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.
Lovely.Picked up this wee thing, now I own two more of these in their original tough cardboard like sheaths- similar to a Cut Throat - these though are almost coffin shaped to allow for the tapered shape you can see in this handle.
I remember quite some time ago posting them, and Jack came in and helped me out with what they were made for, they are not the ink eraser, this is a blade.
Lovely wood, cool little blade and tang stamped: J Rodgers and Sons, Norfolk St, Sheffield. with the Maltese crosses on the pile side of the tang.The blade even has a swedge.
Somehow I remember Jack mentioning these were like a post office type of knife???
Anyway, I saw this in a second hand store for $4.80, I nearly didn't buy it because I have the other two- with their original "sheaths".
6 & 1/2 inches long in total, blade is a peek under 2 inches.
Thanks! Nice knife!!
Wonderful old knife, Duncan! Perfect collector condition!! Used enough to tell its story, but not abused!!Now this one, I absolutely have fallen for, it may pass over some and not be their thing, and that's the great thing about this hobby (or for most obsession) that we have made part of our life.
This stamp is not one that you see often, LEPPINGTON, SHEFFIELD,ENG. and in the center their trade-mark CUTLASS.
Gorgeous Stag is a good start, and when handling this knife and seeing just how thin the Stag gets in places where it would be perhaps? 1mm.
Sheffield lads were THE Kings in hafting Stag beautifully.
Castrator Blade is where you see this blade shape often described by the Cutler manufacturers but not always, interestingly I have a poster above my desk in my office and I got it framed, and this poster is of 10 very old RUSSELL Barlows, the bottom one I remember Charlie posting about with it being a curved Barlow, well the blade on that knife is a near mirror image.
I have an extremely soft spot for Sheffield knives, and this knife is the reason, Stag wonderfully hafted, Iron pins hammered perfectly, down to the scores they placed on top of the stag by the liners for that extra grip.
Just everything about this knife - to me - hits the spot, I hope you get it like I do
Firm yet smooth walk and talk, main blade near full, pen used lovingly yet still retains much life.
Thank you Charlie. Yes - bang on, it's great to see it still " whole"
A castrator of a different sort!! Thanks again for this great old knife, Duncan!!
)Now this one, I absolutely have fallen for, it may pass over some and not be their thing, and that's the great thing about this hobby (or for most obsession) that we have made part of our life.
This stamp is not one that you see often, LEPPINGTON, SHEFFIELD,ENG. and in the center their trade-mark CUTLASS.
Gorgeous Stag is a good start
Sheffield lads were THE Kings in hafting Stag beautifully.
Castrator Blade is where you see this blade shape often described by the Cutler manufacturers but not always, interestingly I have a poster above my desk in my office and I got it framed, and this poster is of 10 very old RUSSELL Barlows, the bottom one I remember Charlie posting about with it being a curved Barlow, well the blade on that knife is a near mirror image.
I have an extremely soft spot for Sheffield knives, and this knife is the reason, Stag wonderfully hafted, Iron pins hammered perfectly, down to the scores they placed on top of the stag by the liners for that extra grip.
Just everything about this knife - to me - hits the spot, I hope you get it like I do
Firm yet smooth walk and talk, main blade near full, pen used lovingly yet still retains much life.
View attachment 2925252View attachment 2925254View attachment 2925255A castrator of a different sort!! Thanks again for this great old knife, Duncan!!
(Repinned, yet again, by Rhidian!!
