What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

Amazing badge. :thumbup: Isle of Man has an other form of trinacria, with armoured legs.
I'm fond of these barlows, specially the bone variations. Hope to get one, though I will have a dilemna: to spare and get this unexpected beauty I'd have to restrict the use of my beer Scout... :rolleyes::eek:
 
waynorth said:
The button and bladestamp images are extracts from my family history.
Specifically, the "Trinacria" is the symbol of Sicily, and the red and yellow diagonal, are the colors of her flag. My grandfather, and three of his many brothers, joined the melting pot that is America, in about 1895 from La Bella Sicilia! This seems like a good "guild" stamp to fit that history . . . . . . . . . if there were a guild for SFOs.:eek: But I digress!!:D

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The button looks very cool Charlie :thumbup:

Triskelion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion

Famous old pub in Leeds, originally called The Three Legs of Man .

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Bit of a dump these days unfortunately :eek:

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The next Tyzack tool I pick up is yours Charlie :thumbup:

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The barlow pinnacle, I don't know where you'll go from here buddy. I expect you'll carve out a trail somewhere.

Very good job all around,best back label too. When you get good people together,you can make good things happen.
 
I'm looking forward to seeing the front-label - maybe Huck and Tom in aprons and flat-caps! :D :thumbup:
 
I just love the history behind these knife designs.
I also love the personalized version on the Sicily three leged design, know it well. Very nicely done Charlie.
 
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Jack Black said:
Nice work on that back-label :thumbup: Apparently diamonding came about in Sheffield 1755-1758 :thumbup:
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Nice bit of information, Jack! I am sure you could write a wonderful book on the history of the pocket knife, with all the good stuff you extract from your readings!
 
Primble said:
Huh ??? I think Charlie might be too big for a shake down, like YOU were talking last night ! :eek::eek::eek::rolleyes:

Now he's probably thinkin' about hiding them scratted bones from me. :grumpy::grumpy:

It is going to take me 7 hours and 14 minutes from here. Add 4 hours to come thru Jackson. Something wrong with Mark's wheels? :confused::confused:

Besides, you would probably get me in trouble. ;):D:D:p
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Nice to hear you are coming, Rob! I'd love to see your creation in person! :thumbup:
Are you actually picking Mark up? :confused:
Now if you two come, you gotta behave!!:rolleyes::D
 
waynorth said:
Nice to hear you are coming, Rob! I'd love to see your creation in person! :thumbup:
Are you actually picking Mark up? :confused:
Now if you two come, you gotta behave!!:rolleyes::D
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Charlie, he won't pick me up because he has to drive a couple minutes out of his way. :confused::rolleyes: I guess I will have to drive myself if I am going to get there. Waiting to see what transpires here at work before I can commit.
If Rob and I get together at the rendezvous, I will make sure he stays in-line. ;) He can be trouble with a capital "T"! :eek: I am always on the straight and narrow! :D:D:D
 
waynorth said:
Nice bit of information, Jack! I am sure you could write a wonderful book on the history of the pocket knife, with all the good stuff you extract from your readings!
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Thanks Charlie, I'm still mopping up what I can find, but there's some great information which seems to have been largely overlooked. That particular detail is taken from Leader's treatise on 18th century Sheffield (page 68).
 
waynorth said:
The button and bladestamp images are extracts from my family history.
Specifically, the "Trinacria" is the symbol of Sicily, and the red and yellow diagonal, are the colors of her flag. My grandfather, and three of his many brothers, joined the melting pot that is America, in about 1895 from La Bella Sicilia! This seems like a good "guild" stamp to fit that history . . . . . . . . . if there were a guild for SFOs.:eek: But I digress!!:D

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I agree with the sentiments expressed by many others: that's a VERY cool bladestamp, Charlie. I'd like to see that on a lady leg knife!! (I wonder what's wrong with me. :eek: Another example of the haywire connections in my brain: when r8shell pointed out that the shape was a triskelion, all I could think of was an old original Star Trek TV series episode called something like "The Gamesters of Triskelion".)
 
5K Qs said:
when r8shell pointed out that the shape was a triskelion, all I could think of was an old original Star Trek TV series episode called something like "The Gamesters of Triskelion".)
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LOL! That's actually mentioned in the Wiki article I linked to above!:D :thumbup:
 
This thread just keeps getting better and better!! :thumbup:
And you were worried about these being a flop ;) but I knew better Charlie!! :D
The knives by themselves are OUTSTANDING, add the personal touches and......... Waa-Laa! A legend is reborn!!! :D:D

I do believe, I do believe, I do believe in magic!

Carry On My Friend,
Dave
 
Twenty Quatloos on the newcomers!!!!





*If you don't get that reference, you ain't no nerd. :D
 
r8shell said:
Twenty Quatloos on the newcomers!!!!

*If you don't get that reference, you ain't no nerd. :D
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From the Gamesters of Triskelion. I am a Trekker, not a Trekkie, but I got that reference.

Could Charlie, the designer of the next great Barlow, be a closet Trekkie?
 
Markesharp said:
Thanks Rachel, cause I don't get it! :eek::confused::D
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RDaneel said:
From the Gamesters of Triskelion. I am a Trekker, not a Trekkie, but I got that reference.

Could Charlie, the designer of the next great Barlow, be a closet Trekkie?
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Yep. It's part of an inside joke my brother and I have about how someday we will all just be brains in jars. Maybe that's why I like old-timey things like pocket knives. Because the older I get, the more it feels like I'm living in a science fiction movie.

Back on topic: Those Ancient Barlows are wonderful!
 
I'm not a Trekkie, but I'd like to see a Quatloo some time!
Is that a four hole outhouse??:D
 
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