What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

BrotherJim said:
One thing I noticed about this AW&S Barlow I posted is that the A. WRIGHT tang stamp does not include "& SON LTD" as found on most all others from Wright that I've seen
Not sure what significance that might have on placing a date of manufacture on this Barlow but just found it interesting
I've had the knife for a while now, purchased before I joined BF, from a mom and pop knife store in Maryland
The folks there were retiring and selling off their inventory from decades in the business

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EDIT: I'm not a cow worshiper, but Holy Cow !!! ... 92 out there right now and FEELS LIKE 106 !!!! :eek:

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I don't think I'd call that a Barlow, looks like a Barehead Jack to me
 
SteveC said:
I don't think I'd call that a Barlow, looks like a Barehead Jack to me
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... except for the bolster which is QUITE a bit larger than you would find on a barehead jack or either of those jacks you just posted.
Call it what you will. Not sure what A. Wright calls it. Barlow? Barehead Jack? Something else?

EDIT: Just looked the A.Wright & Son pattern up on a U.K. site ... BARLOW ... now you know :)
And that's a nice Lamb Foot you got there ... not LambSfoot :D
For over a hundred years, whenever those knives had a blade etch/stamp by a cutler who handmade the knife, the etch has stated "Real Lamb Foot" (or Real Lambfoot)
Never Real Lambsfoot for sure. At best, Lambsfoot is a slang term for the Lamb Foot knife. At worst, misinformation
 
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BrotherJim said:
So glad you enjoyed it. I did too and kinda went down a rabbit hole on youtube listening to some ole-time banjo and fiddle LOL
It all gets lumped together as bluegrass but technically as master banjo player and former coal miner Lee Sexton (rest in peace) explains it, the music is different from bluegrass
While Lee loved bluegrass, this music and the music he was raised on and learned, is what he and others call East Kentucky old-time traditional

The girl on banjo in the first video is Nora Brown. She studied with both Lee Sexton and master banjo player and historian George Gibson among others
The girl playing fiddle with Nora in the first video is Stephanie Coleman
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I didn’t know any of that. I could tell it was slightly different than bluegrass but not enough to think it wasn’t. Thanks for sharing that information too.
 
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