What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

pistonsandgears said:
I am gonna have to bum a ride on that time machine of yours Charlie! Fantastic barlow!
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+1!

Those Flush & Square joints are perfectly lined up. And that bolster--part radiused and part faceted. I don't remember seeing that combination before. You, sir, have a knife with bragging rights! :)
 
RobbW said:
+1!

Those Flush & Square joints are perfectly lined up. And that bolster--part radiused and part faceted. I don't remember seeing that combination before. You, sir, have a knife with bragging rights! :)
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They are the best F&S joints I have ever seen on a production knife, Robb!
Step bolsters have been around for a while - a bit tricky to finish.

This knife was finished in the old-fashioned way, perpendicular to the wheel. You can tell by the way the Stag meets the bolster. It doesn't have that field of "white" that fades into the texture of the Stag, which is the result of parallel finishing.
 
Charlie,

Please return my Dads Camillus, you havent answered any of my e-mails concerning this.

Thank you





:D

Oh Man I wish!!!
Now theres one thing I REALLY REALLY like about these old knives and that is the Peened Pins!, but just like you went through Charlie and named everything about that knife - it has absolutely everything you could ask for - thats a LOT of Blade to stuff into that gorgeous knife - a one in a thousand knife! WOW!
Love that long Penn Blade and the.....:rolleyes:

Congrats on a fantastic find.
 
Hey Charlie, is that Barlow the prototype for our $100 2015 BladeForums Traditional forum knife? I'll take (5)!!! :D:p:cool:
 
waynorth said:
What would make a top-notch traditional Barlow?? Something rare and beautiful - a gracefully curved Barlow maybe. Rarest pattern!

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Wow, Charlie-- what a beauty! Congratulations. :-)

The "graceful curve" throws me off a bit visually, but I'm guessing it makes perfect sense in-hand.

Oh, and?

Oil Those Joints,* if you haven't since making the scans. Your knife looks a little thirsty. :D

~ P.



*(Ain't nobody keeps a knife oiled like Charlie.)
 
Fantastic Ulster Galvanic :thumbup: I think clean & square joints are long overdue for a revival :thumbup:
 
Campbellclanman said:
Charlie,

Please return my Dads Camillus, you havent answered any of my e-mails concerning this.

Thank you





:D

Oh Man I wish!!!
Now theres one thing I REALLY REALLY like about these old knives and that is the Peened Pins!, but just like you went through Charlie and named everything about that knife - it has absolutely everything you could ask for - thats a LOT of Blade to stuff into that gorgeous knife - a one in a thousand knife! WOW!
Love that long Penn Blade and the.....:rolleyes:

Congrats on a fantastic find.
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You and I both wish. :D My Dad always carried a dependable pocket knife, but never a high-end one. Never a real beauty like Charlie's gorgeous find. I have all my father's knives, and love each one. He was raised in the Great Depression, and I've wondered sometimes if it was that tough working class upbringing (not working, given the times, other than WPA) that kept him from ever spending on the good stuff, even when he had enough money later in life.

I'm inserting the semi-philosophical musings here because I know Charlie never minds that, and his amazing Camillus brought on those sorts of thoughts on top of my image of my Dad's "junk" box (his name for it) that housed knives he had stopped using when he got a new one.

What a knife, Charlie. That's workmanship and art I know my father, too, would have understood and admired. :)
 
Thanks for all the enthusiastic remarks, sisters and brothers of the blade!!

I enjoy your musings, BB, yours and everyone's!

And I enjoy that Ulster, Mike!! A super Barlow!!:thumbup:
 
Charlie, galvanic,

Very interesting knives. I didn't realize the bolsters could be formed in such unique manner. Thanks for posting.

Curtis
 
Galvanic Nice Ulster Sir.

Charlie. The Camiluus photos have been visited by me often. I have to say that it has to be one of the better knives I have seen. I absolutely love every thing about it.
 
I think I have finally found my own truly righteous Barlow...or at least what I want a Barlow to be. This is a 77 pattern that I missed out on because my email filtered out the email from Collector Knives, so I out out a feeler on the WTB forum and found this. It has absolutely insane stag, so deeply craggy you could almost hide in it. The blades are super tight and the entire knife is just gorgeous. This will be my EDC for a little while.

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