What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

waynorth said:
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I love the Walnut, wish they'd use it more often. :cool::thumbsup:
 
This is easily my favorite thread on the porch, Im always so jealous looking at those GEC Barlows :D
This Case will keep my content until I can get my hands on one.

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When I was a young guy I remember Barlows being the knife most people carried, and this pattern is still what I think of when I think “pocket knife”.
I enjoy this one. It doesn’t have the nicely radiused bolsters and covers that seems more common on other Barlows but otherwise it feels like the ones I remember from childhood.


This old red bone is the only other I have, it’s retired but I love pulling it out to fondle those beautiful covers.

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solphilos said:
What’s the story behind the “flipper bait”?
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That's what happens when you let somebody else name your knife for you. ;)
But seriously... I won the knife in a GAW and the owner wanted to make sure the winner wasn't going to turn around and try to make a big profit off his generosity. I think that just makes it more special and unique, I could probably sell it for five times as much now. :D
Just kidding meako meako :p
 
JohnDF said:
That's what happens when you let somebody else name your knife for you. ;)
But seriously... I won the knife in a GAW and the owner wanted to make sure the winner wasn't going to turn around and try to make a big profit off his generosity. I think that just makes it more special and unique, I could probably sell it for five times as much now. :D
Just kidding meako meako :p
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Ha, that’s pretty clever. With a gift that generous I’d be a bit irate if some greedy miscreant used it as a way to make a quick buck. It does make it unique, and at the etching looks well done. Does nothing to hurt that already great looking Barlow :thumbsup:
 
"Mary gave him a brand-new 'Barlow' knife, worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations. True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a 'sure-enough' Barlow, and there was an inconceivable grandeur in that..."

I wanted my own 'sure-enough' Barlow knife ever since I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer when I was little. But I must admit that once I got around to acquiring Barlows, I went a little crazy:
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I acquired all five of these over the span of a month or so. It's strangely difficult to find a modern-production Barlow with sawcut bone handles (in my opinion the proper type for a Barlow), so I had to do it myself on natural bone scales. I used the $13 Rough Rider in the center as the testbed for my technique.
 
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JohnDF said:
That's what happens when you let somebody else name your knife for you. ;)
But seriously... I won the knife in a GAW and the owner wanted to make sure the winner wasn't going to turn around and try to make a big profit off his generosity. I think that just makes it more special and unique, I could probably sell it for five times as much now. :D
Just kidding meako meako :p
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Ha Ha Ha !!!:D:D:D
 
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