What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

fishinfs said:
Mr Jeff - the home-made belt knife - did you make that from a Grohmann kit?
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No, I took an old file to my bench grinder. With a bucket of water to keep from overheating the steel, I ground away everything that didn’t look like the picture on my phone. Then went to the belt sander, and eventually to a flat piece of marble to work up through the grades of sandpaper. I had to anneal the handle section to be able to drill it for the handle pins.

Later, after getting a real Canadian Belt Knife, at least a Solingen made one, I was able to see where I had deviated from a perfectly authentic clone, mainly in that my blade ended up more leaf shaped, and less slim than the real deal. Oh well.
I like it anyway ~ that old file steel holds an edge like you wouldn’t believe.

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 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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You did a fine job, Barrett! Unlike my experience trying that…
I bought a Schrade Scrimshaw on the ‘bay, and fell victim to artful photography which concealed that the last half inch was bent.
I put it between two blocks of oak, and cranked down on the vise handle. Or in this case, perhaps I should misspell it as vice, because it broke with a musical ping ~ about a high E flat in pitch.
I had to put a new blade on her.

For that reason, I’d bet it was Neal who suggested trying to bend it. Although I’d like to take the credit since it worked.😎


SteveC said:
Nice HC Cattle, looks like the same as the Camillus 70 👍




Nice trio Gary !



Great job Barrett !




Best wishes for your son !




Nice pair Jack !



Lovely old bones !
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Thanks, buddy! And thanks for identifying the Camillus model. I know Camillus made these for Sears, but was not sure of the model #.
 
mbkr said:
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Mike this reminds me of when I first moved to the City in the early eighties and bought my first BMW. I told a friend that I worked with that I was thinking about getting a vanity plate for my new bike. He asked me what’s it going to be and I said, “Sweet 1”. He laughed so hard I thought he was going to wet himself! Being fresh in the City from Omaha I didn’t get the joke. He’s never let me forget it to this day. 😜
 
Still have some prep work to do for painting but I'm gonna go out to the shop and organize rollers, roller pans, brushes, etc. for Saturday morning. At least that's the plan. I'm gonna carry this old Buck 112 I got recently. It'll make a good work knife throughout my painting project. Sausage and waffles for breakfast.

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