Christmas Knives, 2023!!!

waynorth said:
Clever, GT!! And I like the wrench stampings on those blades!!
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Thanks, Charlie. Monsieur Coursolle apparently adopted a wrench as trademark in 1905, 3 years after he made his first brass-handled knives with "scenes" embossed on the covers. He switched to adjustable wrenches as trademarks in 1926.

I was considering a brass knife depicting a naked Venus, goddess of love, but my wife vetoed that choice. Since I grew up on a farm, I went with a Plowman model, with horses pulling the plow on one side of the knife, and oxen plowing on the other (even though in my lifetime, we only used tractors).

screened porch said:
That's a good system, as long as you both remember what you hid where.

I was talking to somebody at church who lives in a place geared to the less callow, and she has a couple of fire extinguishers over the stove that go off by themselves if she forgets something too long. And only $5 to replace them if they do go off!

On a related note, I was sitting at the potluck yesterday with about 5 others, and when we got back from the food tables, they all went and sat at a different table. I was trying to be philosophical about my mortal psychic wounding, till I noticed that my silver elf hat was at the table they all went back to instead of the table I'd wandered off to.

I went to knives of France first, and almost bought a Coursolle Pradel, then almost bought a Lacroix queue de poisson, before I settled on the riverine Mora on sale.
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Knives of France translates q.de p. into fishtail for us.
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My wife often has problems with putting things "somewhere safe", then not remembering what the safe place is. I received a knife for Father's Day this year that had been intended as a Christmas present for 2022, but it was "misplaced" for several months. I think there are some "key organizers" that were ordered online many years ago that are still safely stored somewhere in our house.

Congrats on your "riverine Mora". :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup: I look forward to seeing it because I'm not sure what it is. My current conjecture is that it's one of the cork-handled floating models (just because I've wanted a cork-handled knife ever since I saw one that Pt-Luso Pt-Luso has, but he's from cork-rich Portugal).

- GT
 
I didn’t get a knife this year, but something even cooler (what’s one more knife when you already have hundredso_O)

A mid century imperial/hammer brand counter top display case, with intact glass. I have plenty of knives to fill it up with, including some hammer brands and imperials of the correct era. Here it is in the 1952 catalog!

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Murphy Slaw said:
I got a Leatherman Arc, but won't post the pic here in "Traditionals".

It's in the multi-tool section though, and I'm diggin' it !
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I got a Leatherman Bond from my wife as a Christmas present. I've long thought a Leatherman tool was traditional; they've been around a long time and the knife blade on mine (and the tools) are slip joints, has no pocket clip, and no thumb-stud. OH
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17038782082301742908170230735829.jpgMy first traditional slipjoint I received as a gift.and it came 4 days ago,and my first made in France to boot.had to really flush and oil this knife.the neat thing about it is if you put your thumb on the bee it helps to prevent it from closing.
 
stipe82 said:
Gifts from my young daughters. They probably aren't worth much to most people. They know Daddy loves knives, so these 2 mean the world to me.
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Those are the most priceless of all these knives.👌
 
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