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.
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Now Charlie has some beautiful old bareheads! I wish he were my dad...lol!![]()
Yes it is nice bone, fantastic. But, remember, it's old and genuinely pocket-worn it wouldn't have looked like this new.....Does GEC have an ageing process?
They did experiment with ready patina awhile back, I think.
Of course you can always boil it in vinegar!!
NOT!
Real nice Voos, Dave! You can approximate, but never duplicate that nice aged look, IMO!!
I've got one of those Voos jacks, with quite a bit more life on it. Had a pin missing, Bob Picklesimer took care of that and cleaned it up (don't scowl, I bought it for dirt cheap and already have put my own patina on it).
He also took my old Remington barlow down from a one and a 1/8 blade (just a nubbin on the pen blade). I've been carrying the Tom Sawyer two blade barlow with the 2012 forum knife. Redundant, yeah, but I think I might leave the forum knife at home in favor of trying the Voos jack with the barlow.