What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Primble]

Nice Remi's !

Thank you Steve !

A pair of Catts for Monday.

 

[JonMcD]

My January journey with the BF 625 has been very pleasant. I quite enjoy the Warrencliffe/pen combo. We have been tearing up the apples as of late. I am pleasantly pleased with the craggy lamb as well. The more I mess with it, the more snap it gets back. It will never be a snappy as it originally was, but some snap definitely better than none at all. Have a great day!

 

[JW225]

 

[5K Qs]

SAK of the Week is a Victorinox Pocket Pal. (I currently have 3 of this model, and I call this one Pocket Pal A, since it's the first one I ever had.)


Stockman fo the Week is really a Kingston cattle knife, but it's kind of a misshaped punch stockman with spearpoint main blade, so that's the category it landed in on my rotation schedule.




- GT

 

[Rufus1949]

My January journey with the BF 625 has been very pleasant. I quite enjoy the Warrencliffe/pen combo. We have been tearing up the apples as of late. I am pleasantly pleased with the craggy lamb as well. The more I mess with it, the more snap it gets back. It will never be a snappy as it originally was, but some snap definitely better than none at all. Have a great day!
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Sweet knives basking in their beauty. Nice Jon.

 

[Rufus1949]

Waiting for our first snow.

 

[echoscout]

Waiting for our first snow.View attachment 2458183

Handsome Lamb!

Thank you Steve !

A pair of Catts for Monday.

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Ruggedly handsome!

Mount of Olives for Sunday, as usual.


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Love the Olive wood covers.

High class pair David

Thanks Jack!

Have a good week everyone

Hope you have a good week also.
Charlie Lamb looking good

 

[Rufus1949]

Handsome Lamb!

Thank you David.

 

[5K Qs]

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This thread moves fast! Got some catching up to do...

You and me both! I've been trying to catch up by doing 10 pages per day; I'm gaining ground, but VERY slowly.

Thanks, and I agree. I find myself liking the drop points more than swoopy clips these days.

I didn't figure it out... the answer was explained to me by a kind forum member.

So, all the way to the right of the message composition box, next to the "arrow going in a circle to the left" icon are three dots in a column - if you click the three dots, you'll see an icon for brackets(?) - it looks like this "[ ]" without the quotation marks. Click that, and you should be back in business.

Here's a link to the help post I created in the tech support forum: LINK

Maybe the explanation there is better. There's a picture!

I use those brackets [ ] to toggle back and forth from "BB code" while I'm editing quotes; BB code is kind of "primitive" but I think it's easier to edit. But I have to remember to toggle out of BB code if I want to insert any emojis or photos. My problem comes if I have BB code turned on the last thing I do at night, and then the next morning I sometimes can't figure out why nothing is working right!

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Local maker Jacek Robotka forged me this Viking-style knife about 3 years ago. I was touching up the edge with a jasper whetstone last night, and thought I'd carry it today, with my Hartshead Barlow

That top knife is SO pointy, and your stag HHB looks better than ever, Jack!

Going with the Rancher today…nice slim carry. Have a great day everyone. View attachment 2452016

The first time I remember seeing that knife, that blade was a mirror; you must have given it quite a workout in the first couple weeks of 2024, Todd! Looking good!

60 mph winds and 3.5 inches of rain last night, fortunately we prepared.

Gifted carry today.

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Congrats on those awesome gifts, Bob, and accolades to Jeremy and Paul for their thoughtful generosity!

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Your stag toothpick is sublime, Alan!

I like that Schrade, Gary.

Thanks, Jeff. I like it, too, with the blade combo being especially appealing to me. But it's one of the few knives I own that I haven't used, maybe because it's my only NIB Schrade USA.

That's a very appealing pattern, Jeff!

I am known among family and friends of always having a knife. Most everything I carry is domestic. I was gifted two (the other at home) Rosecraft knives. Without an exhaustive explanation, they are based in the US and design knives that are produced off shore. Their intent is to have US manufacturing in the future

I hope it works out because this is a very impressively built knife, f&f is really quite remarkable and being a gift, I will carry with pride.

Paired today with my Viper...

Thanks for sharing some of your reactions to your Rosecraft knives, Paul.
Stay warm out there!

Thanks, Gary. I’m not a fan personally. This will be off to Glenn for a recover.

I can understand your reasoning, Paul.
I'm a geezer who's here mainly for the nostalgia, and I grew up with only inexpensive knives, so I get "warm fuzzies" seeing various "fake" covers like Uncle Henry Staglon or British Bexoid.

It was a side effect of getting my chest onto a Brooke Burke ball to do some dumbbell stuff, and getting up again.

I was drinking when she was doing that infomercial, so I have several of those balls at home.

- GT

 

[5K Qs]

Yeah so it was a bit of a saga, which I was not going to go into here.
Effectively, when it was pea size I was told it was a ganglion cyst I.e. a fluid filled lump. It got bigger and bigger, I went back and asked for an ultrasound, doc said not worth it.

Saw another doc and he also said it was a fluid filled cyst.

Dealt with it until it got as big as that photo and then went to a third doctor and asked to have it drained, she agreed but suggested an ultrasound. That’s when we found out it was a tumour and not a cyst/ganglion.

At that point it got a bit scary because it was either benign or cancer. Had to go through the MRI’s, blood tests and whatnot. Ended up needing to go to a plastic surgeon to have it removed because of where it was. When I had the results it wasn’t cancerous it was obviously a big relief!

Getting fobbed off by the initial doctor multiple times was pretty disappointing, because if it had of been bad the nearly 12 months between initially finding it and having it out could have done me in.

Thanks for the details, scary as they are! When the "second opinion" is the same misdiagnosis as the first, that's a bad situation.

Thanks Gary. F&F and W&T are smooth, feels nice in-the-hand. Buck hit a homer with these IMHO.

Its curly maple, GT.
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Thanks for the wood ID, Mike.

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This is my wife’s current calendar. Reminds me of @CelloDan and his creative creations. This artist makes the most fun forest people out of found nature materials and then captures animals interacting with them.

Thanks for the calendar info, Jon.

Thank you sir. I only have one saddle horn and it's fun to carry and use. The secondary blade shape is my preferred blade on this one.

I appreciate the follow-up info.

... Won big last week with this one in my pocket so I thought I'd try it again
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Did that knife send you home a winner again, Mike?

Thanks a lot Gary I only saw knives on sale in one spot, and they were garish, modern, and unsuitable for this thread!

Sorry you couldn't pick up suitable sharp souvenirs, Jack.
People often describe me the same way you described the knives you saw, but I try to ignore their complaints.

... Conrad, our mailman, brought this SS Case 6347 Crimson Peach Seed Stockman up to the house yesterday afternoon to save me a trip up to the mailboxes in the snow. He's a good guy. I'll be totin that knife today.

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That crimson peach seed bone looks really good to me, ED; congrats on your new 6347!
One of the big Case retailers online has been selling knives with those covers at a discount for quite a while now, and I can't figure out why.

Nice pair Gary !

Baxter Lamb and a PAL Blade Co. Jack




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Thanks, Steve, and same to you; knives in the winter always look better if you can find some sunshine for the photos!

I carried the Case big stockman and Boker whittler for a few days this week. 2 knives with a total of 6 blades might seem extreme to folks who aren't knife nuts.
Today I paired it down to 2 knives and 3 blades, both Schatt & Morgan made.
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Quality quartet, Greg, with lots of superb bone, especially that big Case stockman!

It’s been a week and glad it’s over. Had a Russell to fidget with during a zoom meeting.
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Ravishing Russell!

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Superior stag on your Remington, Bob!

Thank you Gary. So far I like a smaller group from which to choose my daily carry.
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Let's see, with 4 knives to choose from, if you allow each day's choice to be anything from 0 to 4 knives, you have 2^4 = 16 possible combinations from which to choose. If we omit the travesty of a no-knife day, you have 15 combinations and could schedule each one exactly twice for January, with one day to spare.

- GT

 

[Rufus1949]

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Superior stag on your Remington, Bob

- GT
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Thanks kindly Gary...a glennbad special.

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

SAK of the Week is a Victorinox Pocket Pal. (I currently have 3 of this model, and I call this one Pocket Pal A, since it's the first one I ever had.)
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Stockman fo the Week is really a Kingston cattle knife, but it's kind of a misshaped punch stockman with spearpoint main blade, so that's the category it landed in on my rotation schedule.
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- GT

Help me out. In what way is the punch misshapen? Looks good from over here.

 

[bigfish64]

Waiting for our first snow.View attachment 2458183

Nice Albers Bob.

The first time I remember seeing that knife, that blade was a mirror; you must have given it quite a workout in the first couple weeks of 2024, Todd! Looking good!


- GT

…and it drove me crazy!

Let's see, with 4 knives to choose from, if you allow each day's choice to be anything from 0 to 4 knives, you have 2^4 = 16 possible combinations from which to choose. If we omit the travesty of a no-knife day, you have 15 combinations and could schedule each one exactly twice for January, with one day to spare.

- GT

I teach social studies Gary…you lost me at “4 knives to choose from”

 

[afishhunter]

Going to switch back to the (offshore) Old Timer 858OTB in the pocket. No other changes.
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[Ellis Wyatt]

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[bigfish64]

Going with the Owl today. One of these days when I’m at the cigar shop I’m going to grab a White Owl cigar like 5K Qs suggested…just haven’t been able to bring myself to do it yet.

 

[pat9198]

 

[Boattale]

i can't seem to get over that Case bone. Thing is, I'm not even trying. Still cold here so I'd better stay prepared.
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[Rufus1949]

Nice Albers Bob.

Thanks Todd. I will whisper good luck because my wife is an Eagles fan.

 

[jmh33]