What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

[Pt-Luso]

 

[euroken]

Ulster barlow

 

[SteveC]

Camillus #11

 

[Way-Barney]

 

[waynorth]

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Nice knife!! First Ablett (R.I.P.) Barlow I've seen with the bolster stamped!!

 

[Way-Barney]

R.I.P Indeed.

He did a spell of customs for a while.

I bought a few.

 

[Travman]

Wormy Chestnut makes a good handle material for a traditional Barlow.

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[euroken]

F.A. Bower

 

[Way-Barney]

‘BRITISH VICTORY: Neither France, Russia, or Germany Can Produce Such Cutlery as That Manufactured by Slater. CRUSHING DEFEAT AWAITS ALL COMPETITORS’. (1890)

This is one of my favourite Barlows, I keep thinking that one day I might take it apart and put a new blade in it, but I cant bring myself to do it.

 

[Jolipapa]

For years I wondered what could be the infamous "England's Glop"?

 

[waynorth]

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For years I wondered what could be the infamous "England's Glop"?

Nice Ablett Barlows, Alain!!!
(I'm assuming Globe??)

 

[waynorth]

‘BRITISH VICTORY: Neither France, Russia, or Germany Can Produce Such Cutlery as That Manufactured by Slater. CRUSHING DEFEAT AWAITS ALL COMPETITORS’. (1890)
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This is one of my favourite Barlows, I keep thinking that one day I might take it apart and put a new blade in it, but I cant bring myself to do it.

Important tang stamp!!! I'd keep it; maybe a little fine steel wool to show it off!!

 

[Way-Barney]

The Matches are "England's Glory"

They were the matches of choice when we were kids, strike anywhere and just a bit longer than Swan Vestas,
You could strike them on the Zipper of your jeans, if that was the only dry spot. LOL
I have set me some fires with those matches.

 

[Jolipapa]

Nice Ablett Barlows, Alain!!!
(I'm assuming Globe??)

@ W Way-Barney ; I have somewhere a regular matchbox.

The two blades comes from Tasmania and there's a sticker on the bolster.

 

[CuzDoug85]

New kids on the block.

 

[waynorth]

I have set me some fires with those matches.

I hope, for good purposes!!!???

 

[Way-Barney]

Of Course, Lol.
My Grandma and Grandad did not have a gas or electric fire, they burned coal to heat the house in wintertime. A new fire had to be started every day.
We also "camped out" most weekends and sometimes for weeks on end in the school holidays. Usually someone had to go home and steal "one match" from their smoking parents. We invented the one match fire when we were six.

 

[btb01]

Love that big H bolster.

Wormy Chestnut makes a good handle material for a traditional Barlow.

Definitely a unique handle material with a great story.

 

[mrknife]

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For years I wondered what could be the infamous "England's Glop"?

is that a little telescope? or monocular?