What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

[calm]

https://imgur.com/GrWyVku

 

[6Strings]

A few old barlows…

A great set! Who is the maker of the shield stamped one?

 

[Jack Black]

Jack, that Hartshead Barlow is stunning. Hoping to get my first Barlow soon...BTW, where is the link for the Guardians of the Lambsfoot banner so I can add it back to my signature. Don't know what happened there

Thanks a lot Steve The link is on page 1 or 2 of the Guardians thread, but you should just be able to right-click on the this, and take the image from there I think

 

[waynorth]

Old Boiley - after ten years of use, and, as a new-born!!

 

[Travman]

 

[Hibou Canne]

Carrying my spring street barlow today.
ATB

 

[calm]

https://imgur.com/VmX99jn

It must be a Barlow, as it says so
Carbon Steel classic, excellent workhorse. I did find that, generally, the more basic the knife, the lower down the model line it is, the more satisfied I am with it. This holds true for knives from various countries. Once a maker starts to make their model fancier then they start making more mistakes and people demand more quality for the money.

 

[Atiger]

A great set! Who is the maker of the shield stamped one?

Thank you - the tang stamp is marked “Columbia”

 

[Atiger]

A few more…some duplicates maybe

 

[euroken]

 

[Jack Black]

 

[fishin1635]

Maher & Grosh Toledo barlow with heavy duty back-springs.

 

[Jack Black]

Been enjoying carrying this one the past couple of days

 

[bigfish64]

Been enjoying carrying this one the past couple of days

A real beauty Jack. Nice photo.

 

[Jack Black]

A real beauty Jack. Nice photo.

Thanks a lot Todd

 

[euroken]

 

[Jolipapa]

 

[cigarrodog]

One of my earliest cowboy heroes

 

[JohnDF]

That's very cool, Harvey.

 

[cigarrodog]

That's very cool, Harvey.

Thank you John. They sure were.