What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[JJ Cahill]

Thought I'd start the week with a couple Lambsfoot slicers, one covered in horn and the other with Bagpipe Ebony (thanks Jack).

 

[r8shell]

Hey! I turned 65 today, so it’s a good time to thank you all for putting up with me and my old users for another year!

Happy birthday, Jeff!

I'm carrying a couple of KOTYs:

 

[315]

Shoveled snow yesterday, snowed all evening. Shoveled snow again this morning so my daughter could get the knee scooter out to the car to head to a surgery follow up appointment this morning. Came home and shoveled more snow with this 897 in my pocket.

 

[rishma]

Dreary, rainy day

 

[315]

How’s that jacket? I got some Kuiu attack pants for Christmas… can’t wait to try them on next scouting… nice knife too

It’s my second one if that tells you anything. I wanted this one prior to elk season but it was sold out so I settled for a camp pattern they had. My girls got me the solid for Christmas. I picked up a couple pairs of attack pants, wore them once hunting and really like them. I think they will be great for cooler weather.

 

[JW225]

Gorgeous 38 Jim!

Thanks so much, Todd!

 

[Catdaddy2]

Just got this slip in from Sharp & Fiery today. Very nice slip and f&f is amazing. Like to help out some of our own craftsmen.

 

[JTB_5]

I’m spending some quality time with a clever Frenchman who often saw us better than we saw ourselves.

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday!!

Happy birthday Jeff. Your "old users" remind me that for every "next great thing" released, there is an equally nice and well loved knife out there that exists that I was likely unaware of.

Happy Birthday Jeff
There's a lot going on with your family!

Thanks Bart, enjoying the bars and restaurants so far, kinda wet and sloppy for skiing. There are a few inches of snow and colder temps for tomorrow and Wednesday so things are looking up.

Happy Birthday Jeff! I’m already looking forward to reports from “The Godfather of Gardening.”

Amir Fleschwund
Happy Birthday Jeff
@sbh06
Beauty of a gift there Jeremy !!
bigfish64
Enjoy the ski-trip Todd !!
@paulhilborn
Get well soon !!
@Travman
Beauty of a sheath !!
JohnDF
Have Fun !!

Hope I got everybody !

Today’s carry, a simple pony…
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A great day to All

Happy birthday, Jeff. I enjoy “putting up” with you and your users on here.

Super pretty Canoe Whittler.

Thanks, Bart... we will have fun no matter the weather.

Thank you, Jeff.

Happy Birthday, young man.

Great job. Love it!

Good choice, Todd... Hope you find some snow.

Thanks, I'm sure i will.

It's looking better and better... the etch is wearing away.

Happy Birthday, welcome to Medicare! OH

Happy Belated birthday

Happy birthday Jeff.
A good year for you and the whole family, in great health.

I'm probably the only one, but I saw the Boker and slip and thought "that sure looks like Todd's knife and slip, but there is no way this is Todd as I've never seen THAT background before"...and then I remembered you were traveling...

The "hunter" looks like an old timer based on scale coloration but blade is stamped stainless. Did not recall old timer making a 25OT with stainless. What brand is it?
Thanks

Amir Fleschwund Happy birthday! Who's counting anyway.

Happy Birthday! I look forward to another year of putting up with you and your old users. (Especially your fantastic collection of TL-29s!) Hope you have a great day.

Happy birthday, Jeff!

I'm carrying a couple of KOTYs:

Thanks very much, all you fine folk!

Just got this slip in from Sharp & Fiery today. Very nice slip and f&f is amazing. Like to help out some of our own craftsmen.

And I still think you did a fine mod on that Camillus, Dave. Great wood.

 

[Catdaddy2]

Thanks very much, all you fine folk!

And I still think you did a fine mod on that Camillus, Dave. Great wood.

Thanks Jeff and thanks again for the donor.

 

[JohnDF]

I don't usually carry a SAK, but I'd carry that one often... Super Cool Micarta.

Fabulous trio of Case/Bose... I need to get a few more myself.

Shoveled snow yesterday... Shoveled snow again this morning... Came home and shoveled more snow

Sounds like me and all the leaves from my Oak trees.
Rake leaves... hour later it looks like I never raked it... rake again... hour later it looks like I never raked it....

Nice looking slip.

 

[Old Engineer]

Yes indeed, and I wish the same for you and yours, John!
We spent Christmas Eve with my wife’s family, Christmas Day at home, and yesterday down with my family. At least in both cases, those who could make it! There are nine out in Colorado, two in Louisiana, four stationed at Ft Campbell, another nephew off somewhere else with the US Army and five in Virginia who were all here for Thanksgiving, so they weren’t here. Then there was the Iowa State Trooper who was stuck working both holidays, and the three granddaughters in Georgia who we vacationed with this fall. Oh yeah~ there was a brother in law who didn’t feel well because of reactions to the strict dietary protocol their doctor is using to fight Lyme’s disease, and two nieces who are very close to their due dates, so they stayed home.
Other than that we were all together!

I wanted to carry this trapper with the serrated blade at least until I carved yesterday’s turkey. I was pleased with how that blade slipped into the joints and easily separated the cartilage. The Craftsman folding hunter performed perfectly as well.
I am sure many of you understand why I would bring my own knives to help cook at my Mom’s and Mother In Law’s. Even if one of us puts an edge on their knives for them, they are still going to cram them into the dishwasher, banging the edges into spoons and forks almost instantly rendering them as dull as butter knives.

I never saw it coming, but I got kind of fond of the Case. Voos rides along too.View attachment 1709636
I like this shirt I found at a secondhand store for $5. It has this cool little zippered pocket down by the left hem that is just perfect for a bottleneck slide.View attachment 1709637Hey! I turned 65 today, so it’s a good time to thank you all for putting up with me and my old users for another year!

Happy Birthday my friend .

Harry

 

[Old Hunter]

Schrade 807UH Stockman pattern penknife. OH

 

[5K Qs]

I'd swear there are more too, Gary! I think maybe I miss a day now and then! That makes it seem worse.

Maybe that's it, Gary. I seem to be more busy the past couple of months than I used to be, and by the time I get around to wanting to identify "noteworthy" posts in the Totin' Today thread, I've suddenly got 12 pages to go through instead of the 4 pages I'd have when I made time every day for some "serious posting".

Sweet Uncle Henry, Gary!

Thanks, Jeff. That Uncle Henry is my ideal medium stockman, with its round bolsters, nearly sunk joints, slender California/muskrat/Turkish clip, and low-riding sheepsfoot (although I was shocked to see that Jim 315 posted an 897UH in the snow earlier tonight with its sheepsfoot tip way above the liners, the way Case so often does it). And then the Staglon is just a bonus!

You also asked me in the not-so-distant past if my stag Mohawk canoe was the jewel of my fleet. (I'm not taking the time to search for your post.) It's definitely worthy of consideration for that role, but I have a 1975 Case red bone canoe, a Böker Beer Barrel canoe, and stag canoes from Buck and Colt that I also think very highly of. But my favorite is probably is a lowly Rough Rider that r8shell scrimshawed for me.

I think I also saw that Birthday Greetings are in order for you as you join the ranks of the Medicare Madmen! I hope you had a great day! FWIW, I turned 70 last week Sunday; catch me if you can!

Four lookers Gary

Thanks, Jack. With my hauling around 16-18 knives each week, I'm almost guaranteed of drawing some winners!!

How do you like that imperial stockman? I was thinking about purchasing it aswell. But i’m not sure yet.

Kevin, when I bought that Chinese Imperial sowbelly, I was not expecting much, given its incredibly low price. But I've been very, very happy with it; it's solidly built, good fit and finish, pleasant action opening and closing, and I know very little about steel, but I have no complaints about the stainless blades. I also have a couple of cracked ice canoes (one regular, one mini) that are Chinese Imperials, and I'm very happy with them as well. I saw a yellow-handled Case Sodbuster Jr that you posted today, and I have a similar model from Imperial (for $5 back when I ordered it several years ago) that performs as well as any of my 3 Case SBJrs.

(I see that you're from the Netherlands; all of my grandparents were Dutch immigrants or children of Dutch immigrants. Did you have any banket over the Christmas holidays? One of my grandmas used to make that, and I sure miss her and her banket now that she's gone.)

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A Classic Jack.

Thanks, John. The 33OT is definitely a classic, but based on aesthetics, I'd probably prefer a synthetic ebony Case medium jack like yours!

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Three interesting knives Gary, but I really like the photo of your Buck
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Merry Christmas everyone! Wishing all my friends on The Porch peace and goodwill, and have a great day
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Thanks, Jack. The photo of the Buck toothpick was taken on summer vacation while we visited the Lower Tahquamenon Falls one year; probably your influence that makes me enjoy knife photos with watery backgrounds!

Your Christmas trio are like the knife equivalents of gold, frankincense, and myrrh!

Very nice Gary, two beautiful peanuts, and it’s always good to see Black Jack.

Thanks for the kind words, Todd.

Nice Yuletide choices Gary

I am grateful for your comment, Jack, although my knives weren't really chosen specifically for Christmas. They're really just randomly generated by my rotation schedule, and then I must use my vast creative powers to come up with a back story that makes them seem holiday-appropriate!

Nice ones Gary, I especially like the chestnut CV peanut, it's on my list along with a 6318

That is one Pretty Peanut, GT.

Thanks, Dave and John. Chestnut jigged bone from Case is perhaps my favorite; I'd really like to track down a canoe with that bone. Dave, you have so many knives that I consider classics; I'm amazed you don't already have a chestnut peanut or a 6318! (Actually, I don't have a 6318 either, but there are so many to choose from, I can't make up my mind!)

- GT

 

[afishhunter]

Carry of a simpler time ... "before the world done went insane" ...
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[Rose and Thistle Custom]

 

[Chief]

Gave these to FIL a couple Christmases years back. He's gone now, MIL found them going through his desk and returned them this Christmas. He was a machinist at Boeing and appreciated the tool steel. I scuffed the black handled one for better grip and added a lanyard, encouraged him to use it. He preferred the Case stag trapper I had given him before and they remained new.

 

[TheFactor]

bigfish64 Todd Your beautiful Boker Barlow inspired me to pull mine out and crack open a cold beverage just to be sure it will be part of tomorrow’s carry so far so good cat butt/tail is optional.

 

[afishhunter]

Headed north trying to find some colder weather.
We’re not big skiers but we do enjoy this trip to Galena each year and we like to do a little skiing down the bluffs of the Mississippi River. It’s the closest thing to a mountain we have within a five hour drive, and Galena is a cool little town.
On the road so probably won’t get to watch the game today so GO BUCS!

I grew up just 8 miles north of Galena. It’s interesting to go back and see these small towns that have been resurrected, as I call it. Galena, and a lot of the other small towns in the area, seemed like they were falling apart when I was a kid and now they’re considered destinations. My Dad still lives in the same little house he bought in 1969. He and my uncle drive down to the little ski area and sit in the parking lot and watch the skiers going down the hill. He gets enjoyment out of it so thats all that matters. Enjoy your trip.

I was raised a little downstream from Galina, in Clinton, Iowa, across the river from Fulton.
Family trips to Galina were always fun. I think my favorite attraction was U.S. Grant's place up on the bluff, and the cablecar ride to reach it.
We set to The Palisades, a couple times a years, as well. One of the better parks I've been to.

 

[TheFactor]

Had to touchup the bolsters with a scotchbrite pad, the pocket rubs and high polish weren't playing well together. Excellent little knife.

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Beautiful!! Love the mini copperlock !
I think there related But I named my SodbusterJR Sybil .