The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
One of my favourite SAKsThis Electrician is a survivor. If it could talk, oh the stories it could tell.
Nice pic James 
Great score JerEarly flea market find.
very nice Jer!!!Early flea market find.
Great score Jer
Thanks! I was a kid when I bought it. It was probably closer to $5 than $10.very nice Jer!!!
Wonderful lamb !!!! The covers are mesmerizing, Jack.One of my favourite SAKs
Great score Jer
Got this Old Friend with me today, my 2017 Guardians SFO
Cool old friend Jer!
3.75" closed.
No idea where or when I got it.
Great jigging Jer. Those Pocket Eze are something special.
3.75" closed.
No idea where or when I got it.
Nothing wrong with that Dave, it's a great-looking Barlow of a nice vintage
That's a beauty Jer
3.75" closed.
No idea where or when I got it.
I'm afraid that I can't remember where or when I got a lot of my knives 
That's a nice one James, cool pic tooIt took owning one to discover how great the Muskrat pattern really is and now this one is definitely a good Old Friend.
Hope about this one, it's certainly been someone's Old Friend?! 
It was a birthday gift, about 10 years ago, from an old friend 
I have always enjoyed carrying it, but it's been a while. No name on the tang unfortunately, (maybe there was an etch), but the steel is great 
Thanks Jack your rope knife is a beaut. The attractive wood, the ageing around the pins and that wonderful brass shield give it, as you say, bags of character.That's a nice one James, cool pic too
I'm carrying this old Ankermesser today, which I think has bags of character
Thanks Jack! Another old friend that happens to be a BarlowNothing wrong with that Dave, it's a great-looking Barlow of a nice vintage
Really nice Steve
Thank you very much James, mine was a gift from V VanGuard , if you remember himThanks Jack your rope knife is a beaut. The attractive wood, the ageing around the pins and that wonderful brass shield give it, as you say, bags of character.
I was assembling a few choice Schrades and didn't have a Muskrat. When I added one to the collection I loved it's size, blade shape and ergos so much I sought out a second one. They're both so good I don't want to be without one.
Thanks Dave, that's specialThanks Jack! Another old friend that happens to be a Barlow
Hope you have a great weekend!
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Jack Black
- Sorry, I don't remember Van Guard. Looking at his profile he was only active for about a 
Sorry for the late replies fellers, I was working like a maniac last Friday. I remember seeing these posts, but it must have been on my phone, and I forgot to reply later (thought I had)
Really nice Steve
Thank you James, the Buck 55s are coolminuteweek.
To have gifted you a nice Schrade like that Muskrat you must have made a good impression on him and he must have been a generous fellow.
BTW nice 110, one of the iconic Bucks. A true necessity in any serious collection.
Here's another of Buck's icons. The 55... half the 110 but a well used and greatly appreciated dear old pocket-able friend.
Buck has been making their tried and true winners for quite sometime.
Vanguard was a very nice feller (his son was briefly a member here too). He contacted me to see if I could get hold of a particular type of trench lighter for him (by the time I found one, he'd stopped posting), and then his son was after a British Army clasp knife, and anything else military-related. I sent them a package out, and also spent a day at the Royal Armouries museum, taking some photos for his son. Around the same time, I won a nice 4-line Camillus in a giveaway he did, and when he sent it over, he included the Muskrat. It's pretty worn-out, and he said he wasn't sure whether or not to send it, but I'm glad he did I often wonder about old posters, and hope they'll come back I still hope Stephen
Old & In The Way
will come back sometime Thank you Steve
Brilliant JerThe AG Russell bird and trout is the old friend. I asked for it for Christmas ages ago. (And got it.)
Now it was a totally new idea in 1994, though back then it was a return to the old days when hunting knives were made for cutting, rather than prying and chopping.
It seems to me a little reminiscent of this older Hammer Brand and its ilk.
I wonder if Goldie will revive the whitetail.
