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Question for the Porch, Which to carry
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I've yet to own a knife so pretty that I couldn't bring myself to use it, but that smooth ivory bone would change that. That knife is desperately pretty. Congrats on owning it.
Honestly, if I owned both of those, I would buy a lined slip pouch for the smooth ivory bone and carry it around in my pajama pants; it would be safe from use, heat, humidity, liquid- it would just be there to look at. The jigged bone would be carried out and about and actually used.
Honestly, if I owned both of those, I would buy a lined slip pouch for the smooth ivory bone and carry it around in my pajama pants; it would be safe from use, heat, humidity, liquid- it would just be there to look at. The jigged bone would be carried out and about and actually used.
The only sensible answer!Neither. You need to pick up a user.
Lots of Tidioutes out there yet, get a nice micarta one and keep those SFOs nice and minty!
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Use the one you like the best, you will like it even more after carrying for awhile
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Neither. You need to pick up a user.
Of course that would solve the problem. Why not just buy every one I see up for sale.
We need a new thread for the discussion of our knife buying habits. My wife sure does not understand.Just a simple question smooth ivory bone or Yellow Pick Bone
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Use the bone.
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Use both.
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I use all the knives I have, so if those were mine, I'd use both of them. But I tend to use knives I like more frequently than knives I like less. Since I find almost any jigged bone model far more appealing than almost any light-colored smooth bone model, I'm sure I'd carry/use the yellow pick bone far more often than the smooth ivory bone.
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I'd be afraid to use either one.
It might get lost, or dropped and damaged.
It might get lost, or dropped and damaged.
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I missed the poll but I'll vote here, I'd go with the.... Hold on one second while I go back and read the OP ....
OK, I'm glad I did because I missed the garden part. Now with that said I'd use the smooth bone and the best reason I can give is to show an example of why.
This one was right after it was finished, wish I woulda took before pics.
This 100 year old Graeff & Schmidt has all those years of patina and rubbed so smooth, so pocket worn it's just a measure to hold. I find myself drawn to it in my pocket like a worry stone and whenever I seemed to need a knife my hand was already on it worryin' it. Didn't have to fish it out or dig for it it was in my hand already.
Now I've only had this for about 15 years and it's only looked like this in the last 4 years or so.
When I originally found it covered in latex paint, it was a eggshell colored blob and it sat for 10-11 years in my basement before I decided to do something with it. I couldn't even open it and almost tossed it deeming it irreparable but something possessed me to peel the paint off and see what was underneath. I didn't even know what the scales were made of and after a little cleaning I saw the smooth bone and the color/patina it had, how rich and deep the color went after 100 years.
Let's just say it was in rough shape with chips taken outta the main blade where the previous owner had used it to open paint cans and obviously mix paint with it before he threw it into a toolbox and sit till I found it while clearing buildings for demolition. The short of it was I cleaned it and re profiled the main blade and after all the cleanin' and oilin' and workin' back and forth the pivots this was the result.
After 4 years of on and off pocket carry this was the additional patina to the smooth bone scales. It'll take a hundred years to get there but think of the stories to be told and the secrets it'll hold after 100 years. That's how heirlooms start right? Anyway, that was my vote and my TL
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Readers Digest Condensed version...
Smooth bone because after a long time it'll developed a rich patina and character like mine. Oh and to play the devil's advocate here, there's something to be said for carryin' around a knife known as a pick bone Pick Lick. That's definitely a conversation starter
OK, I'm glad I did because I missed the garden part. Now with that said I'd use the smooth bone and the best reason I can give is to show an example of why.
This one was right after it was finished, wish I woulda took before pics.
This 100 year old Graeff & Schmidt has all those years of patina and rubbed so smooth, so pocket worn it's just a measure to hold. I find myself drawn to it in my pocket like a worry stone and whenever I seemed to need a knife my hand was already on it worryin' it. Didn't have to fish it out or dig for it it was in my hand already.
Now I've only had this for about 15 years and it's only looked like this in the last 4 years or so.When I originally found it covered in latex paint, it was a eggshell colored blob and it sat for 10-11 years in my basement before I decided to do something with it. I couldn't even open it and almost tossed it deeming it irreparable but something possessed me to peel the paint off and see what was underneath. I didn't even know what the scales were made of and after a little cleaning I saw the smooth bone and the color/patina it had, how rich and deep the color went after 100 years.
Let's just say it was in rough shape with chips taken outta the main blade where the previous owner had used it to open paint cans and obviously mix paint with it before he threw it into a toolbox and sit till I found it while clearing buildings for demolition. The short of it was I cleaned it and re profiled the main blade and after all the cleanin' and oilin' and workin' back and forth the pivots this was the result.
After 4 years of on and off pocket carry this was the additional patina to the smooth bone scales. It'll take a hundred years to get there but think of the stories to be told and the secrets it'll hold after 100 years. That's how heirlooms start right? Anyway, that was my vote and my TL
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Readers Digest Condensed version...
Smooth bone because after a long time it'll developed a rich patina and character like mine. Oh and to play the devil's advocate here, there's something to be said for carryin' around a knife known as a pick bone Pick Lick. That's definitely a conversation starter
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