The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
I was intending to wait in for a couple of parcels today, so thought I'd take a few pics of the cigar box contents. This one contains some MOP and ivory...
Just heard the Royal Mail are on strike today, so I'm going to head out for a coffee and a haircut, but I'll take some more pics later if anyone wants to see more
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Thank you my friend
I wish!I would like to see more examples of these coming out.
Where'd you get that pic Brian, it's a familiar number 
I found my picture on the Stuart Mitchell site. It is the first item that pops up when googling Jack Black knives.Thank you my friend
I wish!
Hmmm...Yes, Stuart refurbished that knife for a feller some years back, if I recall correctly I remember the owner's dad buying it for his son as a 13th birthday gift, he had some very flattering things to say about itI found my picture on the Stuart Mitchell site. It is the first item that pops up when googling Jack Black knives.
It was actually engraved, with a message on the blade, originally. I remember, since the steel was already hardened, it cost me a hefty price to get the engraving done. It was done by a feller called Mick Shaw, who also made my stamp, and who also makes the stamps for A. Wright & Son
Of course, I do!!!!I'll take some more pics later if anyone wants to see more
Great collection!!!
Most of the MOP knives in that cigar box are vintage Sheffield, but what about this for a cool 'SAK'?!
Here's a few more out of that top layer
IXL:
Abram Brooksbank:
William Rodgers:
Thomas Renshaw:
Wragg:
James Chesterman:
A great start to your slipjoint collection.I've been enjoying this thread immensely! My single box is quite modest compared to most shown, but I love it. I need to line it one day soon. While I don't have many slipjoints, I do have piles of cigar boxes, from a stint employed at the local cigar shop when I was young. If any of you reading this are pinning for one, message me and I'll send one out for the cost of postage. The wife would like me to get rid of most of these, so mailing them out is a win-win the way I see it
Thanks Lee, beautiful images there
Unfortunately, cigar boxes here come with multiple graphic anti-cancer stickers attached. They usually come off with the liberal application of butane fortunately Good tip, and a fantastic collection
What a kind offerI've been enjoying this thread immensely! My single box is quite modest compared to most shown, but I love it. I need to line it one day soon. While I don't have many slipjoints, I do have piles of cigar boxes, from a stint employed at the local cigar shop when I was young. If any of you reading this are pining for one, message me and I'll send one out for the cost of postage. The wife would like me to get rid of most of these, so mailing them out is a win-win the way I see it
I lined the first couple I got with felt, then got kind of lazy 
Thank you, it was a nice find for me. Several members of my family, going back, at least, to my great grandmother worked for Chesterman's. I have a few Ruler Knives, which use Chesterman rulers, but knife collectors have often debated whether Chesterman actually made knives themselves. That knife is rather specialised, with characteristics more commonly associated with Sheffield silver-bladed Fruit Knives, so I have doubts about it being made in their Bow Works factory, but it does have the Chesterman tang-stamp, and is the first knife I've come across with it
I've not seen anything like it on any of their advertising, so perhaps it was a presentation piece of some kind 
