got me a trapper!!!

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ahgar

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It's really funny sometimes how things work out. Just the other day someone on the board posted about their new yellow handled case trapper in cv. well this started me thinking about how much i missed the one i used to have. went out to trade with a guy today and guess what he had in the bottom of his box?? Yep a 1988 yellow scale mod 3254 nib. and best of all he really wanted what i had to trade. well when the dust settled and the bleeding stopped I ran off like a giddy schoolgirl clutching my trapper and another knife i had been wanting. just had to tell someone and believe me my wife doesn't care. well gotta go research the patina thing so i can make this knife mine. that's right I'm keeping it FOREVER. or at least until i screw up and trade it off, and then the cycle starts all over. later, ahgar

I did show my daughter and she feigned interest pretty well.
 
ahgar said:
well gotta go research the patina thing so i can make this knife mine.
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Congrat's on the catch!, I have a 1980's 3254 in CV also, they are a classic.

My favorite method of making a blade patina, is over the course of a few days, eat an apple, using the blades equally and wiping them off after each apple, but not re-oiling them. After a few days a nice patina develops.

And eating those apples is good for me! :D
 
ahgar said:
It's really funny sometimes how things work out. Just the other day someone on the board posted about their new yellow handled case trapper in cv.
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LOL, that would be me. Hey, wasn't I a bad influence on you about a Case Sod Buster Jr, yellow handle too?

I had to fight down the urge to swing in to the hardware store after getting paid today and add a new piece to my just starting collection. Then I reminded my self I'd missed two days last pay period, had just spent some bucks on the cars (heading out in a few to install the alternator) and had to get new tags and inspection today. What a waste of good knive money!

I'm happy for you! Always a great feeling to find that something you've been looking for. Especially when it finds you.

Let's hope it works that way for me this week. I'm hoping to trade of one car, a 94 Hyundai Scoupe towards a fellow down the road who does some dealing. He has a nice running little 79 Chevy (Isuzu) LUV with the 7.5 ft bed that is in pretty good shape. The motor runs like a sewing machine. He also just put out a small jonboat on a light trailer. I'm thinking the boat/trailer would look juussstt right on the back of that little truck. So <cross my fingers> we'll see sometime this week.

Now comes the hard part. I actually have to go to that hardware store for some hardware and the knife case is right there by the counter. Can you feel the agony.
 
I do feel your pain, Amos! Whatever you do DON'T LOOK at those knives! Those nice trappers, and cattle knives (lovely equal end pattern) or stockmen (serpentine), or barlows!!! LOOK THE OTHER WAY!!!:eek:
 
ahgar- you do realize that there are junior trappers and sodbusters, don't you?

Ya got a long way to go man!:D
 
Amos- Be very careful with that LUV truck. Those things had a habit of rusting real bad. I had two friends that had them, and you had to be careful not to look at them with a tear in your eye. ;)
 
thanks all, by the way i am immune to mini trappers so I'm ok on that one but you shouldn't mention the S word. amos iron wolf you may have to buy just one knife in the hardware store, to keep them in business. good luck on the truck trade I hope it works out for you. last confederate, that's a good idea with the apples, does it work with pizza?? amos iron wolf thanks for the original sodbuster post, i think, it swung me around to a whole group of knives that i had forgotten. It's funny how you can pull out a trapper with a 3" blade to eat an apple and the sheeple don't even notice, you whoop out a delica and they run for the hills. people, you've got to love'em, at least i think you do. later, ahgar
 
Whew! I was saved Waynorth by finding the piece I needed just before heading out the door. So no temptations tonight. Well, at least within touching distance.

Jacknife, thanks for the warning. Early to mid 70s Chevy full size trucks were notorious for rusting alond the bottom of the body panels too. Even so, I still miss the 2500 4x4 I had for a while. It was a pulling machine. This Luv on has a rust hole on the lower front fender (outside) just behind the front wheel. For the most part it seems pretty clean. A little bondo on the hole and it should do for a beater.The bed is scratched up as would be expected, but no rust. The same guy has a 78 F150 on which the bed is rusted through in places.

I've gotten too used to AC lately and the LUV doesn't have AC. That is a waffle factor, especially here in south central Texas.. I doubt for the minimal $ I'm working with I'll find a funtional truck with AC. I just have to figure which I want more, a truck, or AC. What I really want is a small fleet of vehicles that come with a driver, and that I don't have to fix or pay someone to fix.

Which brings us back around to the trapper knives. I often wish we were still using horses and mules for transportation. At least then if they gave you too much trouble you could kill the darned things, whip out your trapper, or other traditional blade, and skin the thing out. Then you could eat the beast and make clothes out its ornery hide! These metal ponies just don't have that utility and they don't graze. And they're hard on your knife if you try to skin one.

I need to get a few apples. Part of the fun was relaxing while peeling or sliceing up an apple. It was like the process made the apple taste better and a little wait extended the pleasure.

Sheesh, all this talking about big folders has me really thinking hard about busting the NIB status of my Remington RB-1240 Musket-1 Daddy Barlow. This thing has a 4 inch blade and is around the 9 inch mark opened. It has peach pit scales of jigbone (whatever that is) and it walks and talks with a snap. Oh yeah, and carbon steel. It even fits my generic neck knife sheath real nice. Now who's being a bad influence?

Ahgar I was thinking, don't you think you need a nice bone or stag scaled trapper to go with that yeller handle? It's only fittin don't ya think?
 
by all means you need to break out the remington, a knife unused is a knife wasted. when i was young I liked my women cheap and my scales yellow. now i'm old and married so the cheap women thing is done. all i've got left is the yellow scales and i won't be changing anytime soon. i don't think. maybe, oh crap now see what you've done. later, ahgar
 
Hey Amos,

You don't need to tell me about the mid 70's Chevy's. I made the mistake of buying a new 78 Chevy C10. It was an okay truck mechanicly, but by 1981 or two, I knew I had a rust bucket if I was not careful. I discovered a small rust bubble under the passenger side rocker pannel while washing and waxing the truck. It ended up with rust in some very weird places.

It was bad enough that in 1983, the U.S. dept. of transportatin had a class action lawsuit agaist G.M. for the use of "re-prossesed" steel they used in the trucks in that period. I was so p.o'ed I bought a Toyota and never looked back.

I have to agree with ahgar- a knife unused is a knife wasted. What a wonderfull saying. With ahgar's permission I want to use that saying now and then.

Daddy barlows, now there's an interesting pattern!
 
Glad you were spared the agony, Amos. Avoiding looking at knives can be a terrible thing.
I have the opposite problem. I'm an American, and since I married a Canadian, I've been living north of the border. Canadians don't have the tradition of good old pocket knives, and all I ever see up here are cases of cheap junk, or SAKs. I like Swiss Army Knives, but they don't stir my soul like the traditional patterns. I have to drive a long way to get my jollies! Or of course, surf the net!!
 
Fate conspired and I had to go to the hardware store anyway. First thing I did was squat down and check out the knives. Getting back up was as painful as saying no when the lady asked if I wanted to look at anything in there.

Much as I enjoy swappin tales with you all and on occasion don't mind mild temps in the winter, I wouldn't mind getting back in the bush up the Northwest direction. I sure miss the Pacific Northwest. I enjoyed Alaska (Fairbanks) and Oregon. That Willamette Valley in OR is pretty pleasant. I'd enjoy nearly anywhere up that way, except maybe the desert like areas of Oregon.

When my old dog and I drove out of AK and down the AlCan I had some major readjutsments when I got into Alberta. I'd been used to just pulling off the road on a gravel bar at night or just taking a whiz in the woods by the side of the road. Suddenly I had to contend with rest areas and civilization and all kinds of horrible, mind numbing, things closing in on me. I was having a hard time breathing. To make matters worse, by the end of the trip I was on the east coast up in MA. A few weeks there and Upstate NY seemed liked open country to me. It is kinda nice there.

Man, I sure wish I'd kept that delrin scaled Musket-1 Daddy Barlow I got at the same time as the bone one. I'd gotten that one to actually use. Did I mention trading is a nearly uncurable ailment, or disorder if you will?
 
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