What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

[Fodderwing]

 

[mrknife]

 

[Camillus]

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This is amazing - who did the recover?

 

[Fodderwing]

That's a recover?

 

[JohnDF]

This is amazing - who did the recover?

Great Eastern Cutlery.
It's factory, I was lucky enough to win it in Charlies GAW.

 

[BrotherJim]

 

[Augie]

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Beautiful Tip Top Dwight, they are great barlows, little on the larger side with a solid feel to them.

 

[Augie]

Added another Case XX red bone user, 1965 to 70, hard to beat the bone Case used.

 

[Ulfrinn]

I was looking into Barlows myself recently. It's an interesting pattern both for its simplicity and history and without reading 1.2 thousand pages of this thread, I've been wondering how they were originally constructed. Examples I seen from the 1700s looked like the were friction folders.

 

[Fodderwing]

Beautiful Tip Top Dwight, they are great barlows, little on the larger side with a solid feel to them

Thank you John. Gorgeous bone on that Case XX!

 

[Angry Waiter]

Picture from last night. Enjoying a beer and the last light of the day. I’m really smitten with the 77s

 

[RayseM]

waynorth and others who might be interested, here is the purpose for those oak "buttons" I was carving a few weeks ago with my little barlow, as seen in an earlier post ~

BARLOWS INCLUDED for the integrity of the thread

A friend on another forum was the GAW recipient of this Khukuri from Nepal. He wanted something "Ray made" to go with it. I pushed back a little saying this Khuk was best stored under the front seat of his pick up. It is a nice 12" user.
Nonetheless, He wanted a stand.

I had this monster (by Maine standards) polypore and a slab from which I could saw out an oak base and so I thought...



Here is the detail of the oak button stand off in place ~



Now I just need to find a box big enough to ship it.

 

[Fodderwing]

here is the purpose for those oak "buttons"

Very cool Ray. I've been waiting to see what you had in the oven.

 

[Jack Black]

Very cool Ray. I've been waiting to see what you had in the oven.

There's something in the oven?!

 

[waynorth]

waynorth and others who might be interested, here is the purpose for those oak "buttons" I was carving a few weeks ago with my little barlow, as seen in an earlier post ~

BARLOWS INCLUDED for the integrity of the thread

A friend on another forum was the GAW recipient of this Khukuri from Nepal. He wanted something "Ray made" to go with it. I pushed back a little saying this Khuk was best stored under the front seat of his pick up. It is a nice 12" user.
Nonetheless, He wanted a stand.

I had this monster (by Maine standards) polypore and a slab from which I could saw out an oak base and so I thought...

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Here is the detail of the oak button stand off in place ~

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Now I just need to find a box big enough to ship it.

Nice work, Ray!! And the collector gets what he/she wants!!

 

[waynorth]

This is amazing - who did the recover?

A short run by GEC, at the end of the order, with remaining parts!
Disappeared in minutes!!

 

[calm]

https://imgur.com/de29b9n

 

[Travman]

 

[madtaz63]

Smooth Ivory Bone Sunday..

 

[JOELSM]

Mt. Olive Wood Sunday.