Do you see a big difference between the boys knife #15 and the barlow?

[cards94]

When I compare the boys knife in a specific model and color to the same blade in the barlow, the length of the knives are the same. The barlow looks a little wider but that's about it. Am I wrong?

 

[black mamba]

To my eye the barlow (besides the obvious longer bolster) has a more squared off handle, so maybe a larger circumference.
The barlow will also ALWAYS be a barehead, while the boys knife can come either barehead or with two bolsters.

 

[jc57]

Also the Barlow long bolster is carbon steel while I believe the Boy's knife bolsters are nickel-silver. Barlows seem to have blade embellishments while the Boy's knives dont. They are intended to be fairly similar anyway - one is Huck Finn's knife and the other is Tom Sawyer's.

 

[kamagong]

The barlow is better looking. Probably a little heavier, depending on whether the specific boy's knife you are looking at is capped or a barehead. Other than that they are basically the same knife.

- Christian

 

[bdev]

They're both built on the #15 pattern.