The Sunday Picture Show (September 18, 2022)

[Uncle Timbo]

You all NEVER seize to amaze me with your beautiful knives. Each week I see knives I never even knew existed. Thank you all!

 

[mauser9]

Thanks to all for the Buck eye candy. Appreciate seeing those beautiful curved blades pictured.

 

[mauser9]

You all NEVER seize to amaze me with your beautiful knives. Each week I see knives I never even knew existed. Thank you all!

Definitely! Plus I admire the superb condition they are kept in. The way prices are going for new quality stuff it pays to keep em up with just a little care and maintenance

 

[tiguy7]

Thank you Roger for doing dual “duty?”: Sunday Picture Show and History lessons. I wonder if the “Masons” ever studied Architecture or set a stone. In case it’s true that “They don’t make things like they used to”, I am always on the look out for new old stock with old packaging and prices.View attachment 1933693

 

[mbkr]

I wonder if the “Masons” ever studied Architecture or set a stone.

It started as a guild of stonemasons in medieval times. Pretty sure they had a lot to do with all the cathedrals that were constructed in Europe.

 

[mbkr]

Happy SPS

 

[DOGPOUND77]

401 kalinga

 

[tiguy7]

It started as a guild of stonemasons in medieval times. Pretty sure they had a lot to do with all the cathedrals that were constructed in Europe.

I’m sure they started out with dirty hands and broken fingernails. I just wonder why they made the leap to politics.

 

[DOGPOUND77]

damascus 186 and a 905.

 

[mbkr]

I’m sure they started out with dirty hands and broken fingernails. I just wonder why they made the leap to politics.

Coming from a union family, I'd guess it had to do with their pocketbooks

 

[topgun03]

A 118 for today's show.

 

[longbow1968]

I used to belong to a hunting club that gave away a Kalinga every year as an award for the biggest deer. Funny thing is, no one used them as their hunting knife. Too pretty, ha ha.

 

[Draleon]

I’ll throw in a good OCS mop Kalinga for today.

 

[Draleon]

And his little brother…

 

[bucksway]

Skyler..a really nice group of 903's!! I sometimes wish I had started collecting the big Bucks instead of the little ones..

 

[DeSotoSky]

I’m sure they started out with dirty hands and broken fingernails. I just wonder why they made the leap to politics.

Politics... Dirty Hands and Broken Promises.... not so different.

193 Alaskan Guide

 

[DeSotoSky]

I used to belong to a hunting club that gave away a Kalinga every year as an award for the biggest deer. Funny thing is, no one used them as their hunting knife. Too pretty, ha ha.

Someone answer me this, never having skinned a deer, is the Kalinga a good hunting knife shape?
Would it be anyones first pick for large game hunting?
It strikes me as too curvy and pointy, but what do I know.

Inverted early variation '70 - '72. Notice the 3 handle pins compared to 2 in my very first post.

 

[DeSotoSky]

What a great show we had today, thanks to all who played!
It'll be a week until the next show, feel free to continue posting and commenting here until then.
/Roger

 

[Old Hunter]

Busy family weekend, just getting some free time now. My only Kalinga, still in the box (and never skinned anything that I can tell). As a skinner it should work well, you want some nice belly with upsweep for that task (thus why I like a 118 for that chore). For butchering it might be too much blade in your way, a 118 does the job well, but a 105 Pathfinder or 121 Guide would be a great dedicated butchering knife for whitetail (in my world 100 lbs to 135 lbs is a big doe, 200 lbs is a huge buck in the coastal swampland - you don't need a big knife). OH

 

[Old Hunter]

Ps I have never held an Akouna, but just eyeballing the pictures would make me think it would work quite similar to the 118 Personal for a deer hunters knife. How long is the blade? I find much longer than 4" gets in my way for cleaning our whitetail. OH