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JB in SC said:
I've been all through the southeast, seen couches in all sorts of locations (front porches usually) but I can't say I've ever seen one on a rollback (if that's what it is). You'd fit right in.....
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Long story short...I picked up the the red lounge ..its part of 2 piece...for free from a house only a minutes walk from my former home in mt keira.My good friend and neighbour does the garden and the lady was replacing the lounge...he contacted me " it belongs at your place!" I had to get him to put in storage for a month due to covid restrictions...borrowed a mates ute and did weekend trip up to fetch it....also saw my Dad for his 85th and had a sleepover with The Countess....drove home Sunday...its 4hrs drive.
Quite knackering tbh...but the lounge ...its Gelosa...high quality Italian....original cost...$12K!!! Scored for nix.
 
tongueriver said:
This may be a bit odd; I don't own this knife. When my lifelong pal John and I were starving college students, he lost his Ruana hunting knife in the field, and he was just sick over it. Quite a few years later I bought this knife from you-know-where and handed it to him. It was awkward; I was not prepared for the tears. Anyway, when the word 'soul' or 'karma' comes up in relation to cutlery, this was what came to mind. What joy giving can bring! I saved a (terrible) scan on my 'puter.
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What are friends for?? Nice move, Cal!!
 
I was visiting with Joe Houser in his office at Buck and this 212 blade only made of W2 was sitting there but unfinished. Straight from heat treat, kinda bronze, kinda copper in color. I asked Joe if he is going to make a knife with that blade please leave it unfinished. He called me a couple days later and said he had a knife ready for me. It is one of my most cherrished knives and it reaks soul for me. I made a rear pocket sheath for it.




 
paulhilborn said:
Great thread James, some may scoff at a knife or an inanimate object having "soul" but that's what I call it. Others may call it character or any number of things. I say soul because it's the life experiences I live through and that "certain" knife was with me through memorable times or it's just a faithful companion or a reliable tool???

The TC came to me on my birthday in 2013, it was carried EVERY day for 14+ months, by itself or along with another. It's been through funerals, weddings, birthdays, great niece's recitals, evenings on the deck after a hot, long summers work day, winter blizzards doing welfare checks on elderly family members and any and everything almost imaginable.

The Case 62087 is the very first knife I bought, I owned many before it but they were either given to me or found. That Case I saved for over a summer or more and was bought with my allowance. Carried daily when I first bought it and used more than any other knife. The fear of losing it forced it out of the rotation along with years ago a broken tip that I re-profiled, but of late I decided to bring it out. Lately it see's more time on my desk because I want to keep it around and give to one of my two sons.

So yeah, to me, certain knives have soul. I own others that qualify but these two are at the top :thumbsup:
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Your post says it all, paulhilborn paulhilborn . So much soul in those two knives.
 
tongueriver said:
This may be a bit odd; I don't own this knife. When my lifelong pal John and I were starving college students, he lost his Ruana hunting knife in the field, and he was just sick over it. Quite a few years later I bought this knife from you-know-where and handed it to him. It was awkward; I was not prepared for the tears. Anyway, when the word 'soul' or 'karma' comes up in relation to cutlery, this was what came to mind. What joy giving can bring! I saved a (terrible) scan on my 'puter.
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I somewhat collect Ruanas and this was quite a gesture to your friend. Well done. Rudy R would be proud.
 
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This Marbles knife belonged to my departed Dad. He bought it in Rapid City SD while on a big game trip to Wyoming back in 1952. Note the Bakelite pommel. I had the sheath made for him some many years later because the original one had literally dissolved. He carried this knife on all of his Pennsylvania deer hunts. When I got old enough I accompanied him on those many hunts. To me, it is full of soul. And razor sharp too.🙂
 
I think that chestnut jigged bone CV pocket knives from Case have soul! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
I have 8 patterns from that series now, and 3 of them (Sodbuster Jr., Swayback Jack, and Sowbelly Stockman) are gifts from "pillars of The Porch"; two of those generous gentlemen subsequently died too soon, which adds to the soul of these knives for me.
As the old song says:
Now when you're feelin' low and the fish won't bite
You need a little bit o' soul to put you right
Here's The Music Explosion version of the song (but The Ramones have a kicking' version, too):
These knives have more than a little bit o' soul!
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- GT
 
This knife is a very simple one.
It came to me as just a blade courtesy of jantz supply, and I did my best to give it some real soul and the essence of purpose.

I wanted it to look like a knife owned and used by someone who truly depended on it.

Very basic materials that are aging well in short order.
just a carbon steel blade, brass pins, and some simple oak scales.
 
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