Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc )

About Me

I make knives and play paintball. I've been known to modify paintball guns to the point they work great in the shop and take a crap as soon as play starts.

My Interests

I have so many its not even funny, but the short list is as follows:-Cooking - Cajun and Oriental -Archery -Surfing -Gardening -Model Engineering -Knives -Guns -Turtles -Digging -Fishing -Anime -Hawaiiian Shirts ( I have 23 now ^_^ ) -Anything MechanicalI think thats the 'active' stuff for now.

I'd like to meet:

Nice people who want to have lovely relationships and live in peace.

Music:

anything that makes me tap my toes

Movies:

anything that doesns suck. My list of movies that suck so bad they should be deleted from the world include: Clifford and Event Horizon

Television:

Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Black Lagoon, Lucky Starr, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimya, Kerero Gunso, FMP Fumoffu....list goes on.

Books:

Anything Tom Clancy excpet fot that Op-Center crap, Tom didnt really write those and you can tell when you read them.

Heroes:

My Parents, Kit Carson, Bob Terzoula, Bo Randall, Harry Morseth, Rob Cude and all the other EOD techs out there.

My Blog

The People I Play Paintball With

Over the last year or so of playing paintball, I've made some good friends and reconnected with some friends from high school. As I was driving home tonite, I started thinking about them and the...
Posted by Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc ) on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:02:00 PST

ah, waiting

So, as some of you know, I had a minor incident with a broken air hose and my eyeball a couple weeks ago. No problems until monday night when I started seeing flashes in my far left peripheral v...
Posted by Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc ) on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:07:00 PST

deep thoughts ...... kinda, about guns n stuff

You can get further with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word. The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the sh...
Posted by Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc ) on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:36:00 PST

We lost another friend today

I just found out that the knife world lost one of its finest today to cancer. Bob Lum was a top shelf maker and a friend of mine. I wish I had gotten the chance to know him better, but we ...
Posted by Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc ) on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:44:00 PST

Yikes, a reminder and cheap lesson

Had a scare this morning. Was regrinding a contact wheel on my lathe this morning - just made the mandrel and wanted to test out the concept and make sure it would work. Set up a really bad small whee...
Posted by Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc ) on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:11:00 PST

Making stencils

Ahh, making stencils, light at the end of the tunnel. Been busting ass to get knives done for Blade, and today is the last day I have to work on them. I have 18 knives that are 95% d...
Posted by Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc ) on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:57:00 PST

Short, cute story

Had my Nephew ( 9 and a half ) in the shop with me for a few hours today. I was handsanding blades and he was sanding some brass. We talked knives and knifemaking and had a good time. ...
Posted by Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc ) on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:20:00 PST

40 reasons to ban guns....

..>..>..> Reasons to Ban Handguns 40 Reasons to Ban Guns 1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, Detroit & Chic...
Posted by Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc ) on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:41:00 PST

How do you know?

I was watching an episode of scrubs tonite that I recorded earlier and the theme of the show seemed to be love and the odd ways in which we express it. In it, JD and Elliot had gotten back toget...
Posted by Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc ) on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:11:00 PST

Yep, I'm a Nebraskan ^_^

You Know You're From Nebraska When..."Vacation" means going to Omaha for the weekend. You use your life savings to go to the Nebraska-Colorado game. You know the Woodmen Tower is not made of wood. You...
Posted by Buttercup ( AKA Nebraska Merc ) on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:39:00 PST