Remington Daddy Barlow no longer NIB

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Amos Iron Wolf

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A while back in a barlow thread several of you encouraged me to start using my Remington Musket-1 series, bone handled Daddy Barlow. I'd kept it in NIB since I bought it new in the very early 90s. I waffled and waffled wondering if collectors will catch on eventually and the prices will go up. I finally decided the heck with it. I have always liked the feel of it and the walk, talk, and snap it has. (The delrin handled version I have, also NIB, is much weaker in the springs.) So, I finally pulled it out of the box and have been toting it around now and then in a suede belt pouch that I had earlier been using as a neck sheath. In fact I have it on my hip now. It's a big folder being 9 inches opened.

I'm enjoying it a lot more now than I was just pulling it out to look at now and then. It is a well made knife and acts like it. The link is to a scanned image of it. Not the best image, but everything shows up. I hope you guys are happy. ;) Now to hope they don't suddenly become a hot item. Daddy's home.
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I say good for you Amos Iron Wolf! I collect barlows, but find 'em a tad too hefty for my preferred EDC. I know though that you're gettin' a LOT more outta that lovely big boy than you'd ever get just lookin' at it.

Enjoy and just keep yer eye open for another one to 'collect'.

All the best,

LANNY :cool:
 
As an update, I've found the big thing actually rides pretty good in the front pocket of jeans or a BDU type pant. It prints an outline in the jeans, but it surprisingly carries nicely. I especially find that amusing since, like Lanny, I find the regular barlows a bit to heavy for EDC. It must be that the big 'un spreads it out and is a single blade, while the regular barlows concentrate the weight.

LC, I believe you were one of the original culprits encouraging me to put that knife into use. Glad I did. It's fast becoming a favored pocket carry outside of work.
 
Amos Iron Wolf said:
LC, I believe you were one of the original culprits encouraging me to put that knife into use. Glad I did. It's fast becoming a favored pocket carry outside of work.
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:D It just about kills me to have a knife that just sits around NEVER getting used.

As they say in the Case factory "their tools not jewels!".
 
The Last Confederate said:
:D..As they say in the Case factory "their tools not jewels!".
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Here, Here.. aint that the truth!!

Here's one of my Canoe's that has the exact same story as AIW's Daddy Barlow. It was just too darn nice to leave new-in-the-box.. So in the late 80's I was convinced that I wanted to use and carry it way more than leave it in the knife cabinet collecting dust.. Fast forward to current day and I have no regrets.. I just love this little jewel,, er, uh, I mean tool.. :D

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The whole thing about having a nice gun, or knife, or anything, is to use it. I used to be a collector back in the 70's and early 80's, with a whole bunch of custom stuff. Randalls, Hastings, then I went to sell one of them and the other collector got all out of shape because I'd sharpened it! I told him I had to sharpen it because after hunting season and a few camping trips it needed a touch up.

He got bent out of shape even more. "You mean you USED it?"

Got fed up with the collector thing and handling with white cotten gloves. Sold off the whole collection, kept only using pocket knives. Now if I have a nice stockman or barlow or such in my pocket, its going to get used. Nice knife? Darn right I'm gonna gut that fish with it.

Ya know what Amos? I got a whole new way to look at it- Enjoy it while we're here, use the heck out of the stuff, and let our heirs worry about the value of it when we've gone to the big knife show in the sky.:D
 
I can agree with that wholeheartedly. To me, the entire point of buying something really nice to start with is to have something nice to USE, not to hang up and look at! I've sharpened everthing I've bought and used most of them at least one hunting trip. They're just not christened properly until they've been submerged in blood! :D I used my Buck Limited Edition 805 to skin, gut and cut up some rabbits last hunting season, and my knife collecting buddies all cringed, "I can't believe you're using that knife". Well heck, that's why I bought it to begin with! Why pay more for better steels, better handle materials, and better finishing IF YOUR'E NOT GONNA USE IT!

Same thing with all the other knives, Bulldog, Boker, Case, Schatt, Queen, or whatever, they are all razor dang sharpened and WILL be used, if for nothing else I'll clean my nails with them and open up a cellophane wrapper or two. GOT to use it, or I won't have it. :D
 
SunnyD, that is a sweet looking canoe. I don't blame you for packing it!

Yep guys, I never was really that good at keeping things unused. I once traded an Al Mar Sere II Pre-production back in when I realized it had collector potential. I was wanting something to stick on my web gear and take to the field. The commemerative Winchester Chief Crazy Horse in .38-55, it got shot. I just wish I hadn't traded it off later. There have been other things like that. I much prefer users, even pretty ones. This knife is about the only thing I think I've kept NIB for very long at all.

I can't even imagine having an unused Randall. That's blasphemy. Those knives were made to be used and used hard.

Well, off to see what's new at the gun shop with my Daddy Barlow in my pocket. I'm still amazed at how well this long thing carries in a jeans pocket.

Use'em if you got 'em!
 
well it's not a sodbuster but i guess it'll do. sweet knife and you'll enjoy it much more now that it's a user. guns, knives, scooters, it doesn't matter what,you've just got to use them to fully enjoy them. good decision. later, ahgar
oh by the way a remington just like the one you started using sold for $800 on ebay yesterday, of course it was "new in box"

just kidding, ahgar
 
Nicely broken in sunnyd! Canoes are arguably the optimum pocketable pocket knife! (say that fast 5 times!). I have one I bought new to carry, a Queen City with 1095 steel. It's time to put it back in rotation, as it doesn't yet have that nice "pocket polish" that yours has!!
 
I use an early Jimmy Lile knife every time I go hunting. That knife has been used to skin hogs, deer, squirrels and chickens and I never thought twice about it. I told a guy at a knife store about the knife and he about fell out, when I told him I used that old Lile knife. He was telling me what it was worth, blah blah, but to me it will mean more to my sons' one day, because their Daddy USED it. I have my grandpaws old Case knife that he carried from 1950 until he died in 2000. The blades are sharpened down to toothpicks, but that old knife means more to me than any other that I own. That old redbone on that knife has been worn so smooth that it feels like glass. I carry a 10 dot Case XX 5375 everyday, I wouldn't dream of leaving that thing at home! So, I say use' em and use'em hard!!!!!!
 
I'm sure Jimmy Lile would be happy to know he made a tool, as well as a jewel, sgbeskin! Can you post a picture of your skinner! That would be nice to catch a look at!!
 
Here they are...
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waynorth said:
Nicely broken in sunnyd! Canoes are arguably the optimum pocketable pocket knife! (say that fast 5 times!). I have one I bought new to carry, a Queen City with 1095 steel. It's time to put it back in rotation, as it doesn't yet have that nice "pocket polish" that yours has!!
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waynorth,
Although this pocket knife has been sharpened, carried and used well(even abused)for 20+ years, it still has a great snap and takes and keeps one heck of a sharp edge!.

I know one thing for sure.. Because I made the decision to carry it way back when, and continue to do so, I will never get rid of it,, EVER!. Even though its not much to look at now with its pit marks and scratches, it means to much to me while going through good times as well as bad, happy and sad!.:cool:

PS <> Just in case anyone is curious, its a 5 dot 1975 Case XX Canoe with dark Red bone scales. I traded a large US Army ammo box full of .223 for it to my good friends Dad in 1976. I know this because I just got my DL and was starting to drive(16 years old). My friends Father had bought the knife new in the box from the local hardware store.. I kept the knife in my cabinet for some 5 or 6 years before I started to use it.
 
Great Lile! A real working knife, it has much more story than any old safe queen!
But what about that old redbone knife!! Can you show us that one too? I love looking at an old knife that's been used the way it should be! To many get trashed from abuse instead of use. Thanks,
Charlie
 
Give me a few minutes or so and I'll get two old Cases loaded up. One is the redbone Jack that belonged to my grandfather, he bought it in 1950 and carried it until his death in 2000. I also have my daddy's old Case he bought new in 1970. He carried and used it until last year, when I bought him a new case for his birthday. It has been through hell and back! He owns a construction business and that old trapper has seen better days, but it means the world to me.
 
In the picture is a Camillus Jack made in the early 1900. A Queen Barlow made in the 1930's, and a 10 dot trapper that was my daddy's and a 1950 Case Jack that was my grandfathers, it was carried for 50 years.
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