What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

Eddard Stark and Boromir?

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In keeping with the content of this thread, before I add to derailing it any further, I have a cell phone pic of my 2 blade barlow and 2 blade Huck Finn boys jack together. I just got my single blade ebony Huck Finn boys knife, so I need to get a pic of that with my single blade barlow. Both ebony!

These 15's are addictive!
 
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British Barlow Heh! I will have to be all over that one right enough, being British so to speak (not with a cockney accent)

Russell
 
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While climbing back on the rails, I have a question of the many Brits we are lucky enough to have hanging around here - What accent would be sported by a person born and bred in working class Sheffield??
 
scruffuk said:
Why would a Barlow have a Cockney accent? :rolleyes:

Clearly it would sound like Sean Bean! :D
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Naw, see, Cockney's wot asks the questions.

Given the materials used in these CS barlows, I envision the answer sounding something like Carol-Burnett-as-The-Queen.

"My Dear Peasants...."

:)

~ P.
 
waynorth said:
While climbing back on the rails, I have a question of the many Brits we are lucky enough to have hanging around here - What accent would be sported by a person born and bred in working class Sheffield??
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Try googling or you tube search Ken Barlow, Coronation Street :D:eek:
 
Rusty1 said:
Ken Barlow LOL not broad enough I don't think, Sean Bean is close but even some of his accent has worn off. By Eck.
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Sharpe era Bean....or how about Brian Glover?

I wish Sheffield's little mesters could produce a Barlow to such a fine standard as the ones pictured thus far.

It saddens me my only experience to date was so poorly finished :-/
 
Sorry to be late for this discussion! :D Ken Barlow indeed! He's from the wrong side of The Pennines! :D Unless anyone wants to give me a phonecall, I think the closest you'll get is Sean Bean in When Saturday Comes, the Sharp series as cited by ScruffUK, or in more recent years, the film Cash.

The brother of an old friend of mine grew up with Sean Bean, and the actor still has a drink with his old pals in Sheffield. On one occassion, Mr Bean had left something in the glove-box of my mate's brother's car, and went out to get it. Just as he was fiddling around under the dash, my pal walked up the street, and thinking someone was trying to steal his brother's car, he ran up shouting and aggressively banged on the window. Apparently, poor Sean was shaking for ten minutes after, much to the amusement of his old mates! :D
 
Yes now I've got it (gorrit)...

No not Ken Barlow (the most boring man in Britain according to the Sun):D:thumbup:

But Music Hall comedian STAINLESS STEPHEN, from the steel town with steel brimmed hat&waistcoat. Old School for sure:cool:
 
willgoy said:
Music Hall comedian STAINLESS STEPHEN, from the steel town with steel brimmed hat&waistcoat. Old School for sure:cool:
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Not heard of him. Will have to look him up :) I'm more of a John Shuttleworth man! :D
 
tgrigal said:
This has been in the family for quite a while. Curious as to maker/date/etc... I'm guessing it's NYK Co. but haven't found any stamps like this. Any info would be welcome.
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New Guy Thom.
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Hey Everyone! I'm a little late to the discussion, of NYK, but I think my Photobucket is back, so here are pics of some more NYK barlows, which, in fact, inspired the TC Barows recently produced by GEC. (hope this works)
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Interestingly for the detail junkies out there, when you look at the last picture, you can see that the dies that form the bolsters were made in two different ways!
 
Charlie, please forgive this sounding silly, by two different ways...do you mean that the Bolster Stamping is different-the way the stamping is cut deepr and more defined in the Bolster right hand of the photo?
This may have been asked before-what era are these knives from? ( round-a-bouts )
 
Duncan it looks like the left one was done with a directly-made male stamp/die (see flat bottoms inside), and the right one was first a female engraving (see path of round cutter inside) which was then used to form a male stamp/die. But I don't know nearly all the ins and outs of how stamps were/are made!
 
waynorth said:
Duncan it looks like the left one was done with a directly-made male stamp/die (see flat bottoms inside), and the right one was first a female engraving (see path of round cutter inside) which was then used to form a male stamp/die. But I don't know nearly all the ins and outs of how stamps were/are made!
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Thank you for that Charlie, those were the days of true craftmanship, its good to see GEC bringing this back in such a great way, and when i say thank you it because of this as well....
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Sorry if I posted this already, I ran across this thread and it looks oddly familiar....

My favorite I have to say is this Camillus (d-2?) half stops, long pull on the clip, bail, delrin handles, this knife is a work horse.

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Duncan, I can't make out the stamp on that daddy barlow, who made it? Must be a holdover from my Strider carrying days, I love the big knives, that daddy barlow is nice!
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Duncan, I can't make out the stamp on that daddy barlow, who made it? Must be a holdover from my Strider carrying days, I love the big knives, that daddy barlow is nice!
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The older Daddy Barlows are great arent they!..this one was made by Ulster, Dwight Devine ( & sons ).
 
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