What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

r8shell said:
Yep, though your comment made me go look at some older pictures to remember if it originally had any blackening there. I don't think it lasted any longer than the blade etch. :D

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What a cool picture! :thumbup:

Sweets for the sweet; something weird and little today, for me:

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~ P.
 
Rockon75 said:
You call it weird, I'll call it beautiful. That is a looker.
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Thanks, and I actually agree. "Weird" comes from elsewhere, in discussion right here in this thread when Charlie was in the process of unveiling his first-ever TC Barlows. I love the #25 pattern(s) so much, I immediately co-opted the descriptive as my own. :)

pertinux said:
NoNameNomad said:
...what does WLST stand for? Seen it used a couple of times in this thread and can't figure it out.
pmew said:
Weird Little Stubby Thing
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pmew said:
All royalties go to Pertinux who has the registered trademark.
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Yes! It all started in Charlie Campagna's estimable thread, What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?, in which he presented scans of his traditional barlows of yore and then slowly but surely unveiled the on-going development of what would become the #15 TC Barlows.

When it was clear that new, 3.5" barlows were indeed the pipeline, puukkoman did say, and I quote:
puukkoman said:
I'm really looking forward to these, too. It's exciting to see GEC produce a REAL barlow, instead of that weird little stubby thing they've been making.
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And off we went! So, Alex/puukkoman gets original credit, but as pmew notes, I jumped on the trademark right away. To whit:
pertinux said:
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Of these Weird Little Stubby Things®, I'm going with the one in the middle.
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~ P.
 
I will never forget that picture of Stan Shaw holding up that TC Barlow, Duncan!
That a great Master like Stan would have any interest at all is an honor, especially for Bill who makes them so well; with his heart and soul!
And ~P, WLSTs will live on forever! Our great grandchildren will bid them up on FutureBay (hopefully, an improved version of the current conundrum!) hoping to own a fine example!.
Gus your pics are worth a thousand words! Rachel that peach-pic is worth a thousand and ten!
 
Great to see those pics again Duncan, such a wonderful day, I wish it could have lasted forever :) That's a fantastic photo of one of my most treasured knives :) :thumbup:

Edit - There's been a lot of disruption here because of flooding, but I received a nice Xmas card from Stan & his family today, as well as the good Mr Gary (Peregrin) :) :) :)
 
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Every time I come back and look at this thread I want to buy more Barlow's. Some gorgeous knives in this thread.;)
 
Been carrying these around with me all day - Thought I needed some soup to fend off the 16 degree temps this morning. :):
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I don't know who to blame more for my thinning wallet, Charlie for his S.F.O.'s or Primble for his photography. Enablers! ;)
 
Primble said:
Been carrying these around with me all day - Thought I needed some soup to fend off the 16 degree temps this morning. :):
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16 degrees Rob?! Your colder than us (for now) a high of MINUS 2 for Sunday:eek: it's really been nice here to date, high 20's low 30's. As always my friend...BEAUTIFUL knives and pictures of them:thumbup::cool::)
 
paulhilborn said:
16 degrees Rob?! Your colder than us (for now) a high of MINUS 2 for Sunday:eek: it's really been nice here to date, high 20's low 30's. As always my friend...BEAUTIFUL knives and pictures of them:thumbup::cool::)
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That was the temp when I got up this morning, but, we made it up to 33 for a high. Thank you for the kind words and hope you are having a fine new year ! :)
 
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