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Thanks for your kind words, Jack!!!Nicely matching pair of museum-grade Robesons my friend
Wonderful threesome of beauties for your Saturday, you have almost all the cutting tasks covered with your Lambsfoot and 2 clips; your Albers is a stunner!Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend
Thank you sir! Doesn’t get much classier than a 33. Such a cool pattern. I love that you have your Granddad’s halfwhit- and in such good shape but with loads of pocket time and memories attached.Beautiful combo, love that stag
Thank you, my friend. It is indeed a cherished heirloom.What good fortune to have your Grandad’s well loved pocket knife.
Very smart of you to carry a cheap copy to spare Grandad’s.
but in all honesty pocketing a “copy” makes me enjoy it that much more 
Yes sir, thank you kindly Ed. It will be a pleasure to pass these along some dayVery nice, one of my favorite patterns as well. A couple more generations and that conductor will be “granddad’s knife”.
Couldn’t agree more - something special and iconic about this pattern. Yes sir, granddad was always carving or tinkering with somethingThank you sir! Doesn’t get much classier than a 33. Such a cool pattern. I love that you have your Granddad’s halfwhit- and in such good shape but with loads of pocket time and memories attached.
... the Pocket Worn Red Bone Small Case Lockback is a single blade thin, 3" closed, little lockback that rides a pair of jeans fifth pocket quite nicely
Yup - looks like it's from the same run. I love the blade combo on these, and the size/heft of the #53/54s in general. You sure don't see many of them in circulation these days.Love that knife. If those are antique green scales, it is the same as my very first GEC …
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Full disclosure - I no longer own it, but man what a great handful o knife.
Thanks for sharing!
Yep, you can hand funnel webs in for milking.
Thanks
Will Power
, I really appreciate the compliment
GEC does such a great job hafting the stag covers and pinning their shields that I have to agree
Good evening Pocket Worn Red Bone Small Case Lockback
I'll see if I can get him to carry it over for you buddy
Two beauties Mr P
Thank you Mr. Jack !Thank you my friend!
They should be flogged!
Just breathtaking … honestly.
I am a huge fan of burl and swirl and … wait … is that a zombie octopus casting a spell with a crystal ball?
Wow -- absolutely stunning!
Toting a couple of Catts today.
I would guess it to be made in the later years, but, just a guess.
Well I thought about what you said and woke up this morning, drank a cup of concrete, hardened up and took the IXL to the stone. Nick gone. Thanks for the incentive
Andy
Nice lock-back with some pretty red bone Brother Jim !
... I like the pattern
Well done stag with that soft cream/ dark combo.A well used old Uncle Henry 885 for some fencing work today…..
Thanks a lot buddy, with the amount of rain we've had here, I might have missed the chestnuts this yearBummer about the hike Jack. We have beautiful weather here today, rain tomorrow. Sweet selections.
Looks great Todd, I hope you're having a great weekendBeen a few weeks since I’ve been home on a weekend, so of course I had to light a fire.
I love the bead! Spectacular Mr PAlbers Cut. Co. and Bill Aker's Custom Backwoods for Saturday's tote:
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Both in one pocket
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What a package they make Haha! The Oreos are for energy for the fettler. Only slightly disappointed that there's not quite as much Stuf as in the picture on the package. "The Most Stuf", yet I believe they could fit more Stuf in there if they really tried.
Great pairing Steve
Thanks a lot Jeff, it was a gift from
CelloDan
, made from black locust Great pics, and a cool Bowie my friendSame two jacks as yesterday. View attachment 1972769View attachment 1972770And a Bowie on my belt in the sheath I made for it. View attachment 1972771The only marking on the knife is 1981 neatly stamped on the blade. I found it in a little crossroads gun shop in the Ozarks right after we moved there in ‘81. Someone forged and ground it and handled it in curly grained black walnut. The only thing the shop owner said was “home made”. I was dirt poor then, but managed the $20 he was asking for it.
At some point, I worked it over and re-ground and polished out some uneven spots.
Maybe I can use it on the Jack-O-Lantern today.
I don’t know how long this incredibly nice weather will last, because @screenedporch wouldn’t divulge what his Old Farmer’s Almanac says. But I intend to enjoy it.
Superb stag pairing there
A handsome pairFinally starting to feel better after getting my COVID19 booster and flu shots on Thursday. Found out that there’s a mega flu vaccine for folks 65 and older. Every time I’ve gotten vaccinated I feel crappy the next day. Of course my wife has no side effects. Going with the usual lamb and for stag Saturday a Boker barlow.
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Cool pic cowboy!
So that's where all the Barlows are!I took this with me today,I enjoyed cleaning and oiling this one when I got it.
One rivet from the scales is though into the well but misses the blade edge,I got all the gunge and rust out.
It pinches open and I find it charming
Any knowledge on its age/history greatly received.
Despite several attempts to knock me of my bike today I returned in one piece though exhausted.
George Wostenholm were one of Sheffield's largest, and most illustrious firms, and did a lot of trade with the US, naming their factory 'Washington Works'. Like most Sheffield cutlery firms, they were in decline from WW1 onwards, and more so after WW2. They were eventually taken over by their longstanding rival, Joseph Rodgers, then both firms were bought by Richards, and in turn by Imperial (USA). A short-lived outfit named Meteor Industries, subsequently bought the name, and infamously allowed it to be used on Japanese-made knives. The name is still owned (by Eggington), and used on knives, including Barlows, which have carried the Wostenholm name, and IXL mark for more than a century. Dating Sheffield knives is rarely easy, but since the build quality and style is part of dating them, it's even harder without having them in hand. Are the covers bone, and the blades carbon?Thanks Pete, having a quiet oneLoving the variety, Jack. A good weekend to you as well
Yikes!
Thank you very much my friend, I try never to be knowingly under-knifed!Thanks for your kind words, Jack!!!
Wonderful threesome of beauties for your Saturday, you have almost all the cutting tasks covered with your Lambsfoot and 2 clips; your Albers is a stunner!
I don't recall seeing that Barlow before JJ, it makes for a fabulous pairingToting a couple of Catts today.
It's just the same here Mr P, I've seen so many knives ruined by having the blades gouged by DremelsI think I might join the floggers, it it ever came to be. Seems like a trend in the U.S. for some new owner of a fine old Pruner to grab a high speed rotary Dremel tool and lay it against a blade and proceed to put divots on the flats of the blade. I often wonder what they were trying to accomplish by grinding a scratch or carbon spot out ?? After they see the divots they introduced to their knife, they are often seen on an auction site for sale.
Someone made a mess of this one, and I couldn't completely get rid of them without losing the blade stamping 
ewYep, you can hand funnel webs in for milking.
This 1 was handed in a few years ago at my local hospital.
Big Boy comes to the aid of patients bitten by funnel webs
Big boy is the largest male funnel web spider ever to have been dropped off at John Hunter Hospital as part of the Australian Reptile Park's venom milking program.www.smh.com.au
