What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[baxtrom]

 

[mbkr]

There has been a lot of Eureka Jacks posted lately. Inspired me to carry this Cripple Creek today,

 

[JohnDF]

You must have had the day off.

I was working from home all day.

I’m glad to see it getting carried.

How could I not carry that masterpiece... I fell in love as soon as you showed it to me.

 

[Ellis Wyatt]

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[joeradza]

 

[Fodderwing]

 

[Primble]

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[Leslie Tomville]

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[ferider]

 

[JonMcD]

One spear for the apples and one for the yard duties.

 

[5K Qs]

Minnesota Twins hat…I saw how their logo was quite similar to that of a TC Barlow so I perused the thousands of Twins hats on eBay until I found this one. I guess given climate at certain times of year in Minnesota, there are a lot of “unique “ Twins caps available.View attachment 1816154

I never thought of it until I saw your post, but the Twin City Tractor logo is really close also. Might be hard to find a Twin City hat
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WOW, that is downright cool even without logo…time for a new thread…show your TC Barlow with a TC Tractor!
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Mark, that Twins TC cap with the earmuffs is very nice.
Mike, I grew up on a little dairy farm and have seen tractors from many makers, but I'd never heard of Twin City Tractors until I saw your post.
Last Monday while getting groceries, I bought a new-to-me beer when I couldn't find the brand I was looking for. Kind of a happy coincidence that this Triple Crown Brown also has a logo similar to that of the TC Barlow.

That’s awesome, GT. I bet your dad gets a good laugh out of it! Also, I’m a big fan of your knife rotation schedule. My collection isn’t quite big enough to need a schedule yet, but it is getting there. I hate neglecting my knives.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm working on a new rotation schedule, but this time I want it to assign me some of my favorite knives more often and my not-so-favorite knives less frequently.

Gotta give the Muskrat some love today.

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That stag muskrat is a dreamy knife!

Thanks, Gary. That old mower blade makes a good knife because it’s such tough carbon steel. When it’s time to sharpen my mower blades, I go over to the bench grinder. Using files takes forever.
That Sabre Barlow of mine is razor sharp. It wasn’t when I got it, but I made it submit to the oilstones.

Back on the farm when I was a kid, we sharpened almost everything (pocket knives, sickles/corn knives, lawn mower blades, blades on the sickle bar hay mower, etc.) on a bench grinder. But I don't have one now, although yesterday I saw that you can buy a lawn mower blade sharpener to attach to an electric drill that looks like it's basically a "hand-held bench grinder".
I sat in the shade yesterday afternoon and took apart a set of manual grass shears we have and sharpened the blades with a 40-year-old silicon carbide coarse/fine combo stone that I bought for $3.50. Worked pretty well!

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Boring, but they’re mine.
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I don't think they're very boring. That rehandled electrician knife is especially stimulating!

The one I was carrying is on the 47 frame, more of a work knife compared to the 87. Here they are side by side. It’s a terrible picture, but you get the idea.

I appreciate the comparison shot. I keep forgetting that Case has made 2-blade pen knives on the 47 frame. The 6347 is probably my favorite Case stockman (not counting sowbelly stockman).

Thanks Gary
I can appreciate that

I lied about the Antonini Its not walnut, its kotibe. Not sure when it transitioned to walnut in my mind Its a useful knife. That day I needed to lift the tension on a small snail spring and the spike was the perfect tool

The Livri, being linerless, is very light. Lightweight, micarta and stainless - perfect for shorts carry in hot weather I've been playing around with it and its quite the slicer. Slicey-er than it looks

Thanks for the extra info, Mike.
Enjoy your summertime Livri!

88+9=97. It's too dang hot for May!

The veggie garden (and whatever's chewing on the eggplants) seems to like it, though:

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Rachel, that knife combo is HOT!
You're harvesting beans already??!!

It's only 11 and I've been amazingly sick, so I don't know yet for today. My Buck 444 for an unplanned six hours in ER Wednesday, and my surplus SAK for the neurologist yesterday.
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I had aphasia. Not only could I not speak, I could not think. I meant to call somebody, but I didn't know what to do with the phone in my hand. I was going to drive there to tell them I wouldn't be there, but I didn't know how to open the garage. And what were those things in my pocket over and over again? (house keys). I walked over to the church, very carefully, and tried to talk to people there. Maybe two words at a time, with a long pause, and the two words didn't make any sense or take me anywhere.
So they called an ambulance.
I'm impressed how kind and calm they were.
So anyway, it wasn't a stroke, though it had us all going for a while. All she could tell me yesterday was transitory aphasia, which means I couldn't talk for a while. I'll take it.
This is how I feel today:

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Yikes! That sounds like serious business, Jer; glad you're feeling much better now!
Did the aphasia just disappear on its own, or did they have some kind of drug that restored normal functioning?
The brain/mind is SO weird! You couldn't speak or think, yet some kind of "metacognition" must have been going on for you to remember what you were experiencing during this episode. (Or are your "memories" mainly based on what observers later reported to you about how you behaved? That's what happens to me with regard to "memories" of coming out of post-colonoscopy anesthetic. )

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Congrats on the striking Laguiole, Alan!

Case knife for the day, fresh out of the mailbox...

Congrats on the new stockman, John! What model is that?

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Your Black Box whittler and Churchill are a classy couple, Steve!

- GT

 

[afishhunter]

I'm heading out for a hike tomorrow Wishing everyone a great Saturday

Going to be carrying my 2017 Guardians Lambsfoot SFO, and a BPS from Ukraine

Beautiful horn on the Lambsfoot.
Is that boxwood on the BPS? Looks like a handy size.

 

[Prester John]

Boker bone trapper

 

[joeradza]

Congrats on the striking Laguiole, Alan!

Thank you Gary. I was never a fan of a slim clip point but this has changed my mind and at this point in life that would be a vast improvement.

 

[BrotherJim]

 

[JonMcD]

That stag muskrat is a dreamy knife!



- GT

Thanks GT! I appreciate your appreciation for less appreciated patterns!

 

[JohnDF]

Congrats on the new stockman, John!

Thank you, GT.

What model is that?

It's an #18...

 

[JohnDF]

Good Morning Porch Friends and Happy Saturday

 

[mbkr]

Mark, that Twins TC cap with the earmuffs is very nice.
Mike, I grew up on a little dairy farm and have seen tractors from many makers, but I'd never heard of Twin City Tractors until I saw your post.
Last Monday while getting groceries, I bought a new-to-me beer when I couldn't find the brand I was looking for. Kind of a happy coincidence that this Triple Crown Brown also has a logo similar to that of the TC Barlow.
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- GT

Twin City eventually became Minneapolis-Moline if that helps
TC beer!

 

[Angry Waiter]

Good morning all. Out running errands with a Barlow to keep me company