What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Headwinds]

Sunday Stockman...

 

[JohnDF]

Great pairing there buddy

Thank you, Jack.

Have a great day, my friend.

 

[Jack Black]

Thank you, Jack.

Have a great day, my friend.

Thanks a lot John, you too buddy

 

[Dan1892]

Nice ones Dan !!! ... what is that top one?

Thanks! It's a Case doctor's knife that I bought a few years ago and never really meshed with. It was originally a natural bone and was my guinea pig for my first DIY dye job. It came out with those dark splotches on one side and nice and even on the other. Even with the amateur dye job, I still like it better than before so figured I would finally give it some pocket time

 

[black mamba]

Sowbelly Sunday

Notice how differently the etched part of the blade took the patina.

 

[bigfish64]

Just chilling on this beautiful sunny Sunday morning. Have a great day everyone.

 

[JohnDF]

Good Morning Porch Friends
Here's my GEC knife for the day...

 

[JohnDF]

The knife goes very well with your beverage container... Have a good day, my friend.

 

[5K Qs]

Bit of stag with this beautiful little dog paw View attachment 1817745

Attractive knife (and pocket slip) to honor a canine companion!

Thanks GT! The sheepfoot blade riding too high is also what I don't like with some stockman knives. I had to file the kick of the sheepfoot of my 6318 to keep the spine lower and make it a bit more comfortable in the hand when using the other blades. I'm glad this 6347 has a low riding sheepfoot blade.

I really like the looks of a Case 6318, except for the crazy-high sheepsfoot; good to know that you could lower it by filing the kick. I didn't realize that the amber bone stockman you posted was NOT a 6318. My favorite Case stockman pattern is the x347.

Redbuds, crab apples, lilacs, and serviceberry are competing for attention.
This is redbud.View attachment 1817833Schrade Walden 8OT and just plain Schrade 194OT. View attachment 1817834Enjoy your day.

Seems like the spring flowers are moving through their life cycles at warp speed with the hot weather this week! A week ago, our yard was lovely with daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, forsythias, rhododendrons, quince, and Juneberry tree all in full bloom. But today almost everything except the quince blossoms and a few tulips are gone or severely bedraggled.
I can't keep track of all the Old Timer models! I didn't realize that 194OT liner lock was at least as long as the 8OT. And when I looked around online, I found out Schrade called it a Gunstock Trapper, even though it doesn't match the shape of the "gunstock pattern" from other knife companies.

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.

That's interesting, Alan. I like the "look" of a broad clip blade, but in terms of use and effect on overall knife "profile", I prefer the more slender clip points.

"Pocket Jewelry" certainly is a term that applies to that beauty, Jim!

Thank you, GT.

It's an #18...

Thanks for the info, John. I sometimes get Case's round-bolstered stockman knives ('18 and '47) mixed up if I don't see them side by side.

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

Definitely helps, Mike - I've heard of Minneapolis-Moline.

Yep! Our last freeze was in February. Beans will produce in summer, but peas only have a short window before it's too hot for them.

Perhaps one of your categories should be "Favorites"
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Very kind of you
It sounds like your rotation algorithm is going to become weighted toward favorites, which will be a wise modification.
Life is just way too short to let some arbitrary rule deprive us of our favorite pocket knives!
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Thanks for the growing season info, Rachel.
I think I have too many "favorites" to put them all in the same category. I'd probably run into the same problem: if I had 30 knives in my favorites category, each would get carried for a week at most twice a year. So my current thinking is that I'll decide on about a dozen categories like I had in my previous schedule, and then designate my top 5 (or top 3 or top n) knives in each category. Then I'll make TWO schedules, one containing all my favorites and one containing all the rest. Then I'll use the favorites list one week and the others list the next week, and continue that alternating lists approach. So I should be able to get through all of my favorites (if they're top 5) over the course of 10 weeks, and carry each of the favorite knives at least 5 weeks out of a year. That's far more frequently than my old "totally democratic" list allowed.

Ed, I don’t know what it is about those goldfish, but I’ve been eating them as a snack in my lunch just about every day for the last 20 years and I still look forward to them every day.

That's quite a testimonial! Maybe I'd better put them on the grocery list and try them.

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That Case 2-blade bonestag Barlow is a beauty!!

Carrying a 74 Mustang today. Beautiful morning here and IView attachment 1818017View attachment 1818018 spent it on the patio finishing a smoke tanned leather handle wrap with some beading work on my most recently made osage bow. Life has been busy here and I haven't been around the porch much lately. Our kitchen remodel is now done and the house is back in order so I may have more time on my hands. Have a great Saturday all.

Good photos of some of your quality equipment, Greg!
I hope you get more free time for a while.

Long day at the sectional track meet, time to relax. View attachment 1818315

Looking good, Todd! (And the background looks so green and spring-like!)

They gave me a drug, but I haven't looked it up yet to see what it was for. Late in the ER evening I started to talk a little haltingly but with effect. I'm still hearing myself make some strange mistakes, which worries me. I've worried to my nerve maestra about it.

I haven't talked again yet to anybody who was at the church. I remember getting the words out at church before the ambulance came, but not what the words were. And I can still see them talking earnestly to me, but I can't remember anything they said. I don't think I understood much. [Which suggests my aphasia was receptive as well as productive. One more note to maestra.]
I wish I could remember something between calling Kirsten to tell her I wouldn't make it to the farm that morning, and being totally flummoxed by my own phone in the afternoon. There was something about 3:00-ish, but I don't know what.

I've started walking with a stick, to give myself confidence.
Did I ever show you guys my NY World's Fair Fair Seat walking stick?

Thanks for the update on your health emergency. Interesting that you mentioned the community farm you work at. As I thought about what happened to you, one of the things I wondered was whether you'd been working on the farm during this early "heat wave" and had too much sun, or heat, or too little water. Don't think I've ever heard of those kinds of conditions leading to aphasia, though.

I carried my new Rough Ryder barlow today.

Congrats on the new cinnamon stag bone RR Barlow! Is that a model with damascus blades? I have a cinnamon stag bone damascus canoe with which I'm quite impressed.

I carry today this Boker Stockman Anniversary 150 in Curly Birch Wood.


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Handsome stockman, José! Single-blade version?

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Enjoy your Sunday everyone Carrying my Hartshead Barlow, and hanging onto my Ukrainian belt knife

Superb folder/fixed blade pairing, Jack!

Jason & the Argonauts went in pursuit of The Golden Fleece, there would be no fleece without the Ram Don't know if this Ram was winged or its fleece golden, but the Horn it donated is.

The golden ram's horn with the graceful arc in the "grain" is VERY appealing, Will!

Do alligators host remoras?
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Interesting question, Rachel!
I remember learning about remoras while I was in 3rd or 4th grade, paging through World Book Encyclopedia.
I put your question to Google, which said remoras attach themselves to whales, sharks, or rays. No alligators.
But I also learned that in tropical Africa, crocodiles lie with their mouths open so that Egyptian plovers can fly into the crocodile's mouth and feed on decaying meat stuck in the croc's teeth. Is that close enough for your purposes??
(I also learned that the croc/plover relationship is an example of mutualism, while the remora/shark relationship is an example of commensalism; both relationships are types of symbiosis. Always great to learn about the birds and the bees, so to speak. )

Lambsfoot Knife of the Week for me is LamBarJack, my rosewood Hartshead Barlow:


Alox SAK of the Week is a Victorinox Farmer (thanks, Tom):


- GT

 

[bigfish64]

I carried my new Rough Ryder barlow today.

Cool shot Bart, I haven’t cut anything with mine yet but I bet they will look even better once a patina starts.

Good Morning Porch Friends
Here's my GEC knife for the day...

Gorgeous knife John.

The knife goes very well with your beverage container... Have a good day, my friend.

Thanks, bought the knife to match my coffee mug.

 

[sunknife]

Beautiful bend you’ve carved. Any idea on the pull weight?

Thanks, Jeff. It finished out 47# at my 25" draw length. Enough power with a hunting weight arrow and a comfortable draw weight for an older gentleman such as me.

Starting my day off with a couple of knives covered in black. So nice to have comfortable outside weather here, hope all the porch folk are experiencing the same wherever you are.
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[JohnDF]

Gorgeous knife John.

Thank you, Todd.
Only made possible by the generosity of fellow Porch Members.

I sometimes get Case's round-bolstered stockman knives ('18 and '47) mixed up if I don't see them side by side.

The #18 generally has the thinner clip blade, while the #47 has a nice full clip blade.

That hat should protect you from alien mind probes.

 

[bigfish64]

Looking good, Todd! (And the background looks so green and spring-like!)




Lambsfoot Knife of the Week for me is LamBarJack, my rosewood Hartshead Barlow:
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Alox SAK of the Week is a Victorinox Farmer (thanks, Tom):
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- GT

Thanks Gary. That shot of your HHB is really cool.

 

[Jiki]

Notice how differently the etched part of the blade took the patina.

I notice this on polished blades more so than on the satin blades.

 

[sunknife]

Good photos of some of your quality equipment, Greg!
I hope you get more free time for a while.

- GT

Thanks, Gary. Life is good here, staying active with work and home projects helps to keep me young. I've managed to still have some time to pursue my hobbies.
I hope all is going well for you too and that you're enjoying some pleasant weather across the lake, neighbor.

 

[Enzo’s Woodshop]

 

[AZGabe]

Attractive knife (and pocket slip) to honor a canine companion!


I really like the looks of a Case 6318, except for the crazy-high sheepsfoot; good to know that you could lower it by filing the kick. I didn't realize that the amber bone stockman you posted was NOT a 6318. My favorite Case stockman pattern is the x347.


Seems like the spring flowers are moving through their life cycles at warp speed with the hot weather this week! A week ago, our yard was lovely with daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, forsythias, rhododendrons, quince, and Juneberry tree all in full bloom. But today almost everything except the quince blossoms and a few tulips are gone or severely bedraggled.
I can't keep track of all the Old Timer models! I didn't realize that 194OT liner lock was at least as long as the 8OT. And when I looked around online, I found out Schrade called it a Gunstock Trapper, even though it doesn't match the shape of the "gunstock pattern" from other knife companies.


That's interesting, Alan. I like the "look" of a broad clip blade, but in terms of use and effect on overall knife "profile", I prefer the more slender clip points.


"Pocket Jewelry" certainly is a term that applies to that beauty, Jim!


Thanks for the info, John. I sometimes get Case's round-bolstered stockman knives ('18 and '47) mixed up if I don't see them side by side.


Definitely helps, Mike - I've heard of Minneapolis-Moline.



Thanks for the growing season info, Rachel.
I think I have too many "favorites" to put them all in the same category. I'd probably run into the same problem: if I had 30 knives in my favorites category, each would get carried for a week at most twice a year. So my current thinking is that I'll decide on about a dozen categories like I had in my previous schedule, and then designate my top 5 (or top 3 or top n) knives in each category. Then I'll make TWO schedules, one containing all my favorites and one containing all the rest. Then I'll use the favorites list one week and the others list the next week, and continue that alternating lists approach. So I should be able to get through all of my favorites (if they're top 5) over the course of 10 weeks, and carry each of the favorite knives at least 5 weeks out of a year. That's far more frequently than my old "totally democratic" list allowed.


That's quite a testimonial! Maybe I'd better put them on the grocery list and try them.


That Case 2-blade bonestag Barlow is a beauty!!


Good photos of some of your quality equipment, Greg!
I hope you get more free time for a while.


Looking good, Todd! (And the background looks so green and spring-like!)


Thanks for the update on your health emergency. Interesting that you mentioned the community farm you work at. As I thought about what happened to you, one of the things I wondered was whether you'd been working on the farm during this early "heat wave" and had too much sun, or heat, or too little water. Don't think I've ever heard of those kinds of conditions leading to aphasia, though.


Congrats on the new cinnamon stag bone RR Barlow! Is that a model with damascus blades? I have a cinnamon stag bone damascus canoe with which I'm quite impressed.


Handsome stockman, José! Single-blade version?


Superb folder/fixed blade pairing, Jack!


The golden ram's horn with the graceful arc in the "grain" is VERY appealing, Will!


Interesting question, Rachel!
I remember learning about remoras while I was in 3rd or 4th grade, paging through World Book Encyclopedia.
I put your question to Google, which said remoras attach themselves to whales, sharks, or rays. No alligators.
But I also learned that in tropical Africa, crocodiles lie with their mouths open so that Egyptian plovers can fly into the crocodile's mouth and feed on decaying meat stuck in the croc's teeth. Is that close enough for your purposes??
(I also learned that the croc/plover relationship is an example of mutualism, while the remora/shark relationship is an example of commensalism; both relationships are types of symbiosis. Always great to learn about the birds and the bees, so to speak. )

Lambsfoot Knife of the Week for me is LamBarJack, my rosewood Hartshead Barlow:
View attachment 1818757

Alox SAK of the Week is a Victorinox Farmer (thanks, Tom):
View attachment 1818758

- GT

Thanks.

 

[AZGabe]

 

[Markeologist]

 

[JOELSM]

Just chilling on this beautiful sunny Sunday morning. Have a great day everyone. View attachment 1818755

I ordered this version yesterday. Looks pretty striking.