What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

[singin50]

WOW Paul! All great examples of the beauty of the Barlow pattern!:thumbup:
Here's one I was finally able to shoot this morning of the Philll!

Perry

 

[Chris Montgomery]

Those are beauties Paul. Mark did them up nicely.

Chris

 

[knowtracks]

You are fortunate Paul, those are exceptional!
Great work Mark :thumbup:


Dave

 

[waynorth]

Nice trio, Mark!

 

[Dr. Scott]

Markesharp, aka Mark breaths new life into old Barlows and allows them to continue on dutifully serving their owner:thumbup:

All three redone by the Man himself


All are SOLID and centered blades:thumbup:

Beautiful Barlows! Great work, Mark!

What do you call the handle material on the red and yellow Barlows? Is it Delrin? Or just good ol' plastic? I love those colors, those bolsters! Beautiful!

 

[JSCHENK]

enjoying some new wiskey stones & chess The Brazillian Rosewood has hardly left my pocket, still having a hard time using it though, more just enjoyment, perfect fit and finish.

Red bone, Gabon, Brazillian Rosewood= most satisfied!

 

[paulhilborn]

Beautiful Barlows! Great work, Mark!

What do you call the handle material on the red and yellow Barlows? Is it Delrin? Or just good ol' plastic? I love those colors, those bolsters! Beautiful!

Scott, hopefully Mark will chime in a bit but they are gorgeous smooth bone:thumbup:

Details, we need details Mark

 

[Tenacious D]

Brazilian Rosewood -

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Do you need my address Mark?

 

[KBA]

Perry - I really like that shot!:thumbup:

Jschenk - Love the chess board and that rosewood is beautiful sir.

My two newest.




I actually forgot to take the one in my pocket out for the group pic, oh well.



Hope you all have a great week.

 

[TX_planes]

Perry - I really like that shot!:thumbup:

Jschenk - Love the chess board and that rosewood is beautiful sir.

My two newest

I actually forgot to take the one in my pocket out for the group pic, oh well.



Hope you all have a great week.

Brett, that's an impressive collection and an excellent photo! I really admire your two new single blade knives.

Curtis

 

[grkgod454]

I know those Brazilian rosewoods are super rare, but that would make an excellent addition to anyone's collection!

 

[singin50]

Agreed, and thank you Brett! You have a very impressive collection some very hard to find TCs! Love the 2 newest as well.

Perry

 

[GlennH]

Nice group of Barlows! Especially love the Keen Kutter! At first, I thought you had made your own German flag, but the black should be on top! Perfect color matches, though.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Thank you Barry, I consider myself very fortunate to own them (well at least two of them) seeing how the Ulster is Nancy's

Mark's skills are amazing and as nice as all three are, it is mind blowing how smooth and radiused he made the "York Dutch Barlow":thumbup: it melts in your hand

The York Dutch was a gift from Andi along with some other knives Andi mailed me. In Andi's letter he mentioned something about "if your able to fix the broken barlow" well, it was a no brainer to send off to Mark.

Mark can attest to the condition of the York Dutch as being doubtful as the liners were terribly warped and the pen blade was snapped off...he didn't flinch and simply said "send it my way, I'll make it work" he did at that:thumbup:

Whew- Awesome work there Mark - I agree the Ebony looks astonishing - Mark - you couldnt have given a nicer bloke such great work....Oh.... umm actually yeah you could have - ME!!!
Seriously - I LOVE reading this kinda thing goin' on in these 'ere parts ( as he strikes his match on the heel of his boots and leans back in his chair puffing his pipe)

 

[bleh]

I think I may have just bought an old school franken-Camillus

Screenshot_2015-01-06-20-57-07-1 by mrbleh, on Flickr

From what I can find, the tiptop name was in the 1942 and 1946 catalogs , but the CAMCO name/stamp wasn't around then as far as I can tell. The Camillus name on the spear blade is over 4 lines, which dates the knife that blade to 1946 or earlier, but the sheepsfoot is stamped CAMCO. The apparently brass pivot pin raises questions as well. The sheepsfoot blade is also slightly thinner than the spear. All I have to go off are the seller's pics right now.

It was cheap, so at the very least it'll be fun to play with.

 

[Markesharp]

Markesharp, aka Mark breaths new life into old Barlows and allows them to continue on dutifully serving their owner:thumbup:

All three redone by the Man himself

The Yellow Uster he gifted to my wife Nanc, the Red Keen Kutter he gifted to me, aka "Ole Red" and the German made Barlow "York Dutch Barlow" Mark resurrected from a broken two blade bone Barlow to a stellar single blade Spear with Ebony covers:thumbup:

All are SOLID and centered blades:thumbup:

THANK YOU BROTHER!!!

You are most welcome Paul!

Thank you all for the nice comments, I appreciate it so much. :thumbup:

 

[paulhilborn]

What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

Great jigging and color variation throughout the bone, a Spear and a Pen blade that are SOLID and centered with perfect pulls:thumbup:

 

[Markesharp]

That's a beautiful TC brother! :thumbup: I like the Barn wood back drop and your photography skills are awesome!

 

[singin50]

Lots of depth of color there Paul! That has got more changes in it than any other I've seen. I love it!
Perry

 

[gunstockjack]

Some soup for a cold winter's day:





This is the complete "Soup Bone" set. Who the heck came up with that name?