Cripple Creek "Pink"

Each one of those are worthy of their own thread in the custom or gallery forums, Greg. Great photos too.

Does that flip loc have micarta around the pearl inset?

Loy does have a great collection, but he seems over priced in my book.
 
The Flipper does have a red liner around the pearl. The Flip-Loc is Cargill's brainchild. Along with the Side-Loc and who knows what else. The man has a very creative and practical mind and tinkered with a lot of different ideas. I am not sure how many of the Flip-Locs Cargill built. I do know that there are at least 7 of the damascus ones with each one having a unique insert in the handle. Mr. Loy does have some very rare pieces that he displays on Ebay. Some aren't so rare. That's where you have to do your homework. I know that they do sell either on the net or off.
Greg
 
Some of you guys might remember this fella.
Greg

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OK. So maybe I'm showin' off a bit now. This is a customized Buffalo Skinner model by Bob.
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A liner lock with ivory inserts. Cargill used stainless steel handles in a lot of his custom pieces like this one.
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Found this one. The reverse etch is kinda hard to see. You guys are more than welcome to save these photos for your personal scrapbooks if you like. I wouldn't appreciate seeing any on someones website tho.
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Folding Boot Knife with the Side-lock system. I have been needing to get photos of these knives for quite a while and have finally gotten time to do so. I hope you guys enjoy them as much as I do. I have a few more that need to be photographed and will post 'em as soon as I can for ya. As far as I am concerned, the Traditional Forum and Levine's Forum are the soul of true knife lovers.
Greg

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Now I know why I never see Cargill customs; Greg has all of them. I guess I'll go back to collecting ceramic chipmunks.

Outstanding and varied work by Bob Cargill, and from what I understand he didn't use a lot of fancy equipment to do it.
 
Hey Mckgreg, I've been eyeballing your great knives, and great pictures, and I wonder if you can tell me how to produce such great results on the forum. I "go advanced" and select a pic within the allowed size and wind up with a thumbnail, which will produce a not bad pic, but yours show up in beautiful size and detail with no thumbnail stage or having to refer to Photobucket etc. If you don't mind, help me out here!
 
Waynorth. What ya have to do is open an account with a website that will store your photos. You upload them to their site and put them in folders or albums that you create. I use Fototime.com. I think it's 25 bucks a year and you can store 250mb of photos. When you view a photo of yours at Fototime, there is a tool bar of sorts that gives you several options. One is "Create a Link". It then will show the photo and display a link that is the internet address to your photo. Just copy the link and then paste it here when you want to put it in a thread. They way you paste it here in BF is, when you reply to or start a thread here in BF, type what you want to say and make sure to start and new blank paragraph a few lines below your signature. Then, at the top of the page is a series of icons, when you put your cursor on them they tell you what they do. Select the square yellow one that will display "Insert Image". That will open up an area to paste the link you copied from the website that stores your photos. Just be sure to hit delete first to get rid of the already existing http:// Your link, that you are going to paste there, already has http:// and if you don't delete the one in the space you will have 2 of them and your image will not display. I keep a notepad on my desktop to paste several links into and name them. That way I can paste them in here from my notepad without jumping between Fototime and Blade Forums. Like everything, there will be some trial and error involved but it is pretty easy to do. There are free storage websites but I have heard much too often that they have a habit of closing down without notice. Along with your photos. By displaying you images this way you are not loading up BF's space. Your alotted amount of space available, provided by BF, doesn't decrease.
Greg
 
This is one of Cargill's few damascus blades. Probably one of his first made. I found this Side-Lock after someone did us the favor of coating the blade with some sort of black substance. There are times when a "Lynch Mob" has it's purpose.
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Wow! What a thread! Not only thee finest photographs of Cargill's I have ever seen anywhere, but a great education to boot. Thank You Greg. Please keep sharing.

ps{Have you ever published anything regarding collecting Cargill's work? Please forgive my ignorance if you have, and just point me in the direction of your articles/books,ect... If you haven't yet, you really should, as this is really wonderful and informative!}


Anthony
 
Thanks Mckgreg! Now this old dog will get his son to interpret what you said, and implement it!
 
Greg, those are some beautiful pieces. I may not be able to collect them, but I can sure enjoy seeing them from somone who does. I especially like the liner lock and the traditional slippies.
 
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