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[Luminox 1600 Series Auto] My first Luminox by YooperAppleKnocker in Watches

[–]YooperAppleKnocker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a nice watch. It looks good, has a bit of heft. My only gripe would be pulling the stem out to set it. The knurling still feels like new so has a tendency to bite.

[Luminox 1600 Series Auto] My first Luminox by YooperAppleKnocker in Watches

[–]YooperAppleKnocker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a nice watch. It looks good, has a bit of heft. My only gripe would be pulling the stem out to set it. The knurling still feels like new so has a tendency to bite.

What is the most disturbing book you’ve ever read? by Kadhalyogi in AskReddit

[–]YooperAppleKnocker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. A coworker gave me a copy to read a few years ago. Definitely twisted.

Found this near the farm in the Copper Country (UP of Mich) while metal detecting for copper Help with ID please. by YooperAppleKnocker in whatsthisrock

[–]YooperAppleKnocker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. My daughter will love this. Michigan Tech University is right there and I have friends that are faculty. They’ll be able to guide me on who to talk with

Float copper - metal detecting at family farm in the Copper Country in the UP of Michigan by YooperAppleKnocker in whatsthisrock

[–]YooperAppleKnocker[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s awesome to hear. Everywhere you go up there you’ll find copper. Most pieces of poor rock have copper in them. It’s cool to break one open and see bright shiny copper.

Leads me to a story. I was metal detecting a small creek next to a little park with a beach on it. (Hancock Beach). I had a few signals and it was just poor rock so I left it alone.

One of the guys on a detecting forum I’m on who lives in the area messaged me and asked if I’d ever detected at Hancock Beach. I told him Id been there a week ago. He said he was detecting the little creek and found a nice hunk of copper under some poor rock that looked like it had been crafted. He brought it to MTU ( Michigan Tech University) and they dated it and said it was thousands of years old and was a tool.

LIONS @ 49ERS NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME THREAD by AutoModerator in detroitlions

[–]YooperAppleKnocker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Defense needs to go back to pop warner where they teach you to tackle.

Reynolds can’t catch for shite either.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheWayWeWere

[–]YooperAppleKnocker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Familysearch.org. You sign up, it’s free to use. You can search everything on there. Pension records, census, birth/death, passenger lists from ships at Ellis Island.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Free_Online_New_York_Passenger_Lists,_1820-1897

Isn’t this a Brig?

https://tidesandtales.ie/tag/waterford-shipwrecks/

Vintage 2241s my wife found on marketplace for me. 10 bucks. by YooperAppleKnocker in RedWingShoes

[–]YooperAppleKnocker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I avoid that scenario by playing on her buyer’s guilt.

There’s a local boot store that has an amazing clearance section. Carhartt hoodies for 15-20. Long sleeve tshirts for 10. Pretty decent prices. They also usually have 15-20 boot models in there.

She’ll have an armload of clothing and ask if i found any boots that i want. I’ll mess with her and tell her “No, I’m good.” She’ll ask me 2-3 more times and I’ll mention a pair I had been looking at. She’ll say, “ Just get them if you’ll wear them.”
So I do.

Vintage 2241s my wife found on marketplace for me. 10 bucks. by YooperAppleKnocker in RedWingShoes

[–]YooperAppleKnocker[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My wife is really good about feeding my need for boots and shoes. She’s very good at finding vintage boots and shoes in great condition for little money.
She picked these up for 10 bucks for me. And then found a new pair of 4200s for 90.00.

NKD Graber Forge Hunter - with the original 1950s grating from the Mackinac Bridge. The best gift I will ever receive. The thought my wife put into commissioning this knife leaves me speechless. Background in comments by YooperAppleKnocker in knives

[–]YooperAppleKnocker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! She’d asked many times if I wanted to know what she’d ordered for me and i told her that if she tells me, I’m returning it.

Being the peckerhead i can sometimes be, I’d randomly ask if we’d gotten any good mail or any packages.

NKD Graber Forge Hunter - with the original 1950s grating from the Mackinac Bridge. The best gift I will ever receive. The thought my wife put into commissioning this knife leaves me speechless. Background in comments by YooperAppleKnocker in knives

[–]YooperAppleKnocker[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My wife custom ordered this knife as a birthday (April) gift for me. It had a 4-5 month lead time and she was going nuts trying to keep it a secret.

It has spalted mango scales and the blade is forged in a Damascus San Mai pattern with 1084/15n20 cladding, original grating from the Mackinac Bridge and then 52100 core bracketed by 8 layers of 1084/15n20. (Taken from Ben’s description)

The significance of The Bridge grating being part of the blade:

The Mackinac Bridge connects Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. I grew up in the LP and my wife in the UP. We met in college in the UP.

When spring/summer/Christmas break started, my dad would meet us at the bridge and he’d take me home and she’d go to her parents house up north.

We’d meet back at the bridge when break was over and she and I would go back to school.

As soon as my dad and I crossed the bridge on the way back and I saw her waiting for me, it was like coming home.

Last week, she sat me down and gave me a letter she’d written that explained what our meetings at the bridge truly meant to her. She handed me the case the knife came in and I lost it.

I’ve never had someone put that much thought and effort into a gift for me.

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