What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

[waynorth]

Curved Russells! I spent years looking for one of these; then, a few years back, two popped up at once!! I was so stunned, I grabbed them both!!!

 

[black mamba]

Probably my favorite Barlow, with terrific green bone and very stoutly built.

 

[btb01]

Curved RussellsView attachment 1507140 View attachment 1507141 View attachment 1507142

Those blades really disappear down into the blade well, don’t they?

 

[Old Engineer]

Curved Russells! I spent years looking for one of these; then, a few years back, two popped up at once!! I was so stunned, I grabbed them both!!!View attachment 1507140 View attachment 1507141 View attachment 1507142

Charlie : When you show even one of those Curved Russells , to me , every thing else just looks like a loaf of Month Old Bread . They are just sooooooo nice my friend .

Harry

 

[waynorth]

Those blades really disappear down into the blade well, don’t they?

Ha ha! If they had sunk joints, NOTHING would show!
Of course, another problem would crop up. . . .

Charlie : When you show even one of those Curved Russells , to me , every thing else just looks like a loaf of Month Old Bread . They are just sooooooo nice my friend .Harry

They are pretty graceful, Harry! Thanks!

 

[bigfish64]

Here are a couple more of my Bokers, Anniversary Green Curly Burch 25/150, and an Ironwood serial #195.

 

[Ramrodmb]

Those are

Curved Russells! I spent years looking for one of these; then, a few years back, two popped up at once!! I was so stunned, I grabbed them both!!!View attachment 1507140 View attachment 1507141 View attachment 1507142

Charlie, those are wonderful! What’s the length on those? Would you say they are a Spey and Drop point or...?

 

[btb01]

Ha ha! If they had sunk joints, NOTHING would show!
Of course, another problem would crop up. . . .

I think you could make it work, you’d just need more curve in the handle (or a really big EO notch)!

Serious question: what would you call that blade shape? A skinner? It’s not really a drop point, ‘cause it never drops!

 

[Fixall]

After some of the exchanges I saw yesterday in another thread I thought we could lighten it up a bit. We’ve all heard of “Dueling Banjos” how about some “Dueling Bokers!”
Here you go Fixall!
My Bog Oak:View attachment 1506596View attachment 1506598 View attachment 1506597
And my Anniversary in Curley Brown Burch, notice the serial number!
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Your turn!

Whew... Sorry, my weekend got away from me a bit. All kinds of projects to get finished before the baby gets here.

Here's the Desert Ironwood and 440c I owe ya (I held off on buying the Green Curly Birch)! I wasn't collecting Boker barlows when this was released, so it took a bit of hunting to find and I had to pay a bit more than I wanted. Super great knife though! Boker does a good job picking their ironwood.

How about Grenadil and 440c? African Blackwood is my favorite wood (along with Desert Ironwood) so I'm a big fan of this guy.

 

[Fixall]

I found some time to play around with a piece of black Plexiglass while I was taking pics. Turned out kind of cool.

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[bigfish64]

I found some time to play around with a piece of black Plexiglass while I was taking pics. Turned out kind of cool.

Saw another picture you took like this in another thread, and wondered how you did it, very classy! Great knife!

 

[Un-Chained]

Saw another picture you took like this in another thread, and wondered how you did it, very classy! Great knife!

Yes ! The reflection kind of reminds me of 2-face from Batman.

 

[bigfish64]

Whew... Sorry, my weekend got away from me a bit. All kinds of projects to get finished before the baby gets here.

Here's the Desert Ironwood and 440c I owe ya (I held off on buying the Green Curly Birch)! I wasn't collecting Boker barlows when this was released, so it took a bit of hunting to find and I had to pay a bit more than I wanted. Super great knife though! Boker does a good job picking their ironwood.

How about Grenadil and 440c? African Blackwood is my favorite wood (along with Desert Ironwood) so I'm a big fan of this guy.

I remember those days, treasure them, I’ve got one that’s a jr in college and another that’s a senior in HS, goes fast. Boker’s ironwood is fantastic! Pretty sure the Grenadil was the second one I bought.

(Not sure why these pics are so much smaller. I do all this on my phone and needless to say, but I know NOTHING about photography)

This one was a birthday gift last fall.

Have a good one!

 

[JohnDF]

I really wish Boker would release these Barlow knives with no shields and all steel construction. Those would be so wonderful, I'd buy a few. As they are, they're really good... but those changes would take them to the top.

Another really cool picture.

 

[waynorth]

Those are

Charlie, those are wonderful! What’s the length on those? Would you say they are a Spey and Drop point or...?

I think you could make it work, you’d just need more curve in the handle (or a really big EO notch)!

Serious question: what would you call that blade shape? A skinner? It’s not really a drop point, ‘cause it never drops!

Those curved Barlows are 3 3/8" long, closed of course!
Most would call the blades "skinners", although I wouldn't tackle a deer with one, unless I had to!! They certainly fit into the knives nicely!!

 

[waynorth]

Curvaceous!!

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Well I couldn't leave it alone so I ran to Wal-Mart and got some supplies. It's far from perfect but I'm surprisingly pleased with the results. Turns out to make sawcut bone covers all you need is a saw. Here's a before and after shot. I dyed the bone with chocolate brown rit dye.
IMG_0844 by jacob dudley, on Flickr
IMG_0848 by jacob dudley, on Flickr

With this inspiration I modded my Rough Rider smooth bone

Though I may have gotten carried away with the file

 

[Viper84]

I'm loving all these pics with the match strike long pulls. I would love it if GEC did a new run of barlows with a sheepsfoot blade with a match strike long pull.

 

[Campbellclanman]

I was lucky to find this very full bladed Southern & Richardson Barlow, I have owned a couple in the past that were worked down to very short blades.
The almost unique Clip Blades on these are kinda cool, and I love the Light Bone on this one- not something I have seen before, usually the ones I see are Horn, Ebony.
Lots of Stampings Mark Side, just the one Southern Richardson Nest stamped on the Tang of the Spey Pile Side.