened the knife draw I was like oh my word Man you got some real beauty’s you gotta give us a show And tell John you have some fantastic stuff love it . The knife came out great fantastic video god bless take care 🦅👍🇺🇸🙏🗽🇳🇿✏️

[@jpsimon206]

I'm not in any way implying that your father was illiterate, it's touchy, but I thought you would want to hear the story. When I first went to college, I majored in anthropology and linguistics. My professor one year was teaching as a guest, he was a full-time researcher. Anyhow this guy had led a study that revealed the illiteracy level was much worse than we had understood. There was a big government push to get these people identified to try to figure out how they had slipped through the cracks. Fast food restaurants all offered pictorial menus, government pamphlets started having drawn diagrams, it was surprisingly successful and essentially wiped out illiteracy within 20 years. The part that was really interesting was we were being taught on how to set up double blind experiments, the protocol of research. Finding these non-readers was very difficult, they had incredible coping mechanisms and many had ascended to very high positions without anybody realizing. Much like when pursuing a fugitive, assembling a profile first made this much more effective. One of the most common denominators amongst illiterate adults? Beautiful signatures. Almost every time without fail. A strong tendency to use flourishes and to add honorific titles. It was quite surprisingly consistent. I found this so interesting at the time because it forced me to analyze my own bias, without realizing it, I had come to associate good handwriting with highly educated smart people. When you consider the reputation of doctors handwriting, perhaps there is an inverse relationship? Not that education has the slightest thing to do with being smart.

[@ScoutCrafter]

In my Dad's day high school was like College is today. People needed to make an income and get to work. He started working at the Oil company when he was 18 and stayed for 40 years. He was VP of the Union when he retired and left with a terrific pension that carried over to my Mother when he passed... In my area most of the older generation that were very interesting were not professionals, but had amazing life experiences.

[@lordvengerx]

That knife cleaned up super awesome. I really love the classic design of that style. That sick note was hilarious lol

[@robertharris2326]

Great episode. Brought back a memory of cursive writing. I have a brother 14yrs younger. When he served in Iraq my sister and I would write him letters in cursive only to find out he couldn't read cursive. He had others read or help him read the letters. Apparently they stopped sometime after we went to school. My sister and I laughed because we would have just typed him a letter instead as it does take time to write a neat cursive letter. Anyway....will take the advice and practice as it's a soon to be lost art.

[@bigvicsworkshop]

Love those folders...never seen one of those Mr. John, thanks for sharing... like I had said I sure wished I'd measured that Ratchet. It would be cool to know for sure how much I took off that rascal...the fix blade came out nice . And I'm the first to admit...I'm just plain lazy and cant spell when it come to hand writing..😁 great episode!!! Enjoyed it! Thanks and have a good'un

[@stephenbridges2791]

One of my favorite subjects is handwriting. It makes a difference what you write WITH and what you write ON. I tend to use fountain pens, only. Not that you can't write well with something else. If you use a fountain pen, then the ink you use and the paper you put it on will come into play. All of my amateur radio logs are done in fountain pen and in a high quality notebook. I'm not a calligrapher by any stretch, but; I can and do write legibly. I just recently through blind luck stumbled across a pretty good brand of ink made right here in the USA. Noodler's. Some are even bleach and tamper resistant. Pretty cool subject. Glad you brought it up.

[@ianstools4929]

Awesome episode scout crafter! Love how you cover so many topics with just one episode !

[@GuntersGarage]

I had a real belly laugh going watching this 🤣! In drafting school we used a thin high density rubber mat for drawing. The proper name for it is escaping me. We had to keep our pencils extremely sharp. We were taught to rotate the pencil as we struck lines to keep from flat spotting the tip and keep it sharp longer. We used guide lines for lettering and other procedures. They could be erased afterward but we were encouraged to keep them dark enough to use but light enough that they could be left to save time and the transfer machine wouldnt pick them up when printed into a blue print. That folding knife is a monster. Ive never seen one that big, wow! Guess I have to get to Jacktown early now that you called me out, lol.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Bob- We get in early and leave early to avoid the traffic! LOL You are going to love it!

[@lotsatrains]

Great lesson on handwriting and very nice job on that knife it’s really sharp too I am going to try to make Jacktown this year and hope to see it

[@DirtandRust]

My Moms handwriting is so nice...like artwork for sure....Loved the old Pocket Knives Scout...very cool!!

[@garyjones2582]

S.C. This video brought back lots of fond memories.. I'm going to bow out of the challenge, as I have arthritis in my hand and it cramps up on me pretty easily.. So I go from ok to barely legible in the blink of an eye.. We had a teacher fill in when I was in 5th grade.. Miss Taylor..When she started writing on the chalkboard, it was text book perfect.. some people have a unique style of writing, but hers looked like it was taken from a cursive writing textbook.. Never seen anything like it since.. And I love the boys note to the school that he was sick and signed Ray's mother.. looked perfectly normal for 3rd grade... lol.. S.C. thanks for putting together another great video and taking us along..

[@lewiemcneely9143]

10/4 on arthur.

[@garyjones2582]

@@lewiemcneely9143 Yep he's a bad dude..

[@lewiemcneely9143]

@@garyjones2582 Been acquainted with him for over 40 years. Ain't done me a single favor.

[@yo.mama100]

Supposedly women have naturally better hand eye coordination than men so that's probably why better at typing and handwriting

[@mikecurtis2585]

My favorite video! Love those knives!! Thanks 🙂🙏

[@AtomicReverend]

As a leftie, hand writing has always been difficult as we (at least myself) smear over our writing as we write, a #2 pencil that most of us were told to write with growing up smudges pretty easily, it doesn't help that I have always had a bit of a heavy hand and just like you I prefer a pencil I like the friction as you write a ball point pen is real loose feeling. . Ink in itself is a mixed bag, if it drys super fast I won't smear it as badly but yeah writing left to right will smear for most of us. Just a look at my hand will show it after I write for a little while.

[@WeekendShedHead]

Some lucky winner coming of that knife🙌 Love the ww2 pocket knife, that’s something special, and the size wow👌 I seem to write better when writing birthday cards, but my own notes.. I struggle to read myself 🤣 great video as always, cheers Rob 👍

[@ericmcconnell3238]

Sort of on/off topic... those cereal box cardboards. We save then like crazy. My 4 year old son loves street signs, so we print them out at various sizes on a color printer, then use glue sticks to glue them on to the cereal box cardboard and cut them out. The small ones get taped on popsicle sticks. The bigger ones he attaches to various things. The dang toilet plunger has a stop sign and Amish buggy sign taped to it. He's got to have over 100 at this point. Amazing what you can do with stuff you can recycle around your house instead of throwing away.

[@briantraxler1407]

Sister Mary Agnes taught penmanship. Well, she gave me detention. Detention meant writing lines. Hence, I have great handwriting today!

[@805ROADKING]

Good stuff Bud!! My Dad was a Ham, His handwriting almost looks identical to yours!! Mine is similar but not as pretty!!☻

[@OldSneelock]

I spent many a day handwriting work orders, purchase orders, and proposals. I developed a backhand cast to my cursive that helped me slow down my scrawled notes. Then I bought my first computer in 1986 and learned the joys of word processors. I never looked back. 😁😎

[@robertfakler8564]

John, I like your idea of improving our penmanship. My writing is awful, probably because I'm in too big of hurry. I might even see if I can remember the cursive I learned in grade school. As a related matter, have you ever noticed how many people never learned the proper way to hold a pencil. You did it right, but many people get their hand all screwed up, strangling a pencil.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi Robert- Growing up we always spotted people who held their writing implements differently however some people get great results with crazy grips!

[@americansewingmachineresto1545]

Hi John. I have a Mfg Engineering degree. We had to do tool and die design and drafting, so I got pretty good at printing. Some for my morse code days. The weight of the knife. Maybe the stuff you put on the handle and the wax made up for some of the metal loss. Maybe removing .013 doesn’t weigh very much. Great video. Thanks. Best Regards, John

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi John! Drafting is such a great course for high schools to offer... I am still perplexed by the scale thing! LOL

[@Resto-Scraps]

Great stuff man! When u were showing the sentences it reminded me of when I would have to write on the chalk board in school when I was bad 😂

[@rogermay5093]

Thanks for the knife show and tell. I am a knife guy but never even knew that survival folder existed!

[@ScoutCrafter]

Roger- Once you hole one you will have to own one!

[@HenauderTitzauf]

My first grade teacher said I needed a better chicken foot to learn printing. When I graduated high school. My English teacher said I needed a newer chicken foot to write with, ha, she didn’t see my new Paper Mate Turkey foot !!!! Brahaha!

[@TheSuperwrenchGarage]

Man I am definitely on board with this challenge… I even went out and picked up a fountain pen for the challenge. I am not a big pencil guy for work so I am looking forward to the fountain pen

[@herrickkimball]

Excellent video, as always. I am a "pencil nut" but it never occurred to me to write a check in pencil. 😮

[@357magdad]

When I write on a note pad like that, I like to turn it upside down so that the perforated rip off part is on the bottom. This way my hand and arm doesn't catch and curl the edges of the paper.

[@unwired1281]

🙃

[@ScoutCrafter]

Wow! Never even seen that!!!! Interesting!

[@lotsabirds]

My handwriting stinks! When we practiced writing, we had to use two lines to size the letters. Caps used 2 lines, 2 spaces...small letters used the space between two lines. Big letters I can do...normal letters are horrible and Script is worse. I'll try to improve! I got a kick out of one line when you were showing the knife you worked on....kids carry these around! In my neighborhood they did but it wasn't for cutting ropes. I'm older than you, but one of my best friend growing up was a José Rodriquez! He was great! His brother Louis was a pain in the arsenic. He probably ended up in sing sing. Anyway...great video!

[@tomhughes4980]

Can't give it away without a sheath! Challenge! Lol

[@mrbenmall]

I don't write cursive. I print. I took mechanical drawing and architecture in college - and spent my whole career in advertising and graphic design. I'm fastidious when I print something that others will see. But notes to myself look like I was having a stroke when I wrote it. I'm weird. Hey, beautiful job on that knife. Maybe the 100 grams was because of polish or wax that you added?

[@ScoutCrafter]

Ben- I still can't understand what happened with the scale! I am perplexed!

[@brianlittle3452]

Scoutcrafter - you are correct that many of us could improve our handwriting. Southpaws (left handers) are notorious for having poor handwriting. Being a southpaw, I have the follow tip to improve our writing: Turn on the computer… To quote the great philosopher, Dirty Harry: “A Man’s got to know His limitations.”

[@HenauderTitzauf]

Ain’t that the very truth !!!

[@alienmoonstalker]

Thanks for the thickness data! Good work as usual.

[@shedmanx3640]

Practicing my handwriting? That ship has sailed. I had a stroke at 45 years of age so controlling my hands is a challenge. If you want to read what I write, there better be a keyboard and printer handy. 😂 Great job on the knife mate. Wish I was able to attend Jacktown or any other meetings. Have a great time.

[@adamchilenski]

John, if you see this or any other Scoutcraft-a-teers, I'm struggling to find a particular episode(s) where you go over using an angle grinder to remove surface rust and divots/deep pitting in cast iron. I have an old cast iron drafting table base that I want to take to a full mirror polish. Thanks in advance.

[@rok1341]

Dear Mr. Scoutcrafter Rok likes your videos. Signed Roks mom

[@lundysden6781]

I love that folder!! Wow! I collect knives but never have seen one of those. I once hiked to the top of a mountain here in Upstate NY called Vrooman's Nose in Schoharie County. It was used as a place to dance etc in the 1800s. You can see similar things on top of Katterskill Falls in the Catskill Mountains (which I rappelled off of when I was a kid). Anyway, people use to chisel thier names in the rock. They had better hand writing with chisel and hammer than I do and most others. They cared about leaving their mark!

[@ScoutCrafter]

Yes, we had a tree in a park not far from me that people would carve there initials in and like you said some were very neatly done!!

[@leehunter1967]

Im so fascinated by the weight and measurement comparisons before & after. Really interesting. 👍🏻🇨🇦

[@timeflysintheshop]

Hey John! I just watched Dave Engels recent video about spiders in the wheels. At about 7:40 he shows putting a couple squares back on his tool wall. If you pause it and look close, you can see the wrench you sent him years ago still hanging on the wall with the other adjustables.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Looking back I had no idea his shop wasn't heated and I am afraid the finish on that wrench would have rusted by now. Had I known I would have clear coated it... =D Dave is great!

[@timeflysintheshop]

@@ScoutCrafter I think he lives in the shop most of the time and when its cold he has a fire in the wood burner to clean up all his scraps. I doubt it is covered in RUST, but I am sure it is covered in DUST! :)

[@dherna12]

When my brother and I were kids in the mid 90s, our dad would bring home sheets of white and green dot matrix printer paper and make us practice our cursive by drawing clean and steady loops in between the lines.

[@gigaphonicon]

My penmanship is pretty horrible. I use it sometimes but I was astonished to learn they aren't even teaching it in school anymore. It's a great way to write Christmas lists the kids can't read on the upside of things lol

[@jpsimon206]

Right now 30, 000 Jose Rodriguez's from New York are wondering if you're talking about them, haha

[@Ry4n.gr33n]

To become a master calligrapher, your final project is to freehand your own diploma certificate.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Wow! That is awesome! I love Calligraphy... Looks so awesome. I wish I could do it.

[@joeheilm]

That was a real pitmonster, i am suprized the scale didn't show a difference. I had a boss that was left handed, he also had the worst handwriting ever. I looked at him and said "are you sure you are left handed, because this is horrible"....oh boy did he get mad at me. I started laughing and he just got angrier...i couldn't stop laughing at the thought of him going through life mistakenly writing with the wrong hand. Great stuff! Cheers

[@ScoutCrafter]

LMAO! Believe it or not Joe, some people do better off using the other hand in some cases... =D

[@rico1319]

That scale incident was so funny! Lol! I’m glad to hear you were pounding brass one time! Are you still licensed? Call sign? just love watching your channel. I have rescued all my tools since watching your channel. Thank you! PS. I made a living as a commercial artist for my entire working career. So I understand completely about different kinds of techniques towards handwriting! 73s de W5PN, 👍👍👍😎🇨🇱

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hello Rico! As a commercial artist you have my admiration as that is a skill that I have always fawned over! So glad you found the channel!!!!! Thanks so much! 73's N2STX

[@RRINTHESHOP]

LOL on the Handwriting challenge, I type. Love the knifes.

[@MrGoosePit]

My handwriting looks like I'm holding the pencil in one hand and a running jack-hammer in the other. Probably from repeatedly being beaten unconscious by yardstick wielding nuns during cursive writing class...

[@johnkelley9877]

Great Mosh! I need to really improve my handwriting. It is readable but it could look better. Thanks for sharing this.

[@corydriver7634]

Good stuff. A little awkward around the nipple discussion area.,.kind of like the orifice issue. 😂

[@alexstools]

Somebody's going to walk away feeling very lucky from Jacktown. If I had any reasonable ways of coming over I'd be there but the way things are I'm not even allowed in the US yet. I've bee practicing my handwriting since I was about 15. I still use a ruler when I want to write nice because I can't keep it straight... You got me wanting that knife now. Can't remember last time you've showed it. Have you ever seen a German WOII paratrooper's (fallschirmjager) knife? It's a thing of beauty. I've seen them dug out of the ground with metal like new, not a speck of rust (old time contamination free stainless). Sadly those are illegal to own the Netherlands. We're having great weather here so I'm going to make it an even as great week. Even though my favorite thrift store just burned down today. Hope you'll have a great week!

[@ScoutCrafter]

OMG your favorite thrift store went on fire! That is heartbreaking! Hopefully they will rebuild!

[@machinistmikethetinkerer4827]

Great episode! I remember learning to print, then write while using 3-lined paper. The teachers always told my mom they were amazed at my "penmanship" and always had Aces. I was a natural. Years later after mom passed on my siblings and I were going thru mom's things and discovered that she had saved every letter I had written to her while deployed overseas. Bindered bundles all in boxes and saw my handwriting...present day my wife and I tease each other-she says I write like a girl, I tell her she writes like a doctor, minus the paycheck! Hers is horrible😆 I still love to write both in print and cursive and I too prefer pencil to pen, EXCEPT if it's an old style inkwell or ink fill quill pen. All of my siblings have beautiful penmanship too, along with mom. Think it could be hereditary too? We're all south paws too.

[@ScoutCrafter]

You know Mike when you heard that your Mom kept all the letters you sent I bet it touched you deep down inside... You are quite rare having such nice penmanship amongst us guys... Kudos to you!!!

[@machinistmikethetinkerer4827]

Yes. It did. Still does.

[@wireworks616]

The ,nice really looks great. Back when I went to Catholic School you where graded on penmanship as well as the work you turned in. Don't think they do that anymore. Gonna try to make it up to Jacktown in May.

[@markconway70]

Hey John, can you tell me what brand belts you use on your 1x30 sander

[@ScoutCrafter]

Mark- I have had really good luck with the Aluminum oxide assortment that Amazon sells, the belt used here was given to me by Abe Alias a Knifemaker in Canada and they are from Germany... Awesome belts but not cheap...

[@essentialhandyman]

Writing is definitely a lost art. Great episode.

[@roygilmore2968]

Lefties do have the extra challenge because your hand tends to drag across what you just wrote. My teachers always criticized me because I would turn my paper at an angle to avoid smearing. Every teacher I had told me I was doing it “wrong”. I just made adjustments so that my writing was a little better and had no smears.

[@societyschild6055]

When challenged in school about my horrible/illegible handwriting, I would simply say "more interested in what I'm writing than how I'm writing it!" Looking back...how wrong I was.

[@jpsimon206]

Are other imperial pocket knives any good? I've had this ancient imperial fruit knife for as long as I can remember in the coffee mug full of sharpies on my bench. I use it as a scribe quite often, I always figured it was pretty carbon-rich, it did not seem like a very high end knife to me but it has some really unique scales

[@ScoutCrafter]

JP- Imperial and Colonial were inexpensive knives but had a good carbon steel that was easily sharpened and were affordable. Many younger people cared them and when they got older bought a CASE or Kabar or Buck as a replacement... =D

[@shieldcracker]

My mother had beautifully hand writting. When I was learning to write in school she would take a grocery store paper bag (remember those) and have me write all the letters in the alphabet untill I got them right. Later words and later sentences. That would keep busy in the evenings.

[@snapringchronicles3020]

Yeah those Imperial style knives are great. I think there were a couple of different makers besides Imperial also. I usually pick them up whenever I see them.

[@paulsworkshop4179]

Great episode! My handwriting is a little sketchy, but I also prefer a pencil to a pen. Where “upstairs” are those knife tool boxes? We seriously need a house tour.

[@frankg3072]

I was taught by Dominican nuns in grammar school. We were graded on our penmanship on our report card. We didn’t print, everything was cursive. The cursive alphabet was in large letters over the blackboard. Talk about blotters we had to use fountain pens and blot the ink dry. I think I have a very good handwriting. They don’t teach cursive anymore in school. I have five grandchildren and they were never taught to write cursive. So when I send them a card for their birthday I write in cursive and they tell their mother they can’t read it! I told all of them over the summer for the past several years to practice cursive but to no avail. I told them when you grow up and have to sign a check what are you going to do print you name!

[@ScoutCrafter]

LOL Frank- They are trying to do away with cash and checks, they want electronic transfer. That is the future and having a chip implanted in you so you can be tracked... The future! LOL

[@mrclockman1950]

Good penmanship starts with proper arm exercises from your shoulder and elbow your hand doesn’t move the pen . We were taught with pencil to print and then to ink we used a stylus your pen moves far more easy than a ball pen. Practice makes perfect. Taught at my city public schools 1950s

[@terrysanders2817]

Excellent topic! Some thoughts in handwriting - select or produce a writing sample for March of 2023 and put it away - this is your baseline. Compare it to the future sample in March 2023. A form of ancient amusement was to copy the Bible or Shakespear in longhand. The idea was to increase skill at writing and be exposed to great works. The back of a legal pad is also an excellent blotter. Be well, Terry

[@archived_turkeys6487]

ScoutCrafter, we men of the past know the proper way to hold a writing instrument - which is gently cradled between the thumb and forefinger, at a 45 degree angle, about 2 inches from the point. Properly taught in second grade by powerful fearsome women and nuns with the help of a hardwood ruler - a lesson you remembered for life. This is what evolved from the ancient Greeks and Romans, forward through the middle age scribes in monasteries, John Hancock - right up to present time. Not taught anymore, it makes me cringe to see educated people using a tight-fisted death grip with the pencil coming nearly straight down at a 105 degree angle between the pinkie and ring finger.

[@ScoutCrafter]

The simple things we took for granted back then... =D

[@davidhinson5010]

Great job as always!

[@lordloffy9692]

when i have pits to deep to remove (or i am to lazy)i use a glassfibre erasor to remove the carbon (black stuff) it makes them less visible.

[@unwired1281]

That lazy dog ate the H & X. 😂

[@stephendoherty1275]

My dad taught building trades for high schools - He has perfect hand writing. I have taken his signature that was many years old, a sample from many years later and overlapped them - Perfect match! I can't read my own writing. Funny thing is, I have a horrible print and have developed a "shorthand" that only I can read.

[@ScoutCrafter]

That might come in handy having a secret handwriting!

[@johnwallis5824]

Maybe I'll catch ya in Bangor PA. I don't like very far from there !!

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hi John! I promise you a fantastic time! I am about 2 hours from there and it is so worth the trip!!!!!!!

[@johnwallis5824]

@@ScoutCrafter Thank you very much !! I live in Allentown PA so it's about an hour and change

[@mitchjohnson4970]

I took 3 years of drafting classes. Everything had to be written in single stoke gothic. I still write in all caps in single stroke gothic 20 plus years later.

[@brettwilley1160]

Never thought I’d learn about nipple lines today!

[@jpsimon206]

I'm not critical at all, just curious. I'm a collector myself and some of the things I like best I do have more than one of. This will usually be slight variations as it evolved over the years. But you opened the drawer with apparently many of the same two models. You mentioned that you buy them anytime you see them at a decent price. Why? Do you believe they will go up in value a great deal? I kind of doubt that's your motivation. Is it to have as trade fodder with other collectors? Or to give as gifts?

[@ScoutCrafter]

There are certain items that when I find out about I am floored that I was late to the party and know they will become collectable.. That knife is one of them.. I will buy them all day long at $40 or so... Now that ship has sailed... Another item I felt the same way about is the United States Pencil Sharpener... I would buy anyone I saw for $50 or less... That ship too has sailed... =D Like money in the bank...

[@povertyhilladventures7088]

Great Video!

[@bobuncle6962]

I think the issue with the scale is in the size of the read out. It is only two digits not five and likely the metal removed did come to a tenth of a gram

[@ScoutCrafter]

I went with Grams thinking it was a smaller measure of weight and would show a better representation... I am still perplexed!

[@bobuncle6962]

The weight of steel is 6.17g per cm and you only removed an average of 20/1000 so it did not move the needle so to speak

[@metrofarmer913]

"Hopefully they won't commit a homicide." Ha! Thanks and cheers

[@ScoutCrafter]

Can you imagine? With my prints on the darn thing! LOL

[@larrydemaar409]

My wife had beautiful handwriting. I like to go to an author’s lecture and buy their signed book. Some of them would write their first letter and then make a straight horizontal line for the rest of their name, felt cheated. I guess they were in a hurry.

[@ScoutCrafter]

I understand if you are a star and sign many autographs, having a fast signature really helps!

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Dear CS. I had to start printing in grammar school because my cursive (pun intended) was so bad I couldn't read it myself, SO I thank the Almighty for WORD PROCESSORS and Spel-CHEK! I just got a new computer and having a fit getting the newer WORD program where I like it to be. So my writing will improve as I figure my computer out. Happy week and GBWYall!

[@Traderjoe]

Yesterday I saw someone by my moms house was throwing out a file box, and it looked mint, and I grabbed it and brought it home. When I opened it up there was hand written documents from 1910 to 1961 and there was a marriage certificate from 1950 signed by the wife and groom and everyone who must attended their wedding and you have to see the beautiful signatures of all these people who wrote their autograph. Each one was like a John Hancock. There was cemetery plot deeds and birth and death certificates in there and the way people used to write was amazing. I feel ashamed for having terrible handwriting. I used to do mechanical drawing and write comics fonts, but I’m badly out of practice.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Joe Comic fonts are awesome!

[@adude7050]

Those WWII survival knives where made during the war by Colonial and Utica as well as a Michigan company. The owner of Colonial still has some NOS he is holding on of those. I keep trying to get him to sell me one. I will wear him down. I love those old cowboy bowies.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Abe- Thanks again for the belts! You and I have big mitts so that knife makes us feel like a kid again. I just love the feel of anything over-built!

[@mikebashford8198]

You weigh it in grams, but measure it in inches. Sort of thing we do in the UK.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Grams is good for messing small differences... Or so I thought! =D

[@chrisroode5844]

Yea John Growing up going to school with the nuns in the sixties, you had to write correctly or else the ruler!! Really the nuns were mostly okay but you had to bring your fountain pens. I was influenced most in high school and my drafting teacher Brother Kieran a stoutly Irishman taught me the ins and outs of printing for mechanical drawings. I can not write any other way since then, but it is the clearest printing you could imagine.

[@tonylenge424]

Boy, I did not like practicing penmanship in grade school. But like everything else practice makes perfect. Thanks

[@rawbacon]

My guess was 10 thousandths and that was about the average from the 3 measurements (9.83333333333). I have that same knife but with the Elk Head Handle, they are a nice easy to sharpen quality steel.

[@ddblairco]

always love a knife restoration

[@sebglayburg5163]

John, could the scale have been locked at 100 before you used it?

[@ScoutCrafter]

I don't think it can lock on any number... I am still confused over that!

[@unwired1281]

All that wax is heavier than you think!

[@357magdad]

I also prefer pencil, but Mrs Magdad and I like the Pilot G2 pens.

[@ScoutCrafter]

We used the G2 pens at work but when the temps got into the teens the gel would freeze! LOL

[@MrDoeboy356]

Now hold that folder knife up to the one I sent you lol.

[@ScoutCrafter]

LOL That folder you sent was for the jolly Green giant!!!! LOL

[@MrDoeboy356]

@@ScoutCrafter lol

[@57WillysCJ]

Three lined paper with the middle one a dotted line is a great weigh to practice and improve your scrawl. I can put most doctors to shame. Another way to improve print is to practice making the letters and numbers from blue print 101 from back in the day when you actually made a drawing of your work. Nice job on the old Imperial. Funny to me a paring knife is fine for a survival kife.

[@darylullman7083]

I'm a lefty and my handwriting would make a doctor blush. My signature pretty much looks the same as it did fifty years ago. Over the years I've given a thought to writing better and would buy a new pen that I thought would do the trick, nope.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Daryl- You would be surprised how revisiting something like penmanship can really change later on in life as we have much more patience now... =D

[@toolscarriagesmodellbauand7246]

In my opinion, a good and beautiful handwriting can only develop by practise and exercises. That means: write a letter, write a poem, write the list for your daily buying by hand.And you have to have a good teacher in writing, too. But who does it in these days? And who writes love letters today? I ask you. Nobody, I guess.

[@larryborkstrom3580]

One of favorites is the electrician knife

[@tango-bravo]

Nice job on that knife