The Sunday Picture Show (May 22, 2022)

[DeSotoSky]

Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. Above all, enjoy the show. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)

Today, May 22nd, is National Maritime Day.
A national holiday I have never heard of. I've never seen it on a calendar. On May 22, 1819, the steamship SS Savannah set sail from Savannah, Georgia, on the first Atlantic crossing using steam power. Well that was a bit of a fib, the Savannah was a hybrid sailing ship with some steam powered paddle wheels added on. On the 29 day voyage, steam power was only used for about 80 hours. Not practical, she was converted back to a sailing ship after the voyage and met her demise only a few years later in an 1821 shipwreck. It would not be until 1838 when two British ships actually made the crossing on steam power alone.

National Maritime Day was created by the United States Congress in 1933 to recognize contributions of the merchant marine but has expanded to encompass the entire maritime industry and those fallen in maritime service. May 22nd was chosen as the date the American Steamship SS Savannah set sail on the first transatlantic voyage using steam power. (a bit of a stretch I would say). It is appropriate to display the flag on this holiday.

In keeping with our national maritime celebration today my picture show kick-off is a 525 Gent with a scrimshawed sailing ship scene. The knife has a 1996 date code. I think the scales may be some kind of ivory but do not know how to tell for sure.

 

[Chilebrown]

 

[tommycopper1]

Picked from a man that walks around and sharpens scissors and knives for the older ladies, and asked him if he had any to sell. This is what he pulled out for $10. Good Deal or bad??

 

[DeSotoSky]

....$10. Good Deal or bad??

Double your money?

 

[DeSotoSky]

While on the subject of the merchant marine
MERCHANT MARINE CASUALTIES in WWII
There were 243,000 mariners that served in the war. And 9,521 perished while serving—a higher proportion of those killed than any other branch of the US military. Roughly four percent of those who served were killed, a higher casualty rate than that of any of the American military services during World War II.

 

[Pony_Hernandez]

Have a nice sunday everyone all around the "globe".

 

[matthewtstock]

Love the Sunday Picture Show. Thank You Roger and all the brethren who take part. Another find from the bay. A customized V4V1. The seller, from California, could not offer any information about its past.

 

[tiguy7]

Thank you for doing the Sunday Picture Show Roger. It’s a good thing that steam powered ships came along in time for the opening of the Suez and Panama Canals. This Is a Model 560 with rivets replaced with screws. The custom Damascus blade was made by a friend.View attachment 1824998

 

[pjsjr]

Thank you Roger, for another interesting and informative Sunday Picture Show. That scrimshawed 525 is a wonderful piece of art. It looks to be covered with natural ivory of some kind to me, too. Had no idea that the death rate was so high for merchant marines in WWII.

I have shown this 315 before. Dale Fisk did the scrimshaw on swordfish bill.

 

[pjsjr]

Good Deal or bad??

Not just good, but great!

 

[pjsjr]

A customized V4V1.

Very nice, clean , well done piece. Congrats.

 

[bertl]

A stag 315 with marlinspike is the best I can do for National Maritime Day, but this did remind me of my short merchant marine experience more than 60 years ago.

Bert

 

[GPyro]

Nice stuff so far.
Thanks everyone!

I have friends in the merchant marine.
Thanks for your sacrifice guys, it's not much of a home life.

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[Vaporstang]

A 315 is the closest I can come for today's SPS also:

 

[matthewtstock]

pjsjr bertl Vaporstang Some dandy 315s gentlemen. I must say Vaporstang's is exceptionally clean and crisp for a stock version. Bertl, looking sharp in your photo, Thanks for sharing.

 

[jbmonkey]

thanks Roger for hosting this Sunday....enjoying everyone's Bucks.

I got nothing marine related even though I live on a peninsula.......I dont even have a boat........I do have a Buck knife though.....


pineapples are coming in nicely this year......

 

[st8yd]

Here are some of my Boat Bucks.

 

[MT_Pokt]

Maritime...

Paua shell 50th 110 I did back when I had time for hobbies.

 

[pjsjr]

Paua shell 50th 110 I did back when I had time for hobbies.

That is spectacular, Greg, great work! It paua another name for abalone?

 

[gedlicks]

Great show and great theme for today. Thanks Roger for setting this up for us all. My Father is retired from the Coast Guard and I was born at the Tillamook Hospital here in Oregon and lived at the Cape Meares Lighthouse with my older Brother and Sister where my Dad was the lighthouse keeper. Now the houses have been torn down and it has been made into a park. We had a pet deer named Olly after Olimpia beer which he liked to drink and we climbed on the famous octopus tree which is a large wildly grown sitka spruce tree. It was a great life as a child growing up in the Coast Guard life. We moved every couple years usually clear across the US to the
opposite coast. We ended up in Buffalo NY where my Dad was in charge of the Great Lakes. He was than told we were being moved to Washington DC where he would work at the Pentagon but a desk job just wasn't
anything he wanted so he retired and we moved back close to family here in Oregon where we have all lived ever since.

A scrimmed 521

And a scrimmed 525