What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

gunstockjack said:
It's a gloomy day here in the Pacific NW, but this knife will brighten it up some!
It's a GEC 48 stainless w/ fossil elephant covers and file worked spring and tang.
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Barry, very pretty knife. When I seen that first pic I did not think it was a GEC. Maybe I've been looking at too many pics of French and European knives lately, but based on the scales and the filework I thought it was a L'Alpin or something similar. Then I scrolled down and seen the GEC #48. I'm curious, did you do the filework yourself? Also, when you say fossil elephant do you actually mean fossil elephant bone or is that another way of saying mammoth ivory? Bit of a daft question I know...
 
NoNameNomad said:
My first post, howdy all:)

I don't have a camera so no pic from me. I really need to rectify that. Anyways, today it's a Blind Horse Knives Frontier Valley Patch on my belt, FFG, green canvas micarta. Nice little knife good for small tasks and more than capable of most big tasks, and it's my ideal size for a small(ish) EDC fixed. Looking to order the Frontier First for something a bit smaller but the full four finger grip of the Valley is my preference. In my pocket I'm totin' a Tidioute #15 clip and pen blade, ebony wood handles. My first slipjoint (of many more hopefully), fantastic little knife, I don't name tools usually but this one I refer to as my Holdout Special as I can use it on the sly at work (knives are frowned on usually, and the issued box cutters literally have a half centimetre of blade that is barely useful for anything).
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Welcome to the best place on the net.
Today I am totin a Blind Horse Frontier First Patch with stag handles and a GEC 66 Moose with stag scales. On paper errr screen the First Patch seems a little small but in hand it works really well, at least for me.


Have a great day,
Jeff
 
Sowbelly270 said:
Welcome to the best place on the net.
Today I am totin a Blind Horse Frontier First Patch with stag handles and a GEC 66 Moose with stag scales. On paper errr screen the First Patch seems a little small but in hand it works really well, at least for me.


Have a great day,
Jeff
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Thanks for the welcome:)

I'm a smaller guy with small hands so a small knife doesn't worry me, and I've no need for a big honkin' knife so that's why the Frontier's caught my attention. My reason for getting the Valley instead of the First is about handle length though. For long term whittling and such I feel less hand aching with a full four finger grip. The Valley fits my hand perfectly. However, the Frontier First might be even better as an EDC and even if I have to use a three or 3 1/2 finger grip it would be more than suitable. I think it would probably take alot of rough carving for a long period of time to cause hand fatigue, even with the smaller handles of the First, simply because of the well designed handles of the BHK knives. So I'm almost certain to get one, and thank you for comfirming my suspicions about it's comfort:)
 
NoNameNomad said:
Barry, very pretty knife. When I seen that first pic I did not think it was a GEC. Maybe I've been looking at too many pics of French and European knives lately, but based on the scales and the filework I thought it was a L'Alpin or something similar. Then I scrolled down and seen the GEC #48. I'm curious, did you do the filework yourself? Also, when you say fossil elephant do you actually mean fossil elephant bone or is that another way of saying mammoth ivory? Bit of a daft question I know...
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I should've clarified that the covers are fossil elephant ivory; not the same as mammoth ivory but very similar. Muskrat Man Knives did the rehandle and file work. Stainless steel blade and spring with NS bolster/brass frame. Good fruit knife!
 
Carried this 2003 Case Russlock Amber Bone SS.


Strange looking thing but once you get used to the operation of it, it makes a decent one-hand operated slipjoint.
 
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Yep I need to cut the grass
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NoNameNomad said:
My first post, howdy all:)

I don't have a camera so no pic from me. I really need to rectify that. Anyways, today it's a Blind Horse Knives Frontier Valley Patch on my belt, FFG, green canvas micarta. Nice little knife good for small tasks and more than capable of most big tasks, and it's my ideal size for a small(ish) EDC fixed. Looking to order the Frontier First for something a bit smaller but the full four finger grip of the Valley is my preference. In my pocket I'm totin' a Tidioute #15 clip and pen blade, ebony wood handles. My first slipjoint (of many more hopefully), fantastic little knife, I don't name tools usually but this one I refer to as my Holdout Special as I can use it on the sly at work (knives are frowned on usually, and the issued box cutters literally have a half centimetre of blade that is barely useful for anything).
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I'd like to join the others welcoming you to this little watering hole. You've picked a really great knife in that model 15. I have one now with two more on the way out of their latest run. Wearing cocobolo.

I am carrying today my "Sunday knife" which is the blue bone Case mini copperhead. It generally gets Sunday duty and I carry the amber bone (my first mini copperhead) most other times (at least when I carry a mini copperhead). I have 5 of them now. Here's the old worn out photo of the blue one (happens to be one of my best ever knife photos with my point and shoot Kodak):

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Ed J
 
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combatjiujitsu said:
And the new family member Buddy!


Already took over the couch!
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Nice swayback!
Somebody must have told you to get a long little doggy.:thumbup:
What a cutie!!!




TLARbb said:
I am carrying today my "Sunday knife" which is the blue bone Case mini copperhead. It generally gets Sunday duty and I carry the amber bone (my first mini copperhead) most other times (at least when I carry a mini copperhead. I have 5 of them now.
Ed J
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Do you have any idea how big a smile that put on my face?:D
 
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Thank you kindly. Yea it's a great knife, but to be honest it was meant to tide me over because I wanted a spearpoint version of the same pattern and none were available anywhere at the time. Seeing pics of vintage Boys jackknives from a century ago with spear, pen and ebony made me fall in love with the pattern. The new run makes me drool, but us Canadians cant' order from collectorsknives.net, so I'm waiting to see if the run goes bigger and through other dealers. Then I'm jumping on either an ebony and/or cocobolo one, or one of each and make one a barlow version. Those "Charlows" look just as good as the Boys versions:)

By the way, great knife there. I've got to get me some kind of wharncliffe soon, been tempted for a while. Time to go browsing through my usual sites, do some window shopping:)
 
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