What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

peanutsxx said:
Soup-er delicious!
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Thank you!

Couple of good traditional barlows
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I picked this up about a year ago. I’m not sure if it is genuine or not but it’s a great knife. If any of you know the approximate age from the tang stamp please let me know. I found some old threads on another site but the pics don’t show anymore.

Edited to add from what I’m reading I don’t believe it would be an actual Russell because of the center handle pin placement. Regardless it takes a really nice edge and I enjoy owning and using it.

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dispatch184 said:
I regret not grabbing one of those at the time Paul, something extra special about that particular variant in my opinion. All around fantastic knife my friend.
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dispatch184 said:
I do believe this one will go to my daughters or (hopefully) future grandkids. Helping me out with some daily errand running today
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Thank you Drew, just a fantastic pic of your red soup:cool: I just carried mine a few days ago, it's the only soup I own but darn glad to have it:thumbsup:
 
I searched (short of thumbing through all 842 pages) but couldn't find any comments specifically about this Colonial.

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I know Colonial mostly produced inexpensive knives, but this particular barlow looks at least of better, more solid construction than their shell barlows. Many of what I've seen are advertising knives, like the shell barlows. My question though is if these are indeed better built knives. IE: solid scales (albeit plastic), pinned sandwich construction, rather than flimsy, light, fragile shell construction.

The reason I ask is that there's one on that auction site with advertising that interests me.
 
Planterz said:
I searched (short of thumbing through all 842 pages) but couldn't find any comments specifically about this Colonial.

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(picture randomly pulled from google images)

I know Colonial mostly produced inexpensive knives, but this particular barlow looks at least of better, more solid construction than their shell barlows. Many of what I've seen are advertising knives, like the shell barlows. My question though is if these are indeed better built knives. IE: solid scales (albeit plastic), pinned sandwich construction, rather than flimsy, light, fragile shell construction.

The reason I ask is that there's one on that auction site with advertising that interests me.
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These were made in the 60's-90's. The bolsters are attached as the last step in assembly, over a riveted blade pin. They are more solid than a shell handle, but about the same in quality. I believe that there are some threads on the Colonial Knife Company that discuss these and the patent on the bolster posted.
 
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