What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

[Primble]

All alone in a suit of stag :

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[Fodderwing]

M Furness and Sons
Edward Furness grand daddy
Enos Furness and Sons

 

[RayseM]

How does one even find knives like that Fodderwing ? Pretty cool old collection. I've never seen any knife worthy of a 2nd glance in the antique stores or flea markets around here. Maybe Mainers just use up their knives beyond usability or recognition.

 

[Fodderwing]

How does one even find knives like that Fodderwing ? Pretty cool old collection. I've never seen any knife worthy of a 2nd glance in the antique stores or flea markets around here. Maybe Mainers just use up their knives beyond usability or recognition.

Ray it's the same way here when it comes to local sources. It's a never ending search mostly world wide web. But you gotta find em when Charlie ain't lookin...

 

[RayseM]

You are a good shopper Dwight

 

[RayseM]

Funny to me that the bolsters on these knives are reversed engravings one side to the other. Writing faces the spine on one face and the blade slot on the other face. I have one like that too, assumed it was a mistake but I've seen others.

Was there a reason for this?

 

[Nature Boy]

More cost effective, I assume. With letters written horizontally, they would have needed separate mark and pile side bolsters to have read the same direction.

 

[cigarrodog]

 

[RayseM]

Seems wrong What it is?

 

[JohnDF]

Doesn't get much more traditional than that.

 

[cigarrodog]

Doesn't get much more traditional than that.

 

[Fodderwing]

 

[waynorth]

Those crazy Minnesotans have the weirdest ball caps…make good caps to accompany great Barlows!View attachment 1815692

I like that TC cap!!

 

[waynorth]

All alone in a suit of stag :

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"Fine Pocket Knives" - made finer!!

 

[waynorth]

M Furness and Sons
Edward Furness grand daddy
Enos Furness and Sons

True Ancestors!!

 

[RayseM]

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Are all the other side bolsters on these reversed? I have such a Remington Barlow which lead me to ask why.

 

[Primble]

I peeked, then shut my eyes and went to another thread.

 

[Fodderwing]

Are all the other side bolsters on these reversed? I have such a Remington Barlow which lead me to ask why.

Out of all the barlows I have covering over one hundred years they all have one side reversed from the other. EXCEPT the granddaddy BUCK. I would imagine it was done for economy.

 

[cigarrodog]

I peeked, then shut my eyes and went to another thread.

Thank you. Nothing like a Jack Black SFO, except maybe two of them.

 

[Pt-Luso]