What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

007hunter said:
Excellent "ancient" look and feel to this knife with fantastic walk and talk! Great job Charlie and GEC:thumbsup:

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Very nice. Is the laser etch on the blade deeper than normal?
 
pmek5 said:
Very nice. Is the laser etch on the blade deeper than normal?
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Looking closely and running my finger across the etch...I don't feel or see any ridges, thus appears to be normal. Side note- the handle scales are fairly proud of the TC bolsters.
 
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waynorth said:
Has someone got a New Ancient, who can show me the tang stamp??
Is the blade represented by an underscore?????:eek:



@mrknife is correct. They called the Ancient blade the "C" blade. Did they really leave the New Ancient blank (or underscored)????
Like I said before, I have yet to hold one in my hands!!
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I thought it was really interesting that they left it blank. Since "C" has been used, I thought maybe "A" for ancient or "S" for spear. I don't know what all letters have already been used.

gunstockjack said:
The mark side of the tang is normal with "Tidioute Cutlery" and "Made in USA", but the reverse is stamped "GEC CAR" on one line, and 15 118 on the second line; there is no character representing the blade at all. There is a lot of 'scale' on the bolster and the pivot pin is proud, the transition from cover to bolster is rather abrupt, and while the cover rivets are normal, the nails (the pins holding the knife together) are hand pinned, or at least look that way. The blade has a lot of patina right out-of-the-box, and the pull is about in the middle of the strength range. Frame and pins are all mild steel, and the covers are saw-cut bone that look much like barlows of old.

Fantastic presentation Charlie!
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I really like the hand hammered look to the pins.

The blade almost looks like it has a forced patina then a stonewash. Is it stonewashed?

waynorth said:
Is that GEC CAR a typo????:eek:
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I wish haha

pmek5 said:
Very nice. Is the laser etch on the blade deeper than normal?
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It sure looks a lot deeper to me.
 
I was hoping that logo on blade was a stamp or deep etch. The video looks like it’s smooth.

Any idea which it is.
 
The logo on the blade is a typical etch, not deep or stamped. I'm glad it looks deep!
But it is hard to place a smaller, focused stamp without warping several blades in process.
Maybe some day we will find a solution!!
 
Charlie- Cant acid etching be hard to define from Stamping? ( I know as I have often mistaken Deep etching with Acid on old Blades for Stamping )
Have you explored this with Bill my friend?
 
waynorth waynorth

If you don't mind me asking, you've said multiple times and I'm paraphrasing, about the 2018 ancient barlow, that you hoped that almost everyone who wanted one would be able to buy one on this run and that you asked them to only do the one variant so more could get to distributors and thus into customers hands. I'm sorry but I'm confused by this. What about this run of TC knives makes them different from the others logistically?
 
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