Jack's Random Tuesday Carry

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I have a few pokey ones like that too Jer, but as I use leather pocket slips, I haven't managed to stab myself yet

I wonder sometimes, if somebody loved a knife too much to replace it, or saw no point in replacing it while it still cut, or couldn't afford to replace it (while it still cut)?

 

[Jack Black]

I wonder sometimes, if somebody loved a knife too much to replace it, or saw no point in replacing it while it still cut, or couldn't afford to replace it (while it still cut)?

I reckon some folks would consider replacing a knife to be frivolous before it was completely worn out!

 

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I reckon some folks would consider replacing a knife to be frivolous before it was completely worn out!

The old normal!

 

[Jack Black]

The old normal!

100% mate!

 

[Just Tom.]

It randomly occurred to me to dig out this MAM I charred and scratted several years ago for my dad:

The old normal!

My grandfather hand an old hand-crank bench grinder on his workbench. I suspect using it to sharpen pocket knives was also part of the “old normal”…

 

[Jack Black]

It randomly occurred to me to dig out this MAM I charred and scratted several years ago for my dad:

Really nice work Tom, looks great!

My grandfather hand an old hand-crank bench grinder on his workbench. I suspect using it to sharpen pocket knives was also part of the “old normal”…

Years ago here, fellers used to come round on bicycles, sharpening knives by bicycle

One of the last traditional Barlow makers at Stannington near Sheffield was using a foot-powered grinding wheel into the 60's apparently

 

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My grandfather hand an old hand-crank bench grinder on his workbench. I suspect using it to sharpen pocket knives was also part of the “old normal”…

I have my grandfather's hand-cranked wheel and a couple of his knives. I suspect you're right.

 

[Jack Black]

I have my grandfather's hand-cranked wheel and a couple of his knives. I suspect you're right.

That's cool Jer

 

[Ironbut]

I have my grandfather's hand-cranked wheel and a couple of his knives. I suspect you're right.

By the looks of most of the old knives I find around here at flea markets, etc, sharpening with electric bench grinders was quite common, too. Most have some really rough looking old blades, and are not even worth the $2 or $5 asking price.

 

[Jack Black]

By the looks of most of the old knives I find around here at flea markets, etc, sharpening with electric bench grinders was quite common, too. Most have some really rough looking old blades, and are not even worth the $2 or $5 asking price.

Yes, Dremels have been a bit of a curse too!

 

[Jack Black]

Exciting part of my week! Remington Serpentine Jack

 

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I was saving this Frank Buster Fight'n Rooster for Random Tuesday. It was pretty random when it turned up.

But it was out-randomed just now when I tripped in the dark and fell into some stuff containing this Ahti.

 

[Jack Black]

I was saving this Frank Buster Fight'n Rooster for Random Tuesday. It was pretty random when it turned up.
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But it was out-randomed just now when I tripped in the dark and fell into some stuff containing this Ahti.
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I like them both Jer, but the Ahti lools very useful

 

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I like them both Jer, but the Ahti lools very useful

Thanks.Yeah, the Barlow is pretty but the Ahti has leverage I'll appreciate when I have to whittle in the cold and wet. Which happens so often! 3 & 1/8" blade.

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks.Yeah, the Barlow is pretty but the Ahti has leverage I'll appreciate when I have to whittle in the cold and wet. Which happens so often! 3 & 1/8" blade.

Nice!

 

[holo07]

Exciting part of my week! Remington Serpentine Jack

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Nice knife

 

[Jack Black]

Nice knife
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Sweet!

 

[Jack Sides]

Traveling today one on the belt, one in the belt and one in the pocket

 

[Jack Black]

Lady Luck gave me this Maserin Plow in D2, which was a gift from Pàdruig a few years back It's a very capable knife



I also had an idea to throw in a random photo from the many thousands I have stored on my PC!

When the Rodgers and Wostenholm factory closed, in 1977, and the cutlers were forced to move to the Richards factory, after Imperial bought the group, they were very resentful about their lowered status. They took over their own section separate from the rest of the factory, and fixed up this sign they had brought with them.

 

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A four-line Utica.

It may have been seen here before, but such is randomness.