What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

mrknife said:
do they do barlows with double bolsters?
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Enoch does 'em that way! (Kick drum, cymbal sizzle!)

Seriously, I think not!

But maybe define "double bolsters" for us, to make sure we are on the same page.
If you mean, do they put a cap bolster on the non-pivot end, then I would answer NO!
 
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waynorth said:
Enoch does 'em that way! (Kick drum, cymbal sizzle!)

Seriously, I think not!
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back in time, but not the Barlows we know today :)

Enoch! Enoch!

Who's there?

A’ve telt thi twice! Tek wood aht on’t oil, it’s reight perishin aht eer!

:eek: ;) :D :thumbup:
 
Jack Black said:
Waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back in time, but not the Barlows we know today :)

Enoch! Enoch!

Who's there?

A’ve telt thi twice! Tek wood aht on’t oil, it’s reight perishin aht eer!

:eek: ;) :D :thumbup:
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A wee translation please!!??:confused::D
 
waynorth said:
A wee translation please!!??:confused::D
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Did you not get the pen I sent you? ;)

"I've told you twice! Take the wood out of the hole (open the door), it's very cold outside!" ;)

Nobody has the name today, but the name Enoch, and 'Enoch's Hammer' once had a very special meaning in Yorkshire.

In Yorkshire, it was the Croppers who banded together under the 'Luddite' banner. A new machine, the cropping frame, took away their work. They put on disguises and under cover of darkness stormed the woolen mills, smashing the frames with huge farm hammers.

Enoch Taylor was a blacksmith in Marsden, near Huddersfield. He made both the cropping frames and the farm hammers at his works. The Luddites cry was 'Enoch made them ,and Enoch shall break them'. 'Enoch's Hammer' became the standard for the Luddites and was feared by mill owners across the north of England.
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esnyx said:
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These deserved to be bumped over to this page! Nice pics of nicely patinated knives!
 
Jack Black said:
Did you not get the pen I sent you? ;)

"I've told you twice! Take the wood out of the hole (open the door), it's very cold outside!" ;)
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I knew I'd seen it before! I've tucked that pen safely away - - somewhere!.:o
 
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Jack:



Note the only difference is the long (ext'd.) bolster vs. the short (std.) bolster and end cap. :)
 
PWork said:
I have seen one 1950's/early 1960's Imperial/Hammer Brand "shell" handled Barlow with caps. It's the only one I've ever seen.
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I've had Imperial and Richards Fish Knives with long front bolsters and an end-cap, but I don't consider them to be Barlows. :thumbup:

Edit - Oops! I just went and found one of the ones I think you mean! :D
 
Jack Black said:
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Like other local cutlers, the Furness family combined making spring knives with farming, and also running public houses from time to time, including The Rivelin Hotel and The Robin Hood (above)
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I mentioned the Robin Hood inn above, which the Furness family of cutlers once ran. It was in an area once known as Little Matlock, which is between Stannington and the River Loxley itself, a very rural area, very much off the beaten track. One of my earliest memories as a child is going there on a day out, on a ‘Bank Holiday Monday’ with all my extended family on my father’s side, all my aunties and uncles, the Furnesses, and also my father’s friends, the Stannington Barlows. I was the eldest child of my generation in my family, and so everyone made a fuss of me (I was about 3 at the time). The Barlows had two of their own children, and many years later, I went out with their daughter briefly. It was many years before I went to that pub again, but I always remember that happy day. Now I look back on it, and wonder if it was a meeting between my family and the Furness family, because it must have been shortly before my Aunt Joan and Uncle Terry Furness were wed. Also, if there was still some family connection to the pub (I remember one of them ran a pub in Sheffield city centre). A shame to see that the old pub, 200 years in the running, closed recently, there must have been a lot of cutlers drank there over the years, and a lot of talk of Barlows.

Fifty-odd years ago, and in fact even 30, the pub was probably more like the photo above than the one below, there was certainly no road!

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Jack Black said:
I mentioned the Robin Hood inn above, which the Furness family of cutlers once ran. It was in an area once known as Little Matlock, which is between Stannington and the River Loxley itself, a very rural area, very much off the beaten track. One of my earliest memories as a child is going there on a day out, on a ‘Bank Holiday Monday’ with all my extended family on my father’s side, all my aunties and uncles, the Furnesses, and also my father’s friends, the Stannington Barlows. I was the eldest child of my generation in my family, and so everyone made a fuss of me (I was about 3 at the time). The Barlows had two of their own children, and many years later, I went out with their daughter briefly. It was many years before I went to that pub again, but I always remember that happy day. Now I look back on it, and wonder if it was a meeting between my family and the Furness family, because it must have been shortly before my Aunt Joan and Uncle Terry Furness were wed. Also, if there was still some family connection to the pub (I remember one of them ran a pub in Sheffield city centre). A shame to see that the old pub, 200 years in the running, closed recently, there must have been a lot of cutlers drank there over the years, and a lot of talk of Barlows.

Fifty-odd years ago, and in fact even 30, the pub was probably more like the photo above than the one below, there was certainly no road!

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It s really a pity that such places disappear...
 
Great line-up of stag barlows guys!

Here's a "one-of" Esynx made for me with GEC 15 pattern blades.

 
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