Neckties and Traditional knives

[Will Power]

Won this tie in a charity raffle. Think it's from the Safari Collection

Cougars and Primble Stockman

Outlandish! But you should pair it with a Churchill in Cougar Claw

 

[5K Qs]

Outlandish! But you should pair it with a Churchill in Cougar Claw

Great advice, Will!

- GT

 

[Fodderwing]

I just found reasonable facsimiles on Amazon, so I think they still make them.


Cool cats on your tie, redsparrow ! Speaking of cats, here's a tie with a fairly well-known cat on it:
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The back of the tie has good advice for a classroom community:
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- GT

Awesome tie GT!!! I love the good doctor.

 

[redsparrow]

Cool cats on your tie, redsparrow ! Speaking of cats, here's a tie with a fairly well-known cat on it:
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- GT

Thanks GT, it is cool and you're right, Will nail it.

Outlandish! But you should pair it with a Churchill in Cougar Claw

GT is right, "Great advice Will" ... a Cougar Claw 35 would be the perfect carry while wearing a cougar tie.

 

[Chief]

I don't make the rules in this thread, but the OP mentions bow ties, so I'm guessing they're welcome (as long as they're not clip-ons, also per the OP ).

All I want is for folks to have fun, edited original post to allow bowtie clip-ons. Bowties are cool too, but tough to tie even for an expert. Love the tie carousels and tie clips. Ties make a person feel special. This was my Dad's and now my favorite tie tack on one of his ties. Remember playing with it in my youth, so lucky to have kept ahold of it. My dad had a collection of 40s and 50s ties that I gave to my brother in law Charley when my dad passed. Charley is at church anytime the door is open and I only go for weddings and funerals.

Sorry for the sprinkles on the cap and a little moisture on the pile side, it's misting today.

 

[veitsi_poika]

I did a two-fer today... Wooden Wednesday J. Marttiini knife and my Finland bowtie hand made in England... how can you go wrong with that combo!?

 

[Horsewright]

Cowboy Neck Tie, aka Wildrag, aka Neck Hobble, aka Cowboy Turtleneck, aka Rag, aka and very seldom if hardly ever Scarf:

No Windsor Knot on this outfit. This is called a Buckaroo Moustache Knot:

Looks like James is scoring come Christmas time, including the Vaquero Ultralite knife and a Wildrag.

Can be worn tied up:

Or loose around the shoulders:

Or fastened with a slide. Dang that was a long time ago:

Handy when keeping the wolves at bay:

Horsewright has been making these guys for a very long time, long before I started making knives. We've sold thousands throughout the world. We go down to the Garment District in Los Angeles to buy silk for these. Here's my wife Nichole picking through some rolls of silk. The rolls standing on end in the foreground she has already selected to buy. I got the first one off of that kinda tied dye roll. One of the bennies of being married to the maker:

There it is with my knife:

Nichole photobombing Cookie who had just used his knife to get some more air in that cigar.

Sometimes ya see a regular tie too:

But more often than not, its knot:

 

[WinchesteRalox]

 

[5K Qs]

I did a two-fer today... Wooden Wednesday J. Marttiini knife and my Finland bowtie hand made in England... how can you go wrong with that combo!?

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That Finland bowtie is a winner, Kevin!

Cowboy Neck Tie, aka Wildrag, aka Neck Hobble, aka Cowboy Turtleneck, aka Rag, aka and very seldom if hardly ever Scarf:

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Thanks for the photo-lesson on cowboy neckwear, Dave!!
The only sense in which I'm a "cow boy" is I grew up on a dairy farm in the 1950s and '60s, and I watched my share of Westerns on TV when I was a lad. I don't recognize any of the names you give for that "tie" as matching what I remember from the TV Westerns. Of course, my memory isn't great, but all I can remember are plain old "bandana" and what I thought was so cool - "neckerchief". Any real cowboys ever use those terms, or is the terms I remember pure fiction?

Here's the tie I wore at my wedding 6/1/85. It's shown with a Camillus peanut I didn't get until 33 years later (thanks, Mike).


- GT

 

[Horsewright]

Yep GT you'd never hear em called by either of those. There are lots of Hollywoodisms. Wildrag is by far the most common, the others I mentioned are really nick names for wildrag. We get people calling almost daily asking for some and it's always wildrag. We've been out of stock for a while so we gotta make a trip. Nichole calls it the sewer bowl of the world and hates going down there. I love it though, it's capitalism run rampant. Imagine Tijuana in Hebrew and Arabic and that's pretty much it.

 

[JohnDF]

Wildrag is by far the most common,

I've always called them Wild Rags too.

 

[pistonsandgears]

 

[Prester John]

Those guys look vaguely familiar.

 

[5K Qs]

Yep GT you'd never hear em called by either of those. There are lots of Hollywoodisms. Wildrag is by far the most common, the others I mentioned are really nick names for wildrag. We get people calling almost daily asking for some and it's always wildrag. We've been out of stock for a while so we gotta make a trip. Nichole calls it the sewer bowl of the world and hates going down there. I love it though, it's capitalism run rampant. Imagine Tijuana in Hebrew and Arabic and that's pretty much it.

Thanks, Dave, for setting me straight on "real life".
After reading some of the remarks in the Lounge with that language quiz that Barrett posted, I was wondering if that cloth on the neck was called different things in different regions: maybe California cowboys use a term different from folks in Texas, Louisiana cowboys have a different name than Montana folks, and so on.

- GT

 

[Lostball]

Pearls alter ego!

 

[5K Qs]

Superior tie, knife, photo, Lostball !!

- GT

 

[Lostball]

Superior tie, knife, photo, Lostball !!

- GT

Thanks GT. Pearl has been shut in lately and was up for a little fun!

 

[bflying]

I don't have any exotic ties, nor exotic knives. But do often combined my ties and knives.

When I first handled a little Spyderco Honeybee, I thought, "hey, that would make a cool tie tack.". So I glued a clip on it, and used it. People seemed to like it, and I ended up making a dozen or more for gifts. Then I thought a magnet might be a better connector than the gator clip. And opened the door to many more knives.

Now I use pretty much any knife around the size of a peanut, or smaller. I really don't wear ties often (2-3 times per month), so now I could probably go a year before anyone might see me wearing the same knife (tie tack) twice.

 

[Wharn]

 

[Horsewright]

Probably something to that GT 5K Qs on regional word usage. For instance I've never been on a "roundup" but we gather all the time. Never been on a "cattle drive" but we do trail them from place to place. Quien sabe?

Making wildrags:

Salmon fishing in Scotland:

Not something ya see everyday. Our friend Dan names his wildrag. This is Rusty. He and Dan were there to help interpret some of the old cowboy stuff for em:

Never envisioned one of my Gordo sheaths, designed to be worn horizontal on the belt, worn this way by this cowboy in Montana.

My son when he was cowboss on this outfit in eastern Oregon.