The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
I foolishly sold or traded three different 98s just after they came out, so when I was recently able to obtain this snakewood beauty it became a safe queen.
Wednesday, wood, ettrick.
That's better.
Awesome eureka, Jon. I see that’s Glen’s handy work. That jigging is great!Duo of the day. Have a great one!
Wow, that’s stunning, Bob. The ettrick is such a great pattern aesthetically and in use and that looks like a fine example.Wednesday, wood, ettrick.
Stag/Horn Knife of the Week is a Schrade-Wostenholm I*XL stag canoe:
Work Knife of the Week is a Rite Edge Miner:
- GT
Nice pair, Harry!Full pockets today :
Harry
Good knife to have for opening paint cans.
Oh man, you got me. I suppose a shrink would call that Projection.Thanks Todd. I think it was the bag of salt I was cutting open that they approved of
Whenever they look cooperative, it’s because I have a bag of salt I’m putting out. She looks like a steak with hair
Haha. No, I don’t have a 70’s delrin Shrade, though I wish I did. It was a Case. I posted it in the 30-day barlow challenge thread but I’ll show it here too. I love that when you see the words “70’s delrin”, your mind automatically jumps to Schrade.
Here’s that Camco for FC @ephsea. They are cool old knives and this one is some of my better work.
Thanks for the Franklin info, Bob.Thanks Gary, a Schrade in sheep's clothing.
Good luck with the tax man.
But I could be wrong.Thanks for the ID.
I've heard the Hammond B3s, and I've heard of the Leslie speakers, but I don't recall ever seeing the Leslie speakers in action. In the "House of the Rising Sun" video, I read that the organ is a Vox Continental (?) that looks very portable (and also looks like it reverses the black and white colors on the keys
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Thanks for the info.Its a blue tit,if you use the phrase without using the blue bit in England its also a mild insult.
Once you identified the bird for me, I looked it up online and confirmed that we don't have them in the US.Thanks, Steve.Great looking canoes.
I'd wager a tepid cuppa instant coffee, or a stale dounut the Painted Desert would look even better with nicely patina'd blades.
(and the Classic Carbon RR1736 would too, without the two large "R"s on the bolsters.)
Does you Classic Carbon RR1736 have a properly cut (or stamped?) pull so that the thumbnail don't slip off?
The first one I bought felt like the top of the pull on the main had a slight tilt, and it was shallower than usual, making it difficult to open the blade.
I ordered a second rather than return for an exchange under warranty. Since stock was low, and I didn't know if there would be another run, I figured with my lack of luck or bad luck, (take your pick) they would be sold out before my knife reached them.
The second is great. One of my favorite user carbon steel canoes.
The first went back in the box and into the cabinet.
If the need ever arises, I can "fix" the bad pull with my (faux) Dremmel ... at the cost of the "match strike" bit ...
Thanks, Todd.Good looking canoes Gary.
Congrats on the gunstock pattern, Todd.Good to be back posting again! @Jakeywax31 helped me with the photo things, thanks Paul.
I’ve gotten several recent acquisitions, here is one that came my way from @Will Power. Thanks for making it available to me Will.
I don't think I've ever seen that word before, Todd, but I knew exactly what it meant.Paradisiac pair Pat!
Handsome horn handles on that venerable knife, Rachel!This week, I'm carrying a Lockwood Brothers knife that @Jack Black sent to live at R8shell's Home for Old and Worn Out Knives.
Not wanting to remove as much metal as would be necessary to restore the tip or straighten the edge, I just sharpened it and put it to use for light tasks. A most ergonomic letter opener.
Welcome back, Buzz!Hey all. It’s been a long, long time. Maybe years since I last stopped by. I’d gotten on a Victorinox kick, and my slipjoint collecting kind of abruptly ended.
I made this custom alox SAK last year, and it’s been in my pocket ever since. It’s sort of an Electrician Plus with an added wood/metal file layer, torx pivots, and a set of old cross scales that were kindly given to me. I also reused the old brass liners and lanyard attachment from an older knife.
I call it the WoodChipper. The intention was to create a rather minimalist SAK, based on the 93mm alox frame, with all the tools needed for wood working in a bushcraft environment. I’m happy beyond words with how it turned out, and it is now a constant companion in my everyday life, as well as nature outings.
I do still grab a more traditional slipjoint from time to time, as the need arises. The main ones being a couple of stainless Case mini-trappers. The Case Beer Trapper gets regular duty on my back porch, right next to the beer fridge, and the Case bone stag mini-trapper, with a wharncliffe blade, sort of lives in “that Drawer”, where everything I need kind of hangs out. We’ve all got one of those drawers, right? That wharncliffe blade is so thin and sharp and pointy, it does things that no other blade in my collection is capable of doing.
I’m not quite sure what to do with the rest of my knife collection. Part of me says to horde them all, including the extensive collection of GEC’s. The other side tells me to sell them off as I begin to downsize before retirement. I’m……… terribly conflicted.
Love this one. The more you carry it, the more sugar goes in the coffee
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That’s a beauty, Jeff. Try to hang on to this one! I have never sold a knife. Given them away, but then I have nothing that could be remotely called a Safe Queen.I foolishly sold or traded three different 98s just after they came out, so when I was recently able to obtain this snakewood beauty it became a safe queen.
Bob, I really like the new K'roo Ettrick. Not a pattern you see too often. I've been carrying Roper and the brown Richlite #15 for a few days.
I don’t see why they’d make you file quarterly as long as you are paying up on time, but nothing would surprise me.Thanks for the Franklin info, Bob.
I think I may need luck with the tax man this time. I fear I underwithheld and am going to be forced to file quarterly returns going forward.
I've heard the Hammond B3s, and I've heard of the Leslie speakers, but I don't recall ever seeing the Leslie speakers in action. In the "House of the Rising Sun" video, I read that the organ is a Vox Continental (?) that looks very portable (and also looks like it reverses the black and white colors on the keys
Wish I was half as tactful as you are, Jeff!
I don't think I've ever seen that word before, Todd, but I knew exactly what it meant.
I looked it up anyway and there were 4 or 5 synonyms that I had never heard of (some with slight changes in spelling, some looking "more adverbial"). Like the Reader's Digest used to advise me monthly when I was a kid, it pays to increase your word power!
- GT
Whatever you say, McD!Love this one. The more you carry it, the more sugar goes in the coffee
