Old Friends Friday

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Tang stamp of post 2275.

 

[Jack Black]

My Old Friend today is a GEC #15 Boy's Knife, from the first run they did of them

 

[redsparrow]

Nice Jack!
For me, today's old friend is a Hound Tooth from the one and only (AFAIK) 2013 release. Doesn't seem like 10 years!
Took awhile getting use to the bear trap pull but now it feels just right.

 

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From an estate sale before covid. I'll never forget it. It was in a box that a bunch of guys were looking at, but they all must have thought it was Chinese because it was marked $5.

It fell off my belt and disappeared a while back, and I searched in vain for it more than once. I found it yesterday by kicking over something by accident.

 

[redsparrow]

Wow Jer, obtained by good luck and then found by accident... must be destiny for you to own it! (If you believe in such things.)

 

[Jack Black]

Nice Jack!
For me, today's old friend is a Hound Tooth from the one and only (AFAIK) 2013 release. Doesn't seem like 10 years!
Took awhile getting use to the bear trap pull but now it feels just right.

Thanks James, time goes fast doesn't it? That's a cool one

From an estate sale before covid. I'll never forget it. It was in a box that a bunch of guys were looking at, but they all must have thought it was Chinese because it was marked $5.

It fell off my belt and disappeared a while back, and I searched in vain for it more than once. I found it yesterday by kicking over something by accident.

Ah, those happy times! Very nice find my friend

 

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Ah, those happy times! Very nice find my friend

Thanks!. Also the easiest way to carry a magnifying glass.

 

[Jack Black]

I have been very fortunate to meet up with Duncan Campbellclanman twice, to date. Duncan is one of the nicest guys you could possibly meet, and every moment in his company is a joy. The first time we met was in Sheffield, where we spent a good hour with Stan Shaw. Then, after lunch in the famous Fat Cat pub, Duncan gifted me this TC Barlow

 

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From that downtown military surplus and cheap imports shop that's been gone for around fifty years.

The sheath says Japan, the knife is mute.

 

[redsparrow]

 

[Jack Black]

From that downtown military surplus and cheap imports shop that's been gone for around fifty years.

The sheath says Japan, the knife is mute.

I used to have one just like it Jer, forget where I got it from now, but it would have been about 1981. I did more digging and tent-peg driving with it, than cutting I think, and it was my mushroom knife for a while. I only gave it away about 10 years ago

Classic James

 

[black mamba]

This is the earliest photo I can find that I posted on BladeForums. Rough Riders were about all I could afford back then, and the Remington branded abalone knife is clearly Rough Rider built.

 

[Jack Black]

This is the earliest photo I can find that I posted on BladeForums. Rough Riders were about all I could afford back then, and the Remington branded abalone knife is clearly Rough Rider built.

Cool Jeff It's interesting to go back and have a look at your old pics, it's a shame so many were lost here on the forum over the years

 

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I used to have one just like it Jer, forget where I got it from now, but it would have been about 1981. I did more digging and tent-peg driving with it, than cutting I think, and it was my mushroom knife for a while. I only gave it away about 10 years ago

My salesman called it "the old Air Force survival type", so you were probably using it just right.

 

[black mamba]

Thanks, Jack, nostalgia is usually pretty fun, even when it shows how bad you used to be! Out of focus, uninteresting angle and lighting . . .

 

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Yikes! This knife is now $259 at the site where I bought it for $68.

 

[Jack Black]

Yikes! This knife is now $259 at the site where I bought it for $68.

It's a looker Jer! I think I might have seen it in the Sisu film I saw the other night!

 

[Jack Black]

Carrying this unmarked Solingen Ankermesser today

 

[redsparrow]

TK Cuban... if this old friend isn't enough better get a fixed blade

 

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It's a looker Jer! I think I might have seen it in the Sisu film I saw the other night!

I looked up the movie. Wow.
I also google-translated sisu. Our hero had a lot of it.
Also the name of Lynn Thompson's really expensive puukko, as I recall.