Unusal but practical oldschool.

[300Bucks]

I outbid a couple of folks and if your a regular here I am sorry. But I may have saved you from buying something you really didn't want in the end.
Here is a slipjoint to harken back to all the stories we told of our grandfathers, dad, favorite uncles or the guy that ran the salvage yard.

The slipjoint in questions is a old Primble Barlow with non-stainless bolsters and blade. A decent scale, but looked like it had been left back side down in a moist environment.

But the auction said Primble Buck Barlow, could it be a rare find worth lots of dollars ..... it cleaned up a little from the poor quality auction photos and I even got some kind of seed free gratis from the blade well.

But somebody of the practical notion broke his Primble blade and hopefully had a Buck 301 that was a willing donor to the patient below. It's only valuable to a nut like me or to Grandpa who needed a decent working knife.

Stainless comes to the rescue of carbon.

Anybody else have an oddball from 'Grandpa's' make it work some more knifeshop ?
300Bucks

 

[Amos Iron Wolf]

That's actually pretty cool. It does suggest a more practical time when a knife was a tool and companion. When it broke, you fixed it up in a practical manner. Junk boxes were for holding parts that you actually might use, and probably would at some point.

It may not be able to talk, but you can sit with a cup of coffee or tea, roll it in your hand, and let your thoughts drift as you imagine its life from factory, to store, to someone's pocket and the life it lived afterwards that brought it to the point it is now.

Thanks for sharing. Real traditional, not just a styling.

 

[hoopster]

That's a neat find indeed. Thanks for posting up the pictures.

 

[okbohn]

I love the bolster on that one.

 

[knarfeng]

That's real nice 300. I like it! Thanks for sharing that.:thumbup::thumbup: