waynorth
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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.
Steady on, Duncan!!! Sorry for scaring you - your health is important to us!!!Wow - man....................... I am having to sit down with these knives being shown!!!
Charlie - Sir your teasing us, c'mon and lets those Ken Erikson's out the bag my friend!![]()
Fabulous CharlieKen Erickson made these for me several years ago!View attachment 2101549View attachment 2101550 A matched pair of Sailor's Rope knives; one for a Swabbie, and one for the Commodore!!
Amazing manicure blades (traditional)!!
Quite a feat for a knifemaker - Ken was good!!![]()
In addition to being lovely old knives and great beads, those are some excellent photographs as well!OUTSTANDING thread!! I have been watching and enjoying the show VERY much!!!
A couple of oldies to share and a few modern ones also......
Schatt and Morgan from Gowanda, 1896 - 1902
No nail nick on main with either example
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Dave
Fabulous Charlie![]()
Thanks Jack, and Dan!!In addition to being lovely old knives and great beads, those are some excellent photographs as well!Very nice Queens as well.
Two beautiful navy knives by Ken Erickson, Charlie.![]()
Barrett, Good observation about the thumb studs on Duncan's old Pellett knife. While we have generally discouraged the showing of thumb stud knives in the traditional forum, do we look the other way on a vintage model???
I'd love to hear discussions from anyone about this.
With the majority of easy open knives having a nail nick on the main blade, it's interesting to note that the original easy open knives from the 1600s and 1700s had no nail nicks.
Those early models didn't have half-moon cut outs in the handles like their "modern" relatives, but had blades that stuck out well beyond the handles when closed.
Here is a French example from the 19th century by Brossard.
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A lot of Trim Trioids were made by somebody other than Bassett, with handles and screwdrivers of different shapes.I'm sorry @marantz , I'm afraid I've not been able to find the couple of Trim Trios I haveI stopped counting when my knife collection passed 1000 about 10 years ago, and I know where most of them are, but the TT doesn't catalogue easily, and they're probably just tucked away in a drawer somewhere. I see them fairly often, but don't usually buy them. Sorry about that
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Looks like a Camillus!!This one only has USA stamped into the pen blade tang.