Old Friends Friday

[Un-Chained]

Route 66 always a good choice my friend.

sparerow​

Indeed, JohnDF
Wonderful pic as well James

 

[screened porch]

Lunchbox Kutmaster with two main blades.

 

[redsparrow]

James, the wood on your #66 is spectacular!

Thank you John, nothing quite like decorative ironwood.
GEC does acrylics well so I'm liking your "Birdog".

Indeed, JohnDF
Wonderful pic as well James

Thanks Gus, always easier to get a good pic when you have interesting subject matter.
Have a good weekend my friend.

 

[veitsi_poika]

This old friend is always worthy of a compliment...

 

[JohnDF]

GEC does acrylics well so I'm liking your "Birdog".

Thank you, my friend.

Indeed, it is worthy of many compliments.

 

[Jack Black]

Route 66 always a good choice my friend.

sparerow​

Thank you for joining me James, that's a stunner

Nice to see this pair of #66s this morning...

Love that #66, Jack.
The red jigged bone is beautiful.

James, the wood on your #66 is spectacular!

Thanks a lot John

For Old Friends Friday, my first GEC, the #56 Bird Dog.
I love owning this knife, admire it every day, but don't carry it often because of the spear blade (my least favorite).

Very nice indeed We don't to see those too often

Curly Zebrawood Queen #9

Very handsome Jeff

Lunchbox Kutmaster with two main blades.

Great to see that one again Jer, very cool knife

This old friend is always worthy of a compliment...

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Gorgeous!

 

[JohnDF]

Very nice indeed

Thank you, Jack.

We don't to see those too often

I don't think they were a big hit with the collectors.

 

[redsparrow]

Thank you for joining me James, that's a stunner

Thank you Jack. It's always a pleasure to join in! Old Friends Friday serves as a gentle but effective reminder to me, that I sure nuff, have a nice pile of fantastic knives and some great friends. ...Sometimes I forget.

 

[Fodderwing]

 

[JohnDF]

Beautiful knife and picture, Dwight.

 

[Fodderwing]

Beautiful knife and picture, Dwight.

Thank you John.

 

[Jack Black]

This 2013 Forum Knife is one of my most treasured knives, as it was a very generous gift from my dear friend Duncan @Campbellclanman . Knowing that I hadn't tried a GEC at the time, Duncan sent me his own knife Carrying it is always a special experience for me

 

[redsparrow]

need to slip this in my pocket for the day, it's been awhile

sparerow​

 

[veitsi_poika]

My friend @rockman0 unexpectedly sent me this Buck & Hickman shadow sleeveboard a few weeks ago; it's pretty classy, just like him

 

[Jack Black]

need to slip this in my pocket for the day, it's been awhile

sparerow​

What a beautiful knife

My friend @rockman0 unexpectedly sent me this Buck & Hickman shadow sleeveboard a few weeks ago; it's pretty classy, just like him

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Very generous, that's a classy-looking knife from one of our best-known hardware retailers A while back, a posted some images from the cutlery pages of two of their catalogues in the sticky at the top of the page. Here's an Ivory Sleeveboard from their 1935 catalogue

 

[redsparrow]

What a beautiful knife

Thanks Jack, the ebony is IMO a premium grade and I know of no another Lambfoot made in the USA.

 

[veitsi_poika]

What a beautiful knife



Very generous, that's a classy-looking knife from one of our best-known hardware retailers A while back, a posted some images from the cutlery pages of two of their catalogues in the sticky at the top of the page. Here's an Ivory Sleeveboard from their 1935 catalogue

Thanks Jack! I was wondering if it was ivory, my initial thoughts were that it was. Considering the restrictions on it... good thing I didn't ask or pay anything for it! It is a REALLY well made knife The blades seem like they are stainless so the 1935 date correlates with that.

 

[bigfish64]

This isn’t something I carry but it is an old friend. When my grandmother passed she left to me. I was 13. She and I fished together when she visited from Northern Indiana. In those days I had a small blow up raft that we would row around a cove and catch bluegill. She wasn’t a big fan of boats and would’ve rather fished from the bank, but being a good grandmother she went out with me in the blow up raft, although she did question the wisdom, several times, of using hooks in a blow up boat! I still live on that same lake, a few coves down from where we used to fish. Every time we go by that cove in our ski boat I think of my grandmother and that little blow up raft. This old friend brings back great memories.

 

[JohnDF]

Great story, Todd bigfish64

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Jack, the ebony is IMO a premium grade and I know of no another Lambfoot made in the USA.

I was very impressed by how dark that ebony was, it's getting harder and harder to find it like that

Thanks Jack! I was wondering if it was ivory, my initial thoughts were that it was. Considering the restrictions on it... good thing I didn't ask or pay anything for it! It is a REALLY well made knife The blades seem like they are stainless so the 1935 date correlates with that.

I have a few vintage ivory-handled knives I'd like to send overseas, but that comes with a prison sentence and a hefty fine here now Buck & Hickman have an interesting history. Their product line was very extensive, and their old catalogues are fascinating. They tended to stock the same lines for decades in terms of their tools, but I don't know if that is true of their knives

This isn’t something I carry but it is an old friend. When my grandmother passed she left to me. I was 13. She and I fished together when she visited from Northern Indiana. In those days I had a small blow up raft that we would row around a cove and catch bluegill. She wasn’t a big fan of boats and would’ve rather fished from the bank, but being a good grandmother she went out with me in the blow up raft, although she did question the wisdom, several times, of using hooks in a blow up boat! I still live on that same lake, a few coves down from where we used to fish. Every time we go by that cove in our ski boat I think of my grandmother and that little blow up raft. This old friend brings back great memories.
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Thanks for sharing those memories with us, your grandmother sounds like a game girl Cool knife