Spring into Spring with a "Barlow a Day for Thirty Days"

Primble said:
Boker Oak Tree Barlow and the Spring Street Barlow for Saturday. 😊

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The Sylvester intro has special meaning ............... such as copy 🐈‍⬛'n OldHercDude's Day 4 Barlow. ;)🤣
Gett'n even for costing me mo' money ! 💸🐈‍⬛ 🤣
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Nice watch Rob looks familiar ;)
Day 9 for me
Have this GEC/Remington with me that I just picked up from Angry Waiter Angry Waiter
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Day 10

Case Barlow, single spear, black synthetic. This is my most impressive production Case knife in terms of build quality, my OCD cannot find a thing wrong. I wish this level of production could be the standard out of their facility. Doing some package duty after a short walk.
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"What's in the box!?" Barlow has a couple new brothers Jack. Both are good F&F other than very toothy edges and the jigged bone is catching material and one spots catches skin. Will be working those things over the next few days. I wish I had tried a small Texas Jack sooner, I can already tell it'll be one of my more-liked Case.
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Will Power said:
The word here is peerless...Who else but CASE could cut and polish that bone so it looks alive or like gemstone ?
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Thank you for the kind words. I do love old case bone. It is quite mesmerizing! You can still make out the faintest of saw marks on the pile side. The show side seems to have all worn away. And the way the dye took near the bolsters adds a lot of depth and character. This knife was sold to me by a widow. Her husband sure seemed to have put some miles on this knife as it was pretty well pocket worn when I received it!
 
birdsbeaks said:
Day 12

Anyhow, If I could meet the folks responsible for this one, after I was done boxing their ears until their pants fell down, I'd ask them these 12 questions about this knife:

1. Why is the blade so wobbly, polished, and stainless?

2. Why the big gap between the spring and liners?

3. Why is the height of the blade so short and the kick so pronounced?

4.Why couldn't you get the IXL logo on the bolster straight?

5. I understand it's important to put the entire "IXL GEORGE WOSTENHOLM SHEFFIELD ENGLAND" bit on there, but do you think you could have made THE FLIPPING TANG ANY #&%@$in' LARGER??!

6. If the tang stamp is indeed so important, why couldn't you get it straight on the tang?

7. What's the story with the poor deer that this stag was taken from? Drug addiction? Leprosy?

8. Which one of you rubbed green boogers all over and into the covers - and why?

9. How many incendiary rockets did it take to dispatch the drug-addicted deer, and why did you aim at the head?

10. Why was this knife not detained by the QC department?

11. Do you have a QC department? If so, are they hiring? Letting everything out the door sounds like an easy gig...

12. You guys used to be among the best - what happened to Sheffield?
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You forgot to ask about why there's no swedge on the blade. You could blame that question on Primble on Blade Forums. Just sayin' ;) 🤣
You might be losing some of your Mojo on those numbers, just sayin' again. 🤣 🐰🥕🦨

pistonsandgears said:
Nice watch Rob looks familiar ;)
Day 9 for me
Have this GEC/Remington with me that I just picked up from Angry Waiter Angry Waiter
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Nice watch my friend ...... the best thing that I like about mine is no batteries to go dead.
Nice Granddaddy too ! :thumbsup:😍
 
Primble said:
You forgot to ask about why there's no swedge on the blade.
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That's a durn good question!
Primble said:
You might be losing some of your Mojo on those numbers,
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Well, that's because it's a lot harder than I thought it would be! Every morning I question what I've gotten myself into, and then go forth in search of the day's number... 😱🔎🔢🤣
 
Was thinking this is borderline.....but did anybody set in stone that Barlows must have one particular type of blade?? Probably they started off with some Quill knife type thing or a Spear. I recall when the fabulous 2009 Forum Knife was unveiled ( I missed out due to Admin incompetence ) some stick in the :poop: fogeys threw a Bitterness Party about "It's not Traditional, never been seen before! My grandaddy never saw one, inappropriate zzzzzz" They were unnerved by a Wharncliffe being mated to a Clip on a Barlow:rolleyes: I bet the late Tony Bose had a good laugh when people scoffed at his temerity in putting a Wharncliffe on a Trapper instead of the traditional Spey (much better
knife!)

DAY XIII

English maker Michael May's interpretation using a Barlow frame and Pruner blade. I asked him to make it with stainless bolster rather than the usual brass-I'm not a big fan, scales are Bog-Oak . A well finished working knife that I like, hope it counts!

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