Blades upon Books - Traditionals

[screened porch]

Fourth Grade Math Book, 1956-57, beneath a Case canoe, 1975:
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- GT

Looks like arithmetic was more fun in the 50s than in the 60s.

 

[Fodderwing]

 

[Will Power]

 

[screened porch]

I couldn't believe this book: 598 pages (10"x7.5") of sauces. With Mom's 1967 Julia Child knife and my AW Wadsworth.

 

[jimmyd1982]

I feel like both of these barely qualify for this thread but since I had already taken the picture for another thread I figured I'd use the opportunity to bump this back to the top.

 

[Cambertree]

An early stainless steel penknife by John Watts on a page from The Engineers Handbook.

(Pictured with a lump of raw volcanic iron I picked up in Western Victoria.)

 

[screened porch]

An early stainless steel penknife by John Watts on a page from The Engineers Handbook.

(Pictured with a lump of raw volcanic iron I picked up in Western Victoria.)

You could make a knife out of that volcanic iron.
Maybe not a very big one.

 

[A.L.]

Not exactly the most traditional knife but here's the ultimate travel tool SwissChamp with "international adventurer's guidebook" - sort of travel bible from two renowned Finnish travelers.

 

[353]

A new Norwegian viking novel I've just started and my puukko.

 

[Will Power]

Lot of people talk about knife collecting being a 'sickness' I don't really see it that way And it's certainly not genetic

 

[pipedreams308]

 

[WinchesteRalox]

K55k with return of the king.

 

[flatblackcapo]

 

[WinchesteRalox]

six guns and six blades.

 

[Fodderwing]

 

[WinchesteRalox]

 

[btb01]

Seemed necessary.

 

[eisman]

 

[Mitt]

I forgot I had this book. Wouldn’t hurt to go back and reread it

 

[pipedreams308]

I feel like Ed Abbey would carry a SAK.