"Slipjoint Swap Meet" (Read Rules In Post #1)

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GUIDELINES FOR THE SLIPJOINT SWAP MEET:

The "Slipjoint Swap Meet":

The Slipjoint "Swap Meet" is intended to be a friendly locale where members can trade their custom or production slipjoints (only) with other members.

The rules are as follows:

1. Only slipjoints may be listed for trade.

2. You must list the knife or knives which you are seeking as well as the specific knife or knives you are offering for trade

3. There can be no cash involved. This thread is strictly for trades. Abuse will lead to the closing of the thread and infractions to those who try to circumvent the rules.

4. All contact, discussion and subsequent negotiation involving any knife listed MUST be handled privately via email or PM...not within the thread.
Therefore, make sure that your email is current and available to those seeking to contact you.

5. Please edit your original post upon completion of a trade so that it indicates that the knife is no longer available.

6. Do not "bump" or delete and subsequently re-list your knives in the swap meet. If you haven't received any contact feel free to list the knife in the "Exchange" area of the site.

Please notify the moderators if you are unable to establish contact with those offering knives for trade via email, PM or visitor message.

All other knives or items that you wish to offer for sale or trade should be directed to the proper area of bladeforums.com (ie the exchange sections of the website).
Likewise, any feedback from transactions deriving from the "swap meet" must be posted in the "Feedback" section of bladeforums.com




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How would we go about getting our own little traditional/slippie trade & sell stickie thread here?

I'm just afraid if we post stuff (or look for stuff) over in the Knife Exchange we'll get drowned out by all the Mall Ninjas selling off their 9" black tactical one-hand, serrated, tanto point pocketswords.

We seem to do things differently here, so why not have our OWN swappin' spot? You know, like the cyber version of the benches out front of the courthouse in some old Southern town. ;)
 
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I like the idea, but it is hijacking this forum! We need a separate slipjoint sell/trade forum. Perhaps we can appeal to the owner of the site!?!?
 
Just having a traditional folders area was pretty tough. There was a belief that there wouldn't be enough activity to justify it. Based on that, I don't know about getting our own trade/sales forum. It would be nice though, you're right about getting drowned out by other stuff. It can't hurt to see if Spark would let us trade and sell slipjoints just in here to avoid getting buried.
 
Nope, as much as I like the idea we have a rule about keeping the discussion forums for discussion and the exchange forum for trades and sales.

Now we could use the Knives for Trade forum and keep a running thread going on in there. I would love to participate.
 
On second thought one sticky thread would not hurt ...

Give me a day and I'll touch base with the H.P.I.C. :D
 
Cool! Thanks for looking into it, Bastid! Only thing I ask, guys, is that, if you're chewin' Red Man or Levi Garrett, please spit in the grass or a planter, not on the sidewalk.
 
Ya know, sometimes it is better to plead ignorance and ask for forgiveness ... ;)

This thread is now a sticky for swapping.

Please do not start individual swap posts and no for sale posts :o
 
TRADED TO VCM3 - Thanks Vince, email headed your way

I'm not sure how this new swap thread works so someone sound off if this ain't the way.

I will swap a new AG Russell (Boker) barlow. Black jigged micarta, half stops, two carbon blades. Not looking for anything in particular but it should be of similar value. Let me know what ya got to trade.
(this could be fun, thanks mnblade and Bastid)
 
A chance comment by mnblade in another thread made me think back and recall the old guys who would sit on a bench in the old days, and whittle or trade knives, or both.

I spent a great deal of my childhood down on the eastern shore of Maryland, in a little bayside town where most of the paying jobs involved the water. For a living you crabbed in the summer, and oystered in the winter. Not alot of money in it, and a rough way to make a living. Sometimes the old watermen could be on the rough side too. This was the late 1940's and 50's, and political correctness was not on the horizon yet.

The days ritual never varried-up at 4AM to be out on the water by 5AM to start emtying the crab traps, and get the bushles sorted my size. Jumbo, number 1 males, females, peelers. You had to get done by noon to get the load to the buyers at the comercial docks. Time was money.

Like I said, money was always in tight supply, and luxuries were few and far between. It was a big thing for a man to hand his wife some bills and tell her to go buy a new dress. Dollars had to be counted carefully. Expencive pump shotguns were not used, a simple break open was cheaper and killed a duck just as well. A mans tools were basic items.

But all the men took pride in the pocket knife they carried. It was one of the sole areas a man might indulge himself. My grandad was a simple waterman, but he always had a nice knife. And I recall that stag was a favorite handle material because of the varried surface, better grip when wet. My grandad had a stag handle stockman that seemed huge in my 10 year old hands, and it seemed like a wonderous thing to be allowed to hold. Under VERY watchfull eyes I assure you.

I worshiped my Uncle Pat. As much as my father was a quiet, conservative man, Uncle Pat was a laughing, jovial hard drinking man. Maybe a little too hard drinking. Dad had to go down to the pokie a couple times to throw his bail. As a result of his partying nature Uncle Pat was always a little short of funds. His pocket knife was a simple one compared to granddads stag stockman. I remember Uncle Pat having a plain iron bolstered barlow with real sawed bone. I guess in 1949 the plastic invasion had'nt started. When he passed on his wife, my Aunt Jane, gave me some of personel effects as she knew we were close. Among them was his pocket knife. The blades of that old barlow were stained so dark it was almost impossable to read the Imperial stamp on the tang. The blades were so sharpened down the master clip was about 50% gone. The bone, that had at one time had saw marks was so smoothed out by decades of handling it was like polished glass.

When I think back on those day, it seems like everything was so much more real.
 
There ya go Jackknife, gettin me all nostalgic. I'm sure I've mentioned the Bullshooter's Bench before, but here it is again. While stationed in Fairbanks, AK, I worked part-time in a gun shop. I never did take out any money, but I sure did a passel of guns and related stuff. We had a group of mostly retired, and semi-retired fellows that came in every afternoon around 2 o'clock or so. When not grabbing a long gun or two off the shelf or dragging in one of their guns of any type, they'd sit on the two benches we had along with a small table with a coffee maker on it. Myself and another guy, a former Marine who worked there on and off would BS (Hey, it wasn't known as the Bullshooter's Bench for nothing, we even had a sign.) with everyone. I stopped working at the shop on Saturdays so I could spend more time being a member of the bench. We would swap and trade each other out guns and knives on a regular basis. Often one guy would be encouraging another guy to buy something that came in the shop while already working on how to trade it out of him. We did gun shows together when gun shows were mostly fellow gun and knife junkies getting together to sell things so they could buy more things. We probably did as much dealing between each other and other tables as we did actually selling to people who came through the shows. I miss that gagle of reprobates and the time spent with them.

Thanks to mnblade and Bastid for making some swappin space.
 
I'm not sure how it is supposed to work either,but I think it is a great idea,and am having fun already!!Cool Sticky,great post Jacknife!! Thanks mnblade,and Bastid,too!!
 
I've got 3 too many, MIB, acquired when I was trying to get one of each. Prefer Harness jacks, but nice old U.S. barlows, or older Schrades are of interest also!
Charlie
P.S. I got a feeling this thread is going to blossom for a while!!:eek:
 
Looking for Harness Jacks, Pre-WWII preferred. Excellent or better, unless very rare. I have several hundred knives for trade!! Lots of Swell-center whittlers, and many other patterns. Let me know what you are looking for,
Charlie
 
How about a trade for this one,preferably an older knife,not celluloid.This one,the Celluloid has shrunk a bit,and the blades were pitted,and cleaned up,good snap,no cracks.
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If you have an older slipjoint,that is real nice,I can add something,I have a few,let me know,Thanks,Vince
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Wanted to trade off, one CheXX seahorse whittler. At least, I think that's the name- black and red checkering. SS, never used. Talk to me. :)
 
Have a Queen D2 whittler with the jigged blackcherry plastic scales. Like New, I'll have too look may even have the box. Profile email or dbtoe@hotmail.com
 
Anybody interested in a Schatt and Morgan Rail splitter? No box but the knife is new. I really like bone handle Whittlers and Congresses . Larry

larrym63@bellsouth.net

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I have 3 different Bone handled Case Seahorse (wharncliffe) whittlers to trade. Mint-in-the-box! Here they are!
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