What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

[Gevonovich]

Primble
Just an exceptional trio, Primble! And that sawcut if sweet!

Tim
That U-X-LD stag is just a real gem!! One of my favorites of the 25's I've seen!

~P owns my other favorites The horsecut and the blackwood bullet

Gonna get down to 40F tonight......brrrrrrr

 

[rishma]

Barlow Enthusiasts,

Hopefully you don't mind a question in this wonderful thread.

Is there a barlow with a full size clip and full size sheepsfoot? I have perused the majority of the 635 pages but haven't seen one. I love the look of the Days Work Barlow, but wanted to know if a Clip+sheepsfoot 2 blade existed. You are hereby obligated to post a photo if you own one.

Cheers

 

[bleh]

Barlow Enthusiasts,

Hopefully you don't mind a question in this wonderful thread.

Is there a barlow with a full size clip and full size sheepsfoot? I have perused the majority of the 635 pages but haven't seen one. I love the look of the Days Work Barlow, but wanted to know if a Clip+sheepsfoot 2 blade existed. You are hereby obligated to post a photo if you own one.

Cheers

Closest you'll probably find is the Original run of Northfield 77 barlows which had a full size clip and full size Wharncliffe.
20141103_145421 by mrbleh, on Flickr

 

[rishma]

Closest you'll probably find is the Original run of Northfield 77 barlows which had a full size clip and full size Wharncliffe.

Wow! very nice. Never had a wharncliffe but it suits my straight edge needs. Thanks so much for posting.

 

[mike Berkovitch]

My new addition

Mike

 

[btmccutcheon]

My new addition

Mike

Very nice, Mike. Is that a Queen?

 

[btmccutcheon]

Wow! very nice. Never had a wharncliffe but it suits my straight edge needs. Thanks so much for posting.

Here is another one. This was actually my first GEC.

 

[bleh]

Wow! very nice. Never had a wharncliffe but it suits my straight edge needs. Thanks so much for posting.

Glad to help, that's what we're here for! I sold that knife off long ago, but I can tell you the Wharncliffe was a friggin' laser. That tip was a needle. I didn't like the nail nicks inside the swedges, so I let it go, but it was a very, very nice knife when I did have it.

 

[bleh]

Very nice, Mike. Is that a Queen?

Pretty sure that's one of the Esnyx Old Catt Barlows.

 

[rishma]

Here is another one. This was actually my first GEC.

great covers!

 

[Ryouchijtx]

Primble
Just an exceptional trio, Primble! And that sawcut if sweet!

Tim
That U-X-LD stag is just a real gem!! One of my favorites of the 25's I've seen!

~P owns my other favorites The horsecut and the blackwood bullet

Gonna get down to 40F tonight......brrrrrrr

P definitely owns some of my favourites too I had a horsecut and consulted her about it a long while back.
Hoping this one will stick with me.

Great photos on this page guys!!! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Thank you Phil

Another photo for the thread.

 

[mike Berkovitch]

Very nice, Mike. Is that a Queen?

Thank you btmccutcheon. Sean got it, this Electric cutlery made by Evan AKA Esnyx with old Cattaraugus rosewood scales.

Mike

 

[btmccutcheon]

great covers!

Thank you, Sir! You can find them out there occasionally.

 

[RDaneel]

I received a gracious gift from Paul Hilborn today, this very nice Case Appaloosa (different lighting shots). My first Case Barlow.

 

[Primble]

Primble
Just an exceptional trio, Primble! And that sawcut is sweet!

Gonna get down to 40F tonight......brrrrrrr

Thank you my friend ! Well ............ you live almost to the equator don't you ?

My new addition

Mike

A real beauty Mike ! :thumbup:

I received a gracious gift from Paul today, this very nice Case Appaloosa (different lighting shots). My first Case Barlow.

Pretty Case Dean - from Paul Hilborn ? :thumbup:

 

[RDaneel]

Thank you my friend ! Well ............ you live almost to the equator don't you ?



A real beauty Mike ! :thumbup:



Pretty Case Dean - from Paul Hilborn ? :thumbup:

Yes, should have said which Paul!

 

[TsarBomba]

I originally posted these in the "old knives" thread but after going back and reading all the posts in this thread I feel like this would be a better place for them.







Clockwise from bottom left in the first pic: 2-blade Keen Kutter with a clip point in sawcut bone, reportedly 1940-1960; 2-blade Remington (RB44?) with a clip in smooth bone, 1920s? (block-print "REMINGTON UMC" tang stamp inside circle); 1-blade spearpoint M. Furness & Sons in sawcut bone, mid-1800s?; 1-blade spearpoint Wolstenholm I-XL from Sheffield in jigged bone, post-war; and a 2-blade I-XL with a sheepsfoot in sawcut bone, post-war (likely much newer).

I have many more newer Barlows. My favorites are a couple of appaloosa Cases from the early 80s, a "matching" early-70s pair of red bone Cases (daddy Barlow and regular), and a Remington jigged bone one-armed man Barlow with no shield (allegedly a factory error, but I have no evidence beyond hearsay). I'm also getting quite a set of 20th century Queens with the covered backsprings (pretty sure the two Ontario Old Hickory Barlows I have are Queen-sourced). Maybe one day I'll gather up them all for picture day.

Criminally, I do not have a single GEC Barlow. I plan on remedying that eventually - maybe one of the 77's I am bidding on will be mine. :love-struck:

 

[pertinux]

Tim
That U-X-LD stag is just a real gem!! One of my favorites of the 25's I've seen!

~P owns my other favorites The horsecut and the blackwood bullet

These, perchance?

~ P.

 

[Gevonovich]

These, perchance?

~ P.

Exactly!! I just saw this post and thought I would comment here as well. Again, perfection and Thank You!

 

[Campbellclanman]

I received a gracious gift from Paul Hilborn today, this very nice Case Appaloosa (different lighting shots). My first Case Barlow.

That comes as NO surprise - Congrats on owning that Lovely knife Dean, Paul is an incredibly generous person!