How cool is this Cat.

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Pipeman

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It's the Cats meow:D Found this little beauty in the bottom of my shipment from Charlie, What a guy. Thanks so much my friend.

Check this super knife out folks, What a shield, the tolerances are tight, the grinds are wonderful. Very unusual secondary blades, almost surgical blades in style and so thinly ground. It also has one of those neat V grooves like on the old Schrade whittler (I forget the pattern number).

Best regards

Robin
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ooooohhhh! Almost as kool as my late parents' last cat and he was wonderful:D

That's a tight nesting job with those blades and a really tidy pattern/material. Lucky you!:cool:
 
Very :cool: to be sure Robin! Enjoy it in good health!!
Charlie, YOU are Da-Man!!!


Dave
 
It makes me smile, which is not making my real Cats happy, they want all the attention :o

Regards

Robin
 
jon_slider said:
Meow! Thats one Tux Whittle Cat!
Beautiful covers, split spring and blades oh My!
Specs?Tacular! closed length and weight?:-)
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Hi Jon
It's 3 5/8th -an undivided "split" backspring. I don't have scales but the weight seems slightly less than a single sheepsfoot charlow. It is a very refined knife, the swedges and grinds on the secondaries are very clean and subtle.

Best regards

Robin
 
That is very,very cool Thanks for showing that :thumbup:
 
That must have you grinning like a Cheshire Cat in the land of milk and cream!! It's Spectacular!!!!!!

Some interesting facts from Wiki

Church carvings

There are many reports that Carroll found inspiration for the name and expression of the Cheshire Cat in the 16th century sandstone carving of a grinning cat, on the west face of St. Wilfrid's Church tower in Grappenhall, a village adjacent to his birthplace in Daresbury, Cheshire.[citation needed]

Lewis Carroll's father, Reverend Charles Dodgson, was Rector of Croft and Archdeacon of Richmond in North Yorkshire, England, from 1843 to 1868; Carroll lived here from 1843 to 1850.[3] Historians believe Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat in the book Alice in Wonderland was inspired by a carving in Croft church.[4]

In 1992, members of the Lewis Carroll Society attributed it to a gargoyle found on a pillar in St. Nicolas Church, Cranleigh, where Carroll used to travel frequently when he lived in Guildford (though this is doubtful as he moved to Guildford some three years after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland had been published) and a carving in a church in the village of Croft-on-Tees, in the north east of England, where his father had been rector.[5]

Carroll is believed[according to whom?] to have visited St. Christopher's church in Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, which has a stone sculpture most closely resembling the pictorial cat in the book.[citation needed]
 
Thanks for that Gev ;-) Churches have some very unusual carvings at times. The early family of a dear old friend of my were some of the first settlers on Lake Simcoe where I lived. They were pretty wealthy and eventually built The church for the family and other settlers. It has carved stone gutters (eaves troughs))) with goats heads at each corner with open mouths that "spit" the rainfall off the roof. Some of the headstones seem to have been carved by the same stone mason.

Best regards

Robin
 
Pipeman said:
Thanks for that Gev ;-) Churches have some very unusual carvings at times. The early family of a dear old friend of my were some of the first settlers on Lake Simcoe where I lived. They were pretty wealthy and eventually built The church for the family and other settlers. It has carved stone gutters (eaves troughs))) with goats heads at each corner with open mouths that "spit" the rainfall off the roof. Some of the headstones seem to have been carved by the same stone mason.

Best regards

Robin
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Very cool story, Robin. I wonder what inspired that shield? It would be an interesting backstory. Maybe Jack can get you some pictures of the carvings on the Church in Yorkshire during one of his quests:D
 
TOP Cat! What a cool old knife Robin :thumbup:

The Charlow feller strikes again! :)
 
Gevonovich said:
Very cool story, Robin. I wonder what inspired that shield? It would be an interesting backstory. Maybe Jack can get you some pictures of the carvings on the Church in Yorkshire during one of his quests:D
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The only thing Bernard has on the maker, under trademark "Ye Cats" "some by Nowill", Mfr and wholesaler.

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Gevonovich said:
Maybe Jack can get you some pictures of the carvings on the Church in Yorkshire during one of his quests:D
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I'm sure I already have a few pics, I'll try and remember to upload some and post them in Carl's Lounge :thumbup:
 
Pipeman said:
The only thing Bernard has on the maker, under trademark "Ye Cats" "some by Nowill", Mfr and wholesaler.

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I will try and do some research with those leads, Robin

Jack Black said:
I'm sure I already have a few pics, I'll try and remember to upload some and post them in Carl's Lounge :thumbup:
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I was just thinking...All of these Celestine coincidences may lead you to the grail!!
 
Very cool, as always Charlie's generosity is typical of the traditional forum, some of the sub forums here are like granting out in the local gin mill while others are more like a school yard during recess but the traditional forum is like Sunday dinner at my aunt's old farm house with the family, I come here and I always leave feeling good because of the likes of Charlie, Jack and Carl just to name a few.

BTW, what would you call that pattern, is not a whittler, not a lobster? A shadow Serpentine Jack maybe? I really love the scales and the shield.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
Very cool, as always Charlie's generosity is typical of the traditional forum, some of the sub forums here are like granting out in the local gin mill while others are more like a school yard during recess but the traditional forum is like Sunday dinner at my aunt's old farm house with the family, I come here and I always leave feeling good because of the likes of Charlie, Jack and Carl just to name a few.

BTW, what would you call that pattern, is not a whittler, not a lobster? A shadow Serpentine Jack maybe? I really love the scales and the shield.
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You are great company Ted :)

I believe that's a Serpentine Whittler, like a Wharnecliffe Whittler frame.
 
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