Let's see your hard use folders-traditional style

Clasp knives have always been my hard use folders.

 
These got most of their hard use from my precursors. The Ulster DD and Sons is too venerable for the rough stuff now. The HSB & Co with epoxy putty handles I still use for rough and messy cutting. The Wards bone and the blue nameless jack have suffered enough.
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These are all mine, and always have paint or caulk on them. They also put the "knife" in my jackknife carpentry. These are both Westerns; I have a Camillus somewhere, probably in the car.
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i just wanted to take the time to say that you have a beautiful knife there medicevans. Im not sure what it is, but its quite the little pearl.
 
mr_badexample said:
This thing is a beast. The spring is so stout the gent who sold it to me looked for the lock when trying to close it.

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What a beautiful knife. I found the German shop which sells (and manufacture it perhaps) them but it's only available in brown wood or red plastic (and other colours)
Is yours really that red or did your camera do that?
 
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The Soldier knife is 81 years old, and has been through enough so I don't 'hard use' it, it has had enough of that from it's previous owner/'s. I will on occasion, carry it in conjunction with my Barlow.

The Barlow on the other hand, is in my pocket everyday, and is my hard use edc. (*note, I use it, but don't abuse it) I always have something else to pry, or to scrape with. I have found that I have liked it more and more, the less I babied it. It is well and truly 'My knife.'
 
This is one of my hard use folders. John Lloyd toothpick.
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Another, Queen Mountain Man.
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This one's a real worker. Charlow:
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It's gained a little bit of character, lately.... Ouch! Now I suppose I have a partially-serrated Charlow. :/
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Someone used this one hard for many years...it was found with a black tar-like substance coating all of the blades, and had been sharpened with a file. I imagined that perhaps it had seen use topping the flowers from tobacco plants in its day. Nowadays it sits, razor sharp, and only gets an occasional light duty carry day, it has earned its semi-retirement, and doesn't seem to complain much about that ;)





I think it was made in the 1950's or thereabouts...
 
Nice save on that Boker Duane, a looker to boot :thumbup:

I enjoy rescuing and old workhorse and let it enjoy its twilight at a little slower pace ;)

Paul
 
It's gained a little bit of character, lately.... Ouch! Now I suppose I have a partially-serrated Charlow. :/
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the only time i had seen a knife injury like this was
1) when i was hacking with my machete and accidentally hit a chain link fence
2) a "knife test" where someone tried to batan a esee5 through a bk2

i too am curious as to how this came to be
 
Looks like a flap of paper over the blade edge. Has to be because nobody would do that to such a nice new knife.
 
black mamba said:
How did you do that, you wicked boy!?!
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The bright spot at the bottom right of the triangle and what could be wisps of paper at the left top of the triangle. Just guessing. Gotta have a positive attitude sometimes.
 
Rsmith_77 said:
It's gained a little bit of character, lately.... Ouch! Now I suppose I have a partially-serrated Charlow. :/
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the only time i had seen a knife injury like this was
1) when i was hacking with my machete and accidentally hit a chain link fence
2) a "knife test" where someone tried to batan a esee5 through a bk2

i too am curious as to how this came to be
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I did that to a tomahawk once when I chopped through a 110v cord which I thought I had unplugged. Come to think of it, I did it to the spine of an emerson folder once when I had to hot wire my old F250. I now carry TWO screw drivers in my truck.
 
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