Not good. I will be knee deep in Y2K fixes and preparations. Good news is I will be listening to Prince all year.
I spent New Years Eve Y2K on Jost van Dyke hanging out with Keith Richards on the beach. Memories....
What? Did you think I had them and was going to sell them to my neighbors so they could morph onto the ESEE train?
Ok folks, the Cleaver is on its way to the next lucky feller who is on the list. Hope he enjoys it as much as I did, if this had been one of them other forums I would have disappeared with it forever. Insert sinister laugh here. Seriously that thing is a beast and I can't wait until they hit the market, already have a few chef friends that want one too.
Look what I had on my door step when I got home!!! The cleaver has landed! First impression, what a beast. Very balanced I'm going to hack into some venison jerkey making tomorrow with this bad boy. We know it can chop but can it slice????
I didn't know Rook was getting it next. Cool. We gave away 5 of these things today at Blade. 5 are being given away tomorrow and 5 the next day.
Feel free to just ship me mine. I will say gents this cleaver is worth the wait. When I first opened it I froze up because my brain overloaded with things I wanted to cut up. Well made and well designed sir expat.
By the way @Expat the working patina is awesome on this thing. Everyone needs to take pics of it as they get it and then do a time lapsed slide show. I bet this beast will split a deer pelvis like butter. Oh that sounded dirty.
Haha. That is everyone's reaction. It's funny to watch now that I know it's going to happen. You see a guy pick it up and you know in about .5 seconds, he's going to reactively draw it back ever so slightly in a reflexive motion to chop something. It just seems to be begged to be used. Then, I say something like, "I bet you'd like to chop something right now", and they break out in a smile and admit that's exactly what they were thinking. So, Rook, I get it. That's the only appropriate reaction for a red-blooded American (or Canuckian, Bushman) male. Also, surprisingly, I heard several women say that they would like to have one of these cleavers for the kitchen. So, guys, here's a chance to buy your wife something that can actually be yours when you "borrow" it
I was thinking the exact same thing about the patina. When I saw your photo, I said to myself, man that thing is wearing in nicely!
Ethan Becker had a log he said he would bring if we wanted it. I got to thinking about the liability of some idiot (and there are plenty here) chopping his shin open, or slicing some kid on the backswing in the aisle and I decided not to. It will be at the real Expat Burning Man Knife Show though, for sure.
