What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Amir Fleschwund said:
he nineteen and sixties, Japan was transforming from the post war rebuilding of their manufacturing. With much help, they first began cranking out cheap items like toy soldiers, etc. “Made in Japan” meant cheap, throwaway consumer goods. It was only a generation or two before they transformed into manufacturing world class product.
Sabre was right in the middle of that ~ still inexpensive, made for the everyday working man, yet with rapidly improving quality. My Grandad took me into Jack’s Sporting Goods in Camdenton, Mo., and bought this Sabre fishing knife with which he taught me how to filet crappie and white bass.
And I bought the Granddaddy Barlow years later. Real bone, sawcut and well fitted, yet crude if compared to a Case or GEC. But beautiful on it’s own.
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Yours are great! Thanks for sharing. 30 years later after you were a kid in the 60s, I was a kid in the 90s.... And some of them were made in China instead of Japan. This fauxshaw lockback being one of the models made in China. It's just a 90s Chinese knife. I'm sure you know what I mean!

I have been eyeing up a japanese Sabre congress. It looks good in photos maybe it's worth a shot.
 
r8shell said:
Nothing poor about that.

For Thrifty Thursday, I'm toting one that cleaned up nice:

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Oh, you're poor after you buy them. 😉
 
Amir Fleschwund said:
Once again your eye sees the beauty that once was, and what could be again.
I wonder how many passed that one over, leaving it for you? 🤙

When I was a kid, back in the nineteen and sixties, Japan was transforming from the post war rebuilding of their manufacturing. With much help, they first began cranking out cheap items like toy soldiers, etc. “Made in Japan” meant cheap, throwaway consumer goods. It was only a generation or two before they transformed into manufacturing world class product.
Sabre was right in the middle of that ~ still inexpensive, made for the everyday working man, yet with rapidly improving quality. My Grandad took me into Jack’s Sporting Goods in Camdenton, Mo., and bought this Sabre fishing knife with which he taught me how to filet crappie and white bass.
And I bought the Granddaddy Barlow years later. Real bone, sawcut and well fitted, yet crude if compared to a Case or GEC. But beautiful on it’s own.
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Will it get a fiberglass/clearcoat covering?
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Yes, fiberglass and epoxy, then varnish
 
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