What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

Too easy!!:grumpy:

Good eye, Mark!;) I figured someone would nail the scratting, but you got the pins just as quickly!

What else do you see?:)

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Revealed! That looks fantastic Charlie :thumbup: Great job, I can't remember being more excited about a knife, I've lost a few night's sleep over this one over the past six months! Congratulations to you and GEC for having the vision to produce it :thumbup: :thumbup::thumbup:
 
waynorth said:
Too easy!!:grumpy:

Good eye, Mark!;) I figured someone would nail the scratting, but you got the pins just as quickly!

What else do you see?:)

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The bolsters and blade have been etched to give it an antique look?

I love it Charlie!! :cool:

Dang, I can't make the GEC Rendezvous! :grumpy: I missed almost two weeks of work with the death of my mom. :( Will these be available at some point?
 
Lambfoot is the closest description, Brad, IMO.

Glad you are happy with what you see, Jack!! You who have trod the same pathways as the Barlow, Oates and Furness families!!:cool: (grammar?):rolleyes:

Here is some of the inspiration:

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I have always liked the guild stamps/markings on these old knives. Some of them are interesting Picasso-like drawings of various objects from life!! Grist for another thread perhaps!?!?

My father's family was from Sicily, hence the Trinacria.

More inspiration, the crude art of Scratting has always interested me. You can see refined forms of it would constitute checkering. I wonder which came first??

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In trying to capture the aged goodness of these olden knives, you can certainly see the main influence above!!

These Barlows just wouldn't look right all polished up, so we left some of the manufacturing process intact. I guess I am sticking my neck out here, but I absolutely love them!!
 
I love it also Charlie, great job!! At least I hope to see one at the Rendezvous but since I wont get there until Friday noonish I bet they will be gone.
 
waynorth said:
Glad you are happy with what you see, Jack!! You who have trod the same pathways as the Barlow, Oates and Furness families!!:cool: (grammar?):rolleyes:
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Really great work Charlie :thumbup:

The blade shape has been discussed several times in this thread I believe, and also most recently here: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...awyer-should-have-had?p=14839190#post14839190

Jack Black said:
There's been quite a bit of discussion here about that blade shape over the years, specifically in Charlie's Barlow thread, and about about straight-edge blades generally in Carl's excellent thread here - http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...foot-and-the-spear-American-and-English-taste - for example. It's a sort of extended Lambsfoot or Coping blade, and nobody here seems to be able to give it a name. Intrigued by this, and by the issues raised in Carl's thread, I've been quietly researching it for a while. So far, I've only seen that style of blade referred to as a 'Short Beak' or 'Slope Point'.
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Jack Black said:
I also suspect that the slope-blade or Short Beak might have been the precursor to my beloved Lambsfoot, rather than it being a refined version of the much older Sheepsfoot.
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Always a joy to see those old Barlows of yours Charlie :thumbup:

I've seen the scratting referred to as 'diamonding' :thumbup:

I am related to the Furness family by marriage, my Auntie and Godmother married Terry Furness of Stannington, and they had four lovely daughters, and subsequently grandaughters, and great-grandaughters :)
 
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I see GEC have updated their production schedule ;) That's a short run! :eek:
 
I live like an hour away from GEC but will be moving far away the week before the Rendezvous. Curse these life decisions! What a great looking Barlow!
 
waynorth said:
Too easy!!:grumpy:

Good eye, Mark!;) I figured someone would nail the scratting, but you got the pins just as quickly!

What else do you see?:)



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Wow Charlie! When you're looking for worlds oldest Barlow sometimes you just gotta make it yourself. LOL Any chance there might be some versions with a broken pen secondary? :)
 
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