What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Jack Black]

That's right. Barry Morse had one in The Protectors.
"In the avenues and alleyways, where the soul of a man is easy to buy..."
Robert Vaughn was always great, but the best thing about that show may have been Nyree Dawn Porter's opening titles.

Your memory seems to be getting better Jer! Tony Christie used to live not far from us when I was growing up. He had a white Rolls-Royce, with the reg plate 'TONIO'. Mainly we saw his blonde 'trophy wife' driving it, rather than him. If I told my dad, he'd just say, disparagingly, "Club singer!". Which he said about every male vocalist who wasn't Frank Sinatra

Giesen & Forsthoff for graduation day.

Congratulations Isk, nice choice

Now that's a solid work knife.

Big 'Un'll get the job done! Thanks mate

 

[ISKRA]

I ISKRA A very significant day, congratulation Žan . You , your friends and relatives must be proud

Regards, Will

Thank you Will! It was a great day!




Jack Black thank you! I figured I need something slim for the suit, I already had too much stuff in me pockets anyway.

 

[Dan1892]

Felt like a school colors kind of day. Or at least as close as I can get.

 

[ferider]

 

[mbkr]

The temps are much more seasonal today than last week. Planning on doing yard work today. Decided to pocket this Bolus Otnat. Good, solid, well built knife. Plus its micarta for Micarta Monday

 

[screened porch]

If I told my dad, he'd just say, disparagingly, "Club singer!".

If I had a trophy blonde to drive my white Rolls with a Jeremo license plate, your dad's disparagements would wound me not a whit.

 

[Heimdall82]

Lobster season!

 

[JohnDF]

Good Morning Porch Friends

 

[Jerbhola89]

Hope everyone has a great start to the week!

I’m carrying the usual - 36, 49, and large Copperlock.

India photo of the day:


“Elephant toe”!

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Sorry, multiple photo dump Monday.

One of my old short line 23 jacks. Big and sturdy, and not elegant, pretty, or light, but a favorite.I found a knife yesterday! Last fall, I made some new beds for my garden. Can’t eat grass, you know! No sod sripping, plowing, or tilling ~ I put down cardboard to smother the sod, and buried it with a thick layer of manure and compost, then fall planted a cover crop, which I chopped up and turned in this spring. Planting my tomatoes, using a trowel to make a hole for each one, I turned up this Official Bot Scout knife. It had apparently been dropped into the grass, and was in the process of enriching the mineral content of the soil. I never had a white scout knife, and my wife and I do not remeber either of the boys having one either. If it belonged to the previous owner, it would have to have been there at least 35 years.
Hit it with a wire brush, sprayed it down with penetrating oil, and it’s now bathing in kerosene in a refired beans can I dug out of the recycling bin.

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

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

Farmer = Good knife!

Dogleg Trapper. Yes I’ve seen that. I found a really old Schrade catalog online, and every knife on that frame, 94, 194, 293, 284... was called a Serpentine Jack.
It gives us knife knuts trivia to “argue” about!

What is that bottom knife?

He carries and shows that knife a lot. And the first time I saw it, I had to ask too! It’s beautiful.

Lambfoot. My NYE resolution. Carry a lamb every day in 2022.
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Uh oh! You made it a RESOLUTION. Now it’s never going to happen

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But which one?

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Nice to have a seat anywhere.

Today was my daughter Scout’s 2nd birthday, which means I was carrying the Nifebrite #15 that I had with me the day she was born.

We spent most of the day at the zoo, which was a lot of fun, but also long and rather exhausting. After the zoo, we had a late lunch out and let the girls play at a park for a bit, after which they both crashed in the car on the way home.

Now for the annual birthday-knife photo recap. Here’s Scout with her knife the day she was born:

This was last year on her first birthday:

And here’s one from today:

She’s a doll, Barrett. I can’t remember what was in my pocket when my three were born, but it had to have been either my Schrade 33OT, or 293Y, because that’s all I had!

I had Kielbasa and sauerkraut for dinner tonight

Used the Case Barlow to cut a string and open a Kind bar for dessert View attachment 1819529

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It’s not much, but it’s a classy way to open a candy bar.

The pruner this morning, switched to higonokami this afternoon. Need to give pruner a clean.
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Higos are cool, nice hat, too!

Sometimes late at night, I get a bit nostalgic
Tonight I had this antique Bowie out for cleaning, preservation and dreaming of stories it might tell
I bought it from a seller in the state of New York and have no personal history of the knife unfortunately
(stag) Manson Sheffield circa 1860

Cool knife, Jim

No, that is the work of a professional. I don’t have any artistic skills.

Here is a 33 you won’t see everyday.

Dang ~ I thought somebody was sending you a hint!

Giesen & Forsthoff for graduation day.

Happy day! Congratulations.

Back in the office this week after a week out west.

Well, that quote is a cold slap of reality!

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[Scholefield123]

This is my current Blade forums collection, have one more to come , the search continues Thanks to everyone who has helped me get the ones I have so far

 

[bigfish64]

Back in the office this week after a week out west.

Great knives Jeremy, and the phrase is hilarious.

The temps are much more seasonal today than last week. Planning on doing yard work today. Decided to pocket this Bolus Otnat. Good, solid, well built knife. Plus its micarta for Micarta Monday
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Yeah, I’m ready for more seasonal temps as well Mike. That is some nice looking Micarta.

Good Morning Porch Friends

Nice photo John.

 

[bigfish64]

Some Micarta for Monday.

 

[Markeologist]

 

[Jerbhola89]

I found a knife yesterday!
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If it belonged to the previous owner, it would have to have been there at least 35 years.
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Wow!!!! I am astounded that the shield looks as well as it does. Make sure you post progress photos on that baby!

 

[runninmike]

https://imgur.com/Pys92et

34OT...it so often goes back to very simple for me, these are such a value, saw another near new one at an antique store yesterday for $14 and now have more than a life time supply...I give them to people sometimes hoping they will get the fever and carry on the hobby...
Cheers for Monday people!

 

[Bloefield]

Case Lt1405L and Sak Sportsman II

 

[JohnDF]

Nice photo John.

Thank you, Todd.

You've got Micarta covered with those two beauties.