What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

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Amir Fleschwund said:
Vic Harvester, and High Carbon Cattle.View attachment 2295570View attachment 2295571
And homemade version of Canadian Belt Knife.View attachment 2295572
Cool tunnel web in my rock garden.View attachment 2295573
Predators like spiders and garter snake habitat, which is why I have rock piles all over the place.
Got the back of the Crosstrek full of produce to take down to Mom and Dad’s
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Nice HC Cattle, looks like the same as the Camillus 70 👍


5K Qs said:
Stockman of the Week is a carbon steel Rough Rider sowbelly, one of my favorite stockman knives:
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Stag/Horn Knife of the Week is a Rough Rider stag medium trapper (same size as a Case mini trapper - so confusing!):
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Work Knife of the Week is a Chinese Imperial small sodbuster:
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- GT
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Nice trio Gary !

btb01 said:
I had these two with me today. Old pic of the 2017 BF TC, new pic of the Albers Lamb taken today at the Minneapolis Central Library.

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Now I wouldn’t normally go double-straight-edge, but this morning I finally got around to fixing a problem with the TC that I’d been putting off for a while, so I wanted to carry it (and the Albers was already in my pocket).

Back around Christmas, while we were visiting family for the holidays, I dropped the TC onto the tile floor at my mom’s house. It was closed when I dropped it, and initially it didn’t seem like any damage was done, but when I went to use the knife a bit later, I realized that somehow the drop had bent the tip of the blade. My best guess is that when the hit the floor, it must have opened the blade a bit, then the blade hit the tile, bending the tip and closing it back again. It was a pretty substantial drop, around 4 or 5 feet. Here’s what the tip looked like. (It was hard to really capture it well in a picture, but it was bent pretty good to one side and slightly upwards.)

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I was pretty mad about it at the time, as I’ve always really liked this knife, and I wasn’t sure how to go about fixing it. So I set it aside for a while and didn’t really think about it. Then at the Badger knife show in March, I brought it along and showed it to a couple of guys I was at the show with just to get their opinion on how to fix it, and I think it might have been @herder or maybe @Amir Fleschwund who said they might just try and gently bend it back with a hammer.

Well I’m not particularly handy when it comes to modifying knives, so I set it aside again for a while. Then this morning I finally got up the courage to see what I could do about it, and after a bit of careful hammering (and checking, and hammering again) and some work on the DMT plates (both on the edge and the spine where it was sort of pinched and bent upwards), I’m pretty happy with the results.

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It’s not perfect — in the right light, more so than in these pics, you can still see on the flat sides of blade where it was bent — but the edge is straight again, with just a slight upsweep at the very tip that might remedy itself after a few sharpenings. :thumbsup:
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Great job Barrett !


Sacto said:
Forum 86 this morning at work.
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No knife this evening as I just spent 5 brutal hours at the ER with my son. He dislocated a bone in his hand/wrist (surprisingly not skateboarding) and evidently it’s painful and can damage the bone if left unfixed for too long. After 5 hours my wife came and relieved me. Now it’s been 6 hours and they’re still there. Hopefully they can get him fixed up
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Best wishes for your son !


Jack Black said:
Nice work Barrett, that was an unlucky mishap :thumbsup: I've often had to do the same thing with old knives I've bought. Hammer works fine, but if I want to take more care, I sandwich the tip between a couple of steel discs, or coins, and straighten the tip in a vice :thumbsup:



Thank you very much my friend, it's great to see those two again, both gorgeous, and among my favourites from your fabulous collection :) :thumbsup:

Sorry to hear about your son Bart, I hope they can fix him up OK, and that he makes a swift recovery :thumbsup:

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Nice pair Jack !

Primble said:
Diamond Edge and a Catt for Wednesday 😊

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Lovely old bones !
 
Sacto said:
No knife this evening as I just spent 5 brutal hours at the ER with my son. He dislocated a bone in his hand/wrist (surprisingly not skateboarding) and evidently it’s painful and can damage the bone if left unfixed for too long. After 5 hours my wife came and relieved me. Now it’s been 6 hours and they’re still there. Hopefully they can get him fixed up
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I’m very sorry to read about your son’s dislocation Sacto Sacto

Any injury to those wrist/hand bones can lead to terrible pain, and yes, it can lead to permanent bone damage if not treated, and at times, even with treatment.

My prayers are with your son & wife and of course with you too for a full and speedy recovery.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
 
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