What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

[6Strings]

Boker’s the Farmboy 1983 rosewood.
Always lookin’ for these stamped bolsters.
Wonderful knives as y’all know
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thats a nice one!

 

[bigfish64]

Boker’s the Farmboy 1983 rosewood.
Always lookin’ for these stamped bolsters.
Wonderful knives as y’all know
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Yep, that knife IS sweet!
Been thinking...maybe we should keep Boker our little secret, and not talk so much about their great F&F, awesome W&T, and beautiful covers. I know we won’t be able to resist posting a photo every once in a while, but maybe we should make it look like this:

WARNING! Boker knives and Barlows in particular are not a safe alternative to GEC!

What do you think? This way we can keep them all to ourselves!

 

[Un-Chained]

bigfish64
Total agreement Todd

 

[Fodderwing]

maybe we should keep Boker our little secret,

Gorgeous! Boker has really been producing some fantastic knives the last couple of years.

 

[JohnDF]

WARNING! Boker knives and Barlows in particular are not a safe alternative to GEC!

Funny, I had the exact opposite thought the other day...
We should all start posting pictures of our Bokers and maybe people would stop buying up all the GEC knives so fast.

 

[bigfish64]

Funny, I had the exact opposite thought the other day...
We should all start posting pictures of our Bokers and maybe people would stop buying up all the GEC knives so fast.

That just might work! Let’s keep our plan a secret until we work out the details and decide when to launch it!

 

[Un-Chained]

You guys ROCK

 

[JohnDF]

Let’s keep our plan a secret

Shhhh...

 

[Augie]

Some sawcut for Saturday.

 

[black mamba]

Incredible color on the Queen, John. I wish we (GEC) would try for that on the forum #86.

 

[Augie]

Incredible color on the Queen, John. I wish we (GEC) would try for that on the forum #86.

Thanks Jeff, the Queens from that run all seemed to have very nice bone, I might be remembering wrong but I think I heard that they found a stash of old Ulster or Utica bone that was used on these. These Queen Anniversary Barlows are almost 50 years old now.

 

[waynorth]

Some sawcut for Saturday.


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I like the "piebald" colors on those knives, John!! Much more interesting than plain old colors!!

 

[Augie]

I like the "piebald" colors on those knives, John!! Much more interesting than plain old colors!!

Thanks Charlie, you are right, something relatively simple can be so attractive.

 

[euroken]

 

[Atiger]

 

[Atiger]

And a few for the saw-cut theme...

 

[waynorth]

All the Empires I've seen are black! Nice variation Atiger !!

 

[Jack Black]

Been enjoying carrying this one from Mr Charlie today

 

[waynorth]

Been enjoying carrying this one

Meant to be used, Jack!!

Black Empire;

 

[OldHercDude]

I have to say, the last couple of pages of posts - you all have been knocking it out of the park. Wonderful knives.