What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

Let's see, I have an old Remington barlow rehandled in green bone, an old Camillus 9 daddy barlow, a Queen Dan Burke daddy barlow, a Queen Dan Burke small barlow, a Queen made Robeson small barlow, and last but not least 5 Charlows. Two ebony single blade spear points, one antique yellow bone two blade spear, one ebony pile side 2 blade spear, one antique bone clip. I never thought for a minute that a company could make a better barlow than my Queen Dan Burke small. Then I was confident that no one could make a better barlow than my old Remington barlow.

C'mon, I double dog dare ya to make a better barlow than my Charlow!
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Let's see, I have an old Remington barlow rehandled in green bone, an old Camillus 9 daddy barlow, a Queen Dan Burke daddy barlow, a Queen Dan Burke small barlow, a Queen made Robeson small barlow, and last but not least 5 Charlows. Two ebony single blade spear points, one antique yellow bone two blade spear, one ebony pile side 2 blade spear, one antique bone clip. I never thought for a minute that a company could make a better barlow than my Queen Dan Burke small. Then I was confident that no one could make a better barlow than my old Remington barlow.

C'mon, I double dog dare ya to make a better barlow than my Charlow!
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A wonderful evolution of a Barlow collection, Dan!!
I especially like the last sentence!! Something Huck Finn would say!!:D
 
waynorth said:
There will be some Ebony, two sawcut bone colors, and possibly some black walnut.
My father had a couple of walnut gunstock blanks in his closet from the 1950s. My brother gave me one of them, and I of course immediately thought "knife Handles"!
We are just looking at it to see how it finishes up.
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What about the bolsters? Nickel silver, or carbon steel?
 
Aaron, they will have the same steel TC bolsters, same steel liners, and carbon steel blades and springs.
 
Campbellclanman said:
Hey Charlie, how serious is this thought about Grand - daddy's?
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It is just idle chatter, Duncan. I don't think Bill has immediate plans to do one. Surely not this year anyway.
But I do think sometime in future years, Daddy Barlows and similarly-sized English Jacks will make an appearance.
 
waynorth said:
It is just idle chatter, Duncan. I don't think Bill has immediate plans to do one. Surely not this year anyway.
But I do think sometime in future years, Daddy Barlows and similarly-sized English Jacks will make an appearance.
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I like the sound of that. I don't need a 5" version, but something in the 4" to 4-1/2 range would be great.
 
burnside said:
I'm curious, has anyone ever seen a lockback Barlow?
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Yep, I just bought one at Blade today. A.G. Russell lock back Barlow. It's imported so it was very inexpensive, but the build quality is nice.
Also picked up a very cool Canal Street Barlow prototype, a used ebony TC "Charlow" and a couple of inexpensive Utica double blade Barlows.
It was a good day and all for less than one Chris Reeve Sebenza.... Haha.

http://www.agrussell.com/a-g-russell-medium-barlow-lockback/p/RUS-CB13YD/
 
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burnside said:
Hmmm... I wonder if we might ever see a lockback Charlow! :thumbup:
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Gotta admit that would be cool. The used Charlow I bought today is really, really nice. They had 3 and I should have picked them all up but I was working under a wife-imposed budget... :-)
 
I put my first edge on my Red bone Charlow ( Clip point ) and to be honest I really love that knife so much I was a bit scared, in the past I have had two GECS that I have had a wee bit of trouble getting a nice sharp edge on, but my others have sharpened up wickedly, anyway..... I went to my friends farm and we were walking through a section where they have planted out in massive proportions all sorts of trees and plants - this farm is just stunning ( I left my Camera at the house unfortunately my friends - otherwise I would have loved to share the beautiful views with you )...we did a wee bit of cutting restrainers away frim the newly formed trunks of trees etc with this knife....
it sharpened up just beautifully, and so too does my Spear point Charlow - just joys to use and carry.
 
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Someone is going to get a absolutely stunning letter here by the looks Sarah!
 
Glad you are having luck with the blades, Duncan. I have used two TC Barlows so far, and both sharpen up easily and well!
Old Boiley soldiers on, and I also carried a Clip (Boiley II) for a while, but an old friend talked me out of it!
They are treating that 1095 right IMO!!
 
Nothing other than I just like posting pictures of my favorite knife :p It was a really misty day and I thought the tiny droplets looked neat on the knife :)

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Paul
 
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