I don't know of it's just me, but it seems like a very marked population is seeking something from the old days. In the automobile world, retro is in and selling very well. Mini's are still going like hotcakes, Fiat is now making a modern version of the old 500 that I remember from the early 60's, and The Mustang is still running fast. In the gun world, Cowboy action shooting is the fastest growing shooting sport beating out anything involving clay birds or black tactical firearms. Legions of grown men and women are dressing up in western clothing, and adapting names from old west history. The shoots have snakes like 'Thunder Valley" or "Trails End." A local gun shop now has fully one half of their store devoted to cowboy action shooting, and they can't keep up. You can walk in naked with a credit card, and walk out fully clothed and equipped for a trail drive to Dodge City, or an evening out in San Antone sitting across the poker table from a tin horn card shark. Around me, there's a cowboy action shoot very single weekend at a different club, and they all go from one to the other playing at the old west.
In knives, even though we've seen the fall of Schrade and Camillus, we've seen the rise of GEC, Northwoods, and of course Case seems to be doing well. But most of all, I'm happy to see many new people on this forum that are new converts to the traditional pocket knife. Refugee's from the world of black handles and thick blades, it seems like a lot of folks seem to have a growing appreciation of nice stag, bone, and knives that their grandfather would recognize and carry.
I have to confess, everytme I see a post by a new carrier of traditional pocket knives, I do the Walter Houston jig. I can't hep it, it feels good to know that there are some new folks coming to the forum with an appreciation of the old times, and the artifacts that people used then. I do know that the old timey stuff has a certain feel to it. I'm not sure what to call it, but some may go for the word soul. I've handled my share of modern knives, and I will admit they are strong, effective tools. So is a socket set or a 8 inch crescent wrench. Just like a Glock is a very very good gun. But there's something that is not there when you wrap your hand around them. A feel.
Grasp a Glock or a modern knife, and it's just a tool. But an old bone handled jack with the jigging worn shallow by the hand of a owner, or worn wood grips on an old revolver that has been carried many years by it's owner, and a feel comes through that the 'new' stuff can't match. No matter if it's a well worn old Texas jack with shallow jigging on bone, or an old trapper with age mellowed yellow stag and medium gray blades. It feels as good in the hand as it looks. It has that feel of 'soul'.
Well, I see there's a new post from a new traditional fan, so you'll have to excuse me. I have a jig to dance!
Carl, Grand high muckba of old things.
In knives, even though we've seen the fall of Schrade and Camillus, we've seen the rise of GEC, Northwoods, and of course Case seems to be doing well. But most of all, I'm happy to see many new people on this forum that are new converts to the traditional pocket knife. Refugee's from the world of black handles and thick blades, it seems like a lot of folks seem to have a growing appreciation of nice stag, bone, and knives that their grandfather would recognize and carry.
I have to confess, everytme I see a post by a new carrier of traditional pocket knives, I do the Walter Houston jig. I can't hep it, it feels good to know that there are some new folks coming to the forum with an appreciation of the old times, and the artifacts that people used then. I do know that the old timey stuff has a certain feel to it. I'm not sure what to call it, but some may go for the word soul. I've handled my share of modern knives, and I will admit they are strong, effective tools. So is a socket set or a 8 inch crescent wrench. Just like a Glock is a very very good gun. But there's something that is not there when you wrap your hand around them. A feel.
Grasp a Glock or a modern knife, and it's just a tool. But an old bone handled jack with the jigging worn shallow by the hand of a owner, or worn wood grips on an old revolver that has been carried many years by it's owner, and a feel comes through that the 'new' stuff can't match. No matter if it's a well worn old Texas jack with shallow jigging on bone, or an old trapper with age mellowed yellow stag and medium gray blades. It feels as good in the hand as it looks. It has that feel of 'soul'.
Well, I see there's a new post from a new traditional fan, so you'll have to excuse me. I have a jig to dance!
Carl, Grand high muckba of old things.
tired of letting him use my red nut. Jake
YOMV.
