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2022.

Thankful to be here to break in another new year. Not much to talk about, but that usually doesn’t slow me down much. I did get my knife shop pretty much built, wired, and set up. Like the leather shop, I expect I’ll be working on it for the rest of my life, but I do enjoy it, so I’m blessed to have found another passion/obsession. I don’t see myself making a lot of knives, but a few here and there. I won’t be accepting any custom or advance orders for knives, but as they’re completed, I’ll be listing them on my other website GibsonLeather.com.

The round knife in the photo above is available if you’re looking. Right now, I have two ready to be shipped out. They’re both slowly and painstakingly ground from AEB-L stainless steel that I have heat treated, cryo-quenched and triple-tempered by the experts at Bos Heat Treating in the Buck Knives factory up in Post Falls, Idaho. All the specs are in their individual listings on the other website.

Beyond that, there’s not much to report around here. Winter’s been a mild ordeal so far–toughest part’s been the time change, and I’ll get used to that right around the time it springs forward an hour. Just a reminder to be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

That’s it for me, for now. Happy New Year…I hope 2022 is your best ever.

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First Monday of 2021.

GIBSON, 1911, LEATHER, OWB, HOLSTER, CONCEAL, BELT SLIDE, PANCAKE, KIMBER, PRO RAPTOR, RAPTOR, COMMANDER

Not a lot to talk about. We’ve got a brand-new year, and probably the weirdest one I’ve seen in this lifetime. The fear-factor we’ve all come to know and love is in full blossom. Thanks to folks like Steve Jobs and that Microsoft guy (Bill Gates) we have a million ways to spew terror and garbage that we didn’t have twenty or so years ago. The media can’t keep up, though they do their best. Anybody with a smartphone is now a reporter, analyst, photographer, and newscaster. Veracity be damned. Accuracy and reality are mere nuisances. If you’re a network of any sort or have a decent number of YouTube subscribers, then you can be sponsored/supported by a myriad of pharmaceutical companies.

Obesity, diabetes, stress, can’t sleep, can’t poop, issues with feelings, aging, skin issues, hair greying, aches, pains, emotions, depression, sugar, fat, cholesterol, fleas, ticks …we have drugs or vaccines for all of that and more. Invariably, once you’ve taken the drugs and vaccines, you’ll need a lawyer, or team of lawyers, to represent you and seek reparations for the side effects which range from cancer to bleeding from the ass.

It’s Monday. I needed a post for the blog here, and I didn’t really have anything to talk about. Clearly, I still don’t.

From what’s left of America …

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Happy New Year…

It’s like a shiny new penny, or snow that hasn’t been peed on, or walked in.

We had a good year around here, for which we are thankful. We’re also thankful it’s over, and we survived it. I’ll probably always think of 2020 as a skidmark on the underpants of American history.

Not much to say beyond that. We’re working on websites, and doing a winter-shop cleaning and overhaul.

All the best to you and yours in the upcoming year. I’m sure 2021 will be full of surprises. I’m praying they’ll be of the good variety.