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More catch-up quotes from last week, with me using my "one comment per page" limitation (that I violated once or twice in this batch).
My daughter lived in Madrid for several years, and I made it there to visit her once almost 8 years ago. She took me to Sevilla, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, and Denia (a little town on Spain's east coast that's the closest to the Ballearic Islands), and I was able to find at least one cuchilleria in each of those places, and purchase a knife as a souvenir of my visit.
I'll jump on the bandwagon of approval of your choice of a first knife for your son! My first knife, at about 9 or 10 years old, was my Colonial Forest-Master camp knife, and I can't imagine I could have had some other knife that I'd have liked more. It remained essentially my only knife until I was 62 years old (and then I went nuts on knives). I was stoked about the saw when I got my first Farmer as an old man, and there's a good chance I'll pick up a Farmer X one of these days, as well, to add the scissors to the "Alox tool box".
- GT
Those new GEC cattle knives are desirable, and you've posted a fantastic photo of yours!
Both bear beauteous bone, Steve!
Jeff, I'm sure you could change that if you started visiting the swimming pool wearing your Speedo (or at least shirtless with chest waders).Been a long time since a couple of nice women asked to see my moves!
The angle of your photo makes that look like "one knife to rule them all", Mike!
Looks like you're set to be the Top Cowboy at the Ironwood Rodeo, Steve!
Thanks for posting that new-to-me SAK model, Mike!
Vibrant pair of vintage knives, JJ!Grabbed a couple of old cocobolo cover workers today.
One of the advantages of the schedule I used was that every knife essentially had equal carry time. But I'll admit that I enjoy some of my knives more than others, so the new schedule I'm slowly working on will have me carrying my Top Ten knives in various categories much more frequently than my other, not-as-favorite, knives.
Notable pair, Jon! I've always admired that stag muskrat, and I like the toothpick pattern (although I prefer a 2-bladed toothpick).
I'll bet you won that day's prize for highest average number of blades per knife, Jeff!!
Most Northwoods knives really don't move the needle very much for me, but those Presidentials always get my pulse racing!
I hope you have a wonderful trip!
My daughter lived in Madrid for several years, and I made it there to visit her once almost 8 years ago. She took me to Sevilla, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, and Denia (a little town on Spain's east coast that's the closest to the Ballearic Islands), and I was able to find at least one cuchilleria in each of those places, and purchase a knife as a souvenir of my visit.
Sounds like a good use of a pen blade, but I never peel my potatoes - whether baked/nuked, boiled, or fried, I eat them with the skins on.
Captivating classics! I don't think of myself as a Barlow fan, but those 49x Böker Barlows with the tree bolster stamp always catch my attention.These two today.
I've been enjoying your photos of your trip! I've never been to any of the places you've been traveling through, and the landscape is unlike any places that I have visited.
Yeah, vacation was nice, as always, and I was glad I was able to apply my risk averse personality to my knife photos experience.Haha! I thought it might be a knife loss mitigation measure. I can totally envision that whole situation
Thanks, Todd. I hope he likes it and hopefully he doesn’t lose it! I showed him my first knife when we were looking through my knives the other night (also a SAK).
Thanks, John. I think it will do everything he needs a knife to do.
Thanks, Paul. That’s very cool. The Farmer was the other one I was considering. What kid wouldn’t want a saw blade in their pocket? My local sportsman store had the Pioneer X in stock and I figured the scissors are handy for a lot of things.
I’ve been eying that one too. It will probably be my next Case purchase.
I'll jump on the bandwagon of approval of your choice of a first knife for your son! My first knife, at about 9 or 10 years old, was my Colonial Forest-Master camp knife, and I can't imagine I could have had some other knife that I'd have liked more. It remained essentially my only knife until I was 62 years old (and then I went nuts on knives). I was stoked about the saw when I got my first Farmer as an old man, and there's a good chance I'll pick up a Farmer X one of these days, as well, to add the scissors to the "Alox tool box".
- GT
Boulevard Brewing Co. is here, they hand the stuff out like candy. I can most always score free suds if I call around, and sometimes I score a flat of the craft beers that I would not pay for myself. They can be delicious, but no beer is worth 4+ dollars per bottle to me - might dig into the knife budget. 
