Recommend me a Knife - 2 blade Barlow in (decent) stainless

[Will Power]

It's kind of odd that CASE has retreated from the Barlow pattern. I got a friend a very nice Bonestag 6.5 2 blade Barlow, but that was 10 years ago and it wasn't new. You could look out for mint ones on the Bay though.

I'd second the RR suggestion, a very wide range of scale choices and the steel they use is certainly NOT any kind of inferior stuff, far from it. Reasonable to good F&F and a low price, you're bound to find a handle you like.

Many people speak highly of the Queen D2 Barlow by Dan Burke but it also seems the quality can be questionable, and only one bone option-a nice one though.

One day in the very far future....2222... GEC might produce a 440C Barlow with an Acorn stamped bolster! But plan to be Methuselah and outlive everybody else as it may take some time I think the knife would be popular though....

 

[Ironbut]

They still sell these on the website. whatever wood it's made of the knife is such I consider the handle material secondary. It's my first wood handle daily carry, I don't like wood but hey, a barlow with a screwdriver.

I see they still have some old growth birch & ash Grand Portages, along with some standard wood scales. I was really interested in the old growth oak or maple. Old growth wood differs from regular wood, because it is from logs submerged in the northern rivers & lakes since as far back as the 1800s. Some of it has been carbon dated back to the 1300s because it was cut from first growth forests.

I've never handled a Trestle Pines Grand Portage, but even the ones made from standard wood look very nice. One with old growth handles would be especially unique though.

 

[mbp]

The Trestle Pine Grand Portage is a very attractive knife, but the wharncliffe blade does nothing for me.

Now, if they made it with a clip blade, I'd be all over it. (And while I'm wishing, move the cap lifter/driver to the mark side!)