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What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?
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Getting climbing gear ready for a couple days out, my climbing partner is driving over from Billings. He works a tough job at a palladium mine. Should be fun, anyway, I have these with me today.
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Case 6202 1/2 from 1972 (8dot) barehead jack with dark red delrin handle scales.
Man that's beautiful! I have the same knife but I got mine in some rough shape...
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Thanks! Yeah I guess I got pretty lucky with the state this one was in. Definitely a good user, I love the firm snaps and I still can't believe how sharp I could get this thing. Might even beat my Opinels on sharpness (blasphemy
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Yes, thanks, Ironwood and Mesquite,with Osage and Blackwood spacers...
Okay, guys, I know this is an ignorant question, but I gotta ask... Everyone and his brother seems to be toting a Tom's Choice knife. What are those? Some kind of forum knife? I mean, they look really nice and all, but they seem to be the most ubiquitous knife pictured on the forum! Thanks for any info you can share.
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The Tom's Choice are actually the Tidioute Cutlery Barlow series, a SFO contracted by a forum member "Waynorth".
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Call me fickle, but I'm likin' this one today:
Tidioute 152113EC in Antique Yellow jigged bone
Tidioute 152113EC in Antique Yellow jigged bone
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That is one of the handsomest " little stubby things"!!
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notice the Opinel locking ring on this middle knife. Thats all thats left of the original Opi it seems, on the Gaillard pictured:
phacochère;12142218 said:Lloyd ( USA ) / Gaillard ( France ) / Breniere ( France )
Yes, pretty exclusive, sell out quickly, and the best way to get one is to contact waynorth
google GEC Toms Choice Barlow. also google GEC Boys Knife
some links (also search key word charlow here)
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...od-Traditional-Barlow/page70?highlight=barlow
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1018921-GEC-Huckleberry-Boy-s-Knife
Barlow and Boys Knife are built on the same GEC #15 frame, have same blades, different bolsters
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My Barlow and CASE 1976 #6292 :thumbup:
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Thanks! I should get the real camera out instead of the crummy cell phone cam; that plate looks just like iridescent peacock feathers.
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They are waynorth's (Charlie's) Barlows now also known as "Charlows". He is the guy that started the whole GEC Barlow thing.
"Tom's Choice" refers to "Tom Sawyer". Go take a look at the "What makes a good barlow?" thread. Then drop over to collectorknives.net or Charlie's own website for availability. Tom's choice is a clip point version. There are new ones coming through the line now in clip and spear, so they should be available now or at least very soon. They go fast and well they should as they are nigh unto perfect EDC size and just perfectly proportioned. It helps that they are some of the best production Barlows ever made.
The model 15s from GEC are the "boy's knife" (think Huck Finn) made on the same frame as the barlows and quite fine knives in their own right.
Back to the thread...
I will be carrying my avatar canoe by Jeff Mutz today. It has been a good while since I carried it because I have been buying too many knives this year.
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