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After seeing some beautiful Barlow knives on these picture threads I’ve become interested in them. Is there a brand that is cheap (like under $40) but good to try out if I like that style?
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Help with a Barlow
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The Kershaw Culpepper.
If you lurk the online auction site, you can also find New Old Stock Camillus Electrician knives for all sorts of prices, above and below 40. It's a spear point Barlow pattern with an extra tool to save your blade from the perils of screws. The wire stripper part works great, too! Try to get one that's still in original packaging: lots of these have been sharpened halfway down to nubs.
If you lurk the online auction site, you can also find New Old Stock Camillus Electrician knives for all sorts of prices, above and below 40. It's a spear point Barlow pattern with an extra tool to save your blade from the perils of screws. The wire stripper part works great, too! Try to get one that's still in original packaging: lots of these have been sharpened halfway down to nubs.
While those are both nice examples of bare head jacks, neither is a Barlow pattern knife.The Kershaw Culpepper.
If you lurk the online auction site, you can also find New Old Stock Camillus Electrician knives for all sorts of prices, above and below 40. It's a spear point Barlow pattern with an extra tool to save your blade from the perils of screws. The wire stripper part works great, too! Try to get one that's still in original packaging: lots of these have been sharpened halfway down to nubs.
OP here’s some great history which is , I find , the place to start when you become interested in a traditional pattern.
Barlow Pattern Research
Few of us with any familiarity at all with pocket knives would fail to recognize the Barlow pattern. Almost every cutlery has made at least on version of that pattern, some using it for comemoratives and limited editions. Schrade certainly was no exception. The Barlow knife was designed to...
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Huh.
See, I thought that "Barlow" referred to a general shape and style of knife: a bolster, clip point or spear point with a nail nick or pull groove, and no lock, or a lockback. Mostly because of A. G. Russell's Medium Barlow Lockback line. I had no idea that The Barlow was such a specific pattern.
Well thanks to C CHNeal for the history! Now, I have a new way of searching for knives that I like, and washing the taste of shoe leather out of my yapper is an excuse for another cup of coffee!
See, I thought that "Barlow" referred to a general shape and style of knife: a bolster, clip point or spear point with a nail nick or pull groove, and no lock, or a lockback. Mostly because of A. G. Russell's Medium Barlow Lockback line. I had no idea that The Barlow was such a specific pattern.
Well thanks to C CHNeal for the history! Now, I have a new way of searching for knives that I like, and washing the taste of shoe leather out of my yapper is an excuse for another cup of coffee!
Exactly!
I’m sorry if my reply came off as snotty. I sure didn’t mean for it to. Sometimes I’m just a bit matter of fact.
No shoe leather should ever be consumed for the sake of knowledge!
Have a great day.
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All you need to know :
Mary gave him a brand-new “Barlow” knife worth twelve and a half cents;
and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations.
True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a “sure-enough” Barlow,
and there was inconceivable grandeur in that –
though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury,
is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps.
Mary gave him a brand-new “Barlow” knife worth twelve and a half cents;
and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations.
True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a “sure-enough” Barlow,
and there was inconceivable grandeur in that –
though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury,
is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps.
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No worries! Didn't sound elitist, to me! I find that a little self-deprecation goes a long way toward rounding off the edges on the internet, but I don't always do a good job of making sure other people know that's what I'm doing.