The BladeForums 2022 Traditional Knife Thread

Gary W. Graley said:
Who ever can get a few more recent images of this build, that would be great ;)
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Yeah, I keep checking in here a couple times a day for new pics or updates. I guess I'll just have to look & see if I have another knife to carry around until this one gets here.:)

If it looks like the drawing way back in post #67, it'll be worth the wait.
 
BrotherJim said:
6-8mos journey through plenty of pain and discomfort and oodles of dentist visits.
$21K out of pocket between 2 dentists in 2 cities, extractions, bone grafts, implants, dentures ... plus (+) whatever Delta Dental High paid.
Super glad only have to go through it once. Much happier now than with originals. YMMV
A blessing during the time of seemingly endless pain and discomfort was that everyone was required to wear masks in public
So, I didn't have to wear dentures over sore gums most of the time and they had a better chance to heal.
Warm salt water and good drugs were my best friends ever ... but thankfully not forever
EDIT: Push had not come to shove but the writing was on the wall.
Figured at my age I'd go ahead and do it while I still had a good "constitution".
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Could never figure out why you have to have dental and eye policies. I don't have arm or big toe insurance, but those are covered under my health plan.
 
KnifePneumonia said:
I'm looking at other threads for answers and thought I'd ask here while I search.

What individual or company can take credit for the first slipjoint ever produced?

What individual or company can take credit for the first bunny pattern produced?
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AxF said:
As for your first question, it’s one that’s probably impossible to answer. With a quick google search I found there is some evidence that slipjoint knives were invented as early as the 1600s.

As far as who produced the first bunny knife, I don’t know but if the history posted in this thread is anything to go off of, it was probably some hungry Ozzie with a hankering for rabbit.
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eisman said:
Folding knives have been around since before the Roman Empire.
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meako said:
Thats true Kev...I think they found one around Hadrians wall...with a letter written to his Mrs back in Rome...some things never change.
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AxF said:
I read an article that showed a few folders that were as old as like 300 B.C. but in that same article it said that the earliest folding knife that could be called a slipjoint, meaning one that has a spring that keeps the knife in the open position, was dated to the mid 1600s. I can't attest to the validity of that article but I thought it was interesting.
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I would invite you all to tune into The Catch Bit Show podcast and listen to the early episodes where our resident historian, BF member and co-host Neal Punchard along with Mike Moran and myself have addressed some of these questions. We continue to center our discussion mainly around all aspects of the history of traditional pocket knives and slip joint knives along with custom slip joint pocket knife making as well. ;)
 
Signalprick said:
I would invite you all to tune into The Catch Bit Show podcast and listen to the early episodes where our resident historian, BF member and co-host Neal Punchard along with Mike Moran and myself have addressed some of these questions. We continue to center our discussion mainly around all aspects of the history of traditional pocket knives and slip joint knives along with custom slip joint pocket knife making as well. ;)
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Jason,
I'm going to need you guys to start putting up your podcast with video. I would like to sit with my morning coffee and secretly hate you for knives you have that aren't in my collection.
 
meako said:
No worries Dan...that fur bearin varmint was trapped at a mates garden...had to go to a good home....sadly that home was Boris's lair..😁
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It's not that i take so much care of the rabbits but If Adam had had the balls to crush the head of the snake by a heel blow we wouldn't have known such troubled times.

Dan.
 
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