Prune Big, or Go Home!

[Buckeyegamers]

I'd have to be starving!!

I’m with ya Charlie

 

[rockman0]

My only 2 pruners, this could be habit forming
New York Knife Co

Ulster

 

[KellyGlanzer]

I sure love some of the old Stag examples i see here. ive never come across any. Here is my only example.

 

[Un-Chained]

I’m going to start from the beginning of this crazy good thread!
In the mean time, this Kutmaster was basically NOS and I just couldn’t pass on it.
A Canadian quarter in girth and 4” in length without the bail. With a half-stop and pinchable it’s also a real slow walker. It clunks into lock position hard, a hair of blade play with no lock rock. This thing is built for serious work and has easily helped with the weeds on a couple of occasions in the yard.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Charlie - Please Im with you in the thanking of the long lineage of Crookes, in fact any of those old Sheffield firms I am a huge fan of - as we all are!

Rob that New Yorker is just plain outright beautiful!!!!

If that’s the start to a Pruner collection - then already it’s a supreme one my friend.

Mr. Paul Hilborn l Pruners so I passed him in my then collection of some nice oldies- there were some real beauties in there and some very old Sheffield’s.

KellyGlanzer matey - those 47’s are stunners - I have a very cherished and well used Ebony - a treasured gift from the famous Mr. Hilborn.
Yours is a gorgeous example!
Gus matey- if you want a work horse you got one in that fine Garden friend you have there.

 

[waynorth]

My only 2 pruners, this could be habit forming
New York Knife Co

Your two fantastic examples are real-world temptations to collect them!!
They are so much nicer than so many modern knives!!

 

[waynorth]

Here is my only example.

Real nice one, Kelly!!

 

[waynorth]

long lineage of Crookes!

I wonder if he/they walked a Crooked Mile, and built a Crooked House??

 

[Campbellclanman]

Charlie that made me laugh- Thank you for that!

 

[rockman0]

Duncan, I'm trying to discipline myself to stop buying users or at least buy only knives which I consider too well preserved to use. Now I just have to force myself to sell most of the users to gather funds for a collection upgrade.

Charlie, it's very true, when you find an old knife that's been well preserved they just ooze quality.

Thanks the comments,gents

 

[black mamba]

Rock, that pic-bone is totally off the charts! Among the nicest handles I've seen on any knife, and a good large palette, too.

 

[rockman0]

Thanks for the compliment, Jeff. It's hard to quit looking at the bone on the NYK

 

[echoscout]

A well used Walden Knife Co. pruner. Still tight and snaps like a bear trap and takes a very nice edge.

 

[Jiki]

.A mid 70s Queen #1I found. Looks like it lost a tip but I think it has plenty of life in it.

 

[unclekurty]

Another informative thread with some really big pruners. I’m home so here’s my relatively diminutive pruner. I checked out the Knife Magazine article mentioned from April 2021, English Pruning Knives. My favorite knife pictured is the Joseph Rodgers & Son coffee pruner with scratted bone handles.
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[paulhilborn]

I wonder if he/they walked a Crooked Mile, and built a Crooked House??

I know that story Charlie

 

[Jack Black]

I don't have a maker for this Sheffield Pruner unfortunately

 

[Modoc ED]

There's a huge farm/ranch just south of town - over 100,000 acres - that grows rice, alfalfa, field grass, onions, garlic, etc.. They supply all their employees that work the fields with these pruners. They buy them by the box full. I happen to have found this one while shooting Belding Ground Squirrels in an alfalfa field a few years back.

 

[Jack Black]

There's a huge farm/ranch just south of town - over 100,000 acres - that grows rice, alfalfa, field grass, onions, garlic, etc.. They supply all their employees that work the fields with these pruners. They buy them by the box full. I happen to have found this one while shooting Belding Ground Squirrels in an alfalfa field a few years back.

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That's interesting Ed I sent this Cretan beast to another forum member, getting on for a decade ago. He uses it on his farm I believe. The pattern does have a name, but it slips my mind I'm afraid

 

[Will Power]

Another informative thread with some really big pruners. I’m home so here’s my relatively diminutive pruner. I checked out the Knife Magazine article mentioned from April 2021, English Pruning Knives. My favorite knife pictured is the Joseph Rodgers & Son coffee pruner with scratted bone handles.
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Simply beautiful Bone on that and nice 'scimitar' lines. I can see where Tony Bose drew inspiration from for his own Pruners and the CASE/Bose Collabs, Fantastic example.

Thanks, Will