What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

JITDC · Aug 23, 2017

mrknife thats exactly what I like about the ancients as well. The blade is very interesting, like the crescent nail nick, amazing walk and talk, the scratted bone on mine is awesome and I really dig the cc stamp. But when closed it's just so sleek!

Rusty1 · Aug 23, 2017

knowtracks said:
I do believe I can show 1.
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Dave

Thanks Dave, never knew these existed. so now I need to look out for both types.

mrknife · Aug 23, 2017

JITDC said:
View attachment 754405 mrknife thats exactly what I like about the ancients as well. The blade is very interesting, like the crescent nail nick, amazing walk and talk, the scratted bone on mine is awesome and I really dig the cc stamp. But when closed it's just so sleek!
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precisely! i suppose a little bit more blade wouldnt hurt but it definitely is very sleek when closed.

knowtracks showed me one during the rendezvous and it was a special scratted bone

pmek5 · Aug 23, 2017

Mine has the best walk, talk, and snap of any of my GEC's. Perfectly flush at half stop. A definite favorite.

waynorth · Aug 23, 2017

mrknife said:
precisely! i suppose a little bit more blade wouldnt hurt but it definitely is very sleek when closed. knowtracks showed me one during the rendezvous and it was a special scratted bone

Dave scratted that one himself! It's the coolest scratting yet, IMO!!
Hope he shows us a pic again!!

mrknife · Aug 23, 2017

waynorth said:
Dave scratted that one himself! It's the coolest scratting yet, IMO!!
Hope he shows us a pic again!!

yes that was quite some work! i can believe

knowtracks sitting on his porch with his pipe on the side just working at it, waiting for coyotes to come by

knowtracks · Aug 23, 2017

waynorth said:
Dave scratted that one himself! It's the coolest scratting yet, IMO!!
Hope he shows us a pic again!!

Hint, Hint!!

You know I can't wait to post that knife again!

But seriously I do wish a few other folks would try their hand a scratting those smooth bone Ancients......

Dave

dispatch184 · Aug 23, 2017

Sorry Charlie I am just seeing your post request. Here is my soup, one of my most treasured knives =)

Some really amazing knives in just the last 3 pages!

Rusty1 · Aug 23, 2017

Thanks Dave, well worth posting your self Scratted ancient again.
Russell

dispatch184 · Aug 23, 2017

Thought I would post a soup family pic. I consider the inside out bone to be a 2nd cousin =)

5K Qs · Aug 23, 2017

Goodness gracious sake's alive, Drew, what a marvelous, majestic collection of TCs!!!

I especially admire the blade variety!

- GT

dispatch184 · Aug 23, 2017

Thank you! Curious, was there a Stew's Blade soup bone?

paulhilborn · Aug 23, 2017

Only hours old :thumbsup:

mrknife · Aug 23, 2017

paulhilborn said:
Only hours old

keeping mine mint pal!

might have to try to score one of those seconds to be a user from barry after the dust settles so its fair

MJ71 · Aug 23, 2017

dispatch184 said:
Thought I would post a soup family pic. I consider the inside out bone to be a 2nd cousin =)

Drew. That's a pretty damn impressive bunch of TCs. Great photo too. I particularly love that day's work. MJ.

HST · Aug 23, 2017

So jealous of those Ancient TCs.

Currently, I'm just soaking up the love of my '17 BF Barlow. This is an awesome pocket knife! All of my half-stops are flush and I love this natural micarta.

Tomorrow is another TC Barlow day, with my Cranberry coming to its new home. I've already named it Angry Ram.

mrknife · Aug 23, 2017

HST said:
So jealous of those Ancient TCs.

Currently, I'm just soaking up the love of my '17 BF Barlow. This is an awesome pocket knife! All of my half-stops are flush and I love this natural micarta.

Tomorrow is another TC Barlow day, with my Cranberry coming to its new home. I've already named it Angry Ram.

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sweet scores! i missed the reserve sadly on mikes site, was put on standby but hopefully one will turn up eventually. not too keen on the sheepsfoot usually but that ancient sure reminds me of the lambsfoots!

Half/Stop · Aug 23, 2017

Rusty1 said:
Nice group of knives Ron, here's my ancient soup bone.
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Thanks Russell! That is a nice example as well my friend! :thumbsup:

Will Power said:
Ron Excellent group shot But the one that always stands out for me is the 'scratted' somehow that works best of all!

Thanks, Will

Thank you Will!

knowtracks said:
I do believe I can show 1.
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Dave

Dave my friend thanks a lot for your photos. All are beautiful examples! :thumbsup:

dispatch184 said:
Sorry Charlie I am just seeing your post request. Here is my soup, one of my most treasured knives =)

Some really amazing knives in just the last 3 pages!

Drew you are showing some beautiful soup as well my friend! All very nice! :thumbsup:

This one is hot off the press so to say! It was so great to see these being made, I actually believe I saw this one at the Rendezvous!!!

knowtracks · Aug 23, 2017

dispatch184 said:
Thank you! Curious, was there a Stew's Blade soup bone?

No Soup! 2 different bone colors and Ebony in both single and 2 blade. And also this Oil sucker rod which was the Rendezvous knife that year.

Dave

Rusty1 · Aug 23, 2017

Nice to see the BFC Barlows turning up. I did get one of the oil sucker rod wood knives but had to hunt for it, Nice one Dave.
As we are going through the soup bones I dug this one up from batch.