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Alberta Ed

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What's the oldest blade or cutting tool you have -- that is, the one you've had the longest? Mine is a 1/2" wood chisel marked ECLIPSE that I found in a bureau drawer on junk day on the way to school in 4th grade, um, more than 50 years ago now. (I also once found a nifty straight razor, but that mysteriously disappeared after I showed it to my parents, who must have figured I wasn't old enough to shave.) I've used and abused that chisel, which still has its original ash handle, and probably honed it down an inch or so shorter. It still takes a hair popping edge.
 
It's not my blade, but the oldest cutting tool I've ever used was my father's Grant double-bit axe. IIRC, it had belonged to HIS grandfather (my great-grandfather) who had worked a long time in the forestry industry in Nova Scotia. I don't think it has the original handle, but it still has the handle that was on it when my grandfather owned it. My dad still uses it, and that was the axe I used when I first learned to split wood.

That was one old axe.
 
Chinese peasant's fisherman knife, circa 1900. It is also a flipper (really). Second picture shows it with a 3" Hinderer XM-18, for size comparison.

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The folder in this pic was gifted to me 45 years ago by my grandmother and it belonged to her father.
Bernard Levine dated it to between 1880-1920 and made in Germany.
The frame and bolsters on each side are one solid piece of brass with scales in Mother of Pearls.
The blades are well worn but are of the same spearpoint type as the San Fransisco Bowie, wich means the swedge is ground offcenter.

I used to carry it as a 12 year old and used it as a penknife.

Regards
Mikael
 
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^^^ That's odd-sidian, isn't it?... Sure looks like an odd knife to me. Where's the handle and the cutting edge?















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I have a WW2 German Officers bayonet. It's got a 12" blade. It was a gift from a coworker many years ago he discovered my love of knives and he just gave it to me.
 
Oldest knife I can date is an old Seaman's knife; wood handled with a single large, thin sheepsfoot blade. My grandfather's from 1946
 
Czechmate said:
^^^ That's odd-sidian, isn't it?... Sure looks like an odd knife to me. Where's the handle and the cutting edge?













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Yup it's obsidian I took it to my local museum and they said it was probably a old Native American hand axe (i lived in oregon at the time) it looks to me like a lot of the old edge is chipped of...

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The thing I find cool about it is the grooves in the back in my first pic fit your fingers! And despite the way it looks its very ergonomic.

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Sorry about the crappy pics I was holding the stone with my rite hand and the iPad with the left then pressing the button with my nose lol
 
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