The TRADITIONAL sunday picture show!!!!

rune1279 said:


--Mark
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That appears to be a nice K&E slide rule along with it.
K&E used kiln dried mahogany for the rule. It was the most dimensionally stable material they could find. Since slide rules are analog, if the rule shrinks or expands, you get the wrong answer.
 
knarfeng said:
That appears to be a nice K&E slide rule along with it.
K&E used kiln dried mahogany for the rule. It was the most dimensionally stable material they could find. Since slide rules are analog, if the rule shrinks or expands, you get the wrong answer.
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Hm. What is says on it is "Lawrence Engineering Service, Peru Indiana" -- I don't know if that confirms or contradicts what you said, but it is made of real wood (as opposed to say, hardboard or MDF), beautifully fit together and has never swelled or jammed in the twenty or so years I've had it. It, and the log-tables it's sitting on, are mementos of my grandfather.

In retrospect, it was almost inevitable that I should become interested in traditional knives. I've always liked old tools and technologies -- I like to remind myself that people have been doing this forever, building and fixing and trying to make life better for each other.

--Mark
 
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I thought I would join in on the fun. Here is the most gorgeous stag handled Winchester whittler I have ever seen. It is one of the ones made by Blue Grass Cutlery (actually Queen, as I understand it), which I bought it off that famous auction site, and was floored when I got it. It never left my side for a week. I would fondle the deeply craggy stag handle as if it was a string of worry beads.

It really is too bad that Winchester knives have turned into utter crap. These 80's and 90's Winchester knives are the absolute nicest production knives I have ever seen, and every bit as well made as the knives of 100 years ago. You can definitely see a lot of GEC characteristics in these knives, and I can definitely see that the founders of GEC must have been part of the team at Queen building these knives.

I had to sharpen this one and carry it. It is simply too robust to lock up in a safe.

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hey dma1965..... those are among the most beautiful sexy stag scales I have seen. Deep & rich coloring. Cherish that one! Wow!....what a keeper!

Peter
 
I like something out of the ordinary. Carl Schlieper has/had some models that are a little unusual. Quality is just OK, like comparable to Camillus/Schrade. 4" & 5" shown
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rune1279 said:
Hm. What is says on it is "Lawrence Engineering Service, Peru Indiana" -- I don't know if that confirms or contradicts what you said, but it is made of real wood (as opposed to say, hardboard or MDF), beautifully fit together and has never swelled or jammed in the twenty or so years I've had it. It, and the log-tables it's sitting on, are mementos of my grandfather.

--Mark
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Sorry. I missed your response. Just saw it today when the forum software took me to the wrong post. (sometimes it's a good thing when the forum software hiccups.)

Lawrence was a separate brand. They only made a few models. They were made of wood, but I don't know what kind.
 
avoidspam said:
P- tell us more!
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I've posted what little I know (with more pictures) here.

...It's humbling (and a whole lot of fun!) when someone picks up on one's [very specific] preferences and acts on them with such unexpected kindness. The knife came to me from scruffuk, sent by Jack Black (cahoots! cahoots, I tell ye), a total surprise. I didn't even know such a thing existed.

Look how thin it is, especially as compared to a Usual Suspect:
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~ P.
 
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