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[I'mSoSharp]

This thread should be awakened



Come on, show us your Sharps with Soul.

 

[sunknife]

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.

I'd say that you added some frontier soul to that blade with your work, I like the style.

Here is one I did to kick cabin fever in Jan. '21. Used osage wood, steel pins and a wood burner, fun project. Gifted to a friend last summer.
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[Fodderwing]

These 3...kind of inexplicable...the ruby red because its the first GEC I ever bought.
Down the bottom "Ol Pondy" the algae coloured dye job has grown on me as if with some therapeutic power.
The burnt bone Schatt n Morgan stockman...an unexpected greatly valued gift from Fodderwing ...At the time xmas 2018... I think the devil had taken my soul ( instantly regretting it of course) I had bought a SnM large stockman with orange burl scales as a Xmas present to my self ...I woke up that xmas morning alone and severly depressed...on a mattress on the floor of my rented room...I felt something crawling on my skin under the sheet...a cockroach ...easily 1.5 inches....on my back under the sheet!!...This is IT for me! ..was what I thought.
So I opened my present I had been saving ...was I clinging to bygone happy xmasses with the kids? One of the scales was quite warped and lifted at the bolster...I fixed it as best I could...
I think I posted it for advice ...and Dwight sent me the burnt orange bone stockman you see above....Is it possible that St Florian lifted me up with that gesture of Porchiness and dare I say it? Brotherhood...
Well look at me now

I can hear Satan wringing his claws and moaning at his minions to get the fire going again....yelling
" Meeaakoooh!! You Are Soul ....you"ll be back!!!"...and to that I say careful what you wish for ..I'll be wearing my Little Rock FD Captains t shirt.

Jon I just now stumbled across this post. It brought tears mate. Thank you.

 

[Hickory n steel]

I'd say that you added some frontier soul to that blade with your work, I like the style.

Here is one I did to kick cabin fever in Jan. '21. Used osage wood, steel pins and a wood burner, fun project. Gifted to a friend last summer.
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I really love what you did much more.
It looks more like something a native American might do, while mine looks like a tired old fur trapper carved in haphazardly with another knife.
I'm happy with the look and achieved the impression I was after, but I think I will have get another green river and do something along the lines of your work.

 

[Fodderwing]

 

[sunknife]

I really love what you did much more.
It looks more like something a native American might do, while mine looks like a tired old fur trapper carved in haphazardly with another knife.
I'm happy with the look and achieved the impression I was after, but I think I will have get another green river and do something along the lines of your work.

Thanks for the kind remarks.
That's what I like about your knife, 'the tired old fur trapper' look. I picture a mountain man, alone and sitting in campfire light at night carving that design into the handle, so much of his soul going into it.

 

[Travman]

 

[dantzk8]

Dan.

 

[Bastler]

 

[mbkr]

I stole this Old Hickory from an off campus house I shared with three other guys around 1981. It was well used then. It's been places.

 

[Jack Black]

England, sitting in a Cafe was a wonderful feeling, for many reasons, it was a damp Grey day and sitting in a warm Cafe at the very Historical old Town of York that has such old heritage was a warm and wonderful feeling.
York is a wonderful amazing Town, back to and beyond the Vikings who settled in York - its a place that I call rich with History, that day I met up again with my really neat Pal Jack Black, Jack again was another friend who I hadn't had the pleasure of actually meeting in person until we met up in Sheffield some years earlier and Jack treated Sue and I to such a memorable day, so here I was again, on completely the other side of the World, with my pal having a coffee.

Jack is a wonderful Human, he cares so so much about so many things, he doesn't want the World to forget the wonderfully amazing days of the past - especially in Sheffield, but all too quickly the modern man are too quick to tar-seal over the Hundred year's old Cobblestones, and move on with modern day life, instead of doing so while treasuring and showing the old pride and maintaining the the wonderful history of what was at one stage one of the most famous industrious Cities in the World.

Jack made had me walk around Yorks great old Wall with literally pockets full of stunning, wonderful knives, pounds of metal added, pounds of chub lost that day as Jack was so generous to me.
This wonderful Knife is a soulful Knife, the years of hard work from Jack working with the few remaining Cutlers in Sheffield to re-ignite their passion and to get back to taking real old Sheffield Pride of what was and to place this back into their work and uplift some of Sheffield's hard worked for status of the worlds greatest Cutlers.

The Knife is a result of this from Jack, just one of the Knives gifted to me, as much as the gifting was amazing - in fact it hit me hard, but the work Jack has placed into the being of this Knife - is what makes this knife Soulful...
Thank you jack my friend....

Wonderful memories my friend Thank you for the kind words

soul from the home of the Barlow and a heart of royalty...thank you Sir Jack

a treasure to me... Porch soul

outdoors soul, a gentleman's field companion

when Charlie's involved, it's got soul

Thank you James Thank you also for this thread, what a great idea Some fantastic posts here

 

[Boattale]

This knife spent its early life in Alaska doing a lot of stuff associated with fish and game. I got it from the original owner in the 90's. Had the sheath made by a saddlemaker in Jefferson City Mo. soon after I got it. I know it's nothing really special to look at but the Herter's pedigree and the knife's history without doubt give it soul. The knife and sheath both have a lot of meaning to me.


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[Jack Black]

I hadn't been posting regularly long on The Porch, when Duncan Campbellclanman took his favourite knife out of his pocket, and sent it to me It was my first GEC, and the first of many fabulous soulful knives Duncan has gifted to me over the years. It has been such a pleasure to spend time with him, and I treasure his friendship

Charlie was one of my very first pals on The Porch As everyone knows, he has produced many knives with soul, and thanks to his generosity, I own a number of them. This TC Barlow (Pen behind the Spear) is one of my special knives, and I carry it when I need a talisman. Among Charlie's many other knives, I think the Scratted Ancient has soul in spades

My friend paulhilborn found this old Boker, rusting away in a small store, lovingly restored it, and very kindly gifted it to me. I still have his letter, telling me about how he found it Soul aplenty I think

This old Case Stockman was a gift from Gevonovich , who sent it with some very special handmade jewellery Someone else clearly loved it before me

This special knife has a blade modded by our friend Big Biscuit, and was skillfully hafted by glennbad , who generously put it into a giveaway

Earl Barlow was a knife, I think, had soul

Likewise this old Buck 301, one of many great knives I've been gifted by r8shell

The #25s always make me think of my friend pertinux , but this one was gifted to me, in Sheffield, by btb01 , who went well out of his way to visit Barrett has one of these knives, and he also gifted one to Jolipapa , which makes it very special to me

One of my favourite GECs is this wee #66, which I bought a decade ago, and which has been with me on many adventures

I could post lots of other knives here, including my Hartshead Barlow of course But I'll leave it here for now

 

[TheChunk91]

Old patchy and my edc for the last couple years the shapleigh. They have soul and character intrinsic to most knives of that era.

 

[Modoc ED]

This TL-29 has sailed the ocean blue, been around the world, sailed on the USS Ranger (CV-61), the USS Constellation (CV-64), and others, been down in the bowls of those ships, and was a liberty companion in too many ports to list. It has soul and if it could talk, many Sea Stories to tell.

 

[Boattale]

This TL-29 has sailed the ocean blue, been around the world, sailed on the USS Ranger (CV-61), the USS Constellation (CV-64), and others, been down in the bowls of those ships, and was a liberty companion in too many ports to list. It has soul and if it could talk, many Sea Stories to tell.

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That's a real beauty sir. And fits the bill for a knife that truly does have soul.

 

[waynorth]

I hadn't been posting regularly long on The Porch, when Duncan Campbellclanman took his favourite knife out of his pocket, and sent it to me It was my first GEC, and the first of many fabulous soulful knives Duncan has gifted to me over the years. It has been such a pleasure to spend time with him, and I treasure his friendship

Charlie was one of my very first pals on The Porch As everyone knows, he has produced many knives with soul, and thanks to his generosity, I own a number of them. This TC Barlow (Pen behind the Spear) is one of my special knives, and I carry it when I need a talisman. Among Charlie's many other knives, I think the Scratted Ancient has soul in spades

My friend paulhilborn found this old Boker, rusting away in a small store, lovingly restored it, and very kindly gifted it to me. I still have his letter, telling me about how he found it Soul aplenty I think

This old Case Stockman was a gift from Gevonovich , who sent it with some very special handmade jewellery Someone else clearly loved it before me

This special knife has a blade modded by our friend Big Biscuit, and was skillfully hafted by glennbad , who generously put it into a giveaway

Earl Barlow was a knife, I think, had soul

Likewise this old Buck 301, one of many great knives I've been gifted by r8shell

The #25s always make me think of my friend pertinux , but this one was gifted to me, in Sheffield, by btb01 , who went well out of his way to visit Barrett has one of these knives, and he also gifted one to Jolipapa , which makes it very special to me

One of my favourite GECs is this wee #66, which I bought a decade ago, and which has been with me on many adventures

I could post lots of other knives here, including my Hartshead Barlow of course But I'll leave it here for now

A truly soulful collection, Jack!! Thanks for the kind comments also!

 

[Jack Black]

A truly soulful collection, Jack!! Thanks for the kind comments also!

Thank you Charlie

 

[Mike Robuck]

Soul from a bygone era:

 

[Markesharp]

Soul from a bygone era:

Beautiful Mike!