The one that got away..

ISKski

ISKski

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For me it was Christmas 2k13: Dan Burke posted (in the makers exchange) a 3.5'' 154cm Remington style trapper, with a recurved blade and checkered paper micarta handles. I looked at it for days, but at the time I couldn't bring myself to drop the $.

After several days on the exchange it was scooped up by none other than Rick Menefee - so you have to think it was probably a good knife, if a good knife maker bought it for himself.

I still think about that knife from time to time and how I would very much like to own one similar - I wish now I had just bit the bullet and paid for it , so that this one never got away....

Do any of you out there on the porch have a knife that you still regret letting get-away?

Here is the only known photo I can find of said knife on the internets.
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Had a few chances at 82 dixie Stockmans straight from vendors when I first signed up for the forum... At the time, I wasn't into traditionals. Now, it is one of The Knives that I want to get my hands on dearly.
 
About a year ago at this antique shop there was a very old looking and rusty single blade slipjoint with a bail which looked as if I could've been a civil war issue.
They only wanted 10$ for it, but it was next to an old hickory style butcher knife with CS carved into the handle ( card said it was found in a Virginia cabin ) that they wanted 20$ for. Since said knife looked like it was probably later than the 1860's I figured I'd probably get the folder home and find Japan or Pakistan on it so I passed.
Now I regret it because it was only 10$ and there's a chance that I could've cleaned it up well enough to put it in my pocket regardless if age.
 
hmmm where do we start, there were at least 10 2014 bladeforums stag Jacks that I missed, some by mere minutes. a 48 single blade big clip, definitely some TCs, soup bone and ebony. deals come and go!
 
This topic couldn't come at a better time for me. I had a couple of GEC 66 Calf Roper Stockmen from the first run but I let both of them go. The one I miss the most is the Black Micarta SFO with the centrally placed shield. I swore that if they ever made them again I would jump in full force.

Anyway, here we are now enjoying another run of these fine knives and I finally have one sitting in front of me right now with at least three more either already purchased or soon to be purchased. I'm pretty happy about the whole affair.
 
Sometime back in the 90s I remember seeing some really nice Robeson Barlows for sale in the AG Russell catalog. I was still in the Army so I was more about Emersons & Spydercos so I passed on them.
 
This isn't a great picture and it wasn't even the focus of said picture, but here's the knife I was talking about.


It's the one with the yellow sticker on it, right behind the butcher knife.
 
ISKski said:
For me it was Christmas 2k13: Dan Burke posted (in the makers exchange) a 3.5'' 154cm Remington style trapper, with a recurved blade and checkered paper micarta handles. I looked at it for days, but at the time I couldn't bring myself to drop the $.

After several days on the exchange it was scooped up by none other than Rick Menefee - so you have to think it was probably a good knife, if a good knife maker bought it for himself.

I still think about that knife from time to time and how I would very much like to own one similar - I wish now I had just bit the bullet and paid for it , so that this one never got away....

Do any of you out there on the porch have a knife that you still regret letting get-away?

Here is the only known photo I can find of said knife on the internets.
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My big mistake was not getting on the list for a R. Bose 3.5" wharncliffe trapper. I was on Tony's books for years before I found out he was no longer working off a list.

By the way Isaac I have a 4.5" version of the same knife you posted with a spear point blade. Dan sold a few that year IIRC. The checkering was blown out (gunsmith term for missing checkering diamonds) on mine but I kept it just because I've never seen another one for sale.
 
The #81 stockman from GEC is the one I regret not buying, in several of the different handles. Now that they are going for 3 times the original price on the secondary markets, I'm out of luck.
 
I've missed out on several Case/Bose Norfolk Whittler's. I know it's not a custom, but in my opinion, it's Case's best. Should have just pulled the trigger several times. Just a great looking knife.
 
JB in SC said:
The checkering was blown out (gunsmith term for missing checkering diamonds) on mine but I kept it just because I've never seen another one for sale.
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By that do you mean the checkers weren't brought up to have points - its more like a flat checker patter?

In google searching, a few of your threads came up for the 4.5'' version - but no photos, would you mind posting a couple :)

Dan only sold a few that year on BF - I haven't seen another since.

black mamba said:
The #81 stockman from GEC is the one I regret not buying, in several of the different handles. Now that they are going for 3 times the original price on the secondary markets, I'm out of luck.
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I had the same thing for the early TC Barlows. I was around when they were on dealer sites and I didn't have enough interest to buy one. Then when they were all sold out and picking up steam (popularity) I kinda got interested, but still didn't want one enough for the +$25 people were asking. Then one day I saw one on the exchange sell for $285 and I kinda chuckled to myself - I guess I missed the boat on that one.
 
ISKski said:
For me it was Christmas 2k13: Dan Burke posted (in the makers exchange) a 3.5'' 154cm Remington style trapper, with a recurved blade and checkered paper micarta handles. I looked at it for days, but at the time I couldn't bring myself to drop the $.

After several days on the exchange it was scooped up by none other than Rick Menefee - so you have to think it was probably a good knife, if a good knife maker bought it for himself.

I still think about that knife from time to time and how I would very much like to own one similar - I wish now I had just bit the bullet and paid for it , so that this one never got away....

Do any of you out there on the porch have a knife that you still regret letting get-away?

Here is the only known photo I can find of said knife on the internets.
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rick as part of his education on making folders would go to Dans shop occasionally to learn from the old pro. Dan would share a lot of his knowledge. I even got to go one time.
 
ISKski said:
By that do you mean the checkers weren't brought up to have points - its more like a flat checker patter?

In google searching, a few of your threads came up for the 4.5'' version - but no photos, would you mind posting a couple :)

Dan only sold a few that year on BF - I haven't seen another since.
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I will send a couple of photos via PM to keep from cluttering up the thread, Isaac
 
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When I was a teenager in the 70s I wasted a lot of money buying "collector series" knives like the Boker USA Great American Story knives. For every one of those I bought (I have the whole first series) I could have bought a Schrade, or a yellow handled Buck, or a Case Red Bone.
I would love to be standing in front of that old display case again with that money in my pocket!
 
Natural Stag White Owl spear point & bail. I was outbid while trying to get it for nothing.

I also had a Dixie Stockman I should've never let go. And a spring green courthouse Whittler that keeps me up at night.
 
Northwoods Everyday Barlow, Clip or Spear in Birdseye Maple. The reports of QC probs turned me off but I will always wonder whether I should have tried at least.
 
I had a Samuel Barlow(Neepsend) that I traded for a custom engraved folding hunter. Late 1700's knife with full razor type blade with stag scales that were a little warped but all there.
 
I posted bitterly in the lounge, then deleted it unreplied to, about a real Remington jack that went for $7.50 to a guy in front of me at an antique mall. One minute earlier and I'd have had it, a half minute later and I never would have known.
 
scrteened porch said:
I posted bitterly in the lounge, then deleted it unreplied to, about a real Remington jack that went for $7.50 to a guy in front of me at an antique mall. One minute earlier and I'd have had it, a half minute later and I never would have known.
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I love that last sentence. Ignorance is bliss sometimes and one of the reasons Ive stopped going on the auction site or in the exchange.

I cant say Ive let any get away. Ive turned a couple loose that I regret but oh well.
 
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