What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Way-Barney]

I found this old thing in a toolbox I bought at a boot sale, it's rustier than some of mine and that's saying something.
I will take it with me into the workshop today to see if it remembers what being a knife is like. I wonder why the owner felt the need to re-temper the blade or about the mishap that caused it!

 

[Jack Black]

I found this old thing in a toolbox I bought at a boot sale, it's rustier than some of mine and that's saying something.
I will take it with me into the workshop today to see if it remembers what being a knife is like. I wonder why the owner felt the need to re-temper the blade or about the mishap that caused it!

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Those Richards knives did like to rust! Good luck Barney

I grabbed a couple Schrades for today.

Great to see that spectacular display of sheer Schradeness JJ, I always enjoy seeing those two

Hope everyone is having a great weekend I'm over the worst of my Covid, I hope, but had to cancel my trip to the UK Sharp Show next weekend Carrying my Albers Lambsfoot, a knife I'll always treasure

 

[Way-Barney]

Those Richards knives did like to rust! Good luck Barney

I am not attempting to refurbish it, just to use it for something!

I dont even know if its hardenable,

It looks like chrome plated mild steel, but for the blueing and rust I would be saying its plastic.

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[Way-Barney]

Those Richards knives did like to rust! Good luck Barney

You have done my head in Jack, I would hate anyone to think I can't/don't look after my knives so I had half an hour on it in the shed.





I think it was tempered back because the steel was very hard, there was a noticeable difference when I approached the tempered section of the blade on sharpening.

 

[Jack Black]

I am not attempting to refurbish it, just to use it for something!

You've messed up your post there Barney, the second half of that 'quote' isn't from me.

You have done my head in Jack, I would hate anyone to think I can't/don't look after my knives so I had half an hour on it in the shed.

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Good work The Richards steel was always OK, but the brief period when they were plating it was a bad one, as the steel rusted under the plating. I can remember knives rusting overnight (my dad was at Richards when I was a youngster). You can put some muck back on it now!

 

[ferider]

 

[seas165]

This pair for the fair today. Have a good day!

 

[Way-Barney]

You've messed up your post there Barney, the second half of that 'quote' isn't from me.


Good work The Richards steel was always OK, but the brief period when they were plating it was a bad one, as the steel rusted under the plating. I can remember knives rusting overnight (my dad was at Richards when I was a youngster). You can put some muck back on it now!

Apologies for that Jack, I am still not 100% with getting in and out of quotes when editing. What did your Dad do? I have a few Richards knives scattered about here and there and I always had them down as very good hard steel, I have a small 45mm mini Barlow in brown plastic and its a cracking little knife. You must have some Richards collection!
Thank you sincerely for the kind words and thoughts.

 

[Antaylor904]

Stockman Sunday

 

[Jack Black]

This pair for the fair today. Have a good day!View attachment 2340282

Have fun at the fair!

Apologies for that Jack, I am still not 100% with getting in and out of quotes when editing. What did your Dad do? I have a few Richards knives scattered about here and there and I always had them down as very good hard steel, I have a small 45mm mini Barlow in brown plastic and its a cracking little knife. You must have some Richards collection!
Thank you sincerely for the kind words and thoughts.

Sometimes text gets 'sucked' into a quote box, but you can highlight it, cut it back out, and paste it where you want it

My dad was a Machine Tool Fitter, basically a mechanic maintaining and fixing the machines firms like Richards used in their production process. He was quite sought after because he had done his apprenticeship at Walters & Dobson, who made many of these machines. My uncle also worked at Richards for a while, and later a brother-in-law, who was one of the last apprentices at Joseph Rodgers.

I have a few Barney! I have given a lot more away though

 

[mbkr]

Apologies for that Jack, I am still not 100% with getting in and out of quotes when editing.

I find the "undo" button to be immensely useful

Stockman Sunday

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Couple of beauties there

 

[Heathenhymnal]

Went to an Oktoberfest yesterday so I had to swap out my forum knife for my official oktoberfest knife.

It cut up and helped me eat some schnitzel, a pretzel, a brat, some taters and pickled cabbage and even opened a beer.

 

[afishhunter]

You have done my head in Jack, I would hate anyone to think I can't/don't look after my knives so I had half an hour on it in the shed.

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I think it was tempered back because the steel was very hard, there was a noticeable difference when I approached the tempered section of the blade on sharpening.

Nice Scout knife.
It looks like the "covers" are slightly shrunk + the (original) corrosionon the shield and bolsters, The visible parrten of corrosion at the spine on the two closed blades ... the Celluloid "covers" may be outgassing.
There isn't a center pin. Is it a clamshell knife? If so it should be "easy enough" to remove just the celluloid film, saving the "bolsters" and shield.

 

[Travman]

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

For sure. I think the stipulation on the 5 day recommendation is if your symptoms have improved, no fever, etc. Hope the next couple days bring a big improvement!



I’ll bring one to Janesville next year. It’s GEC’s #86 pattern, so it’s a straight-sided jack, or a sleeveboard… whatever you’d call the #15, #77, etc. Pretty good snap to ‘em, not the best I’ve seen from GEC, but pretty good.

Hanging out at the house today watching the Razorback game. Same knives in my pocket at yesterday (Albers Lamb, #77 Barlow), but I’m also CE’ing and CF’ing my new chef’s knife from Uinta Knife Co., which I picked up at a small knife local show yesterday.

I’ve been looking for a good chef’s knife for a while, but hadn’t found anything that checked all the boxes for me. This one’s just the right size (8.5”), comfortable handle, easy to hold in a pinch grip, and has a full flat grind that’s thin behind the edge. If I could make one change, I would prefer a carbon steel blade (this one’s AEB-L at 62 HRC), but that wasn’t a deal breaker. These are handmade by a guy here in Minnesota.

We’re still using the set of Chicago Cutlery knives we got as a wedding present in 1981. I know there’s a lot of cork sniffing, even snobbery when it comes to cooking knives, but being solidly middle class mid-westerners, we always thought of Chicago Cutlery as the best!

The Big-un you were kind enough to send me is one of the good ones.
I hope you continue to feel better and better, Jack.

Of course Mr Jack would not gift you a reject!
When I acquired my two LFs, a TEW and Wright (gift from Harry), they were both “Big Uns”, and I thought that was the way they all were. Now, the shorties look funny to me!

Not much planned for today. I've been sorting some old photographs. I've got 5 piles that are getting shipped to relatives. I think I'll try to finish sorting and find some suitably sized boxes today. I'd like to get these shipped out next week. Dad passed away six years ago and its taken me this long to get this far I found going through all my parents other stuff to be massively easier than the photos.
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Toted my new to me Fox Recoil out in the yard earlier.
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About the hardest and most time consuming stuff to go through…
Best thing you can do is write names and dates on the back for family history.

Thanks, Bob. It does. One thing I’ve disliked about others I’ve tried in the past is they have shaped or contoured handles, and I don’t find them particularly comfortable nor versatile.



Been looking for years. Despite all the money and time I put into traditional folders, I’ve been using the same cheap kitchen knives for a long time. (The one I use most often is a smallish Santoku that came free with the pots and pans we got when Julie and I got married. To be fair, while it is a cheap knife with plenty of flaws, it has outlived the nonstick pots and pans.)

I’ve wanted for a good all around kitchen/chef’s knife, but couldn’t ever find the right one, and have been hesitant to order anything I couldn’t handle in person before purchasing. I did (probably seven or eight years ago) buy a Global chef’s knife, partly based on Anthony Bourdain’s recommendation, but the thin metal handle was, for me, very uncomfortable. This one feels like it will be comfortable.

Yeah, those new wonder stick free pans have a short lifespan. Gimme cast iron!

Been off to the country house but the rain these past 3 days is something to not behold Brook is rising to an angry torrent, forays into the garden few and swift Seems vital to have a stainless and this neglected CS has proved an ally, gets really sharp too. Forgot that it mimics knives of old: crocus mark side, glaze pile. You also get an impressive handle:blade ratio with this one, nice long blade.

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I have formed mental images of your country house…
You’re very blessed to have a getaway place.

Your 19OT is an interesting knife, Dan! I don't know where they came up with the name Landshark for that model (always reminds me of an old SNL sketch), but the blade shape looks very lambsfootish, so Lamb Shark seemed a natural choice to me.


Thanks, Jack; it's one I should use more often in honor of its "elderly status" relative to most of my knives.


Cool postcard, Barrett! I've only been in Minnesota a couple of times, but our daughter took us to Stillwater MN when we visited her in St. Paul, and Stillwater's "downtown" seemed to be bars, restaurants, and antique stores. Daughter gave me some NOS Upper Peninsula Michigan postcards from the 1940s (?) for Father's Day last year.

I like your Hamm's bottle opener, too! On our visit to St. Paul last year, we went to a brewery (St. Paul Brewing?) that was located in an old brick building that had been a Hamm's Brewery in the past.

IMHO, 4 knives isn't necessarily excessive. I think excessive is when you carry more knives than you have pockets.


I can see why you'd say that, Jeff, but I'm almost certain that Schrade muskrat has white bone handles. Was Randy Redden around BF while you've been here? He was a guitar guy who eventually disappeared from BF as he got more involved with his music. IIRC, he may have sold most of his knives to finance purchase of guitars and equipment.


I turned in my wife's absentee ballot for November's election earlier this week. If those 3 knives were running for office, I'd vote for the sheepsfoot Ka-Bar 2-blade jack!


Is an option at the chicken dinner a chicken pie? Chicken pot pie always sounds good to me!

Mike, you should post your Cadet/tape measure photo in the knives and tools thread; double-dipping is always fun!


Another beauty, Jim!

- GT

Yes, RR was here then. But I did not know about him being a musician!

EDIT: was it Randy who was on the production, sound engineer side of music? If so, that explains the expense. My knife budget, such as it was, goes to guitar related gear, and that’s nothing compared to rack mount production gear.

Camillus Cattle and Mestano

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Great pair

If anyone wants to order a spoon with what looks like a glass breaker on the handle, this piece of lime wood decided that’s how this one is playing out! Tactical wooden spoons sell for more than regular spoons. Gonna paint this one black so it’s less visible in low light situations and I might put a tritium vile in it so you can stir chili in the dark

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Yes, that does look tactical.
Hey! I have made chili hot enough that Vik called it “Vile”!

Let's try this again!
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Well photographed! Nice horn.

Ha! I still have a few mortars left over from the 4th of July. PM your address. We'll teach 'em to mind their own beesness!!!

Squashed it flat with the tractor tire

No stingee!

 

[black mamba]

These two as I type.

 

[lambertiana]

Ebony and Blackwood

 

[Bloefield]

Small Schrades. 108OT, 3OT and Sak Huntsman this morning

 

[Modoc ED]

Slow day today. A single blade CV Sowbelly ought to do. Sausage and pancakes for breakfast.