There Can Be Only One (Traditional knives, please)

I had a girlfriend who found The Kurgan attractive! Disturbing! :rolleyes:

Edit - Though I have to say, if you met a bloke in the pub who said, "It's better to burn out than to fade away", you'd think, are you still living with your mum mate?! :rolleyes: :D :thumbsup:
 
If the Kurgan was really coming after my knives I'd take the following steps:

1: stash my entire collection in the nearest church (since he can do no harm in a place of worship).
2: stop by said church for a daily "devotional" to rotate through my carry of the day.

If that doesn't work I suppose I could get by with only my Northfield #73 trapper in brown horse-cut(?) bone. I wanted to pick a mid-sized fixed blade as my "one and only" but realized I am lacking a suitable traditional fixed blade in my collection. Darn, it looks like I'll have to start shopping around for a new fixed blade...
 
If I had to pick a folder it would be my GEC 43. If I had to pick a fixed blade it would be this titanium alloy blade my grandfather made. If I had to pick between the two it’s the fixed blade.
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Wowbagger said:
DANG IT
I did it again.
Sorry guys / gals.
I got to rethink this.
I'll get back to you . . .
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Well I've been thinking about it. I like the "idea" of my 110 but to be honest, for a user, I would have to go with my Case Genuine Stag full size Trapper with the spay blade removed.
I love the extra full handle.
The steel, though SS, seems to be a point higher hardness than my many other Case Trappers
The blade shape is perfection for me. I know you are all tired of my ragging on GEC but honestly I would feel like I was going down a step if I had to loose this Case blade shape to the GEC Trapper clip point.
so . . . yeah . . . THIS !
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Here's the other side (old photo with spay blade in place).
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JohnDF said:
Thanks. I probably should have thought about it, but I guess I just assumed since it was a "traditional" forum and all.
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No it is entirely my fault. I get to looking at the list of new posts and just click on it and respond before I see it is the Traditional forum. I get so used to just conversing whether it is the Maintenance forum or the General forum or the Spyderco forum that I forget where I am and that gets me in trouble only here. I'm glad there is a forum devoted to Traditionals.
I can't guarantee I won't fall on my face again.
 
jsdistin said:
It’s a Great Eastern Cutlery Texas camp knife. They come up on the exchange here or the auction site every so often. There was also a cattle knife and a whittler they did on the same frame too. They’re all really well made. 4 7/8ths closed length, so they’re big.
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Thank you, kind sir. That's a very pretty scout knife, for lack of a better description. Nearly five inches is a bit large for my tastes, though. A beauty, nonetheless.
 
Prester John said:
Good choice. Looks like my first knife (about 1970).
SPAM doesn't need an opener, though. It comes with a pull-top. I think several decades ago it came with a key opener (a metal key you could roll back the lid with; younger people may not have seen that).
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True, but then again a Kurgan isn't really coming to take my knives so it's all hypothetical... in this scenario, my SPAM needs an opener ;)
 
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That's easy my Swiss Champ. I have had one of these, or it's forerunner the Champion, in my pocket everywhere I went for the last 40 years. Usually paired with a buck 110 or some other easily accessible cutting blade/s. The other knives get all the glory, this one just quietly does it's jobs.

O.B.
 
:eek::eek: What kind of pockets do you have to carry that hulk about? :D:D Surprised it has dropped out straight away;)
 
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