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

[lithicus]

Day 17:
Another early morning meeting with Germans. Must coffee

 

[redsparrow]

Day 17 - one of my favorite TC15 Barlows, this one is from 2013 ...... antique yellow saw-cut bone with sheeps-foot blade. I preferred the original 3 pins on the covers and the font style used on the bolster stamp back then as opposed to the current offerings.

I'll add my lightly customized carved Mountain Goat Opinel No. 8 to my belt sheath, just in case I need a sharp blade with some curve to it. By lightly customized, I mean that I stripped the finish off of it, used my favorite oil stain, rubbed in some bone black powder to highlight the grain .... put one coat of low gloss Formby's tung oil finish on it, and rubbed the Vibroloc ring with red Scotchbrite for a more satin finish.

Extraordinarily nice pair, Rob and as usual expertly photographed. You got that Opinel lookin' real good!

 

[Ironbut]

Day 16

 

[Primble]

Old Boiley and Me found this corkscrew today - I thought I'd seen them all!!! This one has a thrust plate and ball bearings!! New one for me!!!
Works like a hot darn!!!

I'll bet it does ! ....... from back when it mattered to make things that last.

With all of this great progress that some say we've made ...... I'm afraid that many things made in this "engineered to fail in a certain time" and "use it a while and trash it" era will be remembered a hundred years from now as the trash can era. Not saying it includes all things .... just too many things.

 

[Travman]

 

[Culprit99]

Halfway - Day 15…

Wait… you want me to what to open? Like a barbarian?! No, I don’t think so. Not with a Barlow in my pocket! And I’ll use the main blade just because, well, its the main blade. LOL!

Have a great Thursday, everybody!

 

[afishhunter]

End of the stock...from tomorrow it will have to be recycling Today is Scrim on an RR

DAY XVII

FanSea!
Is it a "Rider" or "Ryder" on the tang stamp?
If the former, is it still a RR198?
Who did the Scrimsaw?
I'd love something like that on my RR198 smooth white bone Barlow and RR139 smooth white bone (large) sleeveboard Sunfish.
If ("when"?) I get a RR or Marbles full size smooth white bone canoe, I think a freshwater scene ... maybe hunting moose or bear, or Sasquatch, or battling (and being towed by) giant Pike or Salmon, in the Canadian wilds would be more fitting than an ocean scene.

Love the wood on your 77 Paul ……. No critters in it neither !

Day 17 - one of my favorite TC15 Barlows, this one is from 2013 ...... antique yellow saw-cut bone with sheeps-foot blade. I preferred the original 3 pins on the covers and the font style used on the bolster stamp back then as opposed to the current offerings.

I'll add my lightly customized carved Mountain Goat Opinel No. 8 to my belt sheath, just in case I need a sharp blade with some curve to it. By lightly customized, I mean that I stripped the finish off of it, used my favorite oil stain, rubbed in some bone black powder to highlight the grain .... put one coat of low gloss Formby's tung oil finish on it, and rubbed the Vibroloc ring with red Scotchbrite for a more satin finish.

AMAZING!!!!!
An Opinel with critters in the handle!!!! ... They ain't even hiding!


Question: Do you ever bother to engage the blade lock, either open or if applicable, closed?
I heard the "latest and greatest" version is lock open only, and has a tab or something that limits how far the ring can turn, and twist left only to lock.

I never bother using the Opinel blade lock.
"Someday" I might get around to popping the lock ring off, putting it "somewhere safe" so I don't lose it, in the event I ever lose 99+% of my marbles, and want to put it back on.
Of course during yhe years between the time of "putting it somewhere safe" and putting it back on, I will have less than zero idea or clue where that "someplace safe" is ...

EDIT; 0:750 MTN std time, 03-07-24:
"Someday" turned out to be today. I rote down where I put the likely never to be re-installed during my "lifetime" lock ring.
Aside from the INOX blade ("required" because of the olivewood handle) my N°6 be "just like" the 1895 to 1955 pre-locking over size 5 models.

I wish they made all their handle choices (exotic woods, the different animal and sports, plastic, etc.) available with a choice of a Inox or Carbone blade. (with matching bolster and ring lock.)
Their Inox is good (my Olivewood N°6 has it.) However, I much prefer their Carbone blades.
To me a blade with a patina just looks better than a daRn "mirror polished" fingerprint and smudge magnet. Especially as the knife ages and shows signs of use.

Lovely TC and Opinel you have... like all the other knives you've shwn in the various threads.
(Someday curiosity will get the better of me, and I'll inquire where you got your time machine (did u build it yourself?) to go back 100 plus years ago (oh ... and and the then current currancy, since today's money would be no good back then) to get your like new Catts, Russell, NYKC/Hammer Brand, and other historic brand examples.

 

[lithicus]

I'll bet it does ! ....... from back when it mattered to make things that last.

With all of this great progress that some say we've made ...... I'm afraid that many things made in this "engineered to fail in a certain time" and "use it a while and trash it" era will be remembered a hundred years from now as the trash can era. Not saying it includes all things .... just too many things.

I was rewatching Alone in the Wilderness a few days ago. For those that haven't seen it, I highly recommend a watch. This quote struck a chord with me and seems appropriate to the conversation:

"Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me." - Dick Proenneke

 

[pat9198]

Day 17
I don’t know much about this Boker, it was a gift from bigfish64 , thank you Todd! It’s definitely one of the prettiest Barlows in my collection.

 

[Hoffmajo89]

Here’s to Day 17

 

[pistonsandgears]

Day 14 Eye Witness barlow

 

[sf fanatic]

“Well she was just 17 you know what I mean and the way she looked was way beyond compare”
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[Primble]

Day 17
I don’t know much about this Boker, it was a gift from bigfish64 , thank you Todd! It’s definitely one of the prettiest Barlows in my collection.

That's a really nice German made Boker. .................... unusual jigging, nice handle color. I wish they would go back to stamping the bolsters ..... they had one of the best bolster stamps in the business, at least in my opinion.

 

[pat9198]

That's a really nice German made Boker. .................... unusual jigging, nice handle color. I wish they would go back to stamping the bolsters ..... they had one of the best bolster stamps in the business, at least in my opinion.

Thank you! I agree, I imagine this one with a bolster stamp included and perhaps the shield removed would look even better.

 

[paulhilborn]

Day 17...

 

[Primble]

AMAZING!!!!!
An Opinel with critters in the handle!!!! ... They ain't even hiding!


Question: Do you ever bother to engage the blade lock, either open or if applicable, closed?
I heard the "latest and greatest" version is lock open only, and has a tab or something that limits how far the ring can turn, and twist left only.

I never bother using the Opinel blade lock.
"Someday" I might get around to popping the lock ring off, putting it "somewhere safe" so I don't lose it, in the event I ever lose 99+% of my marbles, and want to put it back on.
Of course during yhe years between the time of "putting it somewhere safe" and putting it back on, I will have less than zero idea or clue where that "someplace safe" is ...

I wish they made all their handle choices (exotic woods, the different animal and sports, plastic, etc.) available with a choice of a Inox or Carbone blade. (with matching bolster and ring lock.)
Their Inox is good (my Olivewood N°6 has it.) However, I much prefer their Carbone blades.
To me a blade with a patina just looks better than a daRn "mirror polished" fingerprint and smudge magnet. Especially as the knife ages and shows signs of use.

Lovely TC and Opinel.

I reckon I set myself up for that one. Yep ...critters ..... right out in the open !

The ring turns both ways on all of mine ...... one way to lock .... the other to open. I do use the ring locks most of the time.

I agree with your wishes that the carbons need more handle options. Maybe we are the minority ... liking the carbon blades best. They know (maybe they know) and I don't. Looks like to me that they could offer stainless or carbon on the different models and see which sells best. I wish they would sell carbon Vibrolock rings as well. Opinels are great knives for the money and fun to customize. Usually razor sharp right out of the packaging too. Snap-ring pliers gets that Vibrolock ring off in a whip stitch !

 

[Will Power]

Day 17
I don’t know much about this Boker, it was a gift from bigfish64 , thank you Todd! It’s definitely one of the prettiest Barlows in my collection.

Very fine, looks like Washboard Bone to me a very odd but very desirable handle, really like it

 

[Will Power]

afishhunter Thanks Steve, it gives a good Scrim canvas. It will be from the 'i' era.

 

[Bloefield]

Day 15. Imperial USA. Feels like a more expensive knife than it was. Wet out here. Flood watch for this area. Camillus Cub too.

 

[afishhunter]

Snap-ring pliers gets that Vibrolock ring off in a whip stitch !

Turning the ring a little to get the pivot pin close to the slot and a screwdriver works too.
I finally took the ring off my N°6 today.
No damage to knife or ring.
Ring put in a "safe place" where it won't get lost, in the unlikey event I decide to put it back on.