Blades upon Books - Traditionals

[Will Power]

That's some rich Dam and Horn there Jeff, a great example. Interior Rams Horn on the GEC is a top slab. No doubt the Mufflons donated it, none too willingly mind

 

[black mamba]

No doubt the Mufflons donated it, none too willingly mind

Yeah, I doubt they aspired to become art and mutton.

 

[Champthekid]

Gray's Anatomy is the book

 

[AShearer]

Very succinct composition my friend. Well done🤙

 

[black mamba]

Thanks Alan, much appreciated!

 

[swaybacksteve]

This one is more business than pleasure but fascinating nonetheless. Hand illustrated by Frank Netter.

Frank Netter meant business, doing the best medical anatomy illustrations ever! That Northfields has done some business also. Nice!

I forgot to post this one yesterday. I have to blame the green beer.

Untitled by swaybacksteve, on Flickr

 

[stormylntz]

My go to GEC 47 Viper in 440C and maroon Micarta.

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[kamagong]

 

[WhittlinAway]

kamagong, now there's a combination that looks like it's ready to get down to serious work. I really like the layout of this photo with the patina of the non-polished part of the blade matching the compound and steel on the strop and the mirror finish pairing with the bold white text in the title. [emoji106]

Is that a Mora 106? Would you recommend the book?

 

[kamagong]

That is a Mora 106. I've only now gotten this book, so I've done nothing more than given it a cursory glance. The book seems well written, and there are some good directions in it. However, I think watching videos on YouTube, and having a couple of specimens to study would serve you just as well.

 

[AreBeeBee]

Predictable, perhaps, but genuine —

Not my original Scout Imperial (lost in pile of leaves sometime in the 1960s), but a near-identical replacement.

 

[007hunter]

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[SVTFreak]

Same knife, more patina, different book.

 

[monkeymindmark]

A new graphic novel and an old Sabre stockman

 

[AreBeeBee]

I love the idea of this thread! OK, here's the first of about a dozen book/blade pairings of mine that I sketched out —

 

[stormylntz]

Nice!!

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[btb01]

 

[AShearer]

Good one! I'm devoid of paper books. Almost all went to the Salvation Army.
I wonder if I can take screen shot of an ebook and a knife? [emoji3]

 

[btb01]

Good one! I'm devoid of paper books. Almost all went to the Salvation Army.
I wonder if I can take screen shot of an ebook and a knife? [emoji3]

I just don't enjoy reading books on a phone, tablet or e-reader. It's like having a digital knife… just doesn't work for me. (Then again, a "digital knife" could be like a light saber, and that would be pretty awesome, but would certainly be frowned upon in this subforum.)

As long as they keep printing books on paper, I'll keep buying them that way.

 

[AreBeeBee]

I just don't enjoy reading books on a phone, tablet or e-reader. It's like having a digital knife… just doesn't work for me. (Then again, a "digital knife" could be like a light saber, and that would be pretty awesome, but would certainly be frowned upon in this subforum.)

As long as they keep printing books on paper, I'll keep buying them that way.

Ditto. I do a lot of "screen reading" in connection with work. So when I read on my own time, I much prefer ink-on-paper in place of electrons....

Also, while libraries are great, as many people discover at some point, they discard items that don't circulate often. So: if a book is important to you, get it on paper and keep it.