What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

This has lain forgotten in a box for over a decade. When it arrived I was rather rude and churlishly thought it too garish for words....do we mellow with age or simple corrode? It was sent to me by a very nice dealer in the Southern US who I was getting Queen knives from, we shared an interest in gardening as well and he enclosed it as a gift which was very pleasant. I've now rather taken to this Space Oddity from Bulldog, a Fishknife in a kind of Aquarium acrylic. May your day be bright too :cool:

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Been on the road since Friday, going through Montana and up to Grandad’s grave. A little shot of the Fort Peck spillway.
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I stopped in Post Falls to do a little shopping on the wayView attachment 1901425

I traveled through some gorgeous country in North Dakota trying to stick to 2 lane roadsView attachment 1901422View attachment 1901423
I tried to meet up with @paulhilborn but our schedules didn’t work out. Made it over to Minnesota to meet up with an old Marine buddy and do some fishing. He’s holding a Northern I caught on an ultralight rod jigging for blue gillsView attachment 1901424

Another day of fishing tomorrow before I head further east
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Great pictures, Jim. Enjoy your trip.
 
bigfish64 said:
Love that one every time you post it! 😎👍



Couldn’t agree more, great little Jack knife.
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Your posts are always so well done my friend. 😎👍

Thanks Gary, and I hope you enjoy your vacation. Looking forward to a few pictures of those beautiful boats you always see up there. 😎👍
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TY Todd 🤟
HAGD
 
sunknife said:
I agree with your take on the current state of the KCFM, it was a far better market years ago. We only go there once every few years anymore. We went to the one in Elkhorn WI this past weekend. One of my brothers lives 75miles away, close to the border of WI and its a fun place to meet up for a day. Still not much in the way of knives at this one, scattered boxes of rusty broken relics mostly. This one vendor did have a few decent ones and offered up a great price on the two I bought without my even having to haggle. :)
Quite a bit of interesting items other than knives to see at this flea market and the vendors are friendly and usually welcome offers. :thumbsup:
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Hmm. He must be close to me ~ rural Marengo...
screened porch said:
I'm glad you got yours, in such special circumstances.
I got mine in an antique mall. It was pretty expensive for me and I finally bought it so the vendeuse who kept showing it to me wouldn't know it was too expensive for me. I'm glad I got it, though.
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Loom-fixer is what I've always heard for the Case. Now it's the Whale-fixer for me. After all, I'm more about blubber than weaving.
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ROFL!
Most honest reason for buying something I’ve seen in a while.
 
baxtrom said:
Haha yes ok, I only Googled the average age of becoming a father in the US. I think it told me 31. With your numbers the traditional threshold becomes like mid 90s or something. I start to sense a flaw in my attempted definition of traditional 😉

(When I was a kid grandfathers were guys who had landed in Normandy and similar, now grandfathers are apparently people who grew up with Kurt Cobain, MTV and Beavis & Butthead. Times change)
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I was 30 plus about 2 weeks when my first was born. I was married at 19, it just took me longer than some others to figure out how to make 'em. Boy, was I ever surprised, and pleased! That was 40 years ago and another child since and I don't have grandchildren, so that age may be going up.
 
I suspect that "traditional" is variable by age. I think that knives made after about 1975 are modern. Traditional, to my way of thinking would be a two bladed Imperial. That is the kind of knife I saw, most often, when growing up. I can still remember the cards of knives in the old Standard filling station in my home town. Lots of "fish knives", cheap Barlows, Colonials and Imperials, the inexpensive fixed blades with plastic handles, and in the back room , knives with pictures of undressed women. Traditional costs, as I remember it was a buck, maybe a buck and a quarter, and everything was made in New York. One knife incident that I remember is that I came home (around 1964) with a very fancy colored Texas Toothpick and my father about had a stroke because it was the type of knives carried by "bad people." I specifically remember the word he called it, but today, the word can not be spoken in public, and rightfully so. The term was standard English in the Deep South at the time.

My father was in the plumbing and heating business and always carried a knife, most likely a Colonial or a Imperial two blade, and he always intentionally broke the pen blade to use as a flat head screwdriver. Back then, slotted screws were the standard.
 
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