Single blade slippies......Lets see`em

Shore08 said:
You and me both brother. It gets expensive to hang out here long :D
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I know... I just talked to traditional knife maker and made my first custom slipjoint order... I just couldn't resist anymore after time and time again seeing Elliott posting pictures beautiful knives from his collection and most of them hand made customs. I hope after custom's I am over worst phase and buy fewer knives... I just am affraid that those will be customs...
 
Blues said:
How about some from the "production" side...

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Elliot, this is one cool knife! Ebony? I'm a sucker for dark wood.
 
kai76 said:
Elliot, this is one cool knife! Ebony? I'm a sucker for dark wood.
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Nick, I'd guess dark cocobolo or rosewood of some sort.
It's a neat old knife (probably from the fifties or sixties).

I think that Bernard Levine and some others referred to it as a "Boy's Knife".
 
I thought I'd go back in time, to contrast all the wonderful modern knives we are seeing here. This knife is from the late 1800s, an ivory handled jack from the Empire Knife Co.
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This knife came over from Sicily, before 1900, with my Grandfather! Pictured with a standard Barlow for scale.
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waynorth said:
I thought I'd go back in time, to contrast all the wonderful modern knives we are seeing here. This knife is from the late 1800s, an ivory handled jack from the Empire Knife Co.
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Very cool knife, Charlie! :thumbup::cool:

The Daddy Barlow in this post is circa 1890. :cool:

The standard Barlow is from the 1930's.
 
I did see it, and always like seeing that Russell, Elliott. It's a great knife!:thumbup:
 
Here are some "budget" Jacks, from before and after WWII made by Schrade.
Low end, but beautiful to my eye.
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Love the color , jigging, and lately have had more of a appreciation for vintage lockbacks.

Nice little knife Mike! Thanks for sharing

Ken
 
New Case/Bose "Tribal Spear"...hot off the UPS truck:

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Hot, yet satisfyingly cool!!:cool:

Nice, Elliott! So . . . . . . . .was it sharp???:confused:





(Checked the other thread for the full story!)
 
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Thanks Ken and Rob. The bone is a little darker than what is showing up in the scan. It's 4 1/8 closed.
 
JB in SC said:
Nice Elliott, how's the backspring tension (for us old folk) ?
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Jerry, the nice thing is you can ignore the nick and pinch it open.
Tension is 5 and a half-ish, no more than six. But plucking it makes it pretty easy.

If you get one I don't think you'll be disappointed. Someone would take it off your hands quickly if you weren't (I should think).

Weighs in at 3 1/8 oz on my digital scale.
 
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