TC Barlows?

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Sherman…I know you don't post often and I apologize to you if I dragged you into this. You and I shared a viewpoint and in hindsight, I probably should have asked you before naming you earlier in this thread.

I've already responded to one email with questions about this. So just to put this out there. Charlie Campagna is an asset to this forum and I would never direct any negativity to this man.
 
You guys... the dealer you are all so upset about selling Charlows on ebay, is selling them out of his personal collection. He did not purposely hold them back to try and price gouge. My guess is he saw the first couple that sold for $200+ and decided he wanted a few extra bucks more than he wanted those knives in his own collection.

Not to mention I saw at least 1 member who posts here regularly sell a couple of his as well. It was pretty obvious from the ebay seller name vs. his forum name here, and from the photos he had already posted of the knives on the forum.

I won't be selling any of mine but people can do what they want, that is the great thing about the USA. :-)
 
I think a Beerlow would be great, but I know that Charlie doesn't want this. I'm wondering what happens once all the Barlows have shown up in all the "Traditional" configurations. If I recall correctly, the only ones missing now are the Sheepfoot and Razor with nail nicks.
 
Great day! Long pull Spear with pen in Ebony is mine!!! As I mentioned earlier, that was the first picture of a Charlow, and a traditional knife for that matter that made me say "Wow!" and got me over to this section of the forum.

:D
 
philllll said:
Armando, there is also a long pull spey coming up at some point!
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Oooooh…Why hello there long pull spey…

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OK, I'm putting my order in now, just in case. Single blade sheeps foot in Tomato acrylic,
or dead skunk and almost any other jelly bean colours.
:D Can't ya just see it???? :D

Best regards

Robin
 
I actually didn't care for a spey before, but then I keep seeing Jeff's (ArizonaRanchman) Spey Barlow everywhere and I realize that I need a Spey Barlow.

I've got a 2-blade Day's Work Barlow to hold me until the day
 
Crazy Canuck said:
Great day! Long pull Spear with pen in Ebony is mine!!! As I mentioned earlier, that was the first picture of a Charlow, and a traditional knife for that matter that made me say "Wow!" and got me over to this section of the forum.

:D
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Congrats Canuck, you'll love it.

Best regrds

Robin
 
Crazy Canuck said:
Great day! Long pull Spear with pen in Ebony is mine!!! As I mentioned earlier, that was the first picture of a Charlow, and a traditional knife for that matter that made me say "Wow!" and got me over to this section of the forum.

:D
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Congratulations....
 
Crazy Canuck said:
Great day! Long pull Spear with pen in Ebony is mine!!! As I mentioned earlier, that was the first picture of a Charlow, and a traditional knife for that matter that made me say "Wow!" and got me over to this section of the forum.

:D
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That's fantastic. Congratulations. Can't wait to see the pictures.
 
I think the reason the TC Barlow is so sought after is because, it is the only traditional knife that GEC offeres that actually follows a traditional pattern. The TC Barlow has the look and feeling of a knife that is 100 years old.

The TC Barwlos are patterened after the the real traditional pocket knives in Mr. Campagna's collection (one jaw dropping collection at that). IMO, GEC would be better served reproducing classic traditional knives rather than supplying their own patterns.

Everything GEC makes is either too wide, thick, big, or different from the traditional pattern.

A classic example of this would be the 2012 Forum knife.
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Couple that with limited quantities the hype that goes on here in this sub forum, and you've got an instant sell out... Not really surprising.
 
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Congrats on the Ebony long pull, that's one of my must haves for sure!!

...and wow!! $321.99 for the sawcut bone, that's amazing. Really a testament to how terrific Charlie and his Charlows are if I say so myself.
 
philllll said:
My guess is he saw the first couple that sold for $200+ and decided he wanted a few extra bucks more than he wanted those knives in his own collection.
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That was my thought as well. I saw a couple of them going for extremely high prices and knew immediately that we'd be seeing more pop up. If I had a knife in my drawer that cost $80 a couple months ago and would draw $200+ now I'd be hard pressed to justify not taking the money. I don't really see the high prices as a seller created phenomenon. I've seen several charlows up for auction and several more here on the exchange. In both places, the asking prices were in order with what you'd expect from a GEC product. They might have been a little higher than the original sale price in some cases, but not much more. The bidders on the auctions are the ones that are driving the prices so high, not the sellers. For reasons I've stated earlier in this thread, I can't really blame the buyers for doing so.

ISKski said:
I think the reason the TC Barlow is so sought after is because, it is the only traditional knife that GEC offers that actually follows a traditional pattern.
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That's an interesting thought. Kudos for bringing a new angle into the conversation.
 
ISKski said:
I think the reason the TC Barlow is so sought after is because, it is the only traditional knife that GEC offeres that actually follows a traditional pattern. The TC Barlow has the look and feeling of a knife that is 100 years old.

The TC Barwlos are patterened after the the real traditional pocket knives in Mr. Campagna's collection (one jaw dropping collection at that). IMO, GEC would be better served reproducing classic traditional knives rather than supplying their own patterns.

Everything GEC makes is either too wide, thick, big, or different from the traditional pattern.

A classic example of this would be the 2012 Forum knife.
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Couple that with limited quantities the hype that goes on here in this sub forum, and you've got an instant sell out... Not really surprising.
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Actually pretty much all of Charlies SFOs are based on early patterns in his collection. The 85 is Charlies, the HJ6 is also based on his collection. I agree that many GECs are not based that closely on early patterns but a few are IMO. The 61 and 62 congress frames are very nice early designs, the little Pemberton is a classic small swell centre. Actually lots of their frames are. :D
I would like to see more GECs with all steel construction like the Barlows.
Best regards

Robin
 
ThievesLikeUs said:
Congrats on the Ebony long pull, that's one of my must haves for sure!!

...and wow!! $321.99 for the sawcut bone, that's amazing. Really a testament to how terrific Charlie and his Charlows are if I say so myself.
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You've got to be kidding. 300+ bucks for a barlow? That knife better be perfect in every way to be worth that much. I guess if you have it, spend it but you're talking custom type money. For another 50-75 you can get something off the chart.
 
The 2 blade copperhead sawcut was a 1 of 5. Talk about a rare bird. That's probably the last time we will see one up for sale in a loooong time.
 
philllll said:
The 2 blade copperhead sawcut was a 1 of 5. Talk about a rare bird. That's probably the last time we will see one up for sale in a loooong time.
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Phil,

I emailed you back before I saw this ^

What I have is the Antique Yellow (PPP), not the Copperhead
 
esnyx said:
John, I like how you know this for a fact...

I have never rescaled a Charlow, and the only one I have ever modified is the only TC beerlow in existence, which I made only after I received permission from Charlie to do it. Not only do I not modify them, I have never listed any of my Charlows for sale. Anywhere. Ever...
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Esnyx: I didn't mean anything negative by my original comment, it was intended as good natured ribbing (hence the :P which was supposed to be one of the :p smilies to show it was good natured). I knew from checking the Exchange forum that you buy lots of the Charlows (nothing wrong with that) and I know that you make some very beautiful rehandled and modified knives for sale based on various GECs. I don't look at all of your for sale threads so I mistakenly thought that you modded the Charlows as well as the others. I knew I had seen a few 15s in the mix and just never gave it that much thought. I put 2 and 2 together and came up with 7. My mistake. I don't see that there's anything wrong with it if you did. Your work is spectacular and would add value to an already great knife, IF you were to do that, which you haven't been.

So please forgive me if it looked like I was accusing you or blaming you. Serious collectors like you are what keeps the knife makers in business.
 
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