What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

JohnDF said:
I now have two of these wonderful Case Barlow knives...
I had the Green Saw Cut already, and now added the wonderful gift from bigfish64 bigfish64
Thanks again, Todd... it has great F&F and the bone is absolutely gorgeous. I love it!
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I ended up with five Barlows from Case's last run. All mine are two blade, and other than some slight blade wobble on one of them, they're all really fine knives.

Although I won't be around to evaluate them, it'd be interesting to see how the new ones are holding up after 60-80 years, like this one.
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JohnDF said:
I have a slight wobble on my two-blade as well.
I peened it until the action got tight, and then loosened it just a touch... the wobble is still there.
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Ironbut said:
Yeah, I peened mine too, and it helped. It hasn't seen much use, because I have so many knives to choose from. I suppose that's a good problem to have though.
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When you guys do the peening, do you ever notice it messing up the centering? I did a little peening on a Boker barlow, tightened it up, but through off the centering. Wondering if it was me or if this happens sometimes.
 
Sometimes when you peen a knife the "head" of the pin gets work-hardened. Makes you hit it slightly harder, and the pin will distort. I remember skewing the knife (two blades have a longer pin and are more susceptible to this), and throwing off the centering!
Squeezing the knife in a vice can result in the same thing!!
 
Here is a twisted knife, an old Empire. Note how the pile side (to the right) is higher than the mark side. it is causing both blades to hug the mark side, among other things!! Notice how the knife leans to the right!!
On a visit to the case factory, I watched a cutler "square" a severely twisted knife, by squeezing it turned sideways in a vise!Peen Twist.jpgPoor cellphone pic!!:( Nothing like a scan!!:D
 
waynorth said:
Sometimes when you peen a knife the "head" of the pin gets work-hardened. Makes you hit it slightly harder, and the pin will distort. I remember skewing the knife (two blades have a longer pin and are more susceptible to this), and throwing off the centering!
Squeezing the knife in a vice can result in the same thing!!
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Thanks for the response Charlie. I’m going to have to work one it some more. :thumbsup:
 
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