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 $250 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.
Wow, that custom Dunlap is beautiful! What are the handlescales made from? Some kind of mother of pearl?My favorite pattern to collect is the gunstock whittler lobster (AKA Orange Blossom) they are mechanical marvels when you consider the tools the makers had to work with. An expensive knife for it's day and hard to find in great condition today.
Charles
Hickory
Remington
Robeson
Case
My new custom Dunlap
Welcome to The Porch, Ace!For me it is the stockman. It's sort of something I stumbled into. I bought a Buck 703 Colt in 1989, then in the early 90s I found a Schrade 505SC (also a 1989 model) that someone lost at a trailhead in Idaho. A few years later I inherited my fathers 885UH Senior Rancher that I had given him after he lost the knife that he had carried for decades. (Fitting, since he gave me my first knife when I was four.) My interest in knives was pretty quiet for several years until a few weeks ago when I found this little 807UH "J.R." at a local shop, just had to have it, and took it home for $18. I think that put me "over the edge" and I've since acquired two Case medium stockmans (6318 and 6344).
Oh, I carried a Buck 110 for decades and I've tried those new-fangled pocket-clip things, but nothing does it for me like a traditional, and especially a stockman.
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Those Uncle Henrys are some nice old knives, for sure, especially with the sentimental ties to your father!Welcome to The Porch, Ace!
Thanks for sharing your knife-life history!
- GT
