What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

RobbW said:
This one. Charlie gave Bill permission to use the TC bolster stamp on 30 2014 rendezvous knives. I believe one or two extra were made. They are not Charlie-commissioned TC Barlows, but bear the stamp, nonetheless.

Mine is #30. ;) :D

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Too cool! What a great knife.
 
RobbW said:
This one. Charlie gave Bill permission to use the TC bolster stamp on 30 2014 rendezvous knives. I believe one or two extra were made. They are not Charlie-commissioned TC Barlows, but bear the stamp, nonetheless.

Mine is #30. ;) :D

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Wow! What a great knife! I have its brother, number 20. Beautiful picture, btw. I'm gonna try to post one tomrrow, my phone is seeming to get worse at photos though.
 
Thanks Paul! It's kind of homely but I like it because of its association with Edwin Drake and the birth of the petroleum industry in Titusville.

I only had budget for two knives at that rendezvous, so I bought the rendezvous knife and one of Charlie's TC Barlows. I know Charlie thought I was crazy because he had a crate of those TCs there that he was selling and I only bought the one. This was just before the TC market went crazy. I looked over most of them with Sarah and Dave, but just couldn't go above my two-knife budget. If I'd have had the money, Charlie would've returned to Canada empty handed, and not had those knives which helped fuel the frenzy later at the Oregon knife show!
 
very nice Robb!! I too was extremely lucky to be able to get myc paws on one, This one from the man himself..... #31 apparently this was at rendezvous on display? ( i wasnt there...but Oh how i wish... )

I swear there were claw marks from Paul trying his very best to stop the knife going into it'd box on its way to good ol' NZ!!



 
Great Eastern sells 30 Rendezvous knives each year, 10 per day. The factory archives number 1, and sells 2 through 31, serial numbered. There were a few un-serialized ones as well, maybe 3 (?), that fell into ummm, private hands:rolleyes:!
The sucker rod is petroleum stained wood. It was a relic from old-style oil well pumps.
 
This is 1 of the 3 that were not made into Rendezvous Specials...
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And a Rendezvous Special that I picked up off the exchange...... I couldn't make the show either. :rolleyes:
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So now we accounted for #29, #30 & #31 !!!:D


Dave
 
Nice to see so many of the rendezvous knives in forum members' hands. Looks like most of them were picked up on the third day, with a couple on the second.
 
Wow...these knives are sneaking out the woodwork now eh?...Dave got an unserialised - so you should my friend!!!

Hey Wundergussy - you are cool matey - and so are your knives! That Stew's twin blade is a beautiful knife!!!
 
Yeah, wg, that Stew's Blade is incredible. I love the sawcut redbone handle.

Duncan, I just noticed that awesome carved TC lanyard bead. That's really well done. I remember when you got that. I missed it before because I was browsing on my phone. :o :thumbup:
 
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